Instead, you’re encouraged to build a variety of forces ranging from basic but versatile infantry squadrons and long-ranged mortar teams to armoured troop transports and heavy, frontline tanks. Unlike other contemporary RTS games, the order of the day is not so much building up your forces and rolling over the base of your enemy. To be perfectly honest, it didn’t really need to change too much Relic blew everyone away with their honed and tight squad-based WWII RTS, and Company of Heroes 2 does not deviate from the formula. I won’t dwell too much on the gameplay, here, since it hasn’t changed much since Relic‘s first entry in the Company of Heroes series way back in 2007. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because that which ain’t broke don’t need fixin’, but there’s a lot that could have been improved upon to make a decent experience into something truly spectacular, and a lot that drags it down. Which is quite possibly why Relic have barely changed the experience from the first game. The intensity of the game – bombs crashing into cratered turf, tanks grinding fences under tracks, the whistle of mortars before they collide with the earth and send screaming soldiers scattering across the trenches – had altered my short-term perception. I was sitting in my room when a plane flew overhead, and for just a second, I felt a little bit scared. For me, it was about an hour after I finished one of the campaign missions a siege on the fortress of Lublin. The atmospheric impact of a game like Company of Heroes 2 hits you not really while you’re playing, but a little bit after. Still, let’s get the good out of the way first. This review is going to focus more on the issues the industry seems to have with narrative priority, and how Relic have their priorities all messed up. Mechanically speaking, it’s a fantastic game, but we have to think about the bigger picture sometimes – this bigger picture isn’t too pretty. Relic return to their glorious WWII strategy franchise, but things are starting to look a little frosty.ĭISCLAIMER: It’s really hard to not focus on what Company of Heroes 2 could have been.
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