Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor Arrives via Digital Distribution, Impulse Offers Slight Savings

April 9, 2009 8:15 AM

If hoofing it down to the local game store isn't your cup of tea, you'll be pleased to learn that you can now buy and install Relic's Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor (PC) from the comfort of your computer chair. Just hit up Steam, Impulse, or Direct2Drive.

The Impulse version carries a $2 discount, making it $28, while Steam and Direct2Drive are selling the stand-alone expansion at the suggested price point of $30.

Also available this week from ye olde brick and mortar shops, Tales of Valor brings new units, missions, and multiplayer modes to the World War II strategy series. However, it does not require you to own either of the two previous Company of Heroes titles.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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kodt

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April 9, 2009 8:19 AM

Is everything on Impulse DRM free?
- TerranUp16
  
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  April 9, 2009 9:40 AM
  
  To my knowledge, "no". Whatever DRM the game has already it will still have but Impulse itself doesn't impose any DRM unless the game wants it to. For CoH: Tales of Valor, if Relic is still using the DRM scheme they used for CoH: OF, then I think it's basically DRM-free because with OF if you weren't logged-into your Relic Online account which stores what components you have (CoH, CoH: OF, CoH: ToV, etc...) then you needed the game disc to play those in offline mode. With Impulse, you shouldn't need an discs so it should effectively act like it's DRM-free.
  - lordkosc
    
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    April 9, 2009 2:34 PM
    
    Impulse adds on GOO , which is like DRM but not.
    - TerranUp16
      
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      April 9, 2009 9:55 PM
      
      To my current knowledge, GOO is only enabled for games that implement it. It is not utilized by default and instead is a standard that Stardock is pushing for games to utilize when they are distributed on Impulse but that is not forced.