Reviews

• Nunya513

  Jul 3, 2022

  Should come with the western armies
• gamedeal user

  Nov 19, 2014

  It gets kinda hard if you screw up the order in which you do the missions but overall I like this campaign better than the original CoH2 campaign. It is a lot more interactive in the sense that the control of troops is more first person and you can select which troops will do which mission, kinda like a general I suppose.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 12, 2023

  just play the first coh
• Maple

  Aug 7, 2023

  honestly really good campaign can be hard but not too much on medium you get free stuff once you beat the campaign the rewards being bullet ins,skins and faceplates i give it a 8/10
• gamedeal user

  Apr 13, 2015

  (It says 0.2 hours played because I had to use a workaround to review this DLC) I got this on a sale and I still ended up being disappointed. Things got off to a great start when I was asked to select three commanders out of four. Not a particularly hard choice as the button under the fourth commander said 'Purchase' rather than 'Select'. Yes, that's right, you just paid €40 (I really hope you didn't) and before you even get into a mission you are already offered DLC for your DLC (insert obvious Xzibit joke here). Having *ahem* chosen three commanders you get dropped into a strategic map of the Ardennes, which you'll have to reclaim piece by piece. The catch here is that you do not get to save and load as you would in the base game. Instead, after a defeat, the strength of your company is reduced and you have to try again. The idea is that all your decisions have added weight as a defeat (or a costly victory) might cost you the entire campaign. This led to some curious situations where I was asked to 'hold out', failed in doing so, watched helplessly as the Germans leveled my defenses, the camp, and the town a few miles down the road for good measure, and then... I could simply try again. Sporting chaps those Germans. Aside from that, the system doesn't really encourage experimenting. All changes and losses are permanent. This is particularly frustrating as some maps have a sort of mini game going on. You might find yourself scrambling for abandoned tanks or randomly dropped supplies. But if you a play a certain game type for the first time you don't know exactly what to expect and at the hard difficulty this usually costs you the battle. The missions then, are too short for my taste. Most if not all of them finish in under half an hour. Combined with the aforementioned mini games, it all feels... cheap. Like the 'the greatest American battle of the War' was finished in an afternoon. Speaking of cheap, you'll recognize several of the mission maps from the multiplayer mode. Then there is the voice acting, which varies from 'cheesy' to 'awkward' and occasionally dips to 'horrendously bad'. All commanders have bios and some missions have this post-op evaluation by the CO. All three (four?) of them invariably hate war and/or lament the fallen. But it all falls flat thanks to sloppy delivery. Conclusion: Ardennes Assault tries to make a quick buck out of both the tragedy of the men lost in the Ardennes and the heroism of the Americans who managed to pull through despite the odds. They deserved better however. The game feels cheap with its shameless DLC-DLC, short and uninteresting missions, recycled multiplayer maps and poor voice acting. The save system too, one might call... cheap.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 22, 2018

  In this campaign, you choose 3 commanders to help you hold out the germans during the Battle of The Bulge. Each commander represents a different company, and each company comes with its own sets of perks. These perks grant you access to certain abilities and units. Each company also has a "health" meter, which measures how many units you have left on it. If the meter reaches zero, the company and its commander are lost forever. Your companies lose health by losing units during missions, which will happen quite often, since the missions in Ardennes Assault are more challenging than the ones in the vanilla campaign. There is only a single save slot here. Unlike the main campaign, you can't save as many times as you want. This , coupled with the fact that ALL LOSSES ARE PERMANENT, means that, if you fail to accomplish a mission, or even if accomplish said mission, but suffer too many casualties in the process, then you will find yourself forced to RESTART THE ENTIRE CAPAIGN FROM THE BEGINNING. Over time, this becomes extremely frustrating. Also, several "missions" here are actually victory point matches against the A.I. with some weird conditions thrown in the mix (conditions that often favor the A.I., by the way). Ardennes Assault is a campaign with good ideas, but fails completely in its execution.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 2, 2018

  Absolutely disgusting Relic, I paid for the DLC collection and I still have to pay £2.99 to use the Rangers. You've ruined this game with pay to win commanders and youre still milking this game dry.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 10, 2018

  Listen mate, I have played this game for a lot of time, as you may tell, and without a doubt, the "Mostly Negative" Review this campaign gets is completely undeserved. It offers a lot of replayability, and it is certainly more difficult as well. One of the more received complaint is that the losses can sometimes be overwhelming. Which, you can reinforce at the cost of the veterancy of a company. Which isn't too important from my two playthroughs of this campaign. The only complaint i'd necessarily agree on is the lack of a better save, but other than that, it's a solid campaign with memorable moments, and amazing voice acting from the officers and After Action Report. Still 100x better and more accurate than the soviet one, for sure.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 12, 2018

  This "DLC" has its own DLC...it's not even funny !
• gamedeal user

  Feb 28, 2019

  21 bucks for just 3 campaign missions. Just hold your pocket and think about buying this few more sec. It took only 2 hours for me to complete all the 3 missions.