It’s even more suspicious when you contrast it with how Relic portrayed the German Fascists in the earlier Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts and Company of Heroes:Tales of Valor. It’s shockingly mature and respectful compared to how the developers misportrayed the Soviets. Come to think of it, I don’t remember a part in the campaigns where the player was expected to commit a war crime on behalf of the Axis either. If the devs were simply too scared to handle a sensitive subject like war crimes then that would have made sense, but they made Company of Heroes 2…
It’s even more suspicious when you contrast it with how Relic portrayed the German Fascists in the earlier Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor. It’s shockingly mature and respectful compared to how the developers misportrayed the Soviets. Come to think of it, I don’t remember a part in the campaigns where the player was expected to commit a war crime on behalf of the Axis either. If the devs were simply too scared to handle a sensitive subject like war crimes then that would have made sense, but they made Company of Heroes 2…
Very suspicious indeed.