I dont even play Coh3 and I talk about it all day long.
Right now I am watching some COH3 and focusing on the terrible sound. Dudes screaming in my ears while large caliber weapons are being fired and they sound like someones popping balloons about 30 meters away from me. Zero immersion.
EDIT:
I just ran the game with the screaming at a minimum. And yes, the alerts are buried in there. Alerts need to have their own volume control. The game actually sounded decent without the screaming idiots.
My wife has banished me back to headphones, the screaming and overly loud heavy mortars/arty only serve to frustrate her
The sound is seriously out of balance. The sound production has definitely declined since coh1, but topping Jeremy Soule's work (for the soundtrack at least)was probably never going to happen
Edit: clarity, writing between dumb projects at work