![]() Take for example the Reichstag, today restored as the seat of the German parliament, and adorned with a glass cupola structure. This material can be invaluable when it comes to nailing down details that can’t be seen anymore today. In fact, Sudden Strike 4 features over 30 minutes of historical archive video material, some of which has never been digitalized before. Of course, not all sites of the battles could be visited, so a lot of research had to be done through archives, historical videos and photos. So here is a look at the Dreilägerbachtal dam as it would be if you were a soldier spying from the woods:Īnd here is the Urfttal dam structure in the game: Thankfully, we found a way – the nearby Dreilägerbachtal dam, which is in the same forest and also built by the same architect (Dr. ![]() There is a restaurant near the Urfttal dam, but we wanted to have a view that would be more like a soldier’s, rather than a tourist’s. The dam is the final objective of this mission, and we had to make sure we got it right. Pretty close, right? One of the key moments of the battle was the detonation of the Urfttal dam shortly before the Allies could reach it, which significantly set back the efforts to push into mainland Germany. So we drove out to Hürtgen Forest to get a real feel for the area, taking hundreds of photos, including the slate slopes and rock formations that characterize the area, for our artists to use as inspiration for the map: One example was the Battle of Hürtgen Forest – a particularly fierce and bloody series of battles in WW2 that took place in a densely forested area south-east of Aachen in western Germany, where both sides struggled to use heavy machinery and a lot of the fighting was done by soldiers from tree to tree. Literally.įor a few levels in the game, we went out on location for field research. To portray the areas in Sudden Strike 4 as accurately as possible, sometimes we had to go the extra mile. So we set out to find as many different reputable sources as possible for Sudden Strike 4, spending a significant amount of dev budget on books from all over the world to check out the details of tanks, battlefields, soldier equipment and more. Surprising to no one, there is a metric ton of published material about the Second World War. In this blog post, I want to show you guys some examples of things we did to make Sudden Strike 4 the most authentic – and fun – WWII real time tactics experience possible. No matter what, gameplay is paramount, so striking the right balance with authenticity was going to need a lot of hard work. When we set out to create a new entry in the beloved Sudden Strike series, we knew that WWII aficionados and hardcore strategy gamers would highly value authenticity and historical accuracy.īut, we also knew that we were creating a game, not a documentary.
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