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I had to creep into some locations to avoid ambushes. In this match, I had to take a bunch of points that earned supplies for the Germans without losing all of my infantry. I played this mission over the course of a half hour or so. You have to avoid booby traps and deal with a limited number of tools to win. In another map, you’ll have two squads of infantry along with armor to take a whole map. During that time, you have the benefit of a daily morning artillery strike. Some of the missions can also involve multiple players in cooperative mode, such as a battle where you have to hold a map for three days and three nights against enemy assaults. We held this as a surprise until the end.” “With Theater of War, we have a mission pack to tell a story within the larger war.

“It allows the player to get used to different kinds of multiplayer strategies in solo missions,” Watts said. You can face off against different kinds of artificial intelligence, such as one that turtles up with defenses around its artillery, or another that builds only tanks so it can rush you.

For instance, in one mission, you only get two or three squads for the entire battle, and you have to keep them alive as you take a series of strong points. The new missions bring about different kinds of play that you may or may not pursue in multiplayer games. Big battles of 1941 are in Theater of War missions - engagements that the main games doesn’t cover. While the single-player campaign follows a strict narrative - a story about the war - this new mode offers battles that illustrate other important moments between the Russians and the Germans during the first part of the war, said Simon Watts, a spokesman for Relic in an interview with GamesBeat.

I played one of the missions and found it to be a lot of fun. That’s a huge amount of additional content, considering that the single-player campaign itself has just 14 missions. The new Theater of War mode is a cooperative single-player mode that serves as a bridge to multiplayer play.Ĭompany of Heroes 2, which Sega picked up along with Relic from the ashes of THQ, will ship with the 1941 pack of Theater of War missions, including nine German and nine Russian missions. Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes 2 development team is dropping a very pleasant surprise today on fans who have been waiting for this real-time strategy game to debut.