The Mediterranean setting was a choice made by the Company of Heroes community.
The demo begins in Naples, with the combined forces of the United States and Britain assaulting the German Army. In contrast to Company of Heroes 2's cold, Russia-based dreariness, the third game immediately hits you with a splash of color. Company of Heroes 3 is still in development, but Relic gave us an early look at a pre-alpha iteration ahead of the PC game’s 2022 release. More importantly, the game takes the World War II conflict to another theater: the Mediterranean. Relic Entertainment has beefed up the game’s foundations, with improved graphics, new units, a more robust campaign map, and enhanced environmental destruction. Now, Company of Heroes 3 is on the horizon. In fact, the latter game represented the first time that Relic explored the conflict's different sides. The second entry fleshed out the Eastern Front and Soviet Red Army. The first game’s campaign involved the Battle of Normandy and the liberation of France. In the past, Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes strategy games stuck to this focus, too. World War II was an expansive conflict, but our view of it tends to focus on the European and Pacific theaters. If you look at games, film, and television, you’ll see the same touchpoints: D-Day, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Midway.
