The Soviet war effort hinged on the country's ability to spit out prodigious amounts of young men and women to fight and die for their motherland. Learning about this is harrowing playing it is too. "It's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism."
The Eastern Front saw the brunt of the war: Germany lost 80% of its Wehrmacht casualties east of Berlin the Soviets themselves lost some 26 million souls overall, 8.6 million of whom were in the military. It's set on World War II's frigid Eastern Front, and is more concerned with rifle-butting home the horror of that bloodiest sector of the conflict. It would take a lot of time to re-do cutscenes and the structure of the missions.It's called Company of Heroes 2, but it's a long way into the 15-hour campaign before Relic's real-time strategy game finds any heroism. Whilst I don’t think we’ll see CoH2‘s western publisher SEGA withdraw the game from sale, I doubt there can be work done to make the game more acceptable to Russian gamers.
Although developer Relic Entertainment was keen to point out the historical accuracy and eye-witness testimony it used in creating the game’s story, over 17,000 signatures in a petition to have the game removed from Steam have led to the game’s removal from sale.Įven though historical consensus is that the Eastern Front was a horrible place to be, it seems the broad strokes that Relic used in its story have left a poor taste in gamers’ mouths. Gamers have taken issue with the way the original Company of Heroes portrayed the Allied forces as a brave and honest force, while the game’s sequel has resorted to broad stereotypes that paint the Red Army in an unflattering light to say the least. Polgyon reports that the game’s publisher in those regions, 1C-SoftClub, has removed the game from sale, bowing to online pressure from fans and press in Russia and CIS countries. Whilst our own Joshua Derocher loved Company of Heroes 2, it has not gone down too well in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Relic’s WW2 RTS title also removed from other Eastern European countries
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