

You can control companies of units such as British tanks, the Indian artillery company, and American paratroopers.Įvery major decision is in your hands.

You can see the frontline of the campaign with blue indicating the Allied positions and red the Germans. The tutorial guided me through the gameplay, but it was intuitive. In the strategic campaign, I started out with the Allies on a beachhead at the city of Naples. It turned out that the game was much prettier than I thought, with its overhead 3D view of the Mediterranean battlefields. I got to play with it during a preview event overnight, and that was good, because I had my game on the wrong graphics setting early on. We try and tell stories of heroism and camaraderie throughout the franchise, both in the gameplay itself and in the narratives that we tell.” My hands-on preview “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.
