Rising Storm 2 celebrates Christmas with toy soldier battles

Wee plastic troopers will wage struggle throughout a messy home this Christmas – and in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam. The ‘realistic’ multiplayer first-person shooter right this moment launches its festive occasion with a pleasingly self-descriptive title, Toy Soldier Green Army Men Christmas Special. There are inexperienced toy military males, and it’s Christmas, and it’s particular. The clean troopers will scamper alongside Hot Wheels tracks, have firefights in a mannequin village, disguise behind presents underneath the Christmas tree, and doubtless have quite a lot of accidents with the toy prepare chugging round. Charming. Have a peek within the trailer beneath.

That’s good, that. Like the ‘Rats’ maps from ye olde Halfe-Life dayes, however inside a contemporary technoshell which doesn’t fall over if you happen to attempt to render plenty of element in an enormous area. Many different games have carried out that since and never simply FPSs–bumsliding platform-o-racer Action Henk and tower defence Toy Soldiers are highlights for me–however, y’know, it’s good. Rats.

The occasion’s spawned from a mod entered in a Rising Storm 2 modding competitors, now expanded on and added formally to the game. The toy troopers will solely be scampering round till the primary week of January, thoughts.

Back in Rising Storm 2’s common Vietnam struggle, gamers are being given a cheery little helmet with “CHRISTMAS? NEVER HAPPENED HERE” scrawled on the facet.