![]() ![]() This may sound like a cop out, and some may instantly be disappointed that Relic hasn’t spent time adding more new content, but the original didn’t win so much critical acclaim for nothing, and frankly, it still shows.ĬoH was, and still is a distinctly different RTS title that puts much more of a focus on unit micromanagement than base building or whole armies of troops. Relic certainly hasn’t spent much time reinventing the wheel here, and what we get is a tweaked and tuned RTS experience that capitalises on the series’ strengths. ![]() It’s been done before, sure, but it’s still arguably more interesting at this point, given the over saturation of the traditional European settings.Įvents are played out in an instantly recognisable manner for CoH veterans, and for the most part, little has changed from the previous outing. Via a series of flashbacks narrated by disgraced Soviet Army lieutenant, Lev Abramovich Isakovich, the game’s single-player campaign starts with the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, the German advance into Russia, and runs all the way to the fateful Battle of Berlin, by which time the Red Army had battered the Nazis out of the Motherland and was staring the Third Reich down in its own front yard. We all know how things ended, but Company of Heroes 2 aims to give you first hand experience of these events from the Russian point of view, showing the terrible events that unfolded, and the hardships the Red Army had to endure, not only at the hands of the Germans, but their own commanders too. Whilst the Germans had the technology, better training and more powerful weapons, Russia had the sheer weight of numbers, and the viciously cold climate, something the Nazis simply couldn’t overcome, at least in the long run. ![]()
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