I was rather disappointed at the incredibly short length of all of the new campaigns (only about three missions each), but they’re fun while they last. The story and voice acting is, as always with this series, top notch. Unfortunately, there’s rarely ever a sense of danger in regards to your men, considering that reviving them is something you can do indefinitely at the press of a button. The fairly light story elements behind these men and the feel you get from directly controlling them adds a lot more character and depth to the units. One campaign puts you in the commander’s cupola of a German Tiger tank another puts you in charge of two squads of American paratroopers. Friendly units can be allowed to automatically move and shoot as you would expect a unit to behave in any other RTS game, but with direct fire you can take complete control of the unit in question, meaning there’s no one to blame but yourself for bad aim. These new campaigns put the brightest spotlight on the game’s biggest new feature: direct fire. If you do own one or both, however, the three new single player campaigns from Tales of Valor will link up seamlessly to your existing game installation. This, of course, isn’t usually as easy as it sounds.Ĭompany of Heroes: Tales of Valor is a stand-alone expansion pack, meaning that you don’t need to own either of the previous games in order to play this one. Things (for the most part) revolve around building a base, creating units, taking and holding resource points and finally crushing your enemy.
If you’ve played the original Company of Heroes or the first expansion Opposing Fronts, the gameplay in Tales of Valor is going to be mostly familiar to you. The second expansion to Company of Heroes, Tales of Valor livens up the real time strategy genre with some interesting innovations. How does a developer innovate and keep things new and fresh when they’re working in a genre that’s often as unoriginal as it is stagnant? Every type of game has its own solutions to these problems, and developer Relic Entertainment seems to have stumbled upon a few of them. Real time strategy games have been around for a long time now, and sometimes it feels like every imaginable setting and style that could be applied to such a game has been completely beaten to death.
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