The Rockerfly said:
Emphraim said:
If you thought Dawn of War 2 was fun, then Company of Heroes will give you orgasms. It's essentially Dawn of War 2, but better. Dawn of War 2 was ruined for me due to the fact that it was essentially a very simplified Company of Heroes without awesome quotes from British soldiers.
Holy shit, if you are telling the truth then I think I may start having sex with this game
How is it different though from Dawn?
1. Company of Heroes is a bit slower paced than DOW2 and requires more tactics.
2. One of the most visible differences is the importance of buildings and urban combat. You don't know how awesome it is to make a hole in a roof with a mortar, then have an artillery shell crash into the hole you made, knocking out all the machine gun teams in the building.
3. Vehicle combat plays a much bigger role in the game. When I played the Multiplayer beta for DOW2, vehicles were mostly a late game affair. In Company of Heroes, if you play correctly, you can get a m10 as Americans within 10 minutes and unlike DOW2, vehicles aren't high HP damage sinks. Like in real life, a tank in Company of Heroes is extremely powerful , but a few shots from an AT gun and it goes boom.
4. This is a personal bias most likely, but the vehicles in DOW2 seemed to feel
worseThey didn't control as smoothly or have the same attention to detail as the COH vehicles.
5. The biggest thing for me is game balance. DOW2 is a major screwup in game balance. Even now, the Tyranids have a large advantage over any other faction. Company of Heroes, even though the competitive players on gamereplays.org whine that it has been ruined due to the addition of the British and Panzer Elite into the game, is still one of the best balanced RTS games out there, right below Starcraft and Warcraft.
6. The game is still one of the best looking RTS games out there.
But really, I can't do the game justice. I suggest watching some game clips and reading reviews.