If you missed Company of Heroes when it first came out, Opposing Fronts is a perfect way to get you into the game. As a stand-alone title, there’s plenty of action to be found. Once you’re up to speed you can pick up the original for cheap, plug it in, and have many more hours of strategic fun. If you’re a Company of Heroes veteran, Opposing Fronts will give you plenty of new tactics to try out. Expansion packs don’t get much more solid than this.
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Relic Entertainment · Sep 24, 2007
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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the next chapter in the critically acclaimed Company of Heroes series. Players take command of the German Panzer Elite as they struggle against the might of Operation Market Garden, or lead the British 2nd Army in the vicious battle for Caen, France. The standalone title features two unique armies with full length campaigns, new multiplayer modes, Microsoft DirectX 10 support, mission persistence, improved vehicle and soldier AI, enhanced physics, and a dynamic weather system. Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is fully compatible with Company of Heroes, allowing players to wage war with four unique armies.
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- 8.8Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is easy to recommend to players that enjoyed the first game. Because of the complexity of the British and Panzer Elite factions, it may be a bit more difficult for first-time players to get into, which seems to go against the point of creating a stand-alone product that you're hoping new players will see and adopt. Either way, Company of Heroes is still an exhilarating experience on all fronts and Relic is showing again why they're firmly in the top tier strategy designers in the business.
- 8.2It might suffer from expansion whiff in the single player department, but Oppossing Fronts does one thing right; it injects extra life into the original Company of Heroes and that makes it a worthy purchase for all fans.
- 8.0Opposing Fronts doesn't revolutionize the genre like its predecessor did, but at the same time, no one has really caught up with Company of Heroes yet, either. Sure, games such as Supreme Commander push the science-fiction RTS genre in cool new directions, but the World War II RTS genre has yet to learn the lessons of Company of Heroes. With Opposing Fronts, THQ and Relic keep a great thing going.
- 8.0What a multiplayer game it is, though. No other RTS provokes the feeling that you're inventing rather than enduring to defeat your foe to this extent. It's complicated and exhausting with it, and while that's exactly what an established COH player will want, I fear it ever so slightly undermines the achievements the original game made in making historical wargames appeal to a mass audience again.
- Plus long, plus beau, plus fort, telle pourrait être la devise d'Opposing Fronts. L'original était déjà excellent, ce stand-alone est encore mieux puisqu'il en reprend les bases en les enrichissant de nouvelles possibilités. L'ajout d'une seconde campagne corrige le principal reproche fait à Company of Heroes et allonge la durée de vie. Bref, inutile de tergiverser plus longtemps, après cet éloge il est clair que nous tenons là une nouvelle référence des jeux de stratégie.
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an expansion for the best RTS game that sit in top five in the Hall of Legend for RTS game, another story campaign, selection of units and new side to choose from, good one i suppose
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