Company of Heroes 2: Small Tweaks Make Big Differences

[CybrSlydr]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/...ig-differences

I’ve sent thousands of American, German and British soldiers to die in battle. I’ve sent men into situations where I knew they would die in order to win the larger fight, seen tanks go from powerful symbols of freedom into burning husks within seconds and put so many craters into quaint villages that they look like the surface of the moon. All of this and more I’ve done in the real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes.

Company of Heroes, more than any other game in any genre, has let me experience the horrors of war. Granted, it’s a representation wrapped up in the conventions of a video game, but it still portrays combat in a realistic enough way that it sometimes makes me reflect on how awful these men had it. Despite two expansions, the original Company of Heroes never took us to the Eastern Front, where more than 20 million people lost their lives. That changes in 2013 with the release of Company of Heroes 2, when everyone will finally get direct control over Soviet forces, taking them into battles fought and won as much by desperation as by sound tactics. Having recently tried it myself, I’ve briefly experienced battles in the most brutal front in history.

Never did like the CoH games...

[lexandro]

I really liked CoH, I thought it was a bloody good strategy game if a little light on units at times. As I mentioned in another thread I have only one real gripe with it and that is that it always had a BSOD on the tank siege mission late game so I never did "complete" it.

Really enjoyed the story though and the intensity of the combat though. That night time hill defence mission was a doozy. Will defo take a look at the new title.

[Blackops_2]

Coh is by far my favorite RTS of all time we still play to this day. There is a reason its one of the highest rated RTS of all time.

Whatd you not like about the original cybr? Just curious.

[CybrSlydr]

Originally Posted by Blackops_2

Coh is by far my favorite RTS of all time we still play to this day. There is a reason its one of the highest rated RTS of all time.

Whatd you not like about the original cybr? Just curious.

It's too fast for me. Plus, I loved the Close Combat games where you start with set units and can't recruit any more. I hate RTS where you have to do the build, supply and crank out ****. I'm never very good at it and always get steamrolled.

[Blackops_2]

I just play against the NPC for that exact reason lol. I don't play against players. Doubt I would be able to compete