![]() ![]() Now, just quickly: if I sound cagey there, it's only for the sake of fairness. I've ventured down the whale's gullet to have a go, and I think it looks promising. Sometime next year in late 2022, she will belch up Company Of Heroes 3, and it will have a brand new, Total War-style campaign map. Working away in the leviathan's guts, with the famous motto of the SAS in mind - “You’ve got to at least have a go, even if it's really hard” - Relic learned from their fellow strategy Jonahs at CA, and set about applying the knowledge to their landmark WW2 strategy franchise, Company Of Heroes. ![]() ![]() “Turns out,” says Littman, “it’s because it’s really hard to do”. But then along came Sega, gulping down strategy studios like a big mad whale, and Relic ended up in its belly - right next to Total War devs Creative Assembly. I'm not alone in this: David Littman, executive producer at Relic Entertainment, always wondered the same thing. It's a tasty formula, and I've often wondered why more games over the years haven't adopted it. The Total War series are the Kinder Eggs of strategy gaming: a layer of delicious, map-based strategy, with a dramatic RTS toy hidden inside. ![]()
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