Men of War 2 announced, coming 2022

The RTS revival continues with the announcement of a sequel to Men of War. Returning to World War II, Men of War 2 will have story campaigns on the Western Front and on the Eastern, letting you play as the Allies or Soviets in either singleplayer or co-op with up to five players. It's unlikely to have voice acting as amazing as the original.

The old direct control system that let you pop down to check things out from the perspective of an individual soldier will be back, and is apparently being enhanced into something called Direct Vision, which lets you "focus solely on one unit at any time and upgrade, change, or repair equipment on the fly." A front line mechanic promises to simulate the push-and-pull of war with shifting borders that will let players "Manage attritional battles and break through undefended lines to advance the areas of maps under control, digging trenches and supporting troops in newly won territory."

Online multiplayer will include a mode where players can compete as the Allies, Soviets, or Germans on skirmish and challenge maps, or co-operate against AI forces. It'll have full mod support too.

Men of War 2 is being developed by series originator Best Way and published by 1C Entertainment. It should be available in 2022 on Steam.

Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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