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Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 4375
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: Military and Historical Strategy Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 49297
UPC: 752919492970
EAN: 0752919492970
ASIN: B000FJSIUA
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | From the award winning RTS studio Relic | | • | Redefines RTS genre, visceral WWII gaming experience, bringing soliders to life | | • | Proprietary Essence Engine delivers unparalleled graphics, destrutible battlfield using havoc engine and rag doll physics | | • | 2-8 player multi-player competition via LAN or internet with Clan Support |
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Product Description
Company of Heroes takes you back to World War II, where you'll guide Able Company through the deadliest battles in WW2's European theatre, including the D-Day landings at Normandy. Through a rich single player campaign, players experience the cinematic intensity, courage and bravery of ordinary soldiers thrust into extraordinary events. Special DVD edition.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 First RTS game I played, and loved it! December 2, 2008
thatxjapxkid (NY USA)
As the title says, this is the first RTS game I've ever played. I was neither a big fan of PC games until I played this game. But then boom! I launched the game, and soon enough I was at the Omaha beach in Normandy, dodging bullets running to the shingle. I was impressed by the sound and the voice acting the game produced. It was realistic, and the sound coming from my surround system and sub woofer just shook my room.
After I got the game, I tried Command and Conquer series, Warcraft, and other RTS Games, but this one tops them all. I liked how the game isn't based on how many armies or how many resources you can gather (of course it plays a huge role in CoH, just not as much), but combination of your troops and their ability. Position of your defense and troops plays huge role in the outcome of the battle as well. It's not just putting your Anti-Tank and machine gun fort in bulk, but where you place it at which point in the map that's crucial.
By the time I realized the existence of this great game, the expansion Company of Heroes: Opposing Front was out. So shortly after I finished the Story mode, I went out and bought it. I did not bother playing the multiplayer mode, until I got the expansion. New Armies, a lot of new missions (not as American, but that's alright), and the online mode is great! 4 different army to choose from (after you choose as allies or axis of course) that suits your style best, and gives different experince every time you play match with other players online.
It's just a great game, you won't regret buying it.
addicting September 30, 2008
M. Congosto (MIAMI, FL USA)
addicting game, paid 100% worthily. playing on line is a lot of fun too, way harder than expert computer. only bummer are the HUGE patches that have to be downloaded in order to play on line.
Combined with KMOD, a Five Star (RT)S August 18, 2008
H. Kalervo (Finland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was looking for a good WW2 mod for Total Annihilation, when I stumbled over this instead. I guess I had seen some pictures of Company of Heroes, but since they were zoomed-in and panned-in ones, I hadn't realized the game was basically a new version of old Command & Conquer, with a camera/viewpoint you could manipulate any way you wanted. And that's pretty much what it is, without modification. But since it's so realistic looking (unlike, say, Dawn of War or any of the older games), the short weapon ranges and unrealistic accuracy and power of some weapons began to bother me. I tried a few mods, and only KMOD did everything I wanted and did it well. The game is now unique, never been done before, nothing to do with C&C, not much to do with even Dawn of War. The only thing about Company of Heroes + KMOD (1.5 Beta) that still sometimes bothers me is the movement of infantry units. The AI can't seem to handle packs of them in a realistic way, resulting in masses of soldiers that don't really look like they know what they're doing. But it's still by far the best so-called RTS I've played, very tactical and immersive, when you realize you can use the Pause/Break key to pause the game to catch your breath. Instructions: Update the game to 1.71, install KMOD 1.5 (beta), and the KMOD skin pack, which you can find at the same KMOD website, and you're done. The skin pack adds realistic uniforms for the Germans, and Swastikas for their flags and such. I recommend using it for realism, unless you live under Tyrants of Multiculturalism in Germany or some other country where people have been conditioned to get a heart attack when they see one. You can also get a unit cap from the same site. I use it for maps that are crowded with buildings.
 A good game overall August 7, 2008
A. Donaszi (USA)
First when I started up the game I thought with some disappointment that it was just DoW with Nazis. Though the gameplay does build on the DoW series, it also greatly improved and surpassed it. It become more realistic from the behavior of your units (down to the cursing) to the damage model of the vehicles. The basics are the same, though: capture strategic points, build bases, produce units. The need for aggressive gameplay remained, too. You can't spend time and resources protecting every single asset you have. You will lose strategic points to the enemy, and you will have to recapture them. They will get to your base. And you can't do a thing about it, because your resources are needed on the offensive. That part is actually quite frustrating, but the fact is that it's closer to the reality than you'd first think. I would have preferred a different game (again: I did not know what to expect), something along the line of the Blitzkrieg-series, or an enjoyable version of the Combat Mission series (too much realism is not good, either). I would prefer a "perfect" game with tactics in mind: moving armor, and infantry, placing the defenses, and trying to outsmart the enemy, but that's my personal preference. (I'd like to see a game where real-world Blitzkrieg tactics work.)
In this game you can beat the single player by throwing everything at the main objective after you built up your forces. Most of the strategy involves administering your limited resources to adapt to the situation at hand. The vehicles and weapons are not realistic of course (thank god for that, because the Sherman would not have a chance), and neither are the resources; somehow the Germans always seem to have more armor and manpower than you do. The game is fun, though; and the graphics is spectacular. I just wish they had a DoW mod for it :)
One real problem I encountered was the same as with the DoW game: the single player campaign is short. I started to get into it, and suddenly it ended, with not much of a catharsis. I hardly expected to finish the fight at Hitler's bunker, but I still think the makers of this game wrapped the thing up a bit too fast. The other problem I got is the fact that the skirmish mode is way too hard, even at the easiest setting. I'm not sure what I do wrong, but even though I had no difficulties beating the single player mode, in skirmish I get my butt handed to me most of the time. Since I have no time to polish my skills for multiplayer, that part of the game I cannot comment on.
I hope if there will be more installments, as the Eastern Front looks like a promising place along with the Pacific Theater and Africa. I really hope they will keep the storyline, and will not change to that stupid Risk-type gameplay they adopted with DoW.
Altogether I can only recommend this game.
Groundbreaking RTS July 22, 2008
Eric S. Olstad (New Jersey, USA)
Let me start off by saying that the WW2 gaming genre has been done to death in general. However, that is not so true in the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre which Company of Heroes is part of. Being a WW2 game is not even what makes Company of Heroes great. The brilliance of this game is the new gameplay mechanics introduced. No longer do you have dumb units to command around the map. Company of Heroes introduces a cover system, and when your units fall under attack, they automatically move to cover but not to the point of messing up your line of defense.
The different factions of the game have different strengths and weaknesses utilizing a different set of units and weapons. Overall the game is very balanced and has a tremendous potential for great strategy to be employed. If you are a fan of RTS games, then Company of Heroes is a must-play.
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