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Company of Heroes: Best PC RTS Game @ E3

Posted in Company of Heroes by on May 19th, 2006

PC.IGN.com has their "Best of E3" awards up.  Company of Heroes was named Best PC Rts of the show, while it earned a runner up (to Spore) for Best PC Game.

This year's line-up of strategy titles was exceptionally strong. In fact, deciding which of these games to hand out the award to was probably the most difficult choice we made in the show. Supreme Commander has immense scale, innovative interface additions, and the promise of gigantic wars. Medieval 2: Total War also has scale along with historical fun, an incredible meta-game, and pedigree. Company of Heroes has AI innovation, destructible environments, adaptive tactics, and a brilliantly fun multiplayer mode. It might have been that Company of Heroes was the only game that we were allowed to play, but it stuck out a hair's breadth above the rest. While World War II is hit on yet again in this fast-paced RTS, developer Relic Entertainment has pushed the conflict into new territory with squad AI that acts more like real infantry, destructible environments that create both new opportunities and challenges in every match, zones of conflict, and absolutely top notch visuals throughout the entire experience. Relic is at the top of their game here and fans of the genre should look forward to a fast and furious RTS come this Fall.

Check it out here.  Thanks to Dave for the heads up!

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