Recent reviews by SAUBER_KH7

DISCLAIMER: At the time of writing 1/22/2024, I only recommend this game for Single Player as multiplayer has a long, long way to go before it's fun, balanced and overall interesting.

The Italian campaign in my honest opinion is the best single player feature for CoH3. I really like the ability to manage several companies and go on various missions through the Italian countryside and having to find a delicate balance between Blitz'ing your way North to Rome, or creating defensive positions to protect against German counter attacks. Even now I'm still learning how to properly manage the companies through the advance North, as I've gotten a couple of companies nearly killed or cut off from supply by advancing too far, or driving into a defensive trap.

My only complaint for the campaign is that there is not a way to autocomplete some battles, which take place once you try to capture an enemy city, or defend a city you own. Some of these battles are scripted missions, which I can understand why you can not skip those. But others are generic skirmishes, which can be somewhat boring due to being repetitive having to do them over and over again.

My principal complaint for multiplayer, and my reason for not recommending it for multiplayer is the lack of proper unit control. I've looked carefully and could not find a way to select all of the same unit (EG: Panzergrenadiers), which takes valuable time to select them one at a time, especially since it's easier to have several of the same unit compared to CoH 2.

My other 2 complains are as follows:

The bland animations and sounds for explosive weapons - artillery, support guns and mortars. They sound almost cartoon like and the explosion effects are waaay under powered compared to Company of Heroes 2.

Last but not least, is the lack of insensitive to use specialized armor -EG: heavy tanks. In my personal experience playing multiplayer, I've found it's better to spam lower cost, lower pop cap tanks such as standard Shermans or Panzer IIIs rather than invest into a few Tigers or Easy 8 Shermans. In CoH 2 such special armor could help gain a notable advantage thanks to their improved capabilities such as higher health. But in CoH3, I feel that most armor of any kind is a bit too fragile.

But then again, I started playing CoH 2 well into it's later years (December 2018), so I think it's safe to say that CoH 3 will take a while to catch up to a higher standard both in overall quality and to the playerbase's expectations.

Better late than never. Thank you 600!

So I decided to buy this game during the Steam Summer sale, before Forza released the Hot Wheels DLC. I really tried to get this game to work for me, in the sense of enjoying it. Trust me, I really did. But sadly, I could not. *Spoiler Alert:* I do make a lot of comparisons between the Crew 2, vs Forza Horizon 5 and Need for Speed: Heat, so watch out.

I was not aware until I purchased the game that this is one of those Pay to Win games (P2W) . Where if you want a car, even an average one, if you don't have enough credits, you gotta pay real cash. It does not help that the Devs intentionally make Credits hard to come by. Even worse, some cars are locked behind seasons pass or seasonal only, meaning you can not get it unless you buy a special pack, or happen to be here at the right time in order to obtain it.

In contrast, Need for Speed: Heat and Forza Horizon 5 make Credits easy to come by, especially the later, and Forza Horizon 5 practically gives you cars as you progress through the game.


As for the map, which was my main selling point for buying the game, unlike Forza Horizon 5, the map may be huge, but it's mostly empty with few details outside the major cities. Another thing that disgusted me was the outdated and bland customization system. You have no access to community made logos/decals, and what little you have, can only be applied to 16 cars in the game. That's right, you can only customize 16 cars before you have to delete a skin. You can not even have more than one skin for the same car. This is something that makes nearly no sense. In contrast, Need for Speed Heat while it does not give you access to community decals, does give you plenty of decals to choose from, and you can have up to 100 skins for your cars, including the ability to make more than one skin for a car. And as for Forza Horizon 5, while I have not hit a hard limit, (I do have more than 70 skins made, including community ones), in theory lets you have unlimited skins, and community made decals.

In conclusion, while a good number of games do have micro-transactions (what game does not these days?), including this one, the system really does not belong in racing games. Unlike some games like those of War Thunder, and World of Warships, which have little to no competition, The Crew 2 has plenty of lower cost, non P2W, non micro-transaction racing games available. There are so many that it would be impossible to list them all.

So in the end, unless you do not mind spending a lot of extra cash on this game, I would advise you to look elsewhere.

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