Yahoo! Games: Best of 2006 Awards

• Best Action-Adventure Game
• Best Online Multiplayer Game
• Best Parlor Game
• Best Racing Game
• Best Role-Playing Game
• Best Shooter Game
• Best Sports Game
• Best Strategy Game
• Best Original Game
• Best Video Game of Year

• Best Casual Game
• Most Innovative Casual Game

WINNER:

Company of Heroes

It speaks volumes that this was the best strategy game in a year brimming with superlative strategy games. And for an all-out action RTS, Company of Heroes is surprisingly cerebral. There's a careful interplay among infantry, armor, and artillery. Each side gets its choice of game-bending "doctrines". The clever player will notice some subtle resource management. Instead of building bases, you can build defensive set-ups to turn a battle to your advantage. The destructible maps can play out differently every time.

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Editor Notes

Much as I enjoyed Galciv II and Battle for Middle Earth II, you just can't argue with the sheer polish of Relic's Company of Heroes. It's a well-deserved award. --Mike Smith

It's quite an achievement that the single most boring setting for a game -- not another French villa or Normandy hedgerow! - has been made exciting again with Company of Heroes. --Tom Chick

I'll admit, initially I didn't enjoy Company of Heroes until something clicked after the third or fourth skirmish game. Once the mechanics felt more natural, I was sucked in hard. Those fantastically detailed visuals perfectly complement the fantastically detailed real-time tactical play that's quite unlike any RTS before it (with the possible exception of Relic's earlier effort, Dawn of War). --Rich Greenhill

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