Squee! Company of Heroes 2 announced

[Gukumatz]

This fill my heart with glee!

Some facts stolen from PC Gamer:

• It’s set on the Russian front. You control the Soviets in their fight to repel the invading Nazi force.
• Snow plays a major part on the battlefield.
• The cover system has been revamped.
• The game is due out 2013.

http://www.companyofheroes.com/
(Just a splash page for the time being.)

I'm really, really looking forward to this - RTS games have almost died out the last three years and CoH was always one of my favourites.

[SenorBeef]

I have played a ridiculous amount of COH, so this is great news. Also covering the eastern front is great - it's just flat out more interesting than the western front and never gets its due in video games.

I wonder how many of the original COH team will still be around.

COH still looks great even though it's a 5 or 6 year old game at this point - if they wanted to, they could make COH2 mind blowingly detailed, since they don't have to worry about making it a multiplatform game, and by 2013 everyone should have DX11 hardware.

I was worried this may never get made because THQ is in trouble - it still may face challenges and I'm worried they'll push it out the door early because of THQ's problems.

[Lips_Obsession]

I saw this announcement today and was thrilled as well. This was a great game - hope the sequel can live up to it!

[FinnAgain]

I'm gonna need a desktop...

[MOIDALIZE]

Originally Posted by SenorBeef

I have played a ridiculous amount of COH, so this is great news. Also covering the eastern front is great - it's just flat out more interesting than the western front and never gets its due in video games.

I don't agree with that. Call of Duty and Medal of Honor have had Eastern Front settings, as well as a whole bunch of tactical combat games like Close Combat and hex based strategy games like War in the East, and of course the legendary Il-2 Sturmovik flight sim series.

[SenorBeef]

As by far the greatest conflict in human history, having the example of a few games covering it doesn't refute the fact that it isn't covered enough. IIRC, the Call of Duty stuff was just like 1/4th of one game, not sure about MoH, Close Combat 3 was 13 years ago (holy shit I'm getting old). Hex games - sure, but those aren't mainstream.

Everything on the Ostfront - the scale, the savagery, the strategies, the advancement of war technology, the advancement of tactics and organization - dwarfs everything else human conflict has to offer. Our popular media's coverage of it is entirely lacking.

[MOIDALIZE]

There's also the Red Orchestra games, and the upcoming Sniper Elite V2 is set in Berlin during the fall (though it involves an American OSS sniper sent in to kill or capture German rocket scientists before the Soviets can get their hands on them).

Battlefield 1942, as well.

[Telperion]

Originally Posted by MOIDALIZE

There's also the Red Orchestra games, and the upcoming Sniper Elite V2 is set in Berlin during the fall (though it involves an American OSS sniper sent in to kill or capture German rocket scientists before the Soviets can get their hands on them).

Battlefield 1942, as well.

Also the Men of War, Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg series of games have had Red Army campaigns. Honestly, how many WW2 franchises are there left to cover it in?

[SenorBeef]

Article with screenshots

COH is still one of the best looking games around - not only technically but artistically, in terms of the animations and details of the world - so hopefully they can use the huge developments in hardware in the last 6 years to make COH2 mind blowing.