Okay, so let me get this straight...this game has mixed reviews because it is difficult?
Played through the whole campaign without experiencing any bugs, maybe others were not so fortunate.
The game is at times very hard if not near impossible but this shows well the challenges penal comapany soldiers had to face in World War 2.If you like and are capable of finishing heroic missions in MOW:AS 1 or 2, then you are well suited for this type of game.The campaign is in and around 20 hours.

Here are some tips:
>Save spam.
>Use 2 rifleman 1 machine gunner in one squad and create two of them, with one supporting the other while it advances.
>Use stealth when you can, entire enemy entrenchments can be eliminated without firing a shot if you go behind the enemy and melee them.
>When encountering tanks, shoot at it with any weapon, retreat to a covered position and use your AT granades.If the tank is out of range flank it with another soldier.
>Special weapons such as Panzershrecks ,K98 snipers and MP 44's can be found on some enemy soldiers throughout the game. Take these and use them to your advantage.
>60% of the time your units will encounter entrenched enemies clustered together, take them out by lobbing in some grenades, grenades in this game have an extended range when compared to MOW:AS.
>The enemy is in a building and you cant hit him? take an AT granade throw it under him to collapse the building.
>Rockets, bombs, barrels of fuel and tank shells (such as ones found on planes, in crates or in destroyed tanks) can be used to make a trap for the enemy and create a big boom.

I love Men of War but this one is very frustrating. Most of the time you'll be using 2-6 soldiers to fight against the whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ German army, even though the map is filled with "allied" AI that doesn't even move a finger, so good luck beating the Nazi War Machine with your 4 wimpy soldiers.

Personally one of my favourites in the series.

This is the hardest of the game, packing a variety of missions that put you in the shoes of the Penal Units of the Red Army who have to earn redemption for their crimes (or braveries against the Soviet regime) through enemy blood.
The missions are essentially suicide - you get a handful of people against vastly outnumbering positions of your enemies, clearing the field for the main army, doing sabotage and reconaissance.

The game uses well the advanced possibilities of the upgraded Men of War engine looking somewhat better than the original.


I personally love this game particularly because it doesn't give you that much of a story. Men of War typically has bad narrative, so I like to picture it for myself as "just another moment from the front". On average it's better IMHO than other Men of War games. It could use more variety and more music but alas. Still, better than the other Men of War games I think.

People who enjoy a good challenge in strategies will appreciate this title.

It really took me a while to get into it, but the Men of War series is a highly complex and realistic tactical RTS, at times even frustratingly so. But you can pick up every single piece of equipment, you can try to repair and steal enemy tanks if they aren't damaged beyond repair, every single soldier has their own inventory and can pick up weapons of fallen friends and foes alike, every single RPG and grenade must be picked up etc. etc.

One of the best and most deadly war simulations out there. Even features (mostly) physically correct destructible buildings.

Men of War: Condemned Heroes is a pretty nice strategy game. The graphics and the textures are pretty nice. The atmosphere mostly happens in open fields, villages, cities, forests, and even other environments. The audio is pretty nice. The music is nice. In this game, the music is are stunning and dynamic. Also, the voice acting it probably the best one from the Men of War series. It’s just perfect. When the commander tells you to do something, and it tells it on the right tone, you will damn do it. The gameplay is complex, in each mission you have to accomplish some tasks, alike killing certain enemies, cleaning fields off enemies, destroying some units, reaching a point, capturing a point, etc. The story focuses of the Russian side, but not the normal one: the captured heroes’ one. The penal battalions of it. There is a total of 5 campaigns, with many missions. Many of them are pretty hard, simply because you receive 1 or 2 squads, and you have to conquer an entire enemy battalion. From where, the saying of other reviews: “Here is your squad. Now conquer me this town full of enemies.” The user interface is well-optimized, with no bugs and well-synthetized information. I also like the overall design of it. The controls are pretty good, except with 1 thing: the rotations’ controls of the cameras. I highly recommend you to reset them with the arrow buttons. The engines, just like in every Men of War game, are not perfect. The game has rarely crashes, and when it crashes, you obviously lose the progress of your mission. Try and save the game as often as you can, in order to avoid too much progress lose. You don't want to waste your time by restarting the mission from zero, right? The mechanics are sophisticated, being pretty nice and everything moves well-optimized. Now, I’m going to talk a little about the G.E.M. editor. Just like in every Men of War game, you have a G.E.M. editor. You can create your own battles in it. It is complex and with a various number of functions. What I don’t like in this particular G.E.M. editor: the amount of content. Compared to Men of War: Assault Squad 1 and 2, this game has less content, especially in the G.E.M. editor. But overall, the G.EM. editor is pretty nice, still. Overall, this game offers a nice simulation of the penal battalions of Russia during World War 2.

• Pretty nice and well-designed graphics and textures
  
• Pretty nice audio and nice music
  
• Fun and challenging gameplay
  
• Many missions throughout the 6 campaigns available
  
• Infantry, heavy guns, batteries, cannons, vehicles, tanks, airplanes, and many other units available
  
• 3 difficulties available
  
• A pretty nice designed user interface
  
• Some pretty stable engines
  
• Some pretty nice mechanics

• Trading cards would be a nice feature
  
• More units would be awesome
  
• The editor should have more content, including being able to drive airplanes

• The multiplayer is not alive anymore
  
• There are some rare crashes, like in all the Men of War games

First of all - this game is not hard.
Yup - first two or three missions might be dificult - but then you will learn whet to do and use it for whole game.
Because almost all missions are the same.

You are outnumbered... but that is no problem. You can simply leave all your soldiers far away and use 2 guys in stealth (f.e. one machibegunner and one rifleman). And pretty much beat whole level with this two. My best tactic - sneak to artilery unit. Kill one soldier with melee attack... Then sneak to second one and kill him with melee attack too. Yes. Enemy doesn't notice that you just killed guy sitting next to him. Then steal that artillery unit, run to safe place - tear whole map to pieces with it :) Capture next artillery unit when out of ammo. And when you capture objective - defend possitions. Again - it's just too easy - enemies just walk to you like lambs to the slaughter - simply take good positions and capture some artilery and you won.

What else - AI is dumb. Both - enemy and your soldiers. Also they tend to ignore what you told them to do. For example - you try to sneak... And guy you are controlling sudenly decides to stand up and run... only to turn into red dust second later because heavy machine gun operator noticed him. Pathfinding is terrible... Why crowl in straight line in a tench if they can crowl out of it to avoid invisible obstacle and crowl back inside.. that is if he is still alive.

Bugs.
Oh boy - that is what makes this game HARD. You need to make manual saves all the time! For example if you hit with grenade guy operating mounted mg - he can become invincible instead of dying. Sometimes he can't shoot any longer because he lies on back but is still immortal. This can lead to situation when you can't complete objective because you have to kill everybody in that location... and that immortal dude just won't let that happen. If you save a lot - you will replay last minute. If you don't - you will have to replay whole mission.

Good things - sounds and visual part.
That's not enough to recommend this bugfest anyway.

I very like this game, there are not so interesting missions, but you need to think about every step because this game is hard like i dont know what.


1.-There is a bit similar levels -+
2.-This game is interesting for hardcore gamers. +
3.-I Think many people do not like graphic in game,but i think its cool, even for 2014.+
4.- Those who like games about WW2, can try this game.
5.- All models are almost similar. -
6.- YOU CAN KILL CHICKEN!!!!111 10/10 BEST GAME EVER!!!! GREENPEACE AGREES!

I recommend this game, but not to all people. Better check youtube.
my score is 7/10!

I guess that not everyone would be able to enjoy it due to its extreme difficulty level (even on easy), but for hardcore Men of War fans like me, this is a must own.

I absolutely love all the Men of War games I've played so far, and I just downloaded Condemned Heroes.

The first mission is driving me nuts. It's much easier to get your soldiers killed in this game, and that's OK, but how do you turn the darn snow off? There are millions of snowflakes whizzing across my screen, which makes it darn near impossible to see the cursor. I keep losing soldiers because I have no idea where my mouse is pointing. Reality is a good thing up to the point where it becomes a pain in the you-know-what.

I have spent two hours messing with my video settings, and nothing seems to help. Even being able to change the cursor size/color would be a big help. I'm hoping the rest of the missions are snow-free, or I might just have to give up on this game.

You are the heroes of Mother Russia! You will fight a losing battle, but must still overcome and be victorious! For your actions and your actions alone, will you turn the tide of this war.


+Realism
+History on some of the smaller scale battles
+Challenging


-Bugs
-Not as optimized or fine-tuned compared to previous products
-Challenging


Note: This would be the Third installment of the Men of War games that is separate from the Assault Squad variants.

Let’s start off by the realism part of this game. Everything and everyone can be looted. Their bodies do not disappear like that from the MoW: Assault Squad games. Yes, that means you enjoy the bodies of your enemies for the entirety of the mission. When it comes to weapons, tank models, ammunition, they have it all. I haven’t seen a RTS that as this much information on literally everything; even the soldiers are given each their own name. The finer details from the tank variations and what the soldiers carry to the usage of camouflage and hiding in the bushes to deter the enemies vision is all done very well.

Depending on the missions and if you have a big enough gun, you can use craters to also reduce the chance of being hit, hide behind tanks, inside buildings, behind a tree or even use a small box for coverage. Everything in this game is used in your advantage and can become your disadvantage just as quick. Need more ammo, grenades, or even a new type of gun? Grab it off your comrade or the corpse of your enemy. There are interface options to help to highlight your fallen comrades and the enemies, including their guns to help for easy pickings. What about when it comes to enemy vehicles? Yes, if you can kill their crew outside of their tank (quick and quiet) and you’ll have yourself a VI Tiger.

Again, everything is useable in terms to use against your enemy; you just have to outwit them in order to use it.

There are bugs and it shows throughout the games. I haven’t had any that would Crash to desktop, but I had plenty that would make the enemies do bizarre things. One example is trying to kill an enemy in the house with a tank, grenades, etc. and he doesn’t die, but can literally stand there and kill all of your men. Other times are your stealthy low, prone, quietly – with no one else around—and a tank shoots you off from the distance – eh?? The game also run a little less optimized than its previous titles. I recommend you save and save OFTEN. In case a bug does show up, you can just reload it and wait for a new bug to happen.

I’d say this is probably the hardest installment of the MoW series (that isn’t Assault Squad). Most missions you are given a squad of soldiers and that is it. It depends on the circumstance. Some missions are easier than others, but they also become extremely difficult if bugs play into the equation. The AI also tends to swam you a lot quicker in this installment that previous titles where they would just sit there and defend their posts. Here, they hear a gun shot and some of them just run after you.

When situations like this arise, I’m unsure if these are bug related or AI related or even a little bit of both. Some missions really just question how this was even done in the first place or may even look impossible. Just know, everything is at YOUR disposal if you can surprise the enemy.


Even with the bugs and the game needing some tender, love, and care; this game is still a good challenge and a fun one at that (even though frustrating at times, too!). Between the campaigns and bonus missions, you’ll definitely get your money’s worth and see a bit of the Eastern Front historic battles (more or less).