Inside Look at The Company of Heroes Press Trip

[TomO]

Pro-G (www.pro-g.co.uk) was recently invited to press event for THQ's Company of Heroes (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/features/article/01-08-2006-102.html) - an event which included a flight to Cherbourg in a DC-3 Dakota, five star hotels and some time with THQ's upcoming PC RTS. Rather than simply report on the game, our willing journo, who also happens to be a WWII buff, produced a diary of sorts detailing one of the most thought provoking press events in recent memory.

There was a significant level of apprehension building on board as we approached take off. The DC-3 Dakota is a majestically beautiful plane, one of the prettiest to ever grace the skies, yet no-one present had ever flown in a plane this old (63 years) before. Thankfully, we weren't handed parachutes as we boarded the plane, but despite the Dakota's legendary reputation for reliability, I sat by one of the plane's emergency exits. Just in case...
Read the full Company of Heroes (http://www.pro-g.co.uk/features/article/01-08-2006-102.html) Article

[ÜberJumper]

Now that's fucking cool. Man I so wish Relic had told me about this, I would have considered booking time off to find a flight over there.

[GrinR]

You're a hell of a lot safer in one of those DC-3s than you are in the ubiquitous Cessna.

[Shifteh]

Uhm, not to be a bring-down, but uh, wouldn't some information on the game have been nice? Other than "it will be something really rather special"?

[ÜberJumper]

Shifteh, preview tomorrow according to the article (there's a brief line in there indicating their preview comes out tomorrow).