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Great Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: September 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A very quick review since I haven't played the entire game yet.

First: this is a real fast paced game. You very quickly feel "out-of-control" and trying to keep your head cool is a very hard thing to achieve. Not unlike real war I guess!

Second: it is indeed a great game. It looks spectacular and the one thing you can't help but notice is how well polished it is. Yet another fine product from the fine folks at Relic.

A buying advice: get the regular edition, not the special edition: I got the special edition and the only difference is a small printed "real map" of D-Day, 10 little cards, a slim metalic box, and an extra CD with mostly text info and very little in the ways of content! I feel like I've been cheated.

many sleepless nights!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am first and foremost a first person shooter player. I love WWII games the most out of the whole gaming subject genre. I had previously tried a couple RTS games and found them tedious and often boring because of the resource gathering, building up armies, etc. But, after reading a few very good reviews about COH in a couple of PC gamer magazines I took a chance and bought COH. It was a worthwhile purchase! It was an absolute blast (no pun intended)from the start. The action is immediate and intense. The men (a good selection of skill sets/abilities/specialties)and equipment (large selection and many upgradable) are unbeleivably detailed at the normal camera view. Zoom in and the detail surpasses anything I have seen even in FPS military games. I'm much impressed with the AI controlling the soldiers and equipment on both sides. You can play as an Infantry, Armor, or Airborne commander is some missions. The game was not buggy and installed and ran fine. The patches that THQ released install flawlessly and have more to do with tweaking the military equipment performance than crashes, lock-ups and that sort of nonsense. My PC is several years old and has a 2 GHz Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM. (I have lots of stuff running in the background and had to disable nothing when playing) My video card is of the AGP type, a BFG nVIDIA 6800 OC with 256 MB of memory. I was able to max all the video settings in the game and set my display to 1024 x 768 resolution and experienced no video stuttering or any noticeable frame rate loss. I have a 7.1 surround sound system which this game supports (!) and the audio quality is superb! I'm about to start my second play through with it now that I have the hang of this type of game. I hope there is an expansion pack and/or another game like this in the works. THQ could teach the other game companies a few thing on how to do it right the first time!! If you've never played a game like this before or like this type of game, this one is well worth buying. Like a really good book I was sorry to see it come to an end.

Bad AI, even worse balance. Pretty though.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The presentation, execution, and graphics of this game are great. But unfortunately, thats about all I can say about it. Relic has a habit of making games that look great, feel great, and have a lot of presentation, but lack core gameplay fundamentals and replayability. Company of Heroes is no exception.

Lets look at the problems.

1) The AI is absolutely 100% pathetic. The enemy is fully predictable, and does the SAME THING every single game. Worse, it cheats to win situations at times, and gives you a feeling they were pretty lazy about the AI.

2) The lack of units is most concerning. Very few units, and unit diversity leave one feeling a bit empty, and questionable replayability as a result.

3) Balance, TERRIBLE balance in this game. It can take a Tiger 6 hits to kill a Sherman from the BACK. This is one glaring example of a game filled with completely retarded balance issues.

4) Lack of maps, this game shipped with something like 9 maps. Whats up with that? Most games these days ship with 20-30 maps you lazy Relic.

5) Only 2 sides! German and American, with very little diversity between sides with a concern for reality. The balance in the game is heavily tilted towards Americans because German armor is pathetic in the game.

All in all, I cannot really recommend this game, it has far too many flaws . There are many much better RTS games out there such as Paraworld, 1701 A.D., Battle for Middle Earth 2, and Empire at War. Why settle for this?

Looks nice, plays ugly.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I can already tell I'm going to be bashed for this.

World War II is becoming a major thing in the gaming industry these days. We've had the release of Call of Duty III, a PSP Medal of Honor, and several big-boy company titles. Well, with the next-gen well underway, computers still dominate. Company of Heroes instantly stood out the minute I saw it at an E3.

So, the month of its release I went out and bought it. Months later, I've stopped playing it entirely. This is the simple fact about it: it looks really nice on the PC, but plays in a very, very ugly style. What's so ugly? The AI. We were promised a new and revolutionary system in it. Well, it didn't happen. Here's what's so bad (10 things in a list of hundreds):

1: You will often find that the enemy AI can cheat. In one case, the American team had an invincible Sherman tank. After spawning a fleet of StuGs to take it out, I was awed to find that all were destroyed by the Sherman after they had fired about 50 shots into the rear of the American tank.
2: The AI will often get stuck in places and refuse to obey orders.
3: The soldiers have a tendency to become complete fools when it comes to cover. They will not seek it automatically as said on the back.
4: Retreating troops are weak in quality. They don't even make a fighting retreat.
5: Yes, the graphics are good, but you will find (even on an 8800) yourself getting about 30 FPS.
6: This isn't exactly a Rome: Total War styled game in terms of skirmishes.
7: THERE ARE ONLY TWO TEAMS TO CHOOSE FROM IN SKIRMISH MODE.
8: There are only about 12 maps for skirmishes.
9: You can only play as the Americans in single player.
10: Multiplayer is often bland and unpopulated.

This is not addicting in any way, shape, or form. There, I said it. You want to waste $40 on this? Be my guest. I've just told you the plain and simple truth about CoH (which I will probably be bashed for by the fanboys).

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