Is Company of Heroes 3 Worth It? A comprehensive review 

I was full of negativity when I started playing this game. But slowly realised there are both highs and lows. The North African campaign was fun, but short. The Skirmish was meh, but the "Total War style" Italian campaign was genuinely fun! And the visuals are so much better than they were. Got questions you want answering? Ask. Got an opinion on this game already? Share!

Your 60 second review helped me decide that CoH is not for me. I kept watching till the end anyway, because it's such a good review. I love your matter-of-fact style. You put more information into 16 minutes, than most other reviewers would put in 60 minutes. You have won yourself another subscriber!

i spent over 1000 hours on coh2 (most in coop vs ai mode) and what bothers me the most in coh3 is that it does not have difficulty options in coop vs ai mode. It is so boring to fight against "standard ai".

Here you have me still playing dawn of war 2 . We need a rts like company of heroes but for warhammer 40k.

One of the reasons why CoH I is an RTS evergreen for me is because there are numerous mods for the single player. Mods that not only allow me to play through the campaign again with new units and features, but also add something completely new. Like co-op scenarios or a WWI mod. In contrast, the mods in CoH II only worked in multiplayer. How do things look in this regard in CoH III?

I may have an outside mindset but I still feel like COH 1 was just right and its still my favorite. I loved the way the game was designed from buildings, defenses, unit spawns at buildings, etc. I just want more like COH 1 :/

I loved the pause-issue-orders feature, but there were other aspects to the game which I found a little irritating. The deal-breaker, however, had to be the 'camera'. I wanted it to be smoother, and I wanted to be able to zoom right in and right out again. Instead it stayed within a very limited 'height' over the map. So now I'm waiting for 'Men Of War 2'.

I appreciate the fact you frequently mentioned the Total War aspects and the adults with family responsibilities perspectives in your review. This really helped inform my decision. Although the turn based campaign sounds very interesting I don't feel it's enough to warrant a purchase from me.

I was watching ww2 documentary on history channel about the Italian campaign and browsing steam. So I seen that COH3 was free and figured Ill try playing the Italian campaign. Over all game aint bad but wish there was more rts battles in the campaign. I aint that far into the game only 3 hours and I think im gonna buy it before the sale ends.

I've played them all for many many years. CoH 1&2, all the MoW games, Sudden Strike, Blitzkrieg, Steel Division you name it. After playing the Alpha version of CoH3, i was really dissapointed. Currently i'm hooked to GoH and was just wondering, in what state is CoH3 now and if it got better in any way. Your video couldn't pop up at a better time. Thank you!

I want to love this, but I can't get over the unfinished experience I had when the game first released.

A great review, as always. Thank you very much, sir!

Can someone tell me when console players get 1st DLC ?? We still have 1.1.6 patch we are soooo far behind ...😢

So nice to be recognized as a niche player group. The ones with adult responsibilities. ;)

So! The perfect review for me right here! The 60 seconds review was really nice, so nice in fact, that I decided to watch the whole clip! Thank you, you won a subscriber because of this.

I'm a CoH1 and CoH2 "Vet" and loved your review as I haven't played the game and never tried it based on the bad reviews following it's launch. It may sound like a silly question but apart from polishing up the graphics, would you personally say it's improved so much since launch that it's worth it now? And how do you think it compares to CoH1 and CoH2? Would it be as enjoyable or still enjoyable but a very different experience?

I've played this game's campaign (expert expert) Apart from the skirmishes being more difficult, The defense missions actually triggering and actually having a use for air recon on the main campaign map i don't think enough of a change was made to make the mode anything less than a curiosity. I went back and played COH1 campaign and there isn't a single mission in the Italian campaign that comes remotely close to the ebb and flow of Hill 192 (even the build up to it in the beginning cinematic is like something from a horror movie) Two also had stand out missions like Hunting the Tiger. The overall presentation is still and will probably remain incredibly lacking. Points for trying to polish the game i guess but then i take those points away because of the dlc and it's woeful value for money.

I haven't needed the pause function yet but I havent had mission with a lot of units.

I started playing CoH 2 about a week after the teaser for CoH 3 came out, as I saw it in a RU-vid ad and went "man that looks cool but I wanna try CoH 2 before I try CoH 3". I enjoy CoH 2 and I want to try CoH 3, but I've heard so many bad things, but haven't heard much in a while, so I decided that I'll look for a new review of the game, to see if I truly am missing out, or if my preconceived notions were correct, and that I should steer clear of the current state-of-the-game. (Written before watching, by the way. Will reply with a comment with my personal thoughts afterwards.)

can I play m&k on this on a ps5?

I saw it at GameStop today, it was the deluxe edition for console and I’m a very casual gamer and I will probably never play online but I’m having a ton of fun, units are fun, I started a bit of campaigns and I really like the mechanics but it looks like there’s only 2 campaign which makes me kinda sad because I was hoping to see some Berlin or maybe some Soviet Union gameplay but it doesn’t seem like there’s any of that

Amazing review! I personally chose not to get the game. I am curious if the capture point system that COH uses is still for mass market? There seem to be multiple games that use this system and none seem to sell well. I wonder if it’s due for a rework or change.

Thoroughly enjoyed this video mate. Just what i was after. Still on the fence, but im happy its at a good state. Now to watch SB2, since the comments love that One

I'm surprised we haven't had a Pacific campaign yet

Am I having cataract or why is gey the most prevelent color in both the game and the menu?

I wouldnt mind pay dlc for coh2 to have the QOL of coh3 like towing,tank transport and rubble covers. Coh3 theme is not for me.

I played at launch, and it was ok but I seriously can’t get over playing as a Yatzhee. Especially against Commonwealth Forces

Im still stuck playing COH 1 blitzkrieg mod

It’s a great fun game. I find the menus a little clunky and awkward, got there in the end. Itas others have said if you don’t have the time to spend hours and hours playing games the easy option to pick up and put down as responsibilities come knocking. I’ve never used tactical pause. The Italian campaign has got me hooked and desperate to go and put another couple of hours into it. I agree with the cartoon like aesthetic comment, not especially gritty or realistic. Fantastic game!

Genuinely though, as someone who bought the game on launch, it's not worth at full price but pretty good when on discount and if you like skirmishes against AI and decent singleplayer content. This is mostly due to performance and what you get from it. CoH2 is absolutely unoptimized that it's a known thing to always close the game after a couple of matches or so because of memory leak, and it's also well known how the moving backgrounds lag the menus a lot to the point there's a guide to remove the backgrounds which most of the community does. In regards to content, over here, CoH2 with all the major DLCs with no discount (Western Front Armies, British Forces, Ardennes Assault) actually costs more than base CoH3 so far. This does not include the commander DLCs or the remaining Theater of War operations which would further make CoH2 cost more for the full game. Hence why I say CoH3 is pretty good for what it offers in terms of singleplayer content when on discount, similar to how CoH2 is better when you have all DLCs and preferably bought it via a bundled discount. If you don't own CoH2, then CoH3 is a pretty good choice in that regard; CoH1 is also a good option but personally only for the story and not the gameplay much as it's a bit dated (not to mention the AI has stronger cheats compared to 2 and 3) but hey it's also cheaper in price due to price drops so trying that one out is also a good choice. As for Men of War and Call to Arms players, if you like those games and prefer those, then CoH as a series would be something you won't play much in the end unless they full on transition into that genre. Similarly, I wouldn't expect someone who prefers Wargame or Steel Division to play games in the MoW series or even Hearts of Iron frequently. Of course, you can have multiple preferences so I am saying this in terms of "sticking to one genre" kind of preference.

It's on sell with PS5. Is it worth it on console?

Since I am not a fan of 4x, the campaign map is a complete miss for me. I'd like to play the actual missions, but I don't want to bother with a turn based stuff in a COH game.

They need to redo the North Africa campaign to be longer. Start in 1940. Do more long range desert group and SAS missions

the cartoony style and weirdly mobile game looking ui of the menus, really REALLY put me off playing this game and i ended up refunding it before the 2 hours. great review that i wanted to see if i missed something that might bring me back, but i pretty much got the gist

the features in the italian campaign look good though, but again this type of campaign is something they SHOULD have done for CoH2 which is annoying that they didnt.

They could should have invested in the pacific side of thing. I would like to see Chinese, Japanese as well as the US in the Pacific

We need a ww2 total war if COH aint gonna make a full fledged grand strategy + RTS type gameplay

I never bought it, it wasn't for me ill be sticking with second coh. Nice video though, love the review.

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That campaign map is literally mind numbing.

Great video - great review! Ya had me Twiglets - I was sold - right up to the point where a US tank with the TC (tank commander) was shown stuck up through his hatch while driving thru a building with the express purpose of knocking it down. Yeahhhhhh - riiiiight. (having served in the US Army as a tank crewman on M-60A1's in every crew position including TC I absolutely cringed when I watched that. NO efffing way would any TC ever do that while sticking up out of the TC's hatch. Can you say crushed by self created falling rubble. AND that's assuming that any competent TC would ever even do something as stupid as driving thru a building (movie BS) anyway - too much chance of damaging the tank. . Gimme a break. One wonders if game devs ever think about what they create or even invest time in researching what they're creating to verify if it is even feasible. In this case obviously not. This one has to wonder how much other idiotic behavior they programmed in.

great review and i agree with most of your point. its just not for me thankfully steam is willing to refund this game even when i reached 3 hours of gameplay the more i play the more i hate the game and a quick view at the workshop and "mods" is extremely limited idk why but atleast over at CA they allows modding and you can open up blender if you want some units they way you want it to be and boom 100 hours gone from just one playthru. I guess overall the game went from bad to bland

There is no rush for me, gonna wait for sale with 70% lol

TLDR: The AI cheats like a mofo. Seriously, they just spam you constantly, have no fog of war and start with more supplies than you and they get supplies faster.

Tactical pause is a must for me lol

I bought Call to arms gates of hell while I was waiting for CoH 3. But when CoH3 came out it was so underwhelming that I gave it up for good and stick with CTA

You didnt speak about the horrible audio and effects/VFX. Why didnt u mention the controversal TTK? Unit Responsiveness? Or the Lack of innovation? Heck its even a downgrade in many other sections. Battles in coh1 and coh2 have more weight, more drama, more immersion which gives u this dopamin kick playing it. coh3 ssimply doesnt do that the same way, which is why i'm sticking with coh2

Crazy how RUSE is still the best video game depiction of the Italy campaign

Thank you for this. And yes the cartoony look is indeed enough to put one off

Can I select all units or not?

No, just get Steel Division 2 instead. More of everything. Dont be like me, dont waste money on this game, get DS2 from the start.

Cover system is useless. The enemy can just run around you and kill you from behind. Or put a super accurate HE skillshot right behind you. It's skill, not tactics. Like LoL.

Loved coh 1. Was not a big fan of coh 2 till 2015. After started to love it. saw the awefull first trailer of coh3...and new. Wrong people in charge. And turned out....i was right.

Wow Company of Heroes really hasn’t changed much since the first one

Can now be played free of charge for three days.

The game may look cartoonish but it was never marketed otherwise. I know than for most players who like the WW2 setting (or any military campaign in that matter) the amount of details tied to reality are kinda the main feature of any game considering the scale of the affair, but if you are like me who is more amused from the action and the spectacle of battle rather than the context of it this game just fills the spot. Of course i would also like to find some pathos through the art style,music and narrative like when they tried in COH2 but that brights problems of another kind. In short, COH3 may feels bland in comparison but that may be for the best, to keep the conversation focus on the gameplay. There no excuse for the business decisions though and the gameplay still needs some polish, but right now i find it fun (particularly the 2vs2).

It’s a great game. The recent patch was really well done. I have over 2000 hours of coh2 and would not go back. Coh3 is superior is so many ways now. Did it have a bad start of course, but not u like its predecessor.

Your prob better off getting call to arms ossfront

GoH for tank gameplay CoH 1 for Blitzkrieg mod CoH 2 for Anime skins CoH 3?

I'll say yes it is. The main problem are rage quitters leaving the game after 4 minutes because they lost the first skirmish ....

I think overall CoH 3 was better than CoH2 - CoH2 had weird loot boxes and too many weird small ajustments like get 3% increased accuraccy with HMGs. also the graphic was really bad in CoH2 - artillary looked like gumbullets hitting the ground which was a big downgrade from the realistic looking artillary from CoH1 where you could shape the landscape with the british artillary. For me CoH1 is still the best of them, but CoH3 was still better than CoH2 Only good thing I have to say about CoH2 is being able to play as the russians and that you can break ice with mortars to kill tanks which was a cool feature.

Short: No! And this comes from a guy who loved CoH1 and 2.

The cartoon stripes treating us like toddlers is the turn off for me... thanks for this video man, glad I didnt blindly spend $60USD

It's more zoomed in and unrealistic than part 2. Feels more like a game of toy soldiers with arbitrary rules. And it suffers from the casual shooter sickness. Movement is fast. Time to kill is long. So naturally, your WWII experience will be getting swarmed by infantry blobs. No tactics involved, just meta & MOBA-style grenade skills. It's the League of Legends of WWII. If you're into that, go ahead.

Having the side ✡️ family cinematics shoe horned in... to ensure reduced offending and apologetic historical revisionism = no thanks. I'll sail the high seas instead

I bought it. Wish I hadn’t. It’s not very good compared with other games in the same genre.

Buying CoH3 was the biggest regret i ever made when buying games. The story mode put the soldiers on the sideline completely and the gameplay just felt lazy. Multiplayer is even worse, devs have completely forgotten how to balance things and instead gave us more and more microtransaction. They got a quick buck for this shit load of fuck.

Stick with Company of Heroes 1 and 2. Still waiting for a Pacific Company of Heroes. We have the Eastern and Western front I want the Pacific theater please.

Pirate this game, play the italy campaign. Then buy it when its dirt cheap and has more actual content

Not worth it. Spam too OP. Rangers, Jaegers, Guastoris running amok all over the place. L6/40 broken Bunkers too cheap Worse than Coh2

As a single player only guy, I would say this is the worst campaign offering of all time. I play CoH campaign for a handcrafted experience not playing skirmish with AI. CoH2 has a shitty narrative but at least the missions are fun to play!

This game has regressed so much from it's predecessor

No

16 GB VRAM for highest settings? I dont get it, the game looks exactly like COH2 with a slightly better lightning The tanks move the same way, the physics of objects are the same...even the texture is just a little bit better, but just by a margin How the hell does this needs 16 GB of VRAM to run...

are you the "here's with you suck with THIS FACTION" warhammer 3 tw youtuber?

It’s far better balanced than coh2 anyone who disagrees played nothing but axis

No, no, NO! It's not worth it. Multiplayer game that gets patched once per 3 months? No basic QOL like reconnect (2023 game!!!). Still small amount of content. Unresponsive units. Devs want only your money. "Expansion" - a pack of skins for 17$. Matchmaking that puts top #1 and #2 players on the world against somebody who's just starting. 1000 elo difference matches all the time! CoH3 is failed in every possible way.

CoH1's BK mod still better

German missions are good but Italy missions and the strategy mode are rubbish.

Don’t compare CoH3 to men at war for the cover, that’s over stating it. How much did they pay you?

its not, youre welcome

I purchased coh3. Single player campaign is boring af. Gave it up. Multiplayer is the only way to get value for money. I find myself going back to coh2. Will continue playing coh3 from time to time but currently coh2 is stll much more enjoyable for me. Visual effects of coh2 is more realistic and models have more character. Coh3 comes over as cartoonish, especially explosions and flames. If you didnt play coh1 or 2, get it for multiplayer. However be prepared to be a bit dissappointed if you are a coh vet.

There are 1-5% of us left playing daily online atm from the 150 k players at launch.. pathing is bad af, balance is meh, tuning updates are bad and overall game favors only constant aggressive players... Dlc rangers are a joke to the franchise, shooting bazookas while running.... Really... They made it in purpose so more people will buy the dlc.... Worse some skins bought on the in-game store are not available, even John relic promised to fix it... This was 10 months ago.... Still not here... Overall the game is fun, but, don't expect a polished experience.... Yes it got better but it's still far from decent... Coh games are not noob friendly as it takes time to build skills, and the feeling of being left alone is quite present..... Relic will probably pull the plug on it in a year at that pace... Who knows...

I played CoH 3 playtest or what ever you want to call that.. it was totally disappointing. Ill stick with Gates of Hell, amazing game with a good Dev team.

the cartoon look killed this game for me. what a shame

No relic game is good for anyone.... everything that most people want is locked behind paid DLCs..... and they remain so even after decades of the game's release.

Comparing this to Total War is an insult to Total war. The "Campaign" is all set in advanced if you play it Twice you will get the Exact experince you had the first time, Enemies don't have any strategy, Your choices make no difference Just a set of missions with the illusion of a grand campaign. This could have been such a great game changer one that will have such a great replayability, But the game developers just didnt give a f**k, Most lazy map making I have ever seen in an RTS only 14 maps for the entire game?! Ohh your going to add 4 maps on DLC's? Wow thanks for nothing. Shambolic of a game, Absolute trash.

Thanks for the review. This game is a hard pass for me

Do you want a good WW2 strategy game ? Get Gates of Hell ostfront You want a bigger scale WW2 strategy game? Get steel division 2 You absolutely want a COH ? Get COH 1

I will stick to CoH2

Men of wars/Call to arms is 100x better

COH 3 ❌ CTA GOH OSTFRONT ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅

no. *no* in bold.

This game aesthetically looks ugly compared to CoH 1. I cannot play it knowing the first game exists, even with the horrible AI pathing from 2005.

Played 2 of its Beta, absolute garbage, CoH1 is unironically better than CoH3, the only improvement CoH3 brings to the series is the breaching mechanic

it looks worse than CoH2...............vehicles dont look very well proportioned either.

Garbage game & a slap too the face , waste of money

No no no. The game is still a disaster.

I hate the bullshit commanders from COH2, coh1 was superb but they had to "fix it"...

Watched until the sixth minute, learnt nothing. Sorry but terrible video