' CoH2 manages to use almost every single Russia-related trope,' he said. Sergey Galyonkin runs a popular games blog in Ukraine and works for Russian developer Nival, which has created military games like Blitzkrieg. The petition brands the game as 'disgusting.' Thousands of people have signed a petition that attempts to persuade Steam to block the game in CIS countries.

Another added that the game had taken 'dirty myths about war and turned the story into ideological rubbish.' 'The story is not true and is a complete falsification of the history of Russia and its methods of warfare,' wrote one. But there's one group of people who really don't like the game.Ĭritics in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union say its portrayal of the Eastern Front in World War II plays to Western bias about history and clichés about the Soviet war effort.įollowing a video posted by 'Bad Comedian' in Russia, fellow countrymen bombarded Metacritic, dragging the game's user score down to 2.2. Company of Heroes 2 found broad favor with the media, gaining an 80 percent average on Metacritic.

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