Company of Heroes 2
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Mild soldier profanity in campaign dialogue and unit chatter during combat.
Realistic WWII combat from a top-down view: infantry are shot, burned, and blown up and tanks explode with small blood effects, but no close-up gore or dismemberment.
The Eastern Front campaign portrays grim wartime brutality, including Soviet penal conscripts driven forward, retreating soldiers shot by their own commissars, and burned villages and civilian suffering.
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What it is
Company of Heroes 2 is a World War II real-time strategy game set largely on the Eastern Front, where the player captures territory, builds bases, and commands squads of infantry, tanks, and artillery against enemy forces. Combat is gritty and realistic: soldiers are shot, shelled, and burned on screen with blood, though there is no gore or dismemberment. The single-player campaign leans into the harsh reality of the war, portraying atrocities such as soldiers being fired on by their own side, penal troops used as expendable, and civilians caught in the destruction. There is no sexual content, nudity, or drug use, and only mild profanity in dialogue. Online multiplayer connects players to strangers with text and voice communication.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence within a historical WWII context, presenting warfare as brutal and costly rather than glorified; the Soviet campaign in particular is told as a grim, somber account of desperate fighting and command decisions that treat soldiers' lives cheaply.
Details
- Developer
- Relic Entertainment
- Publisher
- Relic Entertainment
- Released
- Jun 25, 2013
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