
Shortly after Operation Barbarossa, Alexey Kuznetsov and Victor Smirnov are enlisted into the Red Army. The Player is represented by Alexey Kuznetsov (who also plays a role in Men of War: Red Tide) and Victor Smirnov. The campaign begins with the Battle of Rostov and ends after the Battle of Seelow Heights, with an epilogue showing Berlin days after its capture. The Soviet campaign spans the early battles of the Eastern Front, through to the start of the Soviet counter-offensive. The game focuses on some of the less-known battles of World War II and does not feature famous battles like the Invasion of Normandy or Battle of Stalingrad. The single-player portions of Men of War comprise 19 missions spread across Soviet, German, and Allied campaigns and a "bonus" campaign of offcuts. It has also been described as "dissolving the emotional distance between player and unit".

"Direct Control" can be used to perform advanced actions such as targeting individual vehicle components, navigating precisely around cover, and cooking a grenade. Movement is controlled with four directional keys and a stance toggle, while the unit aims/faces toward the on-screen mouse cursor and fires when the player clicks his mouse button. Men of War allows a player to directly control any soldier or manned vehicle/gun that he owns. Perhaps in recognition of this, players can change the speed at which time passes. These rules lead to gameplay that has been described as "organic.where others are artificial" and praised for generating "stories as distinct as they are dramatic", but criticised for at times demanding intense micromanagement.


It focuses entirely on military tactics and special operations and does not feature base building, research, or resource gathering.

Men of War is a real-time tactics game in which players complete military objectives.
