Like its predecessor, Sudden Strike 2 is a real-time, strategic, tactical war game for World War II.

Play more than 40 missions in 5 campaigns in separate scenarios or single one-off missions. Japan has been added as a playable nation in addition to Germany, Russia, Great Britain and the United States for a total of 5 countries. March your troops through rain and snow and other weather effects in landscapes set in winter and summer. Control boats, railways, tanks, aircraft, ambulances and transport vehicles. Destroy bridges, houses, trees, forts and more objects.

The game includes a editor so you can create over 20 in-game maps for the multiplayer mode and over 10 maps for single missions.