Should You Play Company of Heroes 2 in 2021?

Company of Heroes 2 is a game I've been meaning to play, discuss, and make a video on for a while now. Like everyone else I loved the original, but for one reason or another never got that into the sequel. But now the time has come - and I'm here to answer one simple question. Should you play Company of Heroes 2 in 2021?

Intro: 0:00
Gameplay: 1:23
Presentation and Campaigns: 8:36
Modern Capability: 13:51
Conclusion: 16:10

Gameplay recorded on PC | Audio recorded using a Rode NT-USB

#companyofheroes2 #coh #rts

[jeremyalgood]

The complete edition is on pc game pass.

[DriantX]

While I liked CoH 2, the original CoH is still my favourite RTS of all times. This is coming from someone playing RTS games since around '95, starting with the very first C&C & Warcraft. I really hope RTS genre makes a comeback.

[dacentabaal]

Only here to see what the gameplay is like as this and Ardennes Assault are both for free on Steam ATM

[KaitoGillscale]

A moment I’ll never forget from CoH2 was when I tried playing America and dropped a ranger squad into a forest. They get pinned under heavy fire almost immediately. I clicked them to get them to try and retreat and I hear the guy say in the most desperate voice I’ve ever heard “what the FUCK do you want!?” and it SHOOK me.

[somerandomdude]

I hope Company of Heroes 3 focuses on the Pacific & North African theatres.

[SgtMajor]

I'm still playing it 12 years later. It never gets old. A few more maps would be nice and the option to stay as a team against AI opposition for another game.

[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

13:46 My advice would be get the master edition of the game which is normally $5 on sale. It comes with everything but the ranger company if I recall right. All factions and the Campaigns

[si_mon_ki]

It is incredible that in CoH1 we can play 3 incredible campaigns out of 3 and we have 3 stories about glory, camaraderie, honor and duty, the three factions originally shot their own deserters, and committed legal and illegal horrors within the war, some committed war crimes, but still you can play 3 campaigns in which we don't directly hate each faction. In CoH2 we use the main winning army of the 2nd world war, one that could be portrayed with a glorious campaign, wild and dark, but glorious, but no, there is nothing you do not do with the Russians in the campaign of CoH2 that you do not like. make you hate every second of the game. What is impressive is the quality, undeniable, but something incredible could have been done to empathize with, but apparently the creators of the game thought it important to make us believe that it was a campaign in which we had to play with the "enemy", when we played with the real enemy, the germans in CoH1, they didn't portray them like that, did they?

[NuStiuFrate]

The sequel has some quality of life changes that makes going back to 1 impossible. Things like having a button to tell vehicles to reverse or seeing when an units is in combat just by looking at its icon in bottom corner are sooo good.

Edit: Forcing anti tank units to only target vehicles also i thing is a coh2 feature.

[DarkEmperorRay]

This is a wonderful review of the game, I found the way you put every detail as if you were putting together a puzzle, one piece at a time.
Great job, and great video.

[ziokalco]

I play this for the PVP and is my favorite RTS. The balance of the factions is remarkable (to the point that intel bulletins decide many matches if ignored) and each have different strategic win conditions.

Also, the effectiveness of different commanders varies greatly depending on the size of battle (1v1, 2v2...) so it acts as a multiplier for the amount of strategic win conditions of each faction in a sense. For example, heavy artillery (doctrine dependant) makes almost no sense in a small 1v1 game, but can greatly impact the course of battle in a 3v3

[Ierzerker]

Free forever on Steam at the moment. Just add to your library.

[erictungoe]

i just finished watching your company of heroes 1 video after binging on your retrospective rts reviews and just now realised as im watching this video that it was uploaded just minutes back lol. what a coincidence....love your reviews btw

[wunderwaffeyt]

*"The original was better"*
-Sun Tzu, Art of War

[jaydenklein]

While I prefer coh1 1, which I still play alot due to it being on the iPad, I really did enjoy the change to capturing points, vaulting over fences, the cold weather and ice, the camo(if only it wasn't a microtransaction for so many), and the population being fixed. Everything else the original did better, especially the commanders.

[markmih]

Its a must nowdays IMHO, the game matured really well and is amazing esp given the sales it goes on. Multiplayer still very active and competitive although it has a steep learning curve but it is totally worth it

[ultimobert]

I came here because the game is now given away free on Steam (if you claim it before 31-05-21 its all yours without buying it, you get a free DLC with it) Haven't played it yet but a friend of mine has played the game, and is really stoked about the game. I am looking forward to play this game >.<

[TerpeneProfile]

ive played over 2k hours in this game. Still love it to this day. Cheers.

[ExValeFor]

I legit do not know what the purpose of bulletins even is, in my experience they don't amount to anything legitimately noticeable in a real game.

[sharkarkheart]

"The game reviewed pretty well"...shows a 2.2 audience score.