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Once you’re actually playing, however, the Eastern Front setting turns out to be brilliant. Not only are the cinematics weak, but it’s hard to balance the cut-scenes themes of ‘war is hell’ and ‘does the end justify the means’ when the rest of the game seems hell-bent on answering ‘sure, but at least it’s spectacular’ and ‘yup, bung another squad of conscripts on the firing line.’ It’s played out as a series of flashbacks for a Soviet lieutenant being interrogated in a post-war gulag, and this framing structure is easily the worst thing about the game.

Perhaps its smartest idea is to move the action away from Normandy in 1944 and to the Eastern Front in 1941. Watch the Company of Heroes 2 launch trailer:Ĭompany of Heroes 2: Welcome to the Eastern Front On the other, it’s not as accessible as competitors like StarCraft II – partly as a result of some thoughtless design – and it’s nowhere near as revolutionary as the first Company of Heroes was six years ago. On the one hand, it’s a huge, meaty package for stalwart RTS fans, who will delight in the depth of its content and the riches of its gameplay. This is both its biggest strength and biggest weakness.

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It’s a throwback to the days when the RTS and the FPS jointly ruled the PC gaming landscape, and an era when tight, well-balanced game mechanics were more important than the cinematic presentation or the narrative.

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