Company Of Heroes 3 Announced

It's the first new Company of Heroes game since 2013

I have strong feelings about Relic’s classic real-time strategy game Company of Heroes. I’ve gone so far as to call it the “perfect RTS.” So yeah, the news today that a third game was coming was both a huge surprise and a pleasant one.

If you’ve never played the games, and are wondering why I’d say such a thing, know that Company of Heroes wasn’t your average RTS. It wasn’t interested in mining crystals, or building walls, or rushing with alien insects. It was a game about war that took the minutiae of battlefield action very seriously, from cover to elevation to flanking, which created a free-flowing tactical situation where every encounter in every battle felt like a fresh new challenge, a little puzzle to unlock using the right weapons in the right places.

Where the first game was set in Western Europe, and the second on the Eastern Front (before returning to France once more via expansions), the third Company of Heroes is set in the Mediterranean, taking in both the battles over North Africa and the Allied invasion of Italy.

This means we’re playing as the US and British on one side (joined by Commonwealth troops and the Italian resistance) and the Germans and main Italian forces on the other.

Here’s a big, fancy launch trailer:

Source: Kotaku