You'll be able to play as the German, UK and US forces, though on the campaign you'll just be playing the Allies. What Company of Heroes 3 factions will be playable? Interestingly, we've also heard that the selection of Italy as a setting was a choice made by the player council Relic is working with. 'So the players are going to go through and play each mission one after the other and experience that whole story start to finish as we tell it to them.' 'The North African operation is a linear story,' senior mission designer David Milne told me during its reveal. The North African campaign is a more straightforward RTS campaign than the open map of Italy. What I could have done in four hours took me 11. I played through a small slice where I had to take Monte Cassino, giving me a road to Rome, but along with my main objective were countless other battles, side missions and territory to conquer. We've only seen Italy, and it seems massive. You'll duke it out in a campaign set across Italy, and North Africa has now been confirmed as well, where you'll conquer territory, get into skirmishes and fight bespoke battles. The console release also comes with other core features of the original release, including two campaigns, four playable factions, a dynamic campaign map, and co-op campaigns.After fighting through the Western and Eastern Fronts, Company of Heroes is now heading to the Mediterranean. These controller-centric features were shown off in a trailer released back in April, giving us a good look at how Company of Heroes 3 is making the jump to consoles. Players can also make use of the Full Tactical Pause feature in single-player modes to freeze the game and take their time in observing the battlefield to react to what’s happening. The new control scheme hopes to make the transition from the genre’s traditional mouse and keyboard control system to controllers through a new Command Wheel, which will allow players to quickly issue commands to their units. The game’s console release is being celebrated with a new launch trailer, which you can check out below.Īnnounced back in December 2022, the console version of Company of Heroes 3 comes with special features specifically designed to help players make the best of the game’s real-time strategy gameplay and tactical options on a controller. Developer Relic Entertainment and publisher Sega’s World War 2-based real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 3 is out now on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

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