Company of Heroes Review Thread

All the points they made were well deserved and I totally agree with 94%. Going ot be a kickass RTS for years to come.
 
where's all you "ooooh not another ww2 game" whiners now???

muahahaha

good review btw
 
There aren't many ww2 rts games compared to the FPS games. It's the FPS games that are getting boring, RTS' are a different story however.
 
Gamespot review up: 89%
Pros: Amazing, cutting-edge graphics and remarkable audio bring the battlefield to life; complex, inventive gameplay gives you a ton of interesting things to do; fully interactive, destructible maps add depth and variety; slick online player-matching system makes it easy to get into a multiplayer match.

Cons: Long loading times; only two different factions.
Funny how they would dock for such petty things.
 
Well their review system is flawed anyways. They just go on a straight average of the other scores with graphics affecting the score just as much as gameplay...
 
Been playing the beta since it came out and I can't wait for this. I keep stalking the electronics department where I work looking for it I know I can get my hands on it a day early :p
 
I wonder who will win the war this time? YAWN!

So I tried the demo last night. Feels just like Dawn of War, how inspired. After the tutorial I was treated to yet another video game itteration of the D-Day landings, oh the originality!

Next I found myself having to garrison a town and hold the bridges. So I started to setup my defences only to find that one of my squads of engineers had become trapped behind a sand bag wall! What was the seemingly insurmountable obsticle preventing their safe passage? A lamp post... love that path finding!

And talking about path finding, what the hell is up with the enemy tanks? They act less like battle field behemoths and more like dogs, doing their damndest to get directly up the arse of my own vehicles! No skill or guile, they just drive directly behind the target and let rip. Which nicely highlights the problem of unit clipping, all too often was it painfully obvious that there is little to no collision detection for the vehicles, as one tank usually parked half way INSIDE the other!

I can't believe this shit took up 1.8Gb, I wouldn't even steal this game let alone buy it!
 
EA love.

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Slacker said:
Not really, gamespot's usually incredibly harsh for really petty things.
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Xune said:
I wonder who will win the war this time? YAWN!

So I tried the demo last night. Feels just like Dawn of War, how inspired. After the tutorial I was treated to yet another video game itteration of the D-Day landings, oh the originality!

Next I found myself having to garrison a town and hold the bridges. So I started to setup my defences only to find that one of my squads of engineers had become trapped behind a sand bag wall! What was the seemingly insurmountable obsticle preventing their safe passage? A lamp post... love that path finding!

And talking about path finding, what the hell is up with the enemy tanks? They act less like battle field behemoths and more like dogs, doing their damndest to get directly up the arse of my own vehicles! No skill or guile, they just drive directly behind the target and let rip. Which nicely highlights the problem of unit clipping, all too often was it painfully obvious that there is little to no collision detection for the vehicles, as one tank usually parked half way INSIDE the other!

I can't believe this shit took up 1.8Gb, I wouldn't even steal this game let alone buy it!
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Someone hire that man!
 
Voodoo Extreme: 9.5/10

Company of Heroes enamors you with its brilliance, and despite the minor issues mentioned I happily proclaim Relic's latest to be, The Best Real-Time Strategy Game Since Total Annihilation.
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When i read what some of you guys said about the beta in the beta thread, i just thought "they say that about most games now. Including Prey" and thought nothing of it. Then i downloaded the demo, and it was surprisingly kickass.

Definitely buying this one.
 
I still haven't tried it, but a recent Edge preview sounds promising. They mentioned how a stray shell could destroy a building and instantly change the tactical options for both sides. This kind of emergent gameplay does sound refreshing, and a mile away from the build order rush fests that turned me away from rts games so long ago.
 
I am currently broke, but once I get the cash I am for sure getting this game
 
Lol, proves once again how Gamespot are full of shit.
They're basically grading the game down for its decision to focus on a certain part of the war.

"Hey, you didn't add a Japanese campaign or a British one! You're gonna lose points for that, bitch!"

"But we never planned or said we would add those, why is that costing us poi-"

"Silence!"

They're grading a game down for stuff it never said it would do, nor is necessary...
 
Sebastian said:
Gamespot review up: 89%
Pros: Amazing, cutting-edge graphics and remarkable audio bring the battlefield to life; complex, inventive gameplay gives you a ton of interesting things to do; fully interactive, destructible maps add depth and variety; slick online player-matching system makes it easy to get into a multiplayer match.

Cons: Long loading times; only two different factions.
Funny how they would dock for such petty things.
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ummm are they serious? was there a third faction during ww2 that was both the enemy of the allies and the germans? that is easily the dumbest thing I've heard all week
 
CptStern said:
ummm are they serious? was there a third faction during ww2 that was both the enemy of the allies and the germans? that is easily the dumbest thing I've heard all week
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I believe they're referring to Japan.
 
but japan was allied to germany ..it's the same "team"
 
What the hell...

I preordered this game from ebgames like... a day before they're shipping. I know its stupid, but I didn't have the money until then. So just before the clock struck midnight, from the 10th to the 11th... I preordered the game. Figuring they'd be good enough and get it shipped along with the others, or just only slightly delayed.

Well guess what. Today I wake up and check the order status, and it is BACKORDERED. I paid for next day shipping, and it is backordered. Worst of all, it's not shipping to me, but I can't cancel it. Usually I can cancel ebgame orders if they're not already on their way to me. What gives?

At any rate, I e-mailed them and complained, either to cancel the order, or to change my shipping to something different... cause I have NO idea how long backorder is going to take.

Rediculous.


but japan was allied to germany ..it's the same "team"
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For factions, they're talking about it just being the fact that you're able company... and germans... No british, no canadians, no austrailians, no russians, no japanese, no italians... etc etc.
 
For factions, they're talking about it just being the fact that you're able company... and germans... No british, no canadians, no austrailians, no russians, no japanese, no italians... etc etc.
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Which is complete BS. Does a WWII game have to cover 1939-1945 and have every participating country as playable before it is considered a worthy WWII game?

"Red Orchestra only lets you play as Russians and Germans, lol!"

"Day of Defeat is teh suck, only Americans and Germans!"

Uhh.. so? Were there any Japanese in France in 1944? Why then is a game being downrated for choosing to focus on Able Company's progression through France after D-Day?

Gamespot lacks consistency in their reviews, oh wait, except when it comes to console games! Console games get +2.0 points for just being "not on PC, lol".
 
I suspect that the reviewer for GameSpot in that one is moaning that we don't get to play as the Tommies or Italians in Skirmish mode
 
Raziaar said:
For factions, they're talking about it just being the fact that you're able company... and germans... No british, no canadians, no austrailians, no russians, no japanese, no italians... etc etc.
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this sounds like they're complaining about not having a 3rd faction (which is common in most rts)

gamespot said:
Because of its limited scope of the Second World War, Company of Heroes has only the two playable factions, which it calls the Allies and the Axis--but really they're the Americans and the Germans.
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This game blows. Where is turkey, Italy, France, Britain, and all the other people that participated in the war? I don't see any civililains. Those car's are from 1945 and not 1939! They call they call this a WWII rts? i call it a shabby take on history at best.
 
I played the demo and it just gets too chaotic after a while and hard to manage all your squads. The AI can seem to do 100 things at once, meaning you lose one bridge in a flash while you're busy defending the other one. The infantry costs a decent amount of manpower too.
 
Gamepro.com: 4.75/5

Put simply, Company of Heroes is a masterpiece. Its dedication to realistic battle concepts and tactical warfare is enough to make it a high watermark for the RTS genre but its excellent graphics and physics, along with an intensely enjoyable single-player campaign and multiplayer options, help make this an instant classic.
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@Stardog the game gets less chaotic when you know what to do. Positioning your units in such a way that they can fend for themselves for a while, gives you the oppertunity to deal with more situations. Cover AT positions with infantry, cover infantry with MGs, etc.
 
Wow, it's amazing that 1 when one person makes a stupid comment others jump on board the band wagon (See: 2 factions, why it's 'bad'). If you want some good examples of this, go over to Digg and see how a single comment can sway 90% of people who make a comment on that story.

I look forward to buying this game, it's probably out here, or should be soon.
 
Can you play allies vs. allies or axis vs. axis in skirmish? Thought I heard somewhere that there was no free for all, so it was always allies vs. axis, ala something like Day of Defeat. Personally I don't see a problem with that, as long as they're both balanced and fun to play, as it forces people to master both factions. However RTS gamers are usually spoilt for choice, so maybe this is what Gamespot was referring to?

Apologies if I'm just talking out of my arse ^_^

Not normally big on RTS games, but I may have to check this out...
 
Baught mine yesterday at target (dvd version) 15 skirmish maps, single player campaign involves only the allies(play it on expert) The game is more polished and they added some content, I like the new maps allot the water is awesome, its a awesome game pick it up.
 
I'll probably pick it up this weekend, if I have the money.
 
Does anyone who has purchased the game or frequents their forums know if in the release version it can be run with less than 1gb of RAM? The MP beta ran fine for me, but the SP demo REFUSES to start with less than one gig of RAM.
 
I just played this game for the first time.

it is the shit.
damn.
its good.
 
Well unfortunately it's not out here until the 29th, but I've been playing the beta for some time now. It is great. Finally puts the strategy into RTS. Miles better than Dawn of War, and I'm a Dawn of War fan. It's troubled by balance and netcode problems, but hopefully they will be fixed...and hopefully Dawn of War's troubled patch record is not an indicator of things to come for CoH.
 
For all of you people who want more, wait for the expansion....cause with success like this, why not make an expansion?
 
Gamespot revised its score for CoH. It's now a 9.0 in stead of a 8.9. Gamespot editor Greg Kasavin explains the change in his blog.

Quite remarkable. I have never seen Gamespot do such a thing. Or any other gaming site for that matter.
 
"After the review, we learnt through the developer website that the game was released with a bug that lessens enjoyment if playing whilst one's head is lodged in one's own ass."

LOL Gamespot.
 
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