Company of Heroes PC Game Review

Ratings: Gameplay: 23/25, Graphics & Audio: 24/25, Creativity 25/25, Fun 25/25
Total: 97/100

THQ and Relic Entertainment definitely have a hit on their hands with Company of Heroes. Relic has taken the gaming experience and created not only a great game but an excellent overall package of a real time strategy game from the opening credits of the games campaign to the intense and unforgiving multiplayer action available on line or over a LAN. Relic has some great past games in this area such as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Homeworld and have continued their marks of excellence with Company of Heroes.

Company of Heroes has an extremely good campaign that is 15 missions long and even on the lowest difficulty setting will take a good fifteen to twenty hours to play. The time is kind of an iffy thing in Company of Heroes because some missions have you defending for a set time and others have you trying to conquer an objective in a certain time limit. Just getting the hang of tactics and retrying different strategies takes time so things can play out very differently according to your playing style.

But the games campaign is quite good and well worth playing levels over and over again on the different levels of difficulty. The game uses a very familiar menu and interface that is common to RTS games and the mechanics are very easy to use. You have the usual mini map and ability to select units and place them into companies for quick deployment. Company of Heroes also progresses quite nicely in difficulty and how the missions add a unique twist the further into the campaign you get. Not only do you have some unique battle zones but some of the simplest can also be the most difficult.