entropia

Now that I’m running Vista, I can play some of the games that wouldn’t run on Windows 2000*.  I started with Company of Heroes.

I haven’t played a good PC strategy game for a long time, but everyone says CoH was the best of 2006, and the best in years.  And for once, everyone was right.  CoH takes everything that’s wrong with modern RTSs and throws it out, leaving you with a great game that actually takes strategy.

I’m not going to go into much detail, but it’s like a cross between Warcraft and Commandos.  Instead of hundreds of individual units running around, you have a few groups of 4 or 5 that work together.  And instead of just open fields with trees and junk in your way, objects and buildings give you cover.  And instead of using settlers or peons to harvest resources, you earn them by controlling strategic points.  It’s a lot like capturing flags in Battlefield.

There hasn’t been a PC game that really grabbed my attention since Sim City 4 or Dungeon Siege, but CoH ends the streak.

*A lot of games that don’t like Win2k will actually install if you try hard enough, but most of them refuse to run for whatever reason.