
Big battles of 1941 are in Theater of War missions - engagements that the main games doesn’t cover. While the single-player campaign follows a strict narrative - a story about the war - this new mode offers battles that illustrate other important moments between the Russians and the Germans during the first part of the war, said Simon Watts, a spokesman for Relic in an interview with GamesBeat. I played one of the missions and found it to be a lot of fun. That’s a huge amount of additional content, considering that the single-player campaign itself has just 14 missions. The new Theater of War mode is a cooperative single-player mode that serves as a bridge to multiplayer play.Ĭompany of Heroes 2, which Sega picked up along with Relic from the ashes of THQ, will ship with the 1941 pack of Theater of War missions, including nine German and nine Russian missions. There have been plenty of rumours about a third game in the series, although Relic currently has its hands full developing Age of Empires 4 for Microsoft.Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes 2 development team is dropping a very pleasant surprise today on fans who have been waiting for this real-time strategy game to debut. In January the developer released a 64-bit update for Company of Heroes 2 that enabled crossplay between Steam and Microsoft Game Pass / Windows Store users.

Relic has kept on top of Company of Heroes 2 in the eight years since it came out. Harman returned in November 2014 to review Ardennes Assault, calling it "a worthwhile addition to the Company of Heroes war chest and one that rewards investment and exploration with a tactically satisfying campaign".

"While Company of Heroes 2 sometimes makes you feel like you're fighting the game as well as the enemy, if you take time to understand the systems at work beneath the carnage and pick and choose your battles wisely, you will ultimately be rewarded by a deep and enjoyable RTS," wrote Stace Harman in Eurogamer's Company of Heroes 2 review. Relic's superb World War 2 real-time strategy game and its standalone single-player campaign are free to download and keep via Steam now until 3rd June 2021.Ģ013's Company of Heroes 2 is widely regarded as one of the best RTS games around. Company of Heroes 2 and Ardennes Assault are free to download and keep forever on Steam this weekend.
