The main conceit is the titular stories of heroism – three short singleplayer campaigns, of around 90 minutes each, presenting some of World War II’s most theoretically thrilling scuffles within a heavily-scripted, heavily-cutscened series of linked levels. It’s not a failure, not at all – it’s simply a little pointless.
I’ve personally settled, poisonous little cynic that I am, on there being a dictat from above that more COH would make money, so someone threw something together. Similarly, this standalone expansion (though it does plug into existing COH installs if you have ‘em) is a strange hybrid of inventiveness and incoherence.Īs a result (or perhaps a cause), it’s remarkably hard to identify quite why Tales of Valor exists. Perhaps its genuine boldness, or a decision that these were the most interesting tales to tell, but frankly I’d imagine it’s more just one symptom that Company of Heroes perhaps isn’t being as finely-managed as it once was, now Dawn of War II’s the new baby. Quite obviously, it’s not that Relic are all secretly Axis fanboys, or that they think their players are. We’re by now fairly accustomed to and comfortable with occasionally stepping into Axis jackboots in World War II games, but to have an entire game place them largely centre-stage and thus the de facto heroes of the piece is a really odd decision, to say the least. When a game’s called ‘Tales of Valor’ and over two-thirds of its running time has you playing as Nazis Germans, it’s hard not to wonder if there was some sort of breakdown in internal communications. Is it the meaty expansion we've been praying for, or money-grabbing tokenism? My hammer of ultra-judgement falls on it below. I duly celebrated Easter by killing a lot of men in it. I added my Tales of Valor product key again and this time I got the message saying the product key is already registered.The second expandalone (YES I SAID THE DEVIL-WORD) for Relic's sumptuous World War II RTS hit our excited PCs late last week. My game is still saying "Company of Heroes Gold Edition" and everything that comes with Tales of Valor is still locked. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case at all. Now both keys have been added to my account, I expected the game to be fully unlocked. I added the key and got a message saying that my product key has been successfully added. Now half of the game was unlocked, I had to add the Tales of Valor product key to unlock operations and the 3 new campaigns. Next I created a new profile and added my Gold Edition product key. The DVD came with 2 cd keys (one for the Gold Edition and one for Tales of Valor.) I installed the game and everything seemed just fine. I recently purchased Company of Heroes Anthology (3 in 1) from Amazon for a pretty cheap price. I'm having a problem with my Tales of Valor product key.
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