While the actual battles were very well done, with a range of objectives and strategic opportunities, the story itself felt like an afterthought – the character narrating is not on the map or directly involved in any of what happens in the game, and it felt like they made the battles (based around historical facts) then decided to see what sort of story could be shoehorned in afterwards. The first part of the game is a story-driven campaign where you are commanding the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as you attempt to push the Allies (notably British and Australian) troops out of Libya. The battles in the Afrika Korps campaign are well done – in this case, you are fighting Australian troops at Tobruk in 1942. I don’t enjoy multiplayer RTS games at the best of times, and since I got the code before the game came out, there wasn’t anyone else to play with anyway.

One thing to get out of the way first: I am only reviewing the single-player content. Mechanically it’s a tactical RTS very much like Iron Harvest 1920+, although obviously it’s got actual WWII military units and vehicles in it rather than giant dieselpunk mechs. Developed by Relic and published by Sega for the PC (with console version on the way), Company of Heroes 3is the third entry in the WWII tactical RTS series, with the focus being the North African and Italian theatres of the war.

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