The revamped engine allowed for improved damage characteristics, balance of forces, and winter battles. It also features a better map editor, with more features such as making trenches. It features the pacific campaigns, as well as the U.S. It was released in April 2008, and it currently has a free add-on for it. Sudden Strike 3 was unique in the series in that it was the first released game in the franchise featuring 3D graphics. Sudden Strike 3: Arms for Victory or Sudden Strike III is a real-time tactics computer game by Russian studio Fireglow Games set in World War II, the third game in the Sudden Strike series and the sequel to Sudden Strike 2.