While Company of Heroes 3 happily lets you save-scum your way to success, more saves equals slower saving times. But when I realised it was too easy, I was miffed that there wasn’t an option to up the difficulty mid-campaign. As a Company of Heroes veteran, I was wary of harder difficulties adding more time to a lengthy Italian campaign. It took me about 25 hours to knock over the Italian campaign on standard difficulty-the default and lowest available difficulty-and around six hours to beat the more traditional RTS North African campaign on the next highest difficulty. And the North African campaign is a typical real-time strategy (RTS) affair. Beyond this, the Italian campaign has a Total War-lite mix of turn-based macro strategy spliced with typical boots-on-the-ground Company of Heroes real-time battles. Given the locational breadth of the war, developer Relic Entertainment has managed to make a series of games and expansions that have their own identity, despite never shifting away from retaining Germany as a persistent opposing faction.Ĭompany of Heroes 3 mixes things up by offering two distinct campaigns: one in Italy and the other in North Africa. While Call of Duty and Battlefield have been happy to shift from the trenches of World War II, I love that the Company of Heroes franchise has stuck to its bolt-action guns and remained in the era.

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