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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (PC DVD) | 
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| From: THQ
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: military-strategy-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4005209099448
ASIN: B000VQVZSE
Release Date: September 28, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Last year's Company Of Heroes was probably the best new real-time strategy game on the PC for ages but it didn't quite do as well as it deserved - probably because the whole World War II setting is starting to look a bit overdone nowadays. This standalone expansion provides a second chance to experience not only the best strategy game for ages but also one of the few games to do anything original with the WWII theme. For a start you don't actually control American troops in the game but either the British 2nd Army or the German Panzer Elite. (You can play though the missions as the U.S. Army and Wehrmacht if you have a copy of the first game to hand though.) The Allied single player campaign revolves around the Battle for Caen, shortly after D-Day, and features the three primary regiments from the campaign: the Royal Canadian Artillery, the Royal Commandos and the Royal Scottish Engineers. The unique way the 2nd Army's technology tree works allows access to all manner of new weapons and tactics including creeping barrages, Horsa gliders and three variations of the Churchill tank. Meanwhile, the Panzer Elite campaign centres around the German opposition to Operation Market Garden. Here you can control the 2nd SS Panzer Corps and Luftwaffe paratroops. Ironically while the British are focused on defence the Germans specialise in speed and mobility with many varieties of tanks of and halftracks. With the same stunning graphics as before it invigorates both the real-time strategy game and the WWII game all at once.
Harrison Dent
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| Customer Reviews:
 Still the best... October 1, 2007
S. Macnair (London)
28 out of 32 found this review helpful
Really can't believe the fuss people are making over the installation. OK it takes about 15 minutes to install, but anyone who remembers how long it took to load Spectrum games which then didn't even work wont get to excited by this, how fussy have gamers become when this is seen as a really big deal!
First time you run it requires a patch which is 170mb, not massive and isn't it better that the developers are keen to improve the game rather than release it and then wash their hands of it.
Game wise its classic CoH, still the best RTS there is with top notch graphics and rather amusing dialogue. The two new armies are a great addition to the franchise though I found the German campaign less engaging than the British.
If you liked CoH then you'll like this, simple as. If you've not given an RTS ago before then start here. Don't listen to those moaning about installation, it's a simple process that is over in 15 minutes.
As an aside if you do purchase this then you don't need to download the massive 1.8gb v2.101 patch for CoH.
 Flawed product October 3, 2007
J. D. Taylor
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
This game has security measures so severe that the original retail version doesn't let you play unless you surrender your email to make a `relic' account, and even then it won't work unless it can contact the server.
Given that sometimes it can't contact the server (I'm watching the send and receive graph) and even when it does it sometimes asks me to insert the already inserted DVD, I have to conclude that Relic are more concerned with copyright protection than they are with customer satisfaction.
The game took over 30 mins to install and then downloaded a 134MB patch at sub-optimal speed.
THQ have been at the forefront of HQ game provision in the last few months but have let themselves down here. At the time of writing I can't play a skirmish game, because there is some network problem.
Having bought and paid for the original DVD (from Amazon) I can't play the game. If I had downloaded the cracked game from a NG I would be able to play.
When working the game play is OK, if not as good as the original COH. NB this will destroy existing COH install unless you have your game install code at the time you install this. I don't know if it restricts COH play like it restricts it's own play - I couldn't find my DVD case - so now I can't play the original.
My advice - wait till fixed or crack.
This is not a market ready product.
A BLAND SEQUEL TO A GREAT GAME October 11, 2007
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in Orbit)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
Innovation, like intelligence, cannot be bought; or forced; or spread on a slice of bread. It is a fleeing ability that needs time and space to grow and bear fruit. Nowadays, there are no such conditions in the gaming industry. Hence, games like CoH: OPPOSING FRONTS. The cookie-cutter at work.
Whether one likes or not strategic-points RTS games (what are now called "WarGames") is a matter of preference (I do not, they reduce the immersion factor, as they remind me too much that I am playing a computer game). This is not the main problem with CoH:OF. After all, the original CoH was also a strategic-points game and it was a GREAT game!
RELIC, a company with a long RTS history, attempted to improve on the original. Running a game-mill produced mixed results.
PROS:
- Improved graphics and sounds
- Enemy AI. They will come after your dug-in troops from every possible angle.
- Did I mention the graphics? Yes, they have improved...
CONS:
- Slower gameplay (from unit production to movement - it can really get on your nerves when under pressure)
- Smaller maps (although strategically more diverse)
- Single Player practically...abandoned to fare for itself. Not very thought out and pretty predictable.
- Your own units AI: they will keep getting mowed down if caught exposed when moving - although there will be tons of buildings around. Nearby units do not come helping: if an enemy unit is outside its own detection range, they will not lift a finger. Now, I do realize this is the part the...player is supposed to fill; however, friendly units assisting in enemy detection would be much more realistic (even for a WWII game). Either C&C-TIBERIUM WARS spoiled us too much or RELIC relies too heavily on the pause-to-issue-orders game style.
Overall: if you liked the original CoH, I am sure you will like this one too. If new to the genre, start with the original CoH though.
Great Game excellent support October 2, 2007
Richard Pike (Leeds)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought the game, due to a fault in my DVD drive I suffered a blue screen of death which corrupted the registry and Opposing Fronts refused to install. I contacted THQ via their website at Midnight UK time and had a reply via e-mail within 10 minutes telling me with clear instructions what I needed to do. I followed these instructions and the game installed and works fine. I knew there was a fault with the drive so the install problem was mine not THQ's and the support was excellent. This game is fantastic, it will never have the wow effect of CoH, yet the new weather effects, the movement of shadows and the difference of the new armies make it a whole new challenge. I play this game in a clan ladder and I'm not disappointed.
Beta Test September 25, 2007
A. grieve (England)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Have been playing the Beta for over a month, and it`s brilliant.
I vast improvement on first Company of Heroes.
British are great fun, although the map soon fills up with trenches.
Panzer Elite are favourite though, especially the tank busting crews.
Hopefully all the bugs are ironed out now !
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