Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene. Today, I am joined by currently between jobs. Freelancer, soon not to be freelancer. Not sure. Ian, Ian Boudreau, welcome to the show. Thanks, Rob. And we are also joined by Kataku's strategy games and World War II correspondent, Luke Plunkett.

Thanks for having me back, guys. Always a pleasure.

And we are gathered together because we were all on review duty for Relics,

Company of Heroes 3, which has been extensively previewed.

We've had a few interviews about it on this show.

And now we've finally been able to play the full release version,

and we all filed reviews.

So let's dig into it.

I think everyone who has been listening to the show

knows that it has a dynamic campaign

that's sort of inspired by Total War.

It's moving the setting

to the Italian front. We'll talk about how these things impact just the feel. But I would say

we had one of the features we were most excited about. And one of the things that seemed the

most interesting about this game was, in fact, the dynamic campaign. And gentlemen, it seems like universally the sentiment is

this is a bad whiff. Yeah, it's, uh, it's not what I was hoping. That's for sure. It, uh,

you mentioned Total War.

It is not as dynamic a campaign as Total War maybe has ever offered.

There's a lot of space. I don't know that it works for the scale of what Company of Heroes is all about.

It doesn't feel like there's a whole lot happening, certainly not on the German side.

I don't know.

What did you guys think?

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