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If you haven't had a chance to try out the public beta of R.U.S.E., your time is nearly up. Steam, which hosts the current beta to Eugen and Ubisoft's upcoming and unusual WWII RTS game annouced that the beta for the game will now end on April 12. Originally the open beta was due to shut down this week but Ubisoft decided to extend the beta test for a few more days "due to popular demand."

Of course you can still pre-order the full version of the game before it's released in early June. People who put down their money early via Steam will be able to get two more exclusive challenge maps.

Today, developer Eugen Systems and publisher Ubisoft plan to launch the closed beta test for their upcoming and rather unique real time strategy game R.U.S.E. However, Big Download got an early chance to play the beta build this weekend. Press folks got to play some 1v1 matches against the gamers who attended the latest Dreamhack LAN event in Sweden, who also got early access to the beta test build

If you have read our previous articles about R.U.S.E., then you know it's basic premise; it's a real-time strategy game that uses a World War II setting. Now before you run away screaming about yet another WWII RTS game, you should know that it takes some different design tracks right off the bat. Instead of a typical "fog of war" you can technically see what the enemy is doing in matches to a limited degree and vise verse. The catch? You and your opponent can use various R.U.S.E. abilities to conceal your activities, build dummy units or buildings and basically make your enemy think twice about attacking your positions.