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The early story of Company of Heroes merely acts to establish the action, and the game offers plenty of it, even within the first few missions. If you've played action games like Call of Duty or Brothers in Arms, you should find many of the plot elements here to be very familiar.

In subsequent missions, you'll take the infamous town of Carentan and defend it against a German counterattack. In the first two missions of the game, you'll storm the beaches of Normandy and attempt to guide a group of paratroopers through the backwaters of France in support of the D-Day invasion. Speaking of those two hallmarks of World War II storytelling, Company of Heroes wastes no time in referencing them.

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There are cinematic scenes before each mission, but instead of Dawn of War's long-winded conversations, the cutscenes serve to drive the action, and they bear the cinematic stamp of films like Saving Private Ryan or the TV series Band of Brothers.

One of the most immediately noticeable aspects of the game's single-player campaign is the way it tends to get you right into the action. Relic, which has created games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and the Homeworld series, is no stranger to real-time strategy, and from what we've seen from the first few levels of the Allied campaign in Company of Heroes, fans of Dawn of War should be in for a treat when the game is released. Recently, we were fortunate enough to try out the upcoming World War II real-time strategy game Company of Heroes, from developer Relic Entertainment and publisher THQ.

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