Company of Heroes 3: Console Edition

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  • Summary: The legendary strategy franchise is back! Company of Heroes 3 is the ultimate package of action, tactics and strategy. Take charge in the heat of real-time battle, then command as a General guiding the overall campaign where every decision matters.
    Overwhelm your opponents with new and    The legendary strategy franchise is back! Company of Heroes 3 is the ultimate package of action, tactics and strategy. Take charge in the heat of real-time battle, then command as a General guiding the overall campaign where every decision matters.
    Overwhelm your opponents with new and familiar factions, units, and international Battlegroups. Command ground, air and naval forces and build supply lines to crush enemy advances on the new Dynamic Campaign Map - no two playthroughs are ever alike! Play at your own pace across campaign and skirmish modes before diving into blistering multiplayer action. Discover the untold stories of a stunning Mediterranean theatre, featuring next generation destructible environments, all powered by Relic's proprietary Essence Engine.    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Player 2
    Jun 10, 2023
    83
    Whether you’re a veteran of the series or a newcomer, Company Of Heroes 3 offers a captivating gameplay experience that will keep you strategizing, adapting, and immersed in the chaos of war.
  2. God is a Geek
    Jun 13, 2023
    80
    Company of Heroes 3 - Console Edition is a mostly competent port of a very good tactical WWII game, but it still feels like it very much belongs on PC.
  3. IGN Adria
    Aug 3, 2023
    80
    Company of Heroes 3: Console Edition brings the glory of the real-time strategy genre to the consoles in a spectacular way. Featuring two different campaigns and a freshened-up design, it will give you hours of good fun sitting in front of your big screen.
  4. PSX Brasil
    May 29, 2023
    75
    Despite notable slips, such as the technical and visual part, bad interface and unnecessary complexity, Company of Heroes 3 has merits for delivering a good RTS on consoles, being fun and for having a good adaptation to controls.
  5. Screen Rant
    Jun 5, 2023
    70
    The most unfortunate aspect of Company of Heroes 3 Console Edition is the text size, an issue with no solution. The settings have an option to increase cutscene subtitle size, but the same is not available for the many, many text boxes in-game. It frequently makes for a frustrating experience when playing from a couch, and is a constant reminder that Company of Heroes 3 is first and foremost a game built for PC; it's perfectly playable and more than enjoyable on console, but is still often cumbersome and awkward.
  6. Digitally Downloaded
    May 31, 2023
    70
    I do think that if developers want to tackle World War 2 as a subject, they need to go one of two paths. They could take a clinical approach and create a wargames simulator that focuses purely on the strategy. Or they could create a serious commentary that deconstructs and analyses the war. What they should not be doing, however, is presenting the war as a purely entertaining experience. As a work of pure entertainment, Company of Heroes 3 would have been better served tracking a fictional war. However, its quality as a piece of entertainment is undeniable, and for most, that’s going to be all that matters. It also works far better on a console than I would have expected something from the RTS genre to ever do. For those that do find World War 2 to be entertaining, this one’s going to be hard to resist.
  7. Gameblog.fr
    Jun 27, 2023
    50
    Playing Company of Heroes 3 on PS5 means accepting to play either a poorly optimized PS4 game (resolution mode) or a fat PS4 game at the end of its life (performance mode). Yes, technically, it's a real wreck. It's naughty or simply awful depending on the mode chosen. That being said, the game is still very playable and ultimately well optimized for the controller. We simply regret the lack of precision and responsiveness in the absence of a shortcut. But the work of the developers is there. The interface has been partially revised and it's pretty well done. It's up to you now if you're ready to sacrifice the visual aspect in the name of the altar of the strategy game, a genre underrepresented on home consoles. For the rest, Company of Heroes 3 remains the same game as on PC. An honest, but naughty strategy game.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. CelsoBr
    Jun 24, 2023
    8
    Muito bom...,,.......................................................................
  2. Dam
    Jun 17, 2023
    5
    The game still has huge bugs (PS5): If you load a manual save from the middle of a battle, that mission is almost guaranteed to have aThe game still has huge bugs (PS5): If you load a manual save from the middle of a battle, that mission is almost guaranteed to have a gamebreaking bug in it. I have on multiple occasions, had the game freeze after a mission, making me replay it.
    I have also had a bunch of small bugs and errors. Nothing super serious, but still realy annoying.

    You can skip (auto resolve) most of the combat missions, but you will do much better if you play them manually. The problem is that they quickly become repetitive and boring, set in the same maps, fighting the same enemies, doing the same objectives over and over.

    The big main missions a fun, unless the game makes you replay them due to a bug. I do like the core gameplay, and the tactical aspect of using different unit types to counter the enemy. It has hints of a Rock-Paper-Scissors system, until you get tanks, then it’s just about who has more tanks.    … Expand
  4. Jfcampana
    Jun 1, 2023
    3
    In this state I don’t recommand to go for it… especially if you intend to play it on controller.

    Many essential features are not present on    In this state I don’t recommand to go for it… especially if you intend to play it on controller.

    Many essential features are not present on controller right now, especially if you wanna go multiplayer :

    - no queue for orders (without tactical pause)
    - no shorcuts for units or groups
    - some buttons do not work has intended

    If you play against someone with mouse and keyboard, he will have all of this…    … Expand
  5. xenomorf
    May 31, 2023
    0
    again a developer that cannot do simple things right. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to select a single unit and give orders. It is terriblyagain a developer that cannot do simple things right. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to select a single unit and give orders. It is terribly annoying to then see other units move as well and undo the choices and orders you made before. Especially in the heat of battle it frustrates to see units die since they act upon orders given to other units. This has nothing to do with the controller, other devs have been making proper rts on consoles for well over a decade.
    So saving often is important, were it not that saving takes so rediculously long, at least twice as long as loading. Also, the game is unstable, crashes regularly, countdowns for missions do not appear, or the UI disappears entirely. Usually this means you have to restart the ENTIRE mission (as reloading a previous savegame ends up having the same problem).
    Then there is the save problem. The game often doesn't allow you to save/delete a game or crashes.
    Also, why the hell does it keep pushing Playstation Plus on me every time I go into the main menu? I decide whether I take Playstation Plus on not. Screw this pushing behavior from a dev that cannot even make a decent game. For the sake of never having to deal with such crap again, I can only hope this dev will go bankrupt.
    Avoid this!    … Expand

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#98 Most Discussed PlayStation 5 Game of 2023