The cutscenes from past Company of Heroes games were always done with in-game graphics in real time, which meant if you didn’t have a computer powerful enough to run it at its best the cutscenes weren’t great graphically. The story is told through cutscenes shown in between missions, cutscenes mid-mission, along with some well done Voice Over that gives you objectives from your commanding officer. Isakovich was an actual Russian lieutenant during the war and you’re treated to snippets from his journal as each individual mission loads. With Isakovich unsure of whether what happened in the war was just, and coming to terms with seeing so many people die to the German army, the harsh winters, and their fellow Russian soldiers. The war on the eastern front of WWII was bleak and cold in more ways than one with the Russian people determined to push back the German advances at any cost. The tale is told through flashbacks of Lev Abramovich Isakovich a lieutenant in the Russian army as his old commanding officer interrogates him. The Opposing Fronts expansion put you in the boots of British soldiers as they fight to liberate the city of Caen in France, and the boots of German soldiers during Operation Market Garden.Ĭompany of Heroes 2 takes you out of the western fight that many are familiar with and instead follows the stories of Russian soldiers as they fight to survive the cold winters of Russia, Order 227, and the German offensive that threatens them. Now Relic and their new publisher Sega hope that the sequel will push the genre forward again as they move into the cold and harsh Eastern front of WWII.Ĭompany of Heroes put gamers into the boots of American soldiers as they stormed the Omaha beach during the Normandy landings on D-Day. When the original Company of Heroes released in 2006 it was a breath of fresh air for the Real Time Strategy (RTS) genre.
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