![]() ![]() (Screenshot provided by the publisher of the game, Sega) The gist is the same here, with triggers acting as prompts to pull down layers of menus that can be even quicker to navigate than even actual KB/M once you memorize where everything is. It takes very little time to get used to the controls, especially if you’ve experienced other recent RTS conversions like Iron Harvest. If you can overlook that weird technical limitation, there’s plenty of tactical goodness to be found all throughout this console conversion. Well, “a tad” is putting it nicely: ground textures are mere smudges in contrast to the much sharper polygonal units, structures and foliage placed on top of it. If an RTS worked on consoles 23 years ago, there’s no reason one could not these days.Ĭompany of Heroes 3 on an Xbox Series S is very playable, with easy to pick up shortcuts for the admittedly limited in buttons controller, and as a slight disadvantage when compared to its PC version, it’s a tad blurry. It did in fact get released back in the year 2000. We can even look back to StarCraft of all things playing extremely well on Nintendo 64, but most folks today probably don’t even remember that there was a StarCraft 64. Flamethrowers can really turn the tide of a battle in Company of Heroes 3. I’m no stranger to being proven wrong when it comes to (at first glance, anyway) inimaginable keyboard and mouse gaming genres making the leap to and working on a controller, against all odds. Review code for this port arrived a couple of days before actual release, seemingly out of nowhere, and it caught me off guard to say the least. As a fellow but not nearly as dedicated fan of the genre, I was glad to see CoH make a welcome return to PC, but even more so, I was surprised that it would be the first in the series to make the leap to consoles. With four playable factions, an engrossing campaign and a traditionally chaotic multiplayer mode, Company of Heroes 3, warts and all, is a worthy addition to the series. Now, three months later, this World War 2 RTS lands on consoles, and I was able to play it on an Xbox Series S. Back in March, our resident RTS expert Andy Jonhson heeded the call of duty and reviewed Company of Heroes 3, which in his own words is “a brilliant, if imperfect return to the series (…) that may not single-handedly return RTS games to prominence, but it is a gripping experience and a very welcome contribution to that effort”.
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