Company of Heroes
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player commands squads of WWII infantry and vehicles that shoot, shell and burn human enemies; soldiers bleed and killed troops leave bodies on the field, but the top-down scale shows no dismemberment or lingering gore.
The single-player campaign dramatizes the Normandy invasion and the liberation of France, with named characters killed in action and towns shown ravaged by war.
Soldiers deliver combat barks and radio chatter containing mild profanity such as 'damn' and 'hell'.
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What it is
Company of Heroes is a World War II real-time strategy game in which you command American forces through the Normandy landings and the fight across France. You capture territory, build bases, and direct squads of infantry, tanks and artillery against German troops in destructible, war-torn environments. Combat is realistic in tone: soldiers are shot, shelled and set ablaze, they bleed, and the dead remain on the battlefield, though the commander's-eye view keeps the depiction at a distance with no gore or dismemberment. The campaign carries the weight of its wartime subject, with named soldiers dying and French towns reduced to rubble. Online multiplayer pits players against strangers, typically with lobby text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence through the lens of a historical war drama, presenting American soldiers as heroes making sacrifices during the liberation of France. War is shown as costly and destructive rather than glorified, with the human toll and the ruin of the battlefield kept in view.
Details
- Developer
- Relic Entertainment
- Publisher
- Relic Entertainment
- Released
- Sep 11, 2006
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