Starting out at the bottom of Italy, you're on a mission to drive up the length of the country, pushing the Germans back, capturing their bases, taking their supplies, cutting off routes and just basically giving them a right good kicking from air, land and sea. The map is where you move units around, make choices in where to attack next (will you hit a port for more supplies and warship backup or continue to gain momentum by ploughing ahead?) and you can even auto-resolve battles instead of dropping down to fight through every single combat scenario. Launching into the Italian campaign and you can immediately see that Relic has attempted to branch out and up the ante, taking cues from Creative Assembly's fantastic Total War series to present players with a dynamic tactical map overlay that meshes with the franchise's more traditional top-down skirmishes. interesting), and co-operative and multiplayer offerings that should satiate console-based RTS fans for a good long time to come. There's a ton of content to get stuck into here with a sprawling dynamic Italian campaign, a story mode (where you play as Rommel, which is. We've been blasting through this one on PC since it released on that platform back in February of this year (before moving on to test out the Xbox version), and it makes for a great big meaty chunk of WW2-based strategy goodness.

This is deep and addictive real-time strategy that presents its historical battlefields in luxurious detail and gives hardcore fans of the genre lots to dig into games that are still as good to play now as they were when they first blew us away some 17 years ago.Ĭompany Of Heroes 3 finally sees a ten year wait come to an end for those of us who've been chomping at the bit for more Relic magic and, thankfully, it hasn't let us down for the most part. Relic's Company of Heroes series has been doing the rounds on PC since all the way back in 2006 and, especially with regards to the first game, is still considered to be one of the premier RTS franchises out there.

Company of heroes 2 needs more maps