Three Moves Ahead 323: Company of Heroes

Three Moves Ahead

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Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The true measure of a game's greatness is how many game developers play it during their lunch breaks. This week we learn that Company of Heroes validates this universal truth with its compelling gameply and lasting appeal. With the recent addition of the British army to CoH2, Rob Zacny, Blendo Games' Brendon Chung, and CoH product Shane Neville look back at the original game and the state of the sequel. The first entry in the series still holds strong while the sequel continues to improve.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zackney.
0:04.0	On today's show, we welcome back our friend Shane Neville, indie developer, currently working on BunkerPunks, and the producer of Company of Heroes opposing fronts.
0:12.0	Shane, welcome to the show.
0:13.3	Thanks a lot. Great to be here.
0:15.1	We also welcome, welcome back, Blendo Games, Brendan Chung. Brendan, welcome to the show.
0:21.1	Hey, thanks.
0:22.7	So today we're revisiting Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes 2, but in particular, I want
0:28.6	to talk about faction design over the course of this series.
0:32.2	The British Forces expansion just came out for Company of Heroes 2, and that brings the British forces into a game that
0:40.5	already had two German armies, the U.S. Army, and the Red Army. You would think at a certain
0:45.6	point, having a bunch of different World War II armies would start to feel like an exercise
0:50.1	in model and texture swapping. But one of the things that I've started to appreciate lately
0:55.7	is just how much variety relic have managed to find and create
0:59.5	in the Company of Heroes series.
1:02.1	Shane, you actually worked on this series,
1:04.0	so I'm going to put you on the spot first.
1:06.3	Yeah, for sure.
1:07.4	I feel like a lot of other RTS games seem to have a lot more room for asymmetry built in, either because of setting or, you know, because of theme.
1:18.4	And they're not really tied to this really specific time and place of the eastern western fronts of World War II.
1:25.1	Company of Heroes, too, on the other hand, has to at least have a
1:29.0	nodding acquaintance with reality. How did Relic get around these limitations in the first
1:35.1	game, and do you think their approach has evolved since then?
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