Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Joining me tonight is PCGamer executive editor, Evan Lottie.

Evan, welcome back to the show.

Thanks so much for having me, Rob.

So if you're here, it can only mean one thing, and that is I really want to talk about a shooter.

Heck yes.

And I think this one qualifies as a totally valid three moves ahead topic because it is so

historically accurate and grounded in World War II and it is very team-based and tactics-based.

So really, I mean, you know, applying the Tom Chick definition of everything is a strategy game,

Rising Storm is certainly a

strategy game, the latest expansion for Red Orchestra 2. Evan, you mentioned at E3, actually,

you asked if I'd been playing this game, and I actually thought I might just end up giving it a miss,

because I didn't really feel like I wanted

to hang out with a military shooter anytime soon.

But you were really high on the game and got me curious about it, and I mean, boy, am I glad

you did, because it's just, it's fantastic.

You know, maybe to start us off, you'd explain a little bit about, you know, what Rising Storm is, and then why to click so hard for you?

Yeah, sure things. So, yeah, like you said, it's a standalone expansion to Red Orchestra 2, created by Troop Boyer Interactive.

Guys made Killing Floor. It's actually probably their best known game. So Redroquestor 2 came out in 2011.

And this is sort of a, Rising Storm was actually a project developed by modders

that Tripware worked with the modding team,

you know, did a lot of their own development, did a lot of like,

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