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Review: Company of Heroes 2
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Posted by Donster on: 2013-06-21 16:58:25 186
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Deep and rewarding... but not the revolution we hoped for
By Ben Griffin, Staff Writer for CVG UK
Company of Heroes 2 is what happens when history buffs make videogames. Seven years on from their first World War II real-time strategy, Relic has spent the interim slamming books about the war's Eastern Front. Fierce fighting between German and Soviet forces underpins three modes - Campaign, Skirmish and Theatre of War - with nary an American or British squaddie to be found.
And that's a good thing. The Red Army provide a fresh spin on the done-to-death heroics of kick-ass Allies, Stars and Stripes traded for senseless carnage on icy wastelands, disheveled cities and rugged country. Relic's series has always strived to put a human face on conflict, and here the emotional beats stay hit despite our protagonists now speaking in Russian-inflicted English. From Barbarossa to Berlin, the war's darker corners (for most Westerners, anyway) are illuminated.
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