Steel Division 2 Single Player Review | Unbiased and Concise 

Love this game but you're spot on about the speed. I just find it too frenetic to be enjoyable. There is a mod (Red Storm 44) in which the vehicle movement speeds have been slowed down to more realistic levels & I find it a lot more enjoyable to play. If you're the kind of player who loves spam or had a supercomputer for a brain, then you probably won't mind the speed but for an average gamer like myself, it's just too damn chaotic.

"If we want the genre to grow we can't afford to not support this" I wish more people understood this concept, specifically the Mech Sim genre. People need to dial it back on their hate, and provide constructive criticisms, let the developer react... anyway, great review, going to check this one out later this weekend.

One of the best SD2 reviews I have seen so far! Thanks for doing it :).

Thanks for your review. Still on the fence, but pretty sure its only a matter of time before I cave in :)

Great review that still holds up after all the expansions and updates - I wish the speed was slower.

I just came across your channel yesterday while looking for graviteam gameplay. Love your content keep it up! I'm even your 700th sub.

Excellent review, I'll be getting it after that!

Great, honest review. Appreciated.

Thanks for the review mate, you sold it for me!

Killer review. Great depth and I agree with your perspective. Subscribed....

You are very balanced and fair. Your review is focused more on the game than on what you are saying about it. That relative absence of "ego" I've noticed in your Mius Front videos where you neither personalize victory or defeat. It's really refreshing generally speaking and particularly in this venue: RU-vid. RU-vid is generally all about branding yourself. Your brand is understated in an effective way that allows the games and the developers to be the focus.

Im late to the party.. Did they fix the issue with splitting the battle between you and the Ai in two halfs? Controlling only support sounds fantastic as an idea.

Very helpful review. Thank you.

You see a middle ground game that won't fully satisfy fans of either genre, I see the best of both worlds beautifully presented.

I have just bought the game and this review nailed it for me. I have been a wargamer for over half a century starting off with miniatures and progressing through Avalon Hill and eventually ending up here. To be honest I still haven't found the "perfect" wargame. Having played through the entirety of the Squad Leader series I was rather hoping that when wargames made the transition to pc's the minutiae of wargames as complex as SL would be handled by the pc. Nah. Instead of making games more playable just more and more complexity was added, they just found something else for the gamer to think about rather than actually simulate what it was like to be a commander. This is why I was attracted to SD2. I have never properly played an RTS before as they always seemed too contrived to me. I have modded it to slow the game speed down to 70% of normal time and initial signs are good. Time will tell but I definitely agree with the sentiment that we need to support this as the bean counters only have one way of counting your vote.

Thanks for the review man, I saw this game come out and passed because I didnt think id be good enough to play it, but now that its 13.59 I think its worth the risk.

Have to say...that is a really really GREAT review. BTW...it is baaaa..graaa...shun. Please.

How dafuq you have only 703 subs!! Nice videos, keep uo the good work.

Army mode brought back some fond Panzer General 2 memories, just has Normandy '44 did remind me of Close Combat when it came out.

great video and great review! i wasnt sure because of the mixed reviews but the you convinced me to buy SD2!

Great solid review man, I have a problem with Eugens later titles; I tend to get swamped under hundreds of unit variations, and am continually losing focus of macro-management while fiddling in depth with the details of one corner of the map - This game seems to continue in that tradition........hmmmm, maybe this one's not for me then.... :S

Is the AI problem patched in Army general mode? Fantastic review btw.

Awesome review man! I kept checking the time I had left thinking you were going to say "but....", and then say something negative about it. I love the SD games, and I really hope SD2 was profitable enough that they continue to make content for it, and/or make SD3.

Great review.

Honestly I was a bit disappointed with steel division 1. It was just a wargame game with a WW2 setting and a weird kind of campaign that if you made one mistake you were fucked in the later missions. It was fun playing skirmish but I wanted more. So when steel division 2 came out i didnt even bother looking at it all that much because i thought it was just more of the same. But after watching this and seeing that beautiful army general mode, I can safely say that I'm going to buy steel division 2 right now and play the hell out of it. That campaign mode looks gorgeous and it's exactly what I wanted. Thanks for opening my eyes

Bought the game but have only tooled around with it from time to time.Was hoping for some Graviteam like graphics during the battles, but it felt very arcade like. Some things look good but most just didn't grab me the same way the Mius Front series by Graviteam does. I still tool around with this game occasionally but Mius Front is still my favorite go to game for east front WW2 action.

Does anyone happen to know if the army general mode now works the way it should? Talking about that 12:00 -> stuff.

nice and fair review instant subscribe

I have probably only logged like 10 hours or less on the game but I find SD1 to be more fun and feeling like world War 2. When you look at the zoomed out level view the map turns into this grainy mess more so than in SD1. When you zoom right in then it gets pretty cool to look at. The majority of the game though is zoomed out which means you are looking at a really ugly map. This might grow on me as I figure the mechanics out a bit. I came from War Game Red Dragon to SD1 and initially didnt like it but then it really grew on me. hopefully this will do the same.

Good review, nice narration. Will probably get it on sale, but at least i‘ll get it. I jumped onto SD1 but refunded it after about 5 hours playtime, back when people played it. The hardcore rng with the so called armor points turned me waaaay down so I’m glad to see they realized it. I still have mixed feelings about SD2 mainly because of what you call clickfest, the speed really is a bit off chart and I became more of a slow enjoy the bits player. But you saved it for me, I would never have bothered with SD2 because I thought the arcade mechanics are still much present, the dynamic campaign is a huuuge plus for me. Think i‘ll be able to get used to the pace, all in all it looks quite fun. Thanks very much for the review I would never have realized they changed so much without you. I only have one question about the 2000m effective range: is the penetration steady across all the 2km or will it drop the further you shoot?

Great review. Very concise and convincing. You should be a real time PR war spinmeister

Hopefully we can have a game of this but in Pacific war

Nice review, but i have a question. When i check the steam reviews i see alot of people complaining that the AI are super snipers with just about everything. Their artelliry being spot on and knows where your troops are all the time. Is this true? Cause that would be quite a downer for those who like to play more careful or more defensive if the AI can just snipe you with highly accurate artelliry barages.

this or graviteam mius front yeah? which is better..

Good review

2:47 eehh.,.. Do all soldiers of the same category look the same??

as always nicley put🤓👍

Do you think the Army General mode is an adequate competitor with Graviteam Mius Front.

Hi, doesn’t the game have a slow down time ability? I thought it did? I think the games are difficult with all the clicking. Good review

Does the A.I. use infantry to attack your trenches properly or is it yet again a game where tanks by themselves obliterate entrenched infantry?

Thank you

Grt video

at 3:58, armor attributes Front, Side and Back is in mm of steel, but Top says "Strong".... ??

Meh, ill maybe pick up the expansion SD 3 if it looms good.

no feense but from my experiences with the first game its hard to call it leaning sim but I hear

After finding out about this game i was skeptical because of the reviews, but i finally bought it not even waiting for a discount and i must say i have enjoy every moment of it and i am already in the 100hrs mark in just 3 weeks. So i am absolutely puzzled as to why it has a mix review, and it is just as you said, ppl with hundreds or even thousands of hour leaving a bad review because of a little tiny detail, ignorance or a completely unrelated thing to the game itself. This is the worst reviewed game i have ever seen, this game is a hidden jewel should be at least very positive in steam.

Now imagine what we can do with Unreal 5 and Nanite. Or at least when it matures it will simple change the face of gaming.

0:46 Deal breaker

Would you choose this over mius front?

bought it 1 year ago, started playing yesterday. Well i started to play army general mode, and i must say that AI is prety decent. Thing i do not like is it seems to be a much bigger&faster than first steel division, especally in multiplayer, but well - the scale of eastern front was much bigger than a western so i just need to get used with it.

Out of curiosity, where do you get your pronunciation of Bagration? The way the narrator pronounces it is the English pronunciation, the way you pronounce it seems like a transliteration from the Russian word.

The game isn't for me the 'problem' is the small dev team tries to do too much at once and I kinda feel bad. Thanks for the review, saved time and money.

I can't decide between SD 2 vs the first one.. New the series and I really don't care too much about the eastern front so maybe the first one would be more up my alley?

i thought this was an extremely fair and very well balanced critique.. my own assessment would have been far less balanced. not because i dont like the look or feel of the game, indeed i was happy to buy it.. it looks great, has some very cool features and huge maps. i just wish that it played better and that skirmish was more than rush to the flag..

Just imagine a Graviteam game at this scale... my god

Coming from COH2 I think it’s a good compromise. I just do multiplayer or skirmish they’ve come a long way either the campaign but I don’t really play it.

Nice looking game, but pretty much cant play it zoomed in so kinda mutes its beauty! Having a visual moving front line is kinda weird, still really Just a RTS click fest! I'll stick with Mius Front not as pretty but much more depth and cheaper too! thxs for the review!

Does terrain have any effect in this game?

Hey russian speaker here you mention that the name "Bagration" is pronounced incorrectly in the game which is false it is pronounced as it is in game other than that good review

Can I play this with a gtx 1050ti card?

If we got multiplayer campaign scenarios we could play in versus mode I’d buy the game.

The smoke trails of the rocket barrage is completely wrong .. the rockets should only emit smoke at the moment they are launched. Then they fly smokeless for the rest of the flight. Good review though.

the way you say mosin nagant lol

You can turn down the pace of the game, or at least the point gain speed.

I loved your vids on graviteam tactics which is my no1 but i have to say this one is far too gamey and childlike for me i so wanted to like steel division normandy but once i saw those little toy soldiers running around with their little firing streaks i just knew i never wanted any of it, good vid though thank you.

i found like many players that even on hard level the AI is not that good. i played as the germans in orscha campaign and only lost a few battles and held the russians to a 20 mile advance, and in some areas pushed them back, The AI wont attack in strategic map, and is easy to defeat when dug in with all the extra trenches barbed wire and AT guns you get. Playing as the russians is more challenging, PS played 200 hours so far

A game being addictive and a game being good are two different things. It's not hypocrisy. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. "I played it a lot, therefore I enjoyed it".

2000 meters is actually a pretty accurate cap for the average experienced tank gunner. The longest confirmed kill for a tank is a tiger 1 in world war two at 2300 meters. Which is close to a mile and a half shot. Using math and simple optics. For an experienced gunner in a Sherman tank. 1500 meters would be max. Any targets hit above 1500 meters was considered pure luck by historians.

8:43 You get pronunciations wrong all the time? Like the way just mispronounced "pronunciation"? Hehe. Good review, picking this one up on Steam Summer Sale. Seems like a steal at $16.

If this game would be slower , maybe 2/3 or speed then it would be better .. but the tanks run like hell

I love it:” I also get pronounciations wrong” yup it’s pronunciations 😳😳

Ohhhhhh yeah ….. give me that WAR MAP

I see a lot of people complaining about the AI use of artillery but I think they're just bitchin. I've paid attention to it in my games and my impression is that it doesn't know where you are in the fog of war. But if you fire a shot, or it gets even a glimpse of one of your units, then it's smart enough to estimate your position, which is completely reasonable. I've seen it miss me by a few hundred meters or fail to target concealed troop concentrations often enough to not believe that it can just see my troops wherever they are.

Bagration was well pronounced

It is pronounced how the game announcer says it. It's the name of a Russian general from the Napoleonic wars.

Its a good game but its way too fast paced.

Is it just me, or does it seem everything in this game moves way too fast?

Graviteam Tactics is better.

Realistic? Really? Decks, DECKS! Maybe a fun MP game but that's all SD2, and 1 for that matter are. A realistic portrayal of the Eastern Front in WWII it isn't. Good review - kept me from spending my money on it in the current Steam Winter Sale. Thank You. Really - thank you.

Btw, is anyone here knowledgable enough to know whether or not, the "mispronunciation" the youtuber is triggered over is actually incorrect? or is he just American and ignorant that British English is different? No offence intended, but I know alot of the time, the second option is the case. Try asking an American what year world war 2 started, you'll see what I mean lol. They have to have it the American way.

himmler xD

"mispronOWnciation" "Don't get me wrong I get" pronOWnciations wrong all the time" *pronunciation Otherwise a good video but if you can't pronounce pronunciation then maybe you shouldn't comment on mispronunciatuon.

fuck steel division, do graviteam pleassssssseeeeeeeee

Perhaps less time spent playing the game will result in you finding a woman with whom you're compatible.

It's pronounced proNUNciation

Oh good grief that pronunciation

This is just a fast paced, arcadey and mindless version of Mius-Front. Definitely avoid if you want anything deeper than a puddle. Also it's madness that the AI is so bad when the game is basically built around sharing control of your forces with the computer.