Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
$24.99
- 2-8 person multiplayer support via LAN or the Internet and New maps based on famous battles such as Villers-Bocage.
- 3 Immersive single player campaigns/storylines that utilize tank and infantry units, in both the Allied and Axis camps following D-Day.
- Direct Fire Control targeting system that allows players to aim and fire at any spot in real-time to capitalize on the changing battle conditions.
- New combat units available in multiplayer modes such as the all-terrain amphibious Schwimmwagen unit and the tank killing British air unit, the Hellcat.
- 3 New Multiplayer Modes: Become a tank commander in Panzerkrieg; Push back enemy lines in Assault; Defend against waves of attackers in Stonewall.
Product Description
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor features new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures including 9 new missions, 3 new Multiplayer Modes, and new abilities to master. Command New Units – New infantry and vehicles such as the Schwimmwagen and Staghound will be available. The Schwimmwagen is an amphibious, all-wheel drive off-road vehicle whi… More >>
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Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
Careful…read fine print.. He is selling this game and you cant use it as the code is missing from the box. I am trying to return it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Company of Heroes is one of the best strategy games I have ever played. If you are into RTS games or WW2 then I would highly recommend checking this game out. In this expansion Relic added 22 new maps, immensely improved the computer AI, added 2 new units for each faction, added new operations, and the campaigns are short but sweet.
People who are whining about this game need to lighten up. This isn’t a CoH 2 it’s a stand alone expansion for $[...] bucks! Also if you are only into single player type games I would recommend playing comp stomps online. It’s fun playing with friends against the computer and the expert AI is very hard to beat.
Rating: 5 / 5
Do not buy any relic or thq pos games theyre unbalance and the company is to blind to fix it the game needs serious work on redoing everything thing on the game they half assed everything, it reminds me of the Microsoft game called age of the empires lack on really working on the game to balance anything out and when they do patch it they dont fix what really needed to be fix.
blizzard games is the way to go they have their stuff dead on and sure it takes years in the making but when its release out its near perfect.
Rating: 1 / 5
First off, if you’ve never played Company of Heroes before, GET THIS. It includes all four armies (British, American, Panzer Elite, and Wehr) and maps from the original, PLUS the new TOV multiplayer modes, units, and singleplayer missions. For a very, very, very low price.
The original COH was and still is the best real time strategy game of the last five years, no questions asked. I like it much more than Relic’s DOW2. It is intense, it is graphically impressive, and it is unique. Far from a C&C clone, COH pushes you to think beyond the “rock-paper-scissors” mechanic. Units have a wide variety of uses and are quite customizable. Your rifelmen squads can be outfitted with sticky bombs to disable tanks. Your engineer squads can be armed with flamethrowers to clear out trenches and buildings. The list goes on.
As for the expansion itself: I just finished playing for 12 hours or so. You get three new modes, no new factions, and several new units that replace existing units in the game. The value is much lower if you’ve already got OF and the original.
Of the new modes, the DOTA variant called Assault is the most messed up. You team up with a group of AI controlled soldiers who constantly come from off the map to charge at the opposing side. But you only directly control ONE character — a “hero” unit. It’s unrealistic, but your hero gains strength and skills as he progresses, and can take mortar rounds to the face and survive. The level of chaos is huge and the amount of teamwork required is intense. If you play with other humans on your team, it simply is a MUST for you to coordinate what classes your heroes are (e.g. one person as a heavy, one as a medic) in addition to what they’re doing.
The problem? It’s not even remotely balanced. The heavy machine gun hero is the way to go. It’s almost stupid to pick another hero. I’m not sure if Relic bothered to balance this, but the heavy hero has the best abilities (can take reduced damage, sprint, and inspire surrounding troops), and — if you upgrade his armor — is hard to take down even for snipers (supposedly his natural counter). Big big oversight.
Stonewall, the mode where you need to defend against hordes of AI, is equally intense and requires coordination as well. It’s a lot of fun, and allows you to use resource management. You need to defend the bank, church, manor, garage, and your HQ — all of which provide unique functionality and bonuses. Relic needs to really increase the difficulty here, though, as it simply is too easy to be more than a simple diversion. I have no idea why difficulty is not highly customizable. There’s literally zero difficulty options. The free D-day mod made by the community was probably better..
BIG PROBLEM: Relic provided only ONE map for each additional multiplayer mode. You cannot play Assault on all the other maps — there’s just one assault map, for example. Same for stonewall. This is very lazy and disappointing, honestly. No idea what they were thinking here. Stonewall could have been a great mode with more maps and options controlling the difficulty, but what is here is extremely limited. Fortunately, Relic has opened up mod support, so I expect the community will respond by adding maps. But there’s no excuse for making the community do your work for you, honestly.
The Panzerkreig mode, where you control a single tank, is the best new mode by far. There’s different points on the map to control — some for artillery, for example — and several different types of tanks to pick from. They include quick tank killers and more versatile Shermans. You can call in bombing runs on other tanks and radio in for infantry squads to back you up. It’s the simplest mode, but also the most fun, and I cannot wait for more maps from the community to keep it fresh!! Great for 2-6 players.
The new units for vanilla multiplayer are a cool variation but nothing major. Time will tell. I’ll update this review when I know more. I will say I really like the new Hellcat. A little more interesting than the traditional tank destroying, trading some armor for a machine gunner and a cooler design.
Note: I have not played single player and do not intend to. This is a multiplayer game. I tried single player in the original version and thought it was pretty much horrible. Also, please be patient — this is the launch day, so there are kinks that Relic WILL work out. They’ve been patching the original game for three years now!
Bottom line: Intense. Fun. It’s like commanding a mission of Call of Duty from overhead. It’s a 5 if you don’t own the other games, but a 3 or 4 if you do. I’m going to still give this a 5 because COH — which is included in this package — is a genre-redefining RTS.
A slightly disappointing follow up, but a must buy if you’re new to COH or addicted to it as much as I have been for the last couple years!!
Rating: 5 / 5
COH TOV is the best game strategy war I ever played. Multiplayer game is a lot of fun. A nice strategy game of all times in pcs.. I recomendend it. the online game in relic is fun and there is no lagg.
Rating: 5 / 5