( Chad Michael Collins) and Dean Ransom ( Tom Sizemore) (a cook who had been demoted from Lieutenant after the D-Day landings) lead them deep into Nazi territory. With their sergeant and other NCOs dead, the youngest of the soldiers, Nathaniel "Nate" Burrows, Jr. The American agent, knowing that he is near death, asks the soldiers to complete his mission: to find the bomb disable it and extract the scientist developing it, who wishes to defect. They come across an American OSS agent suffering from horrific burn wounds, and learn that the Germans are close to development of a super-bomb which will enable them to turn the tide of war and achieve victory. Surprisingly, this site is in Heidenfeld, Thuringia in Germany, although their own lines are hundreds of kilometers away in Belgium. En route, they stumble across a German experimental site, still smoldering with flames from some devastating event. After a fierce firefight, the Americans escape and try to make their way back to their own lines to report the German surge. More info GenreĬompany of Heroes 2 takes the war to the eastern front, showing a cold, frightening side of World War II that is often ignored in gaming.With the Germans apparently near defeat in the latter part of World War II, a squad of American soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division on a routine mission near Elsenborn in the Belgian Ardennes encounter a surprisingly strong German tank destroyer and infantry force. As it stands, this will probably be one of the best strategy releases this year, even if it doesn’t quite attain the status of all-time classic. From a purely mechanical perspective, there’s enough recycled material to give fans of the 2006 entry their due, while adding enough subtle new features to bring in at least a few fresh faces. While not quite as innovative as the original, Company of Heroes 2 does little wrong besides weigh itself down with the mildly superfluous and fail to push the envelope of video game narrative-though at times it really seems desperate to try. That focus on strategy and tactics is refreshing and brings CoH 2 in line with games like Civilization, though with a clear emphasis on the brutality and despondent tone of that particular era of history.Īll-told, Company of Heroes 2 is a worthy, if not excellent, heir to the franchise’s legacy. Instead, victory will typically rely on your ability to out-think your opponents. Execution challenges like those found in some of today’s more popular strategy games and MOBAs aren’t as big here.
It’s easy to lose track of your resources and units amidst the chaos.Ĭampaign play translates quite well to multiplayer, such that the strategies needed to carefully balance territory and positioning learned alone will often work against human opponents. This problem is exacerbated by the fast-paced nature of play, which requires almost constant micromanagement of every piece on the field.
wouldn’t ever tilt into the realm of ‘information overload’. With screen real estate at a premium, CoH 2’s designers apparently thought that dotted lines showing unit movement, dashed circles for attack ranges, tiny dots showing potential unit position, shields displaying cover status, icons for on-map weapons and supplies, etc. For those keeping track, that leaves a scant 50-ish percent for the actual game. Then, the top fifth is used for showing all of the units you have on the field. The bottom third of the screen is dedicated, as usual, to the staples of the genre-resource stats, minimaps, unit abilities, and other options. Sadly, all of these great environmental options do come at a cost, namely, the user interface. "Sadly, all of these great environmental options do come at a cost, namely, the user interface."
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