Pick up Company of Heroes for £2.49

By Ellie Gibson Published 25 January, 2010

Save 75 per cent on usual Steam price.

Remember Company of Heroes, the 2007 World War II strategy game from THQ? Well, you might like to know it's currently going cheap on Steam.

You can currently pick up the original game, plus follow-ups Tales of Valour and Opposing Fronts, for £2.49 each. That's a 75 per cent saving on the usual price of £9.99 a pop.

Which is a bargain, considering how much we enjoyed COH back in the day - the game scored 10/10 on Eurogamer. Read our review to find out what the big deal was.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • siro #1 2 years ago

    I got it on the weekend and paid €2.49 for Company Heroes Gold, which contains the original and Opposing Fronts. It doesn't say so on steam for some reason, but that's what it ended up costing anyway.

  • Hantheman #2 2 years ago

    Get it people. It's ridiculously good.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #3 2 years ago

    Bought it last Friday when I first heard about the deal. Now I know where the squad based gameplay seen in Dawn of War 2 comes from.

    Really enjoying it so far although it really doesn't like alt tab on my machine. Sometimes it goes into windowed mode on its own, sometimes it just crashes instantly. If I don't switch to the desktop it runs fine however and is really, really a lot of fun.

  • cianchristopher #4 2 years ago

    I really want to get into CoH - but it's buggy as all hell...

    Nonstop issues, crashes, cd-key problems, auto-updates, etc. on Steam and at retail...

    PC gaming needs to sort out this bullshit if it wants to move forward - otherwise, by the time of the Playstation 5 and the Xbox 4, the PC will be less than 0.00000000000001% of the videogaming market...

  • StueyBoy16 #5 2 years ago

    The CoH Complete Pack has all 3 games and costs £7.49 but you can buy the CoH Gold and Tales of Valor separately for just £6.23 if you fancy saving an extra £1.26.

    Great games that are well worth such a small price.

  • Crea #6 2 years ago

    Sold! Great sale.

  • Toothball #7 2 years ago

    Little late on the weekend deal notice, but better a warning than none at all.

  • Paperghost #8 2 years ago

    is this the one where you have to download the ENTIRE game over and over again each time it patches? if so, might be worth taking note of if you have a download cap.

  • Skurmedel #9 2 years ago

    cianchristopher, buggy? What? I've been playing CoH for years and it's been ages since it was buggy.

    Paperghost: It used to be like that, but that's only applicable if you get some old retail DVD now. If you get it on Steam it's usually a much smoother process.
    Edited by 1 at 25/01/10 @ 11:24

  • cianchristopher #10 2 years ago

    Actually, Skurmedel, Paperghost is right.

    The game requires you to redownload the entire game every time it's patched (yes, on Steam as well)...

    So, let's say the game is 3gb. A patch is released that is, say, 20mb. You then have to download 3.02gb to update the game (yes, on Steam as well)...

    Magic, isn't it?

  • Whizzo #11 2 years ago

    No idea about the Steam version requiring re-downloading but if you're using a retail copy the updates aren't usually very big through Relic Online.

    CoH is still the best RTS in recent history and considering how many hours I've spent in it, I wouldn't say it's buggy or unstable either.

  • sneetch #12 2 years ago

    @Skurmedel
    cianchristopher, buggy? What? I've been playing CoH for years and it's been ages since it was buggy.

    I've been playing it for ages as well and I've never encountered any bugs either. It suits Cian to claim it is because as we all know console games never ever contain bugs. Perhaps it's your PC rather than "PC gaming" that's at fault, Cian?

    Edit: I will say that I was mildly irritated when I bought the gold edition (CoH and the Opposing Fronts expansion) and couldn't add the key to my existing relic account because it already had a key for vanilla CoH in it so I had to create a new account. Just bought Tales of Valour last night at 75% off but haven't installed it yet.
    Edited by 1 at 25/01/10 @ 12:18

  • ignatiusjreilly #13 2 years ago

    Well, there have been some terrible bugs/problems with the DRM and patching - both I and a friend had to contact Relic/Steam to fix CD key problems and to get all parts of the game to work.

    However the game itself is very stable, and once it's all up and running there are very few bugs to speak of. It's also one of my favourite games of the last ten years so I see any hassle as more than worth it :D

  • SAMagic #14 2 years ago

    This is absolutely _fantastic_ value if you're remotely into RTS games. Most WW2 RTS games in the past were boring, COH totally changes that. Highly recommended. It's even inspired by Band of Brothers to boot.

    However, don't bother with Tales of Valor - it REALLY is DLC that they decided to put into a retail box. Very short compared to the others (Three levels each set across one map per campaign), so get vanilla and Opposing Fronts and you're set.

  • General_Zod #15 2 years ago

    @SAMagic

    At £2.50 I dont think you can complain about the length of Tales Of Valor really.

  • sneetch #16 2 years ago

    @General_Zod

    I was just going to say the same thing, the sound of short campaigns with their focus on a small number of units didn't appeal to me but I'll give it a shot for a couple of quid.

  • bivith #17 2 years ago

    It's a 10 gig download for the game and the first expansion each. Thanks to sky cutting their mid customers download quota from 40Gb to 10Gb, needless to say I won't be able to finish downloading it for a month or two.

  • Davemanz #18 2 years ago

    I own vanilla and Opposing Fronts in box form, but this is worth it just for the convenience of not having to download and install all those HUGE patches every time I reinstall the game. It's so cheap I got Tales of Valor too, even though there's next to no point. I'm glad I found the sale when I did - it'll make things much easier next time I want to play with my friends. It's one of the best LAN games around.

  • gjgjg #19 2 years ago

    the sale inspired me to relaunch it for first time in months and of course big oul patch, so i tried the relic dloader for the first time and it took 40m or less (steam it estimated at 7hours).
    i suck online so i only had one game in the end, lol, maybe if id patched for 7hours i would have played longer as it would have meant more!!!