Company of Heroes
 

Does anyone else have this game? This is all I've been playing since I got it, lots of fun. If you haven't heard of it, CoH is a WW2 RTS made by Relic, who also made Homeworld and Dawn of War. The story in the campaign is definitely up to their standards, and the cutscenes look amazing even though they're done with the game's engine. With details on high, it looks good enough to be a FPS engine.

The game as a whole is very polished, great graphics and sound. The physics are also quite impressive as the game uses the Havok engine. When a tank shoots a building, part of it crumbles. You can also blow apart or run through walls with heavier vehicles.

I'm loving the gameplay though, best RTS I've played in a while. You build bases and collect resources; manpower, munitions and fuel. There are resource nodes all around the map which represent sectors, each sector you control gives manpower and some give either fuel or munitions from 5-16 per minute. Also, sectors have to be connected to each other and to your home base, if a sector is cut off from supply you no longer gain the resources from it.

The best part about the game is the small scale tactics. Infantry benefit from being under cover, light cover such as bushes or barrels or heavy cover such as a low wall or something. Infantry can also garrison inside buildings and fire out of the windows. All this is very fast paced and micromanagement is extremely important. Infantry take cover automatically but sometimes it's best to order them somewhere else, like away from the grenade that someone just threw at you.

The multiplayer has a ranking system similar to Halo 2 xbox live where it randomly pits you against players of the same rank.

Well I've already written too much but if you like RTS', check this game out. I believe there's a demo out there so you can see what it's like.

I saw this on Gamespot yesterday and I'm seriously considering getting it, it looks amazing. Plus I love WW2! :)

Wow, for a game that got rated 9.4 by IGN, 9.0 by Gamespot, 5 stars by Gamespy, 94% by gamerankings, 9.2 by strategyinformer and 93 by actiontrip, I'm surprised no one else has played this game.

I've only been able to play a few times, but man, this game is amazing. I love getting some mortars or anti tank guns and blowing the hell out of those dirty Nazis.

I've been playing it since beta. A great game, if a bit spotty online with the Netgear issues. I'm actually writing a review for it right now for a magazine's webpage.

Saw a documentary about this game on uk television looks brilliant.

When/what channel was it on?

I have it, great game. The multiplayer is still young though, only like 1200 people on at a time usually. Hopefully that number swells, or this game won't last very long.

picked up the game.

pretty different controls for me. i'm so used to playing C&C style.
the thing that irks me the most is that i can't assign squads a short-cut key.

Yes you can: CTRL-#

Not having control groups would be the kiss of death for any modern RTS.

definately a much better game now.

i tried the ctrl # thing before but i guess i messed it up somehow.
i still pretty much suck at the game though. easy oponents on skirmish pretty much kick my ass.

I'm getting my ass kicked on level fifteen, the one where you have to close the Falaise Pocket.. Well, not really getting my ass kicked, because I can beat it easily, but I can't seem to collect 300 kills before those stupid Canadians and Poles close the pocket. After the pocket is closed it's pretty much impossible to get the 300 kills, since alll you need to do is beat back the Panzer attack.

Anybody done this level getting the 300 kills?

Think I'm gonna go pick up this game, seems like it's a good game....has online play picked up yet?

I don't know about the US version, but the UK version comes with Dawn of War absolutely free! Bargain...

I don't know about the US version, but the UK version comes with Dawn of War absolutely free. Bargain!

Carno,

I did it the first time and finished with 111 kills. I think the second time I tried to go for the MOH and I got something like 150 kills. I don't think it's in the cards for me to beat that mission with 300k ;)