![]() The change in direction makes Tannenberg feel a little closer to its mainstream counterparts, particularly Battlefield 1, though it maintains that more considered, tactical approach from its predecessor. In Verdun, the roles were fixed, with one side attacking and the other defending. Each of the expansive maps is split into sectors that must be captured, so everyone gets to decide, at an individual and squad level, if they want to be an attacker or a defender. Inauspicious start aside, Tannenberg is a little easier to get to grips with than the often painfully slow, structured trench warfare of Verdun. Perhaps it was silly of me to expect anything less from a game that draws its name from a battle that killed and wounded around 200,000 soldiers across both sides, but mostly Russian. ![]() I recklessly dived into one straight away and quickly found myself shot dead. The ‘Maneuver’ mode is the headline attraction here - it’s where you’ll find the huge and messy 64-player brawls. Like Verdun, it revels in historical details, from guns and uniforms to incidental props, but the jump to the miserable Eastern Front changes the focus of the battles from plodding fights over trenches to 64-player conflicts spread out across multiple war-torn sectors on rather chunky maps. Named after the 1914 battle that saw Russian and German forces fight over East Prussia, Tannenberg is the second game in the World War 1 multiplayer FPS series that began with Verdun. It’s a noise I’ve become very familiar with in Tannenberg. He lands in the mud right next to me, where he moans and gurgles as the life slowly seeps out of him. Before I can even figure out if he's friend or foe, there’s a flash and a scream as he's sent hurtling through the air, the latest victim of the enemy’s mortar. It's a companion game to Verdun, but the weather is worse and and there are a lot more angry men with guns.Ī man sprints out of the woods just in front of my hiding spot, screaming as he jumps over fallen trees. This week's Premature Evaluation sees our early access conscript, Fraser, flung into the nightmarish Eastern Front of World War I in multiplayer FPS Tannenberg.
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