Same as CoH 1 BUT worst bits are amplified whilst serious loss of opportunity to improve things!
User Rating: 3 | Company of Heroes 2 PC
There were a lot of possibilties for improvements after CoH 1 - Real navy/air force use, fuel and ammo metres for units, ability to get Americans, British and Russian vs 3 factions of Germans, and much more. However, after a long wait, very little is improved upon at all; it seems that a lot of energy has gone in to using a new engine for a few graphics tweaks and better in-game weather. That's a big mistake: graphics never make up for poor game content! Of course there are 2 new Russian and German factions, however, they are pretty boring to play. The only real changes to the game are thus: a new weather system which means units will freeze in poor weather, and frozen rivers will crack under heavy tanks, is a plus, but the idea of meta-conditions (battle stats like moral and energy, that don't depend just on whether someone is directly shooting at you) like fuel and ammo should have been more across the board. Secondly, the vision systems of units is different; whereas before, units had a 360 view field, they now can only see in a cone of vision, like real people, allowing more opportunities for flanking. This is a good feature. Finally, you can mix up teams and have Soviets and Germans fight together.
Apart from those 3 changes, almost nothing is really different in the way you play the game - CoH 2 is like a slightly worse CoH 1 with some different content (Russians and new Germans, but you don't even get to keep the old factions!). The FREE, community MoDs e.g. Eastern Front, are much better, and I suggest checking those out!
Lets hope CoH3 does a better job!
