This makes keeping your troops warm a real necessity, and removing enemy sources of warmth a valid strategy.
Not only does snow hamper your visibility and your troops’ movement, it can also be a killer, freezing units to death unless they’re near a fire or in cover. There’s plenty of variety to the missions, as the action moves from huge, city-wide battles to tense, small-squad operations in the wilds, and there’s plenty of opportunity to explore one of the sequel’s best new features: weather that actually has an impact on how you play. Once you’re actually playing, however, the Eastern Front setting turns out to be brilliant. Not only are the cinematics weak, but it’s hard to balance the cut-scenes themes of ‘war is hell’ and ‘does the end justify the means’ when the rest of the game seems hell-bent on answering ‘sure, but at least it’s spectacular’ and ‘yup, bung another squad of conscripts on the firing line.’ It’s played out as a series of flashbacks for a Soviet lieutenant being interrogated in a post-war gulag, and this framing structure is easily the worst thing about the game. Perhaps its smartest idea is to move the action away from Normandy in 1944 and to the Eastern Front in 1941.
Company of Heroes 2: Welcome to the Eastern Front
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