$5.84 (−35%)Easy Red 2 One soldier among hundreds
A realistic World War II shooter that puts you in the boots of one ordinary soldier among hundreds. Storm beaches, drive Shermans, fly Spitfires and fight across six campaigns of recreated historical battles, solo with bots or online with friends. No hero moments, just the front line, and survival is never promised.
Is Easy Red 2 worth it?
Easy Red 2 is worth it if…
- you like big bot battles you can shape yourself, from squad commands to stealing an enemy tank
- you prefer playing an ordinary rifleman over an invincible action hero
- you want Pacific, Italian and African fronts, not just Normandy again
- you enjoy building your own maps and missions, or playing ones other people made
- you can live with some jank in exchange for scale and freedom
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Six campaigns, over 100 missions
The base game covers fronts other shooters skip: the bloody stalemate at Anzio, the mountain assaults on Monte Cassino's Gustav Line, the last Axis stand in Tunisia, the Pacific landings on Kwajalein, Roi-Namur and Makin, and the German invasion of the Greek island of Kos. More than 100 missions are spread across them, with historically authentic troop movements and orders of battle. You can pick either side, so the Anzio stalemate can be yours to break or to hold. DLC adds Stalingrad, Normandy and Shanghai, with over 80 more missions and their own time-accurate weapons, factions and vehicles.
You are not a super soldier
You play the average soldier, and the game treats you accordingly. Bullets kill fast, shells land without warning, and your survival is not guaranteed, so expect to die a lot, especially on higher difficulty. The flip side is that every small win feels earned: taking a house, holding a hedgerow, making it across open ground. You can tune the difficulty to taste, from AI accuracy to damage and visibility, and switch between first and third person at the press of a button. The combat is punchy and rifles hit hard, which makes the chaos land all the harder.
Squads, tanks and planes
No one is sent in alone. You control squads with roles like Squad Leader, Radioman, Medic and Support Gunner, each with abilities that can shift a fight, and when you fall you take over another member. On the ground you can operate tanks with detailed armor penetration, ballistics and crew mechanics: lose a crewman and you may lose a function of the vehicle with him. The Sherman, Churchill, Panther and Tiger are all here, plus jeeps and aircraft from the Spitfire to the Bf 109. And the battlefield itself does not sit still: forests are leveled and buildings crumble to rubble as the battle grinds on.
Playing with friends
Join a friend's squad or bring your own, then work out who drives the jeep and who mans the gun. The missions get genuinely chaotic, and working through a botched landing or a collapsing flank together is where the game is at its most fun. Missions run long, so one shared battle can fill an evening.
Can you play it solo?
Can you play it solo?
Yes, and for many that is the main mode. Every campaign and mission works against AI opponents and alongside AI squadmates, with adjustable difficulty and bot counts, so you can fight a full battle without ever going online.
Is it historically accurate?
It aims to be. Battles take place in recreated historical locations with authentic troop movements and orders of battle, and the equipment, uniforms and vehicles match their fronts, including some campaigns most shooters never touch, like Kos and Makin.
How long is a mission?
Long enough to matter. Battles play out across large open maps with multiple objectives, and a single mission can take the better part of an hour, so it rewards sitting down for a proper session rather than a quick round.
