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Company of Heroes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is not your typical Command&Conquer type of RTS. This is much more of a thinking man's RTS. Dont expect tank rushes or mass resource collecting, don't sit and think you only establish a defense and wear your opponent out.

The capture point system works very well, and the graphics are amazing with a system that can handle it. I can zoom all the way down and view the stitching on the grunts backpack...really nice detail.

Overall, a great game.

Nothing new to add

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think the last couple reviews have gotten it right. I gave it as a gift for someone and had to tweak their computer to allow it to run, so that was where I got my game play. I didn't go through the tutorial or read the book (so I didn't figure out the pause thing), and I got stomped every time. The comp AI even on its lowest setting is like a sneaky pitbull. Turn it up and add rabid to that.

Greatly enjoyed the few rounds I did play and am seriously considering buying a copy for myself.

The best RTS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm a huge fan of RTS games. This is the best. Awesome graphic, game play and audio. Can not wait for the expansion.

Great Game, but...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Some background: I'm 40. I own a PS2 and a PC. I "game", but I'm not hardcore.

Company of Heroes is an excellent game. The game play is challenging, the interface easy to use, the controls are easy to pick up. The AI work pretty well. Opposing forces will try to flank you, and can often out maneuver you if your not paying attention. There are some quirks in the AI, such as when you command 3 tanks to move simultaneously, they often bunch up and run into each other. A refined AI will allow the AI to 'recognize' each other and avoid these kind of conflicts. Maybe a developer patch?

The team at THQ also did a great job with the environments. The sound scape is well defined and immersive. The physics are also well done. I also appreciate the "realism". ALL Buildings show damage when attached and can be completely destroyed (and not just "story points"). An artillery barrage leaves craters in the ground, which your units can use for cover. Tanks you may have just destroyed can be used as cover for your troops as well. Great realism!

Where the developer obviously meant for the game to excel is the graphics. Detail is amazing! The game is rated "M" for a reason. Explosions cause physical damage to units. Troops die on the field. The game's standard play modes is an 'above and behind' view of the field. The game gives you the ability to zoom down from the "above the field" view to a ground-level view of the soldiers, the equipment, etc. An amazing feature.

My only negative about this game: The system graphics requirements are pretty heavy. My PC is about 1 year old, and with the 1st-generation ATI PCI-e card I have installed, I can get nowhere near the highest level of detail. I've got a lot of detail turned way down to get the game playable. Now, understand that the gameplay still is amazing, even with the lower graphics settings. But I am now looking at getting a new Graphics card because of this game.

I would give this 5-stars overall IF not for the issues I experience with the graphics.

Buyer be warned...before investing in the game, make sure your PC can handle it. If it can, you will be rewarded with a great RTS game!

Back to the ol' 1940's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game it's incredible, I started using it on a PC with XP and DX9, and now that I'm using my computer with vista and DX10, the graphics updates are awesome!!!
The game gives you hours and hours of replay-avility, with one of the toughest AI's on strategy games ever!
Have to get the expansion!

Company of Heroes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Incredibly detailed real-time-strategy, and pretty authentic as far as units and maps. Pretty challenging computer AI, but another one of those games thats sooo much funner against other humans.

One heads-up would definetly be on the language. The F-bomb gets dropped several times thru-out a typical game session from the units your commanding, and I'm not aware of anyway to turn a filter/censor on.

Company of Heroes

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game definitely lives up to its bill as the Game of the Year! I was actually thinking this game was a first-person shooter game, like a Call of Duty; but this is just fine though. I really enjoy the realism. I very much am looking forward to getting the extensions on this game.

Company of Heroes

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game!!!! Some levels are hard as all get out. I do wish you could zoom out much farther. You can zoom in enough to see a mustard stain on your soldiers, which seems useless, except to bask in the beautiful resolution.

Entertaining but not quite as tactical as Close Combat.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Close Combat remains in my mind the gold standard for real time tactical squad-based combat. COH is very entertaining (especially in multiplayer mode), but resource management does distract from tactical execution and planning.

The best of the Best!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game with awesome campaigns, and mission difficulty. This game is a challenging one that keeps you tight on your seat all the time that a campaign lasts, because when you think that everything is almost done the computer strikes you back and can even destroy you as fast as the counterattack came. You can only depend on your strategy to survive to any challenge!. Very well done! I think that it has only a flaw,and it resides in the fact that missions are almost of the same type: Holding strategic points, destroying enemy headquarters, and conquering the map, but putting aside this issue I can highly reconmend it! I think that this game will last in the history of history based strategic games ever done, like age of empires did.

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