Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory

Lore & Background

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory is the third game in the Sudden Strike series, developed by Russian studio Fireglow Games. It was released in December 2007 and is the sequel to Sudden Strike 2. The game features a revamped engine that allows for improved damage characteristics, balance of forces, and winter battles. It also includes a map editor with additional features such as making trenches. Certain abilities from earlier games return, including ambushes in houses, landing parties, reconnaissance, and transportation of infantry on tanks.

Reader's Guide

Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory holds a Metacritic score of 63 out of 100 based on 10 critic ratings. GameSpot rated Sudden Strike 3 as the best of the franchise. The game introduced 3D graphics to the series for the first time and expanded the setting to include the Pacific campaigns alongside the U.S., Allied, and German campaigns. Its revamped engine improved damage characteristics and balance of forces, and it brought back popular abilities from earlier games. The game also received expansions, including Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory - Ardennes Offensive in 2008, which added France as a new faction and new multiplayer maps. Enhanced versions such as Sudden Strike: The Last Stand (released March 20, 2009 in Russia) and standalone campaigns like Sudden Strike Iwo Jima and Sudden Strike Normandy were also released.

Did You Know?

• Sudden Strike 3 is the first game in the franchise to feature 3D graphics.
• The game includes a map editor with features such as making trenches.
• The expansion Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory - Ardennes Offensive added France as a new faction.