In Company of Heroes 3, you have a choice between the Italian and North African missions to peruse either solo or with a friend. With the introduction of various war machines from artillery to tanks, the excitement of RTS games is then brought to life on consoles with immersive and outstanding audio that bring the heat of battle right to your living room. You have your troop variety – from Engineers to Riflemen to Special Forces – that can be easily differentiated from each other with their emblems. The initial missions and prologue really get you entrenched in combat, so much so that it foreshadows the gameplay in later missions. While unit building is still there to a certain extent, as we’ve seen in our previous review, much focus is on the actual strategy and skirmish of combat. Without a mouse to direct precise movements and a keyboard to handle multiple inputs at the same time, console gamers really have the short end of the stick.Ĭompany of Heroes 3 on the PS5 played out as I thought it would but also surprised that it doesn’t go all out with the arduous micromanagement of base building and unit management similar to classic RTS titles like Command and Conquer and even Starcraft. If you haven’t, then all you’ll probably need to know is that it’s pretty tough to micromanage structures and units due to its constricting control scheme.

If you’ve played any RTS game before on the console, then you pretty much know what you’re getting into. Our PC performance review ensured a fun-filled experience, but let’s see how the console version of Company of Heroes 3 stacks up.

I personally still believe that PC is the perfect place to experience this genre, but RTS gaming on a console has progressed mightily over the years to go toe-to-toe against the preferred medium. As the tide turned in the European Theater of War, he has been given orders by his superiors to return to Italy and bring the fight directly with the Nazis. World War II was at a standstill, as the squad of Corporal Joe Conti and company have not seen any action while stationed in North Africa.

Strategy games are few and far between, especially the real-time variant, so this release is certainly something of note.

SEGA and Relic Entertainment’s latest title Company of Heroes 3 launched earlier this year on PC, giving RTS-starved gamers a welcome reprieve over the barrage of action-adventure titles launched recently.

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