I spent most of the weekend playing Wolfenstein: The New Sequel, which left me anticipating a robotic dog assault for the first thirty seconds of the Oberkommando trailer for Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer expandalone The Western Front Armies. I'm half-convinced that there's a zombie-robot soldier actually called the Oberkommando in Wolfenstein. Of course, Company of Heroes 2 has a more serious warface than Wolfenstein, even if the two trailers below (one for the US, one for the Oberkommando) do look like they've been plucked from a high octane shooter rather than an RTS.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThe Americans inevitably end their trailer whooping as death rains from above.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settingsThe Oberkommando inevitably end their trailer trundling through a hell of fire and ash. They do not whoop.
I enjoyed Company of Heroes 2 but it didn't stake a place in my life in the way that the first game did. A strong injection of multiplayer content might be the way to bring people back on board but I'd like to have seen the Eastern Front explored a little more, or an entirely new corner of the war, rather than a return to familiar fields. I guess it makes sense to go where the money is though and the official page for the expansion describes the Western Front as a "popular theatre of combat". It sure was.
