
And I say this as a guy who has been trying to get back to Skyrim for like two years now. What I’m trying to say is that I get a lot of games that I play to review, and then I never have a chance to get back to them because new games keep showing up. I don’t get paid as a game reviewer, except in games, so you could imagine that I end up with a lot of games, three on my desktop to review at this very moment. In the past I used to get games Fedexed to me, box and all, but the last time that happened was Wolfenstein: The New Order. Games typically come as digital downloads, often through Steam. Then the games come in and they’re divvied up amongst the venerable game-over reviewers. The process starts with me and my editor talking about upcoming games, what I want to cover, what I want to pass on. This may get a little inside baseball, but let me tell you a little something about being a game reviewer. If you want an in-depth review of the mechanics of CoH, look up one of those many, many earlier reviews – I’m not going to rehash all of that now. CoH is a game that strongly favors the incumbent: a player who knows the units, their strengths and weaknesses, will flatten someone who doesn’t. You need to balance your forces and use them wisely. Resources take time to gather and units are pretty expensive. The overall nut of the game remains the same – it is a relatively paced and highly strategic WWII RTS.

Note: I’ve written a lot of reviews of CoH, CoH2, and the various expansion packs. The Ugly: Relic continues its tradition of terrible tutorials. Kind of dumps you in the deep end of CoH.
