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On the bad side, the campaign is weaker than the previous installment, which is a shame. A shift to the Eastern Front could have made for a very interesting story, but the campaign is overly dramatic, and contains generally uninteresting level design (with a few exceptions!).

On the good side, the gamplay provides a couple of excellent improvements on Company of Heroes' with its line of sight system and slightly more fragile units. The Theatre of War mode is an excellent addition, which emphasises background history, unit management and unit preservation, making it in my opinion far superior to the campaign (and I suspect a lot less resource intensive to make). The expansion campaign, Adrennes Assault, appears to have learned from this and is also excellent.

Overall I'd recommend the game, even for someone uninterested in multiplayer. The Soviet campaign isn't great, but there's a lot of good single player content there and some excellent gameplay additions.

At its outset the game can be rather... obtuse. But the art direction is quite incredible, and once you get into it, its quite unlike anything else out there.