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In Company of Heroes 2, blizzards may kill you before the enemy does

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In Company of Heroes 2, the upcoming real-time World War II strategy game from THQ, the weather is likely to be your worst enemy. A new preview of two new levels of the game shows that soldiers in the snows of the Russian front are not likely to survive blizzard conditions unless they have warmth. That makes the task of managing a battle a lot more complex for a player, who has to monitor enemy forces as well as the ever-changing weather conditions.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.