Wait, wait. "It uses both case and word order to specify subjects and oblects (sic), which is horribly redundant and annoying." Not exactly.
Near as I can tell, German only uses case marking to specify, well, case. There is a prefered word order, namely SVO, but that's not required. The only situation where word order is required is when no articles are used, but that doesn't happen very often. I don't think I've ever encountered it.
I'm no German expert, but I've been studying German for two years, and I've never encountered a situation where word order is required along side case to describe a words function.
Of course, I can't deny the long sentences, although I've yet to encounter anything as bad as the example cited by brutha.