Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is a World War 2 first-person shooter that is renowned for its realism. You have to manually check how many bullets are left in your gun, have generally terrible aim, and the only way to distinguish allies from enemies is by their uniform and whether or not they're shooting at you. There's even a button to hold breath when taking a tricky shot. This is exactly the sort of game I'm not very good at, but I enjoyed the thrill of diving behind an abandoned wheelbarrow as bullets sprayed the ground around me. The strategy I ultimately arrived at was to sprint around the battlefield, occasionally dropping prone and crawling for several yards and firing off a few shots. War is a terrible thing, but games like Red Orchestra 2 manage to construct a virtual simulation of combat that is, at the very least, exciting.
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