But I knew RTS games were often complex and I wanted to understand everything, so I started with the tutorial and warm up matches against the AI. It’s a small detail but it aided tremendously with a sense of investment and immersion.Īs a multiplayer game, I was eager to dive in and challenge other players.
But they also joke about before combat gets serious. Mortared units might scream about missing limbs. The Western Front Armies also manages to capture some of the personality-both good and bad-of World War II. They even have irises if you zoom right in. The infantry have little added details: they shiver in the cold, scramble when fleeing. Buildings collapse, bridges are destroyed. Beautiful scenery is trashed as cannon shells explode. It’s no graphical masterpiece but, for a gameplay-focused genre, Company of Heroes 2 looks excellent. Having the camera zoomed in also allows the player to see details in the battlefield. Multitasking is essential and the ability to have delays on troop orders or be unaware of certain enemy movements does emulate the sort of environment World War II took place in. The camera feels slightly too close to the action, but it forces players to be more aware of the mini map. Oberkommando troops are also highly specialised, whereas US troops can swap out weapons at the base to ensure the right equipment is on the frontlines. The basic infantry show clear differences: Oberkommando’s Volksgrenadiers and Sturmpioneers can build more defensive items, but recruiting them costs more than the US Riflemen or Rear Echelon Troops. Oberkommando West has a greater focus on tanks while the US Forces rely on manoeuvrability and sheer numbers. The two new factions-Germany’s Oberkommando West and the US Forces-play remarkably differently. The Western Front Armies is a standalone multiplayer expansion to Company of Heroes 2 and at that it excels. But our success was short lived, and my experience with The Western Front Armies would largely echo that of history: I would suffer crushing defeat. We pushed back our enemies all across Europe. None could withstand the might of Nazi Germany’s elite fighting force. The first half-dozen times my Oberkommando West units clashed with US Forces and Soviet scum, I decimated them.
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