Where the United States and British armies lost a combined total of eight hundred thousand, the Russians lost a mind-boggling twenty million. The human sacrifices from World War II will never, ever be forgotten but the Russian losses compared to the other allied forces is simply staggering. An untapped resource as far as videogames are concerned, and containing seventeen of the twenty most bloody conflicts in human history, it certainly shows a different side to the regular tales regaled by various developers. The decision to look at this particular theatre of the war cannot have been a difficult one for Relic. Rather than focus on the fighting that occurred between the Americans and Germans, as is usually the case with World War II titles, this one focuses on the battle that raged on the Eastern Front, between the Russians and the Germans. Six years have passed since the initial release and Relic have decided that now is the time to continue the series, with Company Of Heroes 2. This resulted in Company Of Heroes being identified as the highest scoring real time strategy game of all time – a title it still holds today. The level of detail given to individual units, the requirements to effectively manage an army, the tactical and strategic mindset needed to ensure a win were just some of the things that Relic Entertainment brought to the table. While these and other titles were by no means bad, Company Of Heroes really showed just what was possible in an age where the genre was becoming stale.
When Company Of Heroes was released it raised the bar of the real time strategy genre for the rest of the industry, bringing an unprecedented amount of polish and balance to a genre that had been dominated by series such as Red Alert and StarCraft.
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