Cubed3:
"Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault is a real-time strategy game that injects some much needed innovation into the genre. This game is completely separate from the Company of Heroes 2 release, which is an online strategy title, with SEGA this time focusing on being only a single-player experience. This decision might be a surprise to many fans hoping for an expansion because, despite the title of this game, it is an independent experience, not requiring the base game to play. How does this innovative focus hold up in what is otherwise known as a multiplayer franchise?"
Vic B'Stard writes: "When Company of Heroes publisher THQ went to the wall in 2012, the future of Relic’s sequel to their acclaimed 2006 WWII PC real-time strategy game seemed in doubt. Sega stepped in, themselves no strangers to the genre being publishers of the Total War games, and in June 2013 they released Company of Heroes 2.
Late last year Sega released Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault, the first standalone expansion for the game."
Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault is available on Windows PC to purchase online and in stores for $39.99, so to support it Sega has released two Battle of the Bulge trailers for the game, which is the theater of war the Ardennes Assault stand alone experience focuses on. One of the trailer is a live action look at the battle, while the other is from within the game itself.
In addition to the new trailers, Sega has also released an infographic that details what many consider to be the most important battle in American war history in the Battle of the Bulge. You can check out the graphic below, as well as a few new screenshots from the Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault experience.
Softpedia:
"Company of Heroes 2 – Ardennes Assault feels like an attempt to show that the development team at Relic understands that it failed in its attempt to create a historically complex and engaging campaign for the original version of the title.
The Soviet campaign had some interesting ideas, but it failed to be as accurate as some fans wanted and as dramatic as other envisioned it, and Relic has since been focused on expanding the multiplayer side of the title, which manages to attract a solid audience and can still deliver some impressive matches."
