stunning graphics, intuitive game play, if only it wasn't a wwii game...

User Rating: 9.3 | Company of Heroes PC
By fyrephlie | Review Date:
i have to admit, i'm not a big fan of the rts genre. don't get me wrong, though, i loved me some warcraft and starcraft, and who can ever forget the entire c & c series? however, for me, the point and click, resource hunting, unit producing, base building clicking all over the place thing as never really appealed to me. but company of heroes, it's something a little different. at least for me. it's wildly intuitive, you can do everything you want very easily without a lot of extra thinking. it's extremely in depth, and you can choose how deep you want to go. there's ambiance everywhere, the little sounds and animations that help to add to the depth of the experience, and it's so graphically appealing. now, i'll be honest, i haven't tried out the multiplayer, really. i'm sorry, i wish i had, but i've had so much fun witht he single player, that i haven't really been able to bring myself to get slaughtered by all the 1337 peeps on teh interwebs. i can tell, more or less, that my experience with the multiplayer portion would be that of most other rts's.... exhausting with little payoff. yes, i'm saying that i suck at multiplayer rts. bite me. ;)

the game does have some drawbacks, most notably, the extremely long load times. even on a bleeding edge system with all the bells and whistles, you will find yourself waiting between levels. another issue i had some trouble with was the sound, which for some reason, on medium and high settings, would hitch occasionly. the last drawback is that this game is set during world war ii. hear me out, please. i'm sick and tired of the ww2 genre of games. it was fun for a while, about 6 or 7 years ago, when almost every game was ww2 based, but now, it's just getting sad. i know it was a big part of our planet's history, but isn't it time we move on?

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