games website Company of Heroes 2 review: Top three RTS games of the year

In the beginning, no matter what the result, I sincerely hope that this can be called "legacy" of "Heroes 2" can live up to expectations, because it seems to shoulder the meaning of more than a game so simple.

Death solves all problems, no one is no problem; One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin

Although I don't want to mention it, before THQ died, several of its production groups had made three relatively high completion of the game (I particularly like "South Park" let a Gallic chicken snatched), so these three games can be said to be slightly decorated and sold, and the game company that bought them is a big profit.

So, what we are reviewing today is this "Company of Heroes 2". As I said in the last paragraph, because the completion of "Heroes 2" is already very high, Sega bought the mine production team, it can sell money.

To say in front, no matter what the result, I sincerely hope that this can be called the "legacy" of "Heroes 2" can live up to expectations, because it seems to shoulder the meaning of more than a game so simple.

Call it a mouth bug.

Like I'm the biggest spitfire in the world!

From the configuration, we can see that the configuration of "Heroes 2" is extremely low, which seems to be telling us: "Hey dear players, we SEGA's" Heroes 2 "game is very good, the configuration is very close to the people, in order to miss THQ everyone should come to play oh dear."

Well, for the author who has been studying strategy games for years, this kind of 3D strategy game, which can be played comfortably on the base configuration (or such a low base configuration)? Let's give you players to prove it.

If it's a fake, SEGA, I'll give you a shot! Autumn! Sha!

The configuration of the test machine is 3.01Ghz 960T (recently opened the core old blue had to close back) plus GTX460 1G plus 8G memory, which is supposed to be the lowest configuration of rolling, so is it able to run smoothly without pressure?

When the actual game found that whether the effect is fully open or fully closed, regardless of the number of enemies and explosion scenes, the game can actually run 60 frames when running?

Could the writer have guessed wrong?

As a result, Company of Heroes 2 still doesn't hold up, the frame count immediately plummets when the screen is rotated, and then returns when the view is fixed again to God's view.

I thought that was all, but I found that when playing the game from a non-original God perspective (such as the one that approximates third-person shooting), the game frame count would no longer rise to 60 frames - even if the effect was full.

It can be seen that the game engine that produced the "Company of Heroes" series may have some problems to solve, because the problem of whether the mobile perspective card is normal or not is not so normal.

And in fact, these problems have existed in the beta version of the game, but in this official version is still not fixed, although I have not played "Hero even 1", but how to look like an old disease...

What about the actual game graphics? I think this configuration requirement says it all, but let's take a look at the picture effect comparison.

Effect comparison

As can be seen from the above figure, the gap between the game screen of "Company of Heroes 2" and that of the first generation is not particularly obvious.

And in the high and low effect, the naked eye can only see the shadow and the quality of the map at the red circle, the high effect can be slightly detailed, and the low effect is a paste, but there is basically no difference at the black circle, so there is a practical problem we have to face, that is, regardless of the level, the picture effect of "Heroes 2" is not very outstanding.

Although the graphics are not good, the details of the game are very good, such as soldiers entering buildings can see them shooting from the window, soldiers moving low across the snow nest in the newly added snow battlefield, and the physical effects of battlefield buildings and mutilations are very good.

So in the process of playing the game if you close the perspective of the total, there will be a small surprise waiting for you players.

This snow pit! And it slows down

Unfortunately, in this "picture party members all over the world, strategy games no one to take up" in today's game industry, "Heroes 2" happens to be such a picture is not very good strategy game.

This is doomed to no matter how much the game content, there is no way to attract more peripheral players to spend money to buy the game, but because the game has a high degree of completion before SEGA investment, so as long as there are hundreds of thousands of units sold, SEGA will not lose.

But to put it another way, the fans of the "Company of Heroes" series are hundreds of thousands? No.

In addition, this game is a semi-networked and semi-stand-alone game, you players look at it.

Although it is very rough, but this kind of bright details is the most picky players like to see, the details of the moment over the obstacles determine the success or failure

Two: Plot and music: 7/10, tragic music, black hair

The music of this game is very good, and the soprano singing from time to time has a sad sense of war, and what makes people feel sad is the cry of the soldiers collapsing when the situation is unfavorable, which is very in place.

But after all, it is a game, so the sound of guns shooting and artillery sound is much smaller, of course, deafening naturally is not good.

However, unfortunately, the story of the hero Company campaign can be said to be the most disliked place by the author, the three points are deducted there, the overall plot of the game uses a flashback mode, from the protagonist began to believe in Stalingrad until the final counterattack on Germany when the protagonist insight was arrested as a thought criminal.

The narrative mode of this plot is not bad, but completely unsuitable for historical games.

The content of the game is more people feel very helpless, the Soviet Union defense period soldiers have guns without bullets without guns, the withdrawal was shot by the commissar, blind charge sacrifice people, these things every time to the Soviet Union's World War II game mentioned, a mention a mention, even if your manufacturers are not tired, we players are aesthetic fatigue.

I really do not believe that cold feet will not happen in Germany, and I do not believe that the German commanders do not shoot the soldiers who escape from the war one by one, and every day they grab the Soviet Union and repeatedly say how much you hate socialism

Three: The actual start: 8/10, the movement needs to be improved, the other has been impeccable

First of all, I would like to tease a few cutscenes, although it is a rendered calculus, but the unstable situation of those soldiers in the game after the position of the cutscene is all shown in the cutscene, and the strange situation of the card model after the soldiers bump into each other can not be spared in the cutscene.

Although when we play it, we don't see much of it. But it's really weird watching these characters move around

As an excellent World War II themed real-time strategy game, the hero series is bound to be related to the major battlefields of World War II, and this time "Hero Company 2" moved to the battlefield of Eastern Europe with ice and snow, so our protagonist of the game has become the Soviet Union and Germany.

Soviet tanks and arms are very cheap, but the infantry system is varied, and the ability of individual soldiers is very strong, with the double sniper (Mosinagan's killer sniper and Simonov's anti-tank sniper) with flexible hand operation can be done in the snow full of the battlefield "one man, ten thousand German devils do not open"; Soviet units were more agile in overall quality and had more range attack skills and units, so the early Germans were often easily overpowered.

So who is stronger? Or what about the balance of the game?

A bunch of criminals with praying arms! The hoof of my great Germany will crush your socialist will!

As for the so-called "balance" between the two countries, the actual test found that this balance is not parity, but a kind of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" envisaged by the mine.

Under normal circumstances, the German infantry has just come up with only engineers, and the small map must be suppressed by soldiers, if the Soviet soldiers do not press three points in the early stage, and so on, after dragging to the two tanks, the German tanks are much stronger than the Soviet Union, so that they will reverse the decline.

As a result, the Soviet RUSH to Germany was often reversed.

But all evil is all evil in the snow battlefield, first of all, 90% of the soldiers will stop food as soon as the blizzard, if the Soviet side frequently mobiles the advanced arms that ignore the snow and ice (such as Soviet snipers), then Germany will be deflated.

As I said before, the double sniper, anti-tank sniper 5 shots or so exploded the car (depending on the car and character) guard point, sniper hiding in the shadow to drag the German infantry support, car people separated Germany is not suitable.

Even if the enemy bought a bunch of advanced arms in the game, we can pick up local equipment to use after dry, such as this flamethrower is picked up, immediately reversed the decline

Of course, there are new things, there are inherited old things, the main gameplay of the game or the two sides positional warfare, capture flags and resource points, but because I repeatedly mentioned before the winter battlefield to join, so that the whole game tactics have a very strange change.

Here to give you players a brief introduction.

Unlike normal battlefields, winter battlefields have slow bands of snow and blizzards, which can cause soldiers to falter, while blizzards can cause most unprotected infantry to freeze to death.

Campfires are things that keep soldiers warm from the cold, but they can be easily destroyed.

But I think the old wooden poles we need to occupy are more vulnerable.

A rare summer map

Although the front of a lot of praise, but here there is a point must be mentioned - of course, just want to play with the player can skip this paragraph - like abuse AI or AI abuse players can pay attention to, this "Heroes 2" exposed a great problem (personally do not know before 1 have), the game's AI really a little "funny".

Whether it is difficult or simple, the method of AI fighting seems tough, in fact, it is very easy to catch the law, and there are two "smelly problems" that can not be changed:

The first thing to do is engage the AI and they'll be the first to find cover. This is very normal, but I think they seem to have a small problem here, that is, in the case of AI they have no cover on the side and behind, AI troops still have to find a cover to hide in, so that the enemy will "blatantly" walk from you, come to your rear or your left and right side of the bunker and shoot at you...

Would you let an army of computers march right past you?

7.5 The gun broke the low wall in front and the bricks behind, but these German devils did not hit a shot, how accurate to be able to hit this!

Again, the computer will not control the soldier line, this year DOTA's computer will fill the knife, pressure a soldier line can not it, every time AI will rush a full line of pressure, the base camp is empty, and then we can use fast mobile arms around the past sneak attack.

It can be said that he played a "besieging Wei to save Zhao", and as a result, the computer's troops and horses were repeatedly transferred in this way, losing the time to occupy the flag and supplies. This mine really needs to be strengthened.

It's... This is in line with history, because the snow dragged Germany to death.

Summary: 8/10

"Heroes 2" is bound to be the top three real-time strategy this year, but manufacturers you are not connected to the Death Star people?

I don't know if many players watching this article have noticed that I have passed over the "must be connected" item in the game hardware requirements. It's not that I don't want to say something, but I'm numb to the dirty practices of these manufacturers.

We know that today's science and technology progress, and the Internet is excellent, but even today, I think it is still not an era where DRM or online stand-alone games can be flexibly played.

Drop lines, drop gears, and drop servers happen every day. Have you experienced UBI's Assassin's Creed 2? Have you experienced the original version of UBI's FROM DUST?

UBI scum "Heroes of the Invincible 6" genuine players have experienced? Have you experienced the legitimate version of EA's Simcity 5? Have you experienced the real Diablo 3 of Slag Snow?

Did any of the games I mentioned above have an easy first week to play? Can players point it out?

Fortunately, this "Hero 2" seems to have an offline mode, we players can feel a little comfort, however, I glanced at the custom items, many enhanced properties and DIY arms and generals are required to be online to be able to use, if not networked offline can only use their own several generals, and arms DIY are not saved.

This, this, this... It's just like my Heroes 6. Poof.

No picture, no truth, these things are closely related to your experience, how to read without networking

I am not exaggerating, you players put yourself in the shoes of think, you and your friends are in a fierce battle, will soon push each other off, at this time the server "collapse" to give you a pop-up dialog box (the server is offline), the result is not your own network problems (many players often howl: "My home 20M fiber ah!" Do you want to smash the keyboard or the monitor?

The game makers who make money don't take these things into account for us gamers.

"Company of Heroes 2" If you drop out every day you're not in the top three, you're in the bottom three!

For the mather RUSSIA!