![]() ![]() Faced with impossible odds, the company and an escaping POW go on a daring raid into the heart of Nazi Germany in pursuit of the scientist." The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a secret weapons program. ![]() "During the last major German offensive of World War II, a company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and they make a horrific discovery - Hitler has a super bomb in development. The plot, meanwhile, focuses on evil Nazi science and the only company of soldiers - nay, heroes - who can Get The Job Done. Also, if it can maintain the level of dramatic action movie leaping featured in this trailer throughout the whole film, well, it'll certainly be. ![]() Unsurprisingly, Company of Heroes: The Movie of the Game of the War looks preposterously overblown and cliched. For instance, when I say "making the leap," I mean that literally. But obviously, making the leap to a new medium required Company of Heroes to take some liberties. Then again, this one's direct-to-DVD, so I guess that solves that. And yeah, much as I think my most brilliant tactical masterpieces - for instance, a nuanced little number I like to call TANKS EVERYWHERE - are worth their own movie adaptations, the game's brand of top-down contemplaction doesn't exactly make for the best big screen material. I mean, don't get me wrong: Company of Heroes is a work of absolute RTS brilliance, but it's not exactly a household name. Once, I thought there was at least some cold, profit-maximizing business precision that guided whatever awfulness-seeking missile explodes games into not-great movies, but now I'm not even sure of that anymore. ![]()
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