This is because many of the radials are activated from different triggers and buttons and can often be the case that you simply forget how to access menus for say, upgrading units or using special abilities, slowing the whole affair down as a result. Though pulled off well overall, the use of radials in Company of Heroes 3 on console can sometimes prove to be quite confusing, even after you’ve put more than 20 hours into it. Mostly.Įlsewhere, you can switch from one unit to the next very quickly with just the press of a button, while the map can be easily rotated and zoomed in on with relative ease.

Where Company of Heroes 3 was always going to sink and swim on console however, is in how well the developers were able to translate the notoriously sophisticated PC user interface onto console and happily, I can report that they’ve done a mostly great job here. Rather than thrusting players into either the ruined beauty of the battlefields of Europe or the sweltering jungle warfare of the Pacific, Company of Heroes 3 instead unfurls the battlegrounds of war-torn Italy and Egypt before them. Relic’s Compelling WWII RTS Series Wages War On PlayStation With Impressive Results Seemingly conjured into existence to address both of those points, Company of Heroes 3 does a commendable job on both counts and while it certainly isn’t short on flaws, it nonetheless succeeds in giving PS5 gamers an effortlessly involving tactical spectacle that more developers should be striving to achieve. I don’t think it’s especially controversial to suggest that the PS5 has been somewhat underserved by decent Real Time Strategy (RTS) titles, let alone those which take place in a World War II setting.

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