Company of Heroes streamlined the real-time strategy experience by taking out all the naff or boring bits to create an arcadey, action driven title that was rightly hailed as a benchmark for its genre. All the more sympathy then for Relic, who have given themselves a monumentally difficult act to follow and some pretty tough choices to make as to where they should go next: keep the same magic formula and risk stagnation, or make too many changes and lose what made COH a success. What they've produced is actually a fairly decent instalment in the franchise, but an ultimately dumbed down experience.
In fact, "instalment" might be pushing it a little since there isn't an awful lot in the way of new content here. The campaigns consist of a paltry three missions a piece, and each will take you no longer than a couple of hours to complete. That being said, this is still Company of Heroes, and in spite of the woefully short single-player it's still the pinnacle of WWII strategy, and merit has to be given to Relic for riskily attempting to renovate a part of the genre increasingly lacking in any real sparks of originality.
Much like Dawn of War II and World in Conflict, Tales of Valor takes the less-is-more approach to real-time strategy warfare, with battles being strictly small-scale and players being in control of only a handful of men.
Relic's centrepiece for this scaling down philosophy is the first new campaign in the expansion. Tiger Ace sees you taking control of a single German Tiger Tank crew, rampaging through the streets of Villers-Bocage.
That's right: no resource management, no buildings and no unit production. This really does mean that there's little involved strategy, no discernible sense of difficulty and so, to be honest, not a whole lot of fun. Relishing in the glorious and gratuitous destruction that the Havok engine allows you to inflict on the poor French countryside will of course never get old and so visually, Tales of Valor delivers the timeless COH magic that we have all come to love.
The new campaigns also introduce Direct Fire, a new real-time aiming mode that allows you to use your mouse to aim and fire your turret or squad manually. This is only useful on occasion, and it's difficult to shake the gimmickiness of it, especially when pointing and clicking will get the job done most of the time. As mildly amusing but ultimately unfulfilling as the additions to the singleplayer are, it would be unfair to focus on them too heavily as this is undoubtedly a multiplayer expansion.
The three new campaigns don't really add anything spectacular to the series in the same way that Opposing Fronts single-player did. However, the new multiplayer modes on the other hand are a stroke of Relic-flavoured genius. Although strategy purists or hard-line COH veterans may turn their noses up at what are essentially game modes with a greater focus on arcade and immersive action rather than realistic or gritty strategy, they're nevertheless incredibly original, diverse and breathe new life into Relic's pride and joy, which until now was beginning to show signs of age.
In Assault mode, you're put in control of a single character from a choice of seven different character classes, each with their own individual abilities the officer can boost morale, the sniper deals huge damage to single targets, the medic heals nearby allies and so on.
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