Check out the CGI reveal trailer below:Ĭompany of Heroes 3 will feature a Total War-style campaign map, allowing you to direct forces across the land in turn-based strategy before zooming down to play out real-time battles. For CoH3, Relic is taking us south, to Italy and the northern coast of Africa. The original Company of Heroes took us through the Western Front of World War 2, while its sequel moved to the Eastern Front. With Company of Heroes 3, developer Relic Entertainment is aiming to build on the series’ best aspects, while expanding the single player to a grander scale. Both are regarded as RTS greats, though the sequel’s campaign delivered a far weaker affair. It’s been 15 years since the original Company of Heroes was released, and eight since the sequel dropped in 2013. To fans of RTS games from the mid 2000s, those words offer a tangible level of excitement. In the meantime, you can get your RTS fix from our list of the greatest games like Age of Empires.Relic Entertainment is reviving the Company of Heroes series. Expect us to return to experiment with future slices of the game, including its multiplayer. The developers are using this and future pre-alpha previews to collect feedback from the broader public.

These are first impressions with a build that did not run entirely smoothly on our PC, and Relic are keen to stress that this version is not representative of the final game. It doesn’t feel like a necessity, but it may well lend a satisfying degree of control to larger scraps. It’s particularly handy against large numbers of enemies. The Tactical Pause function, which is enabled by pressing the spacebar, is a great way to optimise your unit-by-unit micromanagement. The camera does feel a bit harder to control and the level of zoom feels a little claustrophobic. A new sense of depth and verticality has infiltrated the game, creating more angles from which units can fire upon each other, while the True Sight system has been upgraded. We build up our riflemen, mortar squad and machine gun crew at our starting base from a reshuffled roster, then send them into the field to assault Capture Points.Ĭompany of Heroes 3’s new tricks soon become apparent. The UI is altered a little while there are few obvious changes. When we launch the demo’s skirmish mode, it feels at first as if we’re playing a slightly updated version of the original.

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