Company of Heroes 2 is a game that I have a lot of love for, aside from a few flaring bugs within the DLC (which I don't own, hence it not reflecting negatively on my Yes/No vote) the game itself is solid.

Of course this review probably seems a bit superfluous what with 3 announced and on the way, but all the same I shall talk about it regardless.

Company of Heroes emphasises the Strategy element of a real-time strategy game, unit lives are incredibly important and this game has you perfecting a skill that you seldom see in other strategy games, and that is liberal use of retreating.

The sound design is fantastic, from the occasional 4th-wall breaking joke to the idle chatter, CoH2 does a very good job of fairly humanising all belligerents of WW2, with some truly heartbreaking casualty quotes coming in from all sides.

Adding onto that sound design point just a little bit more, there's something truly chilling but also amazing about the way you can hear the intimidating boom of off-map artillery being fired.

The game lends itself to replayability with an absolute armada of community made stuff that's fun to dive into and explore.

It's only real drawback is that the developer made add-ons are often significantly worse than the community made ones, and from other reviews it seems that fixing broken commanders, bugs and campaigns is not really a priority.

Nerfed the heck out of Ostruppen tho.

Company of Heroes 2 is a game that I have a lot of love for, aside from a few flaring bugs within the DLC (which I don't own, hence it not reflecting negatively on my Yes/No vote) the game itself is solid. Of course this review probably seems a bit superfluous what with 3 announced and on the way, but all the same I shall talk about it regardless. Company of Heroes emphasises the Strategy element of a real-time strategy game, unit lives are incredibly important and this game has you perfecting a skill that you seldom see in other strategy games, and that is liberal use of retreating. The sound design is fantastic, from the occasional 4th-wall breaking joke to the idle chatter, CoH2 does a very good job of fairly humanising all belligerents of WW2, with some truly heartbreaking casualty quotes coming in from all sides. Adding onto that sound design point just a little bit more, there's something truly chilling but also amazing about the way you can hear the intimidating boom of off-map artillery being fired. The game lends itself to replayability with an absolute armada of community made stuff that's fun to dive into and explore. It's only real drawback is that the developer made add-ons are often significantly worse than the community made ones, and from other reviews it seems that fixing broken commanders, bugs and campaigns is not really a priority. Nerfed the heck out of Ostruppen tho.