It plays out a bit like a survival mode in popular first person shooters like Gears of War or Left 4 Dead, but there's a unique twist - the ability to upgrade and build units. Now before you go grabbing the pitch forks, I urge you to give the game mode a chance. Instead what we have is a single mission that can be played by up to four people called Operation Stonewall. While I had high hopes we'd have a full fledged co-op campaign, especially considering Relic's other co-op RTS outing. Being a huge fan of the original title, I immediately dug for information on the co-op. A unique feature of Company of Heroes Online was the large number of combinations of hero units, special abilities and doctrinal abilities a player could utilize, giving the potential for diverse and creative strategies.When I noticed the latest Company of Heroes expansion pack had a little tick next to the co-op check box, my heart skipped a beat.

Another departure from mainstream RTS's was the implementation of sector supply whereby the resource income of a player is linked to the sectors under that player's control. Its gameplay placed emphasis on usage of varying degrees of cover together with a destructible terrain. The Korean and American versions featured the entire single-player campaign from the retail release while the Chinese version did not.Ĭompany of Heroes Online was a real-time strategy game which was based on Company of Heroes. The Chinese version was co-developed and published by Shanda while the South Korean version was published by WindySoft and developed entirely by Relic Entertainment. Relic also released a Chinese and a South Korean version of the game. The game uses the same graphics engine as the retail release of Company of Heroes.

The game has no link with the original Company of Heroes multiplayer system and is a stand-alone game, unlike its predecessors. The open beta for the game started on 2 September 2010, and the game was cancelled on March 31, 2011. The second stand-alone expansion pack to Company of Heroes, it was released on April 9, 2009.Ĭompany of Heroes Online Company of Heroes Online logoĬompany of Heroes Online was a free massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game developed by Relic Entertainment and published by THQ. Main article: Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

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