Company of Heroes (PC)

Company of heroes is an action strategy game developed by the award winning Relic Entertainment that brings to life the epic story of a US Army company during their fight to win the war. Set in World War Two you will fight in missions ranging from the D-Day invasions through to some of the most pivotal battles of the war, all in a very clever cinematic style. I bought CoH for a change of game play since my ever-increasing shelf of first person shooters was beginning to get rather repetitive, and believe me it was a great addition! I had always been deterred from playing RTS games due to the ... more

Having been a long term Real Time Strategy games fan since the early days of Dune II and Command & Conquer I could never understand why a World War 2 version of one of these (whereas in previous WWII RTS games Blitzkrieg and Sudden Strike you couldn’t build and replace units) had never been written. Finally some one came up with the goods and it was well worth the wait! GAMEPLAY (Forward to victory!) Basically the game gives you resources for capturing and holding territory, which you use to build units and research technologies to defeat your enemy. It's a time honoured RTS format but CoH ... more

Company of Heroes (CoH) is a World War 2 Real Time Strategy (RTS) game from THQ and Relic, the makers of the brilliant and multi-award-winning Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series. The game puts you in charge of three companies of the US Army, fighting from D-Day up until the German forces are driven from France. You can also play as the Germans in skirmish mode or online. GAMEPLAY Basic gameplay is much the same as many other RTS offerings - you select your men, move them about, use your engineers to build things whilst collecting resources and then have an almighty scrap before one side ... more

The idea of the game is to collect resources to enable you to build a force strong enough to capture and defend Strategic Victory Points dotted around the map or annihilate the enemy’s base and all their troops. What game type you play all depends on what is chosen before the game has started. The victory point is much like that experienced in Battlefield 1942 where the host can chose, before the game has started, whether to go for 250, 500, or 1000 tickets. When one side has more victory points under their control than another, the other side's "tickets" start to decrease. When one side runs ... more

The new game by Relic is excellent, there really at the top of their game and has set a high standard for any new WW2 games coming out in the future! The thing with this game is that it isn't all about spending hours gathering up resources, saving up and unleashing a massive army near the end of the game. You will have to capture points (to raise your population cap), gather ammunition and boost fuel supplies. Manpower (points) is used in all unit and building construction, fuel is used to build structures and new vehicles, and ammunition is primarily used to equip units with special weaponry ... more