There's a lot of room for strategy too, giving you a tonne of options in exactly how you approach the invasion, but it's based more around how you'll reach your end-goal (capturing Rome) than setting your own goals to follow. This allows for a wide variety of battles to take place, consistently refreshing objectives between all-out assaults, defensive last stands, territorial domination, and much more. The gameplay becomes a lot more free-form and complex here, as you plot and execute your invasion of Italy one town at a time, dipping into real-time battles for specific missions and skirmishes with enemy units. The Italian campaign has received a lot of attention prior to release, as it followed on from the CoH 2 expansion Ardennes Assault by featuring a Total War-style turn-based tactical map. It didn't just settle for one location, instead offering a double feature of two campaigns: the 1943 Allied invasion of Italy, and the 1942 North African Operation. But for the third entry, Relic wanted to go bigger. Double featureĬompany of Heroes 3 is in many ways the same as the previous two entries in the franchise, letting players tackle one of WWII's many theatres of war with a bird's eye view of real-time battles. I'm by no means a real-time strategy expert now, but Company of Heroes 3 gave me the tools to get used to a genre that can be difficult to penetrate, and it let me do it on my own terms, making it one of the best introductory games out there. Tactical pause is a new feature to the franchise, letting you halt the action, analyse the battlefield, take stock of your options, and act by queuing up commands for all your units.Īs simple a feature it may be, it really is a game changer for people like me who struggle with micromanagement, and it provided the foundation for me to start becoming that stereotypical RTS player 40 hours in, as I got used to flicking across the map to different engagements, making quick decisions on autopilot. I mean pause in the sense of briefly taking the real-time out of the RTS. I don't mean pause in the traditional press Esc and look at a bunch of options way. As someone who has previously struggled to get to grips with the real-time strategy genre, I was interested in Company of Heroes 3 for one simple reason: you can actually pause the action to think about your next steps.
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