At any point in a single-player battle, you can pause the action and freely explore the map. That embrace of a Total War-style structure is the headline attraction, but there are other systems that may have even more impact, such as the tactical pause.
Everything you can do in a real-time fight, you can do on the turn-based map: you can potentially clear out enemy forces before the ‘main’ fight even occurs. The game’s pitch is a ‘holistic loop’ that keeps the overall campaign feeling inextricably linked to the RTS battles. The campaign is turn-based and takes place on a huge map with discrete objectives, which also allow you to explore and conquer them however you prefer. You’ll be able to play as the German, UK, and US forces in multiplayer, though in the campaign you’ll just be playing the Allies. It looks huge and incredible, check out the trailer below. Company of Heroes released in 2006 to near-universal acclaim and multiple awards, and received two expansions-Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor-before, in 2013, a complete sequel, Company of Heroes 2.Ĭompany of Heroes 3 is set in Italy and North Africa and features a turn-based campaign littered with bespoke real-time missions and skirmishes. This is the third game in one of the most famous RTS series of all time.
I think you'll be impressed.Company of Heroes 3 was revealed recently and after many years in development, and you can sign up to play what developer Relic Entertainment calls a pre-Alpha preview build here. For everyone else, get the demo and try it yourself. If you've ever played and enjoyed an RTS game of any type, buy this game immediately. Coincidentally, it's also one of the first games with Microsoft's "Games for Windows" certification, which means (among other things) that it integrates automatically into Vista's Games menu.
It elevates the entire real-time strategy genre to the next level.Ĭompany of Heroes is the first new game I installed after installing Vista RC1. But this is a real-time strategy game with incredible graphical detail, dynamic, destructible levels, and unparalleled unit intelligence and tactics. Sure, the World War II genre has been done to death. The Company of Heroes demo is a whopping 1.8 gigabytes in size, but it offers a significant chunk of the game: unlimited, unlocked skirmish mode against the CPU and two single player maps. It's so good, in fact, that I was compelled to complete every optional objective in the campaign missions. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, the game currently has a 95% review average on GameRankings with 13 reviews, which puts it squarely on track to be one of the top 10 best reviewed PC games of all time. And it's quite possibly one of the best real-time strategy games ever made. It's easily one of the best games of the year for the PC.
My latest gaming obsession is the new real-time strategy game, Company of Heroes.
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