Comments were funny. I like the guy complaining about the mod (in 2010), saying it's so unrealistic, since you can't reload any MG. Guess he didn't try deploying.
There was another comment from another guy complaining about how the mod was the crappiest WWII game they ever played, yet loved RO1
Besides a few tweaks, additions, graphics, and improvements, they were almost the same thing.
And before RO:CA, the only WWII games to choose from were Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Day of Defeat, BF 1942 and Return to Castle Woldenstein..... bleck.
All arcady crap in comparison..... and RO:CA was just a mod, yet had a huge following... well, minus DoD... that was originally a mod too, but still a fraction of what RO was.
Is it bad that I still recognise most of those maps just from the snippets that they showed? Jucha, Donets, Kharkov, old Danzig, Ponyri, old Hedgehog... and of course thinking about those reminds me of so many other greats like Berlin, Tractor Factory, Spartakovka, Moscow Highway and more that I can picture but not name. The memories... back when getting killed made me go "I deserved that, this game is awesome" as opposed to now where it's "&@#*%$@*!!!!!!"
I keep bringing up Karlovka.... there was just so much to do in that map and so many various tactics that could be applied, not to mention just about every single feature RO offered at the time was in that map.... it was so perfectly designed that if you wanted to actually win the round, you seriously needed team work.
The Russians could hold Bridges 1 & 2 and the House easily if the Germans weren't working together, but at the same time, the Germans just needed to take out the road blocks at Bridge 2 and flank the house and they could easily roll over the Russians the rest of the way.
I can't even describe the pleasure I got from taking a T34 to defend the House and B1, having all the german tanks take shots at me but couldn't do anything because of how I angled my tank, and then they'd all rage when I one-hit-wondered them..... until someone smart on their team called in some Arty.