Company of Heroes is one of the most fun strategy gaming experiences I have had in a long time!!! It has a feel of a Hollywood blockbuster with lots of Explosions! Thankfully CoH is not all flash. It has a deeply developed Strategy model, and improves the whole Strategy Genre. It is fairly easy to pick up and play, and Fans of WW2 and Strategy games will not be disappointed with the experience.
The Graphics are simply amazing, rivaling the first person shooters for amount of detail. The environment is completely destructible, buildings degenerate realistically, a fire will gut a building of its wood work, but will leave all the stone work in tact.
Not only does the game look amazing, it boasts some fairly capable AI. If you garrison a building with infantry, they will move to the windows to engage the enemy, if a new hole is opened in the wall a unit my move from a widow to the hole, and use the hole as a firing position. Sadly Relic did not put this level of intelligence into the vehicles. Tanks are powerful alone, but begin asking croups of them to move around a map, and they begin to run into each other.
Although War Hammer players will be familiar with the capture of control points for resources, I was not. I found this system to be quite enjoyable, and a nice improvement from mining Ore. The addition of 3 Technology Trees for both the Axis and Allies allows for the commander to call in off map support to help turn the tide of a battle. These are not all that dissimilar to the General abilities in "C&C Generals Zero Hour".
Sound Effects are another strong point of the game. Everything is laud. And on a 5.1 system you get an experience similar to a big budget movie.
All in all Company of heroes is a great game. There are some small path finding issues with vehicles, but they can be overlooked.
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