I think it is worth it if you love playing this game. A lot of modern WWII games i.e.games such as Blitzkrieg are awful whereas this one is realistic. In COI the characteristics of the units seem to have been tweaked to make them more realistic, enemy tanks no longer behave quite so stupidly as sitting ducks, there is a new campaign, infantry can better protect themselves against tanks, the games now runs fine on a modern machine. On the whole great stuff.
In August of 2004, Zappi, Homba, Bambam887, RedScorpion and MOOXE all pitched
in to create this Close Combat site. I would to thank all the people who have visited
and found this site to thier liking. I hope you had time to check out some
of the great Close Combat mods and our forums. I'd also like to thank
all the members of our volunteer staff that have helped over
the years, and all our users that contributed to this site!