Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. Joining me, once again, is our old friend, Quarter Three blogger, Tom Check. Tom, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. I would be remiss if I didn't offer to get you a coffee, but I'm not going to do it because before we recorded, you showed me a video for this cool aeropress thing that you're using these days, Rob. So Rob, I demand that you

get me a coffee. Actually, you know what? I would be happy to send you one. I have become such a

French, such an arrowpress convert that really it even unseated my love for the most beloved

French press that I've been using for years. It's just arrived.

The coffee you sent me.

I am taking a sip right now.

Oh, Rob, that's a good coffee.

Thank you so much.

It's a festivist miracle.

Excellent.

So the reason I wanted to get together with you today, Tom, is to talk about Company of Heroes 2,

which we've both reviewed recently, and came to,

I think perhaps a similar sense of disappointment, of being a bit underwhelmed by it.

But I was really struck when I read your review of Company of Heroes 2 that you seemed really to object to a lot of the decisions they'd made

and a lot of the direction they had taken this game.

And so I just kind of want to talk to you about maybe, you know, to start us off, what sort

of hopes, expectations did you take with you into Company of Heroes 2?

And what kind of made them apparently turn to ash in your mouth?

That is a, yeah, that's a vivid description of kind of the taste sensation of Company of Heroes 2.

The hopes and expectations I have going into a game, Rob, I don't know about you.

I'm not really big on previews.

I don't give a lot of credence to press releases and interviews and what developers say they're

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