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Company of Heroes

Based on 20 reviews

Excellent:

15
Good:

4
Average:

0
Bad:

1

Pros

Unrelenting combat.
Nailbiting strategic missions.
Excellent in-game visuals and sound.
Solid gameplay.
Totally interactive environments.
Interesting and occasionally devious campaign missions.
Awesome tank battles.
Best RTS graphics.
Excellent Presentation.
Can Run Smoothly and Look beautiful even on a Mid-Range system.
Easy Learning Curve.

Cons

No Axis campaign or tutorial.
No German campaign.
Long load times.
Doesn’t exactly put the "I" in "AI".
Too much micromanagement needed.
Laughably bad rendition and animation on some cutscenes.
Steep System Requirements for Full Blown Graphics.
Minor Game Play Flaws.

By DarkZero on December 23, 2009

Published October 15th 2006. Written by Thomas McDermott. It is widely accepted that the opening reveal and pan across Hyrule Field in The Ocarina of Time is a great gaming moment. It was a beautiful, elegant and fitting way to introduce the player to...

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By BrightHub on April 16, 2009

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By Gaming Illustrated on September 01, 2008

Company of Heroes is one of the best RTS games in PC gaming history - no doubt about...

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By Maximum PC on March 24, 2007

For years, PC gaming has been trying to capture the cinematic quality of Hollywood movies to enhance the plot and bolster the in-game storytelling experience. First-person shooters have been able to pull this off with great success using scripted...

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By SlipperyBrick on December 29, 2006

Relic, the company that produced the Warhammer 40,000 games has done it again. We have long been fans of the Warhammer games (actually one of us spent Thanksgiving day playing through the Dawn of War games again) and we’ve been anticipating...

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By Bjorn3D on November 15, 2006

The best RTS for 2006 Somewhere in the first quarter of 2006, when I examined the upcoming games, one RTS game really caught my eye… By looking deeper, I was convinced this game will bring wonderful news to RTS gamers and set a new threshold...

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By TechCentral on November 14, 2006

DAVIN ARUL laces up his bootstraps and leads his company of heroes back to war.THERE’S nothing like the sound of explosions, trundling tanks, gunfire and ? er, salty language coming through your Harman Kardons to make you want to trot out your...

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By The Wargamer on November 14, 2006

Relic is a developer with a reputation for making innovative, fun games. What happens when they set their sights on the Second World War? Jim Zabek shares his...

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By CNET Australia on November 09, 2006

Company of Heroes is fantastic in the short term and gameplay is well executed. But the longer you play this the more frustrating it becomes....

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By Expert Reviews on November 01, 2006

Company of Heroes is a World War II-themed real-time strategy game that puts you in command of US forces in Normandy in 1944. The game has a few details that make it different from most real-time strategy games, though. It does not reward hiding in...

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