Red Orchestra Coming to Steam

[CSN NewsBot]

It's just been announced that the popular modification for Unreal Tournament, Red Orchestra, will find a new home on Steam next year! Winner of the "Make Something Unreal" contest, Red Orchestra is a WWII oriented game with a strong focus on team based gameplay and era appropriate vehicles.

Tripwire Interactive today announced a new World War II PC game, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Tripwire will deliver its award-winning first person shooter via Steam, Valve's online content delivery system. The original Red Orchestra won Nvidia's "$1,000,000 Make Something Unreal" contest. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is a standalone follow-up, built on Epic’s Unreal 2.5 EngineTM, that introduces new gameplay and features.



Red Orchestra lets players choose from 28 infantry weapons or crew one of 14 different fully-realised vehicles on the Russian Front between 1941-45. The combination of roles across more than one dozen maps, based on real-world locations and battles, allows Red Orchestra to finally achieve its goal of delivering a full first-person, WWII combat simulation.



In its Christmas 2005 issue, PC Gamer UK touts that Red Orchestra is “showing awesome potential,� and that “We already knew the mod was genius, but this is even better� as part of its two-page preview of RO: O41-45.

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"Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited to be a part of that future" said Tripwire Interactive President John Gibson. "Working with Valve to release the game over Steam allows Tripwire to remain independent and keep control of the games content and development. This allows Tripwire to continue to offer our fans the same uncompromising level of realism, authenticity, and gameplay they have come to expect from Red Orchestra while continuing to innovate and push the boundaries of the military FPS and simulation genres."



"We're pleased to have the winner of the 'Make Something Unreal' mod tournament bringing their full-fledged game to market on Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "This shows that a talented and passionate group of developers can take a game from concept to public distribution outside of the traditional publishing and funding model and deliver it to over 6 million customers."



Watch for information on the Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 release date on Steam. Further details will be made available on www.redorchestragame.com and www.steampowered.com over the coming weeks and months.



For further information, please contact pr@tripwireinteractive.com

Congratulations to the Red Orchestra crew on their accomplishments. The game should make for a good addition to the ever growing Steam library.

[D@$h]

This alone is why Valve is one of THE best game developers ever. They make great games. And do things like this to advance gaming in general. Plus I can see this expanding on tripwires GREAT mod that is RO. Not many people play it but with it coming to steam. It will get a new life.

[wolf8218]

will it be free?



or will we have to pay 14.99 for it like rag-doll shit party and blue man group real time strategy?

[HobblinHarry]

wolf8218 wrote..

blue man group real time strategy?

saddly, this is probably in the works

[-:Nighthawk:-]

wolf8218 wrote..

will it be free?



or will we have to pay 14.99 for it like rag-doll shit party and blue man group real time strategy?

It's really sad to think that this kid has probably gone through most of the public education system, and still can't figure out what digital content delivery of stand-alone games means.



"What? People work as programmers, artists, and game designers... and they expect to be paid for their work instead of starving while they give away everything for free?"



Everyone, let's start voting for money to be taken away from public education -- it's obviously not working, so why waste any more funding on it?

[snkcube]

This is good news I suppose. It's kind of funny to see the Unreal engine on Steam.

[thepingofdeath]

This game was shit on UT2k4. It moves SO slowly it will make you want to cry.

[ukHazard]

Mr Fan-Of-Realism speaks.

[-AK-]

This is awesome news

[Pyro978]

so it is to my understanding that this game will be for HL2 and not UT am i right? I figure its really not right to be releasing UT mods through Steam.

[K0brakai]

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Tripwire Interactive today announced a new World War II PC game, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. Tripwire will deliver its award-winning first person shooter via Steam, Valve's online content delivery system. The original Red Orchestra won Nvidia's "$1,000,000 Make Something Unreal" contest. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is a standalone follow-up, built on Epic’s Unreal 2.5 EngineTM, that introduces new gameplay and features.

So to answer your question:

It uses the Unreal 2.5 Engine (Not HL2/Source)

It is a standalone game, not a mod, so you will (I assume) have to pay for it.

As long as they have a licence for the engine, they can distribute it however they like, with the game. It will mean that you have to download the engine, but it could well pave the way for a couple more Unreal Engine based games to follow on, as the engine will already be integrated...

[|azure|]

Yay... yet another war simulation type game. Just what we need...

[Pyro978]

well what you expect, they gonna make a mod where the object is to drink tea and have crumpets with another player?

[Syx]

So uh, how much will it cost?

[acc_int]

thepingofdeath wrote..

This game was shit on UT2k4. It moves SO slowly it will make you want to cry.

Stick to CS and don't leave.



Don't join the armed forces either. Soliders don't run around with knifes out, you know