Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront is a real-time strategy developed by Barbwire Studios and published by Digitalmindsoft. It is supposed to be a successor of the Men of War series, although Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront is not exactly belong to the Men of War franchise since that franchise is owned by Best Way and 1C Company.

[GAMEPLAY]
Long time players of Men of War series should be familiar with the gameplay of Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, as most of the features are similar, with some improvement taken from the Call to Arms. Unlike Call to Arms though, Gates of Hell are more realistic and more resemblances of the old Men of War series, such as no hitpoints for vehicles and more realistic penetration and damage system.
One improvement that is brought over from Call to Arms are third-person camera for infantry and vehicles, like you can drive your tanks like in World of Tanks/War Thunder, not just driving them from top down camera with the old direct control mode. It's really awesome driving a KV-2 and blow up everything with its 152mm super cannon.
Conquest mode from Call to Arms also made a return here, with is much more better than current Call to Arms. You are given a little bit more time on attack mission to conquer your enemy and in defense mission the enemy actually spawn after a while so that you can have little time to prepare.

[GRAPHICS]
One of the notable improvement from Men of War is Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront has way much better graphics, and thanks to the Call to Arms improved engine, performance is also much better, especially with bigger battles. The graphics looks similar to Sudden Strike 4, but with little more detail and since the camera can be zoomed closer, you can see better details here.

[SOUNDS]
The soundscape design is marvelous! At first I thought they're going to be similar with Call to Arms, which is nice but somewhat quiet I think. Gates of Hell have incredible sound design, it's loud, but not that crude loud that could break your ears. Explosions, tank firing, machine gun fire... it's a real war out there.

[MAPS]
There are 20 maps for multiplayer and 18 maps for conquest on release. They're supposed to be based on real locations. So far, I feel like the maps are so detailed, some provide lots of cover for infantry too. Imagine when they actually made western front maps... or maybe Africa and Pacific?

[CONCLUSION]
While currently there are only 2 factions in the game, the Soviet and Germany, they are planning to add more factions as DLC in the future. With all the game offers currently, I say this is a highly recommended game to play.

Rating 9/10

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront is a real-time strategy developed by Barbwire Studios and published by Digitalmindsoft. It is supposed to be a successor of the Men of War series, although Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront is not exactly belong to the Men of War franchise since that franchise is owned by Best Way and 1C Company. [GAMEPLAY] Long time players of Men of War series should be familiar with the gameplay of Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront, as most of the features are similar, with some improvement taken from the Call to Arms. Unlike Call to Arms though, Gates of Hell are more realistic and more resemblances of the old Men of War series, such as no hitpoints for vehicles and more realistic penetration and damage system. One improvement that is brought over from Call to Arms are third-person camera for infantry and vehicles, like you can drive your tanks like in World of Tanks/War Thunder, not just driving them from top down camera with the old direct control mode. It's really awesome driving a KV-2 and blow up everything with its 152mm super cannon. Conquest mode from Call to Arms also made a return here, with is much more better than current Call to Arms. You are given a little bit more time on attack mission to conquer your enemy and in defense mission the enemy actually spawn after a while so that you can have little time to prepare. [GRAPHICS] One of the notable improvement from Men of War is Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront has way much better graphics, and thanks to the Call to Arms improved engine, performance is also much better, especially with bigger battles. The graphics looks similar to Sudden Strike 4, but with little more detail and since the camera can be zoomed closer, you can see better details here. [SOUNDS] The soundscape design is marvelous! At first I thought they're going to be similar with Call to Arms, which is nice but somewhat quiet I think. Gates of Hell have incredible sound design, it's loud, but not that crude loud that could break your ears. Explosions, tank firing, machine gun fire... it's a real war out there. [MAPS] There are 20 maps for multiplayer and 18 maps for conquest on release. They're supposed to be based on real locations. So far, I feel like the maps are so detailed, some provide lots of cover for infantry too. Imagine when they actually made western front maps... or maybe Africa and Pacific? [CONCLUSION] While currently there are only 2 factions in the game, the Soviet and Germany, they are planning to add more factions as DLC in the future. With all the game offers currently, I say this is a highly recommended game to play. Rating 9/10