Relic are on a mission. A mission to shake up real-time strategy gaming by injecting a little character, a little intimacy to proceedings. So it was with Dawn of War II, and so it is here.
One of the highest-rated real-time strategy games of all-time gets a standalone expansion this week in Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor.
There’s a new Company of Heroes expansion on the way, one that will continue Relic’s move towards a more “intimate” strategy game by giving you control over a single tank.
Not much here in this trailer for the upcoming expansion that’ll look any different to Company of Heroes fans, but the emphasis on driving right up to buildings then shooting them must be indicative of something. Maybe the Krauts liked to see the whites in the building’s eyes before they blew ‘em up, who knows.
Earlier this week, THQ got around to formally announcing the long-known-about Company of Heroes expansion pack, Tales of Valor. Problem is, that’s about all they announced. No details. Well, Relic have since spoken with Edge, and now, we have details. Seems the game will come with three “mini campaigns”, which instead of being centred around a single, long story like the existing campaigns, will be shorter affairs. One of those three will revolve around the exploits of SS Panzer commander Michael Wittmann, who at the Battle of Villers-Bocage destroyed over 20 British vehicles in only 15 minutes.
There was some good news from the THQ camp today, with the publisher announcing a second expansion for Company of Heroes — the real-time strategy World War II game that everybody loves — would ship in spring of 2009. Company of Heroes: Tales of Valour will follow previous expansion Opposing Fronts with “a ton of rich, new content” including “new campaigns and multiplayer modes, brand-new units, additional maps and the introduction of the ‘direct-fire’ feature,” according to developer Relic Entertainment’s own Tarrnie Williams.
