Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and…

68 7 April 2009

Real Time Strategy (RTS) Strategy Action Historical Warfare

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Relic Entertainment, released 7 April 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Relic Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by THQ. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Essence Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures including 9 new missions, 3 new Multiplayer Modes, and new abilities to master.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, historical and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for SSE capable processor, 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent., 512 MB RAM. 1GB MB RAM required for Vista and DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB video card with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent and latest manufacturer drivers. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor launched on 7 April 2009, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Muramasa: The Demon Blade.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor gameplay screenshot

Parents

Company of Heroes

12 September 2006

Quick answers

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor — frequently asked questions

When did Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor come out?

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor was released on 7 April 2009 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor?

At minimum, Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor needs SSE capable processor, 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium IV or equivalent or AMD Athlon XP or equivalent., 512 MB RAM. 1GB MB RAM required for Vista, DirectX 9.0c compatible 64MB video card with Pixel Shader 1.1 support or equivalent and latest manufacturer drivers graphics.

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