From GamesReviews:
"If you don't live in the US, the "Hollywood" idea that the US led the charge at each and every battle is constantly a source of minor annoyance, but I'm not sure I've ever come across a group so angry that their country's history has been so distorted. That's until today."
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Very refreshing to see a story give the list right at the top of the article rather than making you click through it 15 times. Having said that, how do you not have HoMM3 on the list?! Yes, it's turn-based strategy, but it still has a strong multiplayer following 22 years later.
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Really? How utterly petty. Im Canadian so I hold no proud allegiances to either country represented in this game. It's a "GAME" plain and simple. What more needs to be said? Russia is still stuck in the cold war era and even further behind in so many other areas of common modern civility. I say screw 'em. Don't like it? Then dont play it.
Russian whiners, no one cares about your tears of contempt for this "GAME". Perhaps instead your whining should be directed towards your vast multitude of real world problems.
Im not too sure if the dev has touted their "GAME" as 100% factually accurate or not, but for Christ sakes who cares? Waaaaa huhwaaaaa.
Because the Russians were so nice in WW2! But I agree with the above, this is petty. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/H...
USSR defeated 90% of german forces in WW2 on eastern front, 10% was left to US and england in the west.
Is this why the game is so poorly reviewed on Metacritic? Lot of angry Ruskies. I agree, they were the most influential power in WW2 and their scorched earth maneuver single handily saved the world from German forces. US wants to believe the Nukes were that fact, but the war was already over by then pretty much.
However, the game developer is just pandering to their audience, nothing wrong with that... except unfortunately most of their audience doesn't know their correct history.
EDIT: As I await the storm of downvotes, I'm not saying anything against Americans, I think they've been given a bad wrap they don't necessarily deserve, but there are numerous accounts where they've changed their history books to favor Americans... the most recent being that they are now being taught in their schools they won the war of 1812.
After watching BadComedian's video, I have to agree with him. The main problem isn't that Russia is very badly depicted in Company of Heroes 2, the problem is that developers insist it's an "historically accurate story".
If developers just said it was a fictive story with 0 peanut given to historical accuracy, then no one would get mad. But portraying Russia as an evil and coward country that doesn't care much about cruelly killing its own comrades, civilians... and stating the game is historically accurate, I can understand people get mad.
Developers simply should have said the story of the game was made out of propaganda, clichés, fiction and fantasized behaviors, instead of saying it's an accurate depiction of History.