“There’s a real connection to your units, a connection to the army that you control. “Humanizing the battlefield is something that we feel really sets us apart from other strategy and RTS games,” Littman said. The tactical battles can have real moments of heroism, as you see breakthroughs or disasters unfold before you. The Mediterranean theater itself has more variety than we have ever delivered before, with the beautiful hills of Italy and the deserts of North Africa.” We consider it an action-strategy game, and we want to compete with the best in the industry in graphics and what the game feels like and the amazing action we can bring. “It was a matter of how to bring back what people love about Company of Heroes but also update our game to make it look best-in-class for today’s games.

It’s also such a big war theater and large game that you can feel like you’re in a sandbox battlefield, Littman said. You can automatically resolve battles between units, or move into a tactical battle for control of a key point such as an airfield.ĭavid Littman, the executive producer of Company of Heroes 3 at Relic, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game has been a long time in the making because the ambition is to make it as impressive as an action game, despite its RTS legacy. In the game, you serve as a general in charge of the overall campaign where you have to use your combined arms to throw back the Germans from the beaches and hardened positions in the cities. I suspect I’m not the only one who is homesick for these amazing 3D games on the PC.

I loved playing the original Relic/THQ title, Company of Heroes, when it came out in 2006 with a Normandy/Cobra battleground. And I am beyond excited, as it has been more than eight years since Company of Heroes 2 debuted in 2013 with a Russian Front setting. I played an early preview of the game that will arrive sometime in 2022.

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