Immanitas Entertainment announces the digital release of Uprising 44: The Silent Shadows, their World War II action game, saying a boxed edition of the third-person shooter/RTS hybrid will follow in the first quarter of next year. The game is available through Desura, GamerZ Rebellion, and McGame, and here's word on what to expect:

Uprising 44 brings gamers closer to the stories of struggles of civilians and insurgent forces against the Nazi aggressor. It is a universal tale of heroism, patriotism and heroic struggle of inhabitants of a city occupied by Nazi troops. The whole story is set in 1944 during an outbreak of one of the largest guerrilla operations in World War II - the Warsaw Uprising.

TPS and RTS gameplay modes are smoothly switched depending on the development of the game action. In TPP mode the player is the commander of a four-person party – The Silent Shadows. With the tactical command system, he can command both the entire squad, as well as its individual members. The advanced AI of the soldiers allows for a tactical game, where an order may be given to an individual soldier, depending on the situation, or a game with activated “Auto-behavior” mode, where the player controls only his own hero and members of the squad act according to their own assessment of the situation.