You can see the shared talent from Creative Assembly at work - you'd imagine there's some serious cross-hiring between the two Sega-published strategy masters - and as someone who's longed for the return of stomping across maps and painting them all in your colours like we did in those Dawn of War days, I was desperately keen for this to work. There are resources to manage - meta versions of the manpower, munitions and fuel of CoH's actual battles - and a variety of strategies to employ, from naval bombardment to artillery to paratroopers. You land at the tip of Italy's boot and work your way upwards, conquering settlements of varying sizes, sieging cities for multiple turns, risking ambush on faster roads or taking slower routes through the sun-dried Mediterranean hills.
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The Italian one is vast, by series standards, a sweeping spectacle that mixes the delightfully bureaucratic elements of the sandbox overworlds you'd find in the Total War games, with the more simplified, arcady joys of old Relic joints, like the planetary conquest of Dawn of War: Dark Crusade.
There are two single-player components with CoH 3, which is more than ever - a running theme - and arguably more than you'd ever really need. I've one hangup with CoH 3, which is its Italian Campaign. Here's a developer diary for Company of Heroes 3 talking about what we can expect from the game after launch. There are few if any major innovations, just iteration, tuning, fiddling with dials.īut they're almost unanimously successful, those dials turned to just the places you'd want them to be - namely the ones for big explosions, tactical demands and gloriously recreated sounds, turned right up to the line before the last notch on the Realism Scale where you hit the range called Excess - and so in place of real novelty or proper creativity comes a supreme kind of competency.
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Here's everything you liked about Company of Heroes before now, plus more of it, plus everything's just that little bit better. Company of Heroes 3 is a conservative's dream, the ultimate safe bet of a sequel and a clear reaction to the studio getting its hands singed by DoW 3's creative chances. There were some who might have worried after the mixed-at-best reactions to Dawn of War 3, which gambled much more aggressively on giving units active abilities and its multiplayer maps more defined 'lanes', but they shouldn't. Relic has been at the pinnacle of the RTS (real-time strategy) scene for some time now. That's not to say this is much of a surprise.
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Availability: Out 23 February on PC ( Steam), with PS5, and Xbox Series X/S versions coming soon.Company of Heroes 3 is very, very good, in part because great care has been taken with those gambles on its setting and tone. A game that simulates war for fun, which releases, somewhat unbelievably, a day before the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and is - despite the questionable nature of putting you in a Wehrmacht commander's shoes, and astonishingly poor decision-making behind its release date - somehow, a success.
This is the odd situation that Company of Heroes 3 puts you in, however. Let's get this one out of the way early: there's a certain strangeness - or worse - to talking about how good the bits where you get to play as Erwin Rommel are in a video game. Navigating a tonal minefield with just enough confidence, Company of Heroes 3 is a big, refined, and beautifully textured addition to an already brilliant series.
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