Company of Heroes 3 Preview – Together with the fans

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Every RTS enthusiast knows that Relic Entertainment has been working on Age of Empires IV for quite some time now. However, as it turns out, that’s not the only game the studio has in development. The Canadian developer appears to have been working behind the scenes for a few years on a sequel to the game with which it achieved the greatest success: Company of Heroes. Yes, there’s a new Company of Heroes coming, although you’ll have to be patient for a while. Although Relic has been working on the game for three years, it will take at least another year to get it to the store.

Before we delve deeper into the announcement, let’s first take a look at the history. Relic has approached fans of the series for Company of Heroes 3. It is a development that we see in more and more games, especially in games in the strategic genre. Three years ago, when Company of Heroes 3 was just an idea, Relic reached out to the series’ most loyal fans. It has gathered a group of ten fans and that has become the basis of the community council who has always been involved in the development of the game. That council has now grown to seventy players, who are involved in all major decisions and regularly introduce new ones builds of the game to play. The council participates in all aspects of the game. From the setting and story to the smallest gameplay details. That should lead to a game that becomes what fans of the series had in mind.

Unexpected places

Together with that council, the Relic team has chosen a new surface for Company of Heroes 3. After the landing on the beaches of Normandy and the icy battle on the Eastern Front, we now descend to the south. Company of Heroes 3 takes you to what preceded the Normandy landings: the Allied attack on Italy in the fall of 1943. At least that’s the part Relic wants to let go of the most. The game also takes you back to what came before: the battle in North Africa. However, Relic is still secretive about that part of the game.

That Relic chooses the Mediterranean will come as a surprise to many. Fans expected that, if there was a sequel, the makers would opt for the battle with the Japanese in the Pacific. So Relic has chosen a different arena, especially because the battle in the Mediterranean is a little more unknown, but no less fierce and heroic. It offers the team the opportunity to tell many beautiful, but not so well-known stories, and above all it offers the opportunity to present a very varied landscape, of which we have only seen the Italian part. We were even able to play a very small part of that Italian part. Of the campaign that is; what the makers plan to do with multiplayer, they will explain later.

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