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 Pretty good September 19, 2008
Christopher J. Hull (UK)
I'm not the type for strategy games, but my mates were playing it online. I refused to buy it, as who wants to click and soilder and just press attack on a building. If you have this mentality, boy will this game surprise you. You are placed right in the centre of World War 2, with some pretty amazing graphics and sounds. The environment is fully destructable and interactive, which is absolutely superb. You can hear rockets soaring through the air, ready to blow tanks to smitherines. Play as the Allies or the Germans online against many foes, in teams of 1, 2, 3 or 4. If your computer is not amazing, it's ok to play this game, you just have to turn all the graphics settings down. I tell you what though, they still look incredible. Capture strategic fuel and ammo points, build your panzer command or motor pool, call in bombing runs. There are absolutely tons of things to build, and ways that you can suddenly pull a game back when your being blitzkreiged. I would recommend to mature gamers, tis not a little boys game. This one is for men who love to fight from the comfort of their chair. Recommended highly. One last thing, if your sick of playing americans or the wermacht, or you just want to see the brits in action, and the panzer, you should buy Opposing fronts, which can stand alone as a game, very handy indeed.
A Great Game and Well Worth the Money March 9, 2008
Stewart Wardlaw
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My initial overview of the game was that it was two high spec but after installing some new software it was superb. Grapics = 10 Gameplay = 10
Well... October 21, 2007
Mr. Aaron Meredith (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
best game for the PC since Command & Conquer?
Up loud, At full spec, this game amazes you from start to finish!
Yes..End of!
 Warhammer Dawn of War engine continues September 29, 2007
Niels Kristian Schmidt (Denmark)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is based on the engine from warhammer dawn of war which is a great RTS game. If you like RTS and you like world war II, this game is a great entertainment in multiplayer and skirmish. Never played the campaign my self.
The game is continualy patched and improved and has a huge community to support this. The game is also compatible and integrated with Opposing Fronts. So the sequal does not break the community into upgraders and non-upgraders.
Superb WWII Strategy Action September 20, 2007
CJ (UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Company of Heroes is a real time strategy game that puts you in charge of Able and Fox companies, units within the US Army. Your mission is to guide them from the beaches of Normandy on D-Day right up to the routing of the German army at the Falaise pocket.
This game is excellent. The presentation, the graphics, sound, gameplay, controls, all of these elements are put together superbly and well polished. The pace begins gently with primarily infantry-based engagements, but by the end of the game you are controlling tanks, artillery, infantry, air strikes, engineers, the works. Environments range from the Normandy beaches, to marshland, open fields, bombed and ruined towns, Nazi bases and vital bridges which must be seized and/or held at all costs.
Controlling your forces is simple and the game dispenses with overly elaborate base building and slow build-up of forces by enforcing a population cap. This means you can only have so many units and must capture and hold resource points in order to keep your cap at its maximum and also secure ammunition and fuel supply lines in order to keep your troops moving.
The cap is a good idea which makes you work with what you have and come up with sound tactics rather than building a huge tank army and rolling over the enemy. It is also frustrating when you are occasionally forced into sacrificing units so that you can then bring in different ones to deal with the enemy you are facing. Also, any stationary field guns you capture count towards the cap - you can't abandon them. But overall the cap forces the gameplay dynamic well and the pressure to take and hold resource points makes you think fast.
The game can be played at a slow pace, but some missions barely allow it and a mobile offensive is usually a must. The enemy AI can be aggressive and will often make you fight hard for every square inch of land. Fortunately, you have a wide range of forces at your disposal: tanks, jeeps, half-tracks, anti-tank guns, howitzers and infantry (regulars, paratroopers and rangers). Your units gain rank as they become more experienced and can be equipped with extra weapons (for example, a Sherman tank can have a turret-mounted machine gun added to it for dealing with enemy infantry).
You accrue command points as you move through a mission which can be spent on off-map assistance such as artillery, air strikes, paratrooper drops and the like. These use up ammo and fule points, so you need to make sure you are always controlling enough resource points to use them.
Graphically the game is great, all of the units are well animated and gunfire, explosions and the like in the middle of a firefight look great. Sound is also impressive, your units even get stressed in battle and tell you so (as such, the language can get rather fruity). You ideally need a reasonably powerful PC to get the best out of the game, but it can be scaled to run on most PCs OK.
If you enjoy real time strategy and haven't tired of World War II games yet, Company of Heroes is an essential purchase. It is simply one of the best examples of its genre.
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