User Reviews (11 - 21 of 62)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

Fun, but flawed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 24
Date: October 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fun, very unstable. I have 4 gig of RAM and an ATI X1900XT but, like its predecessor COH, Opposing Fronts crashes about 2 of 3 loads. You just get into a skirmish against the PC and it crashes. The patches are difficult to find, take a LONG time to download, and then don't really improve anything. Still, I've downloaded all the patches and the game still crashes constantly.

New Armies Add Twist

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: October 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The new additions to the game really add a big twist to the story line and change the multiplayer tactics all together. Also supports other players styles and habbits. I'd still recommend new players get the original so they can play the traditional armies as well, since they are easier to learn and control.

Huge number of technical problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: September 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Unfortunately it appears to be badly bugged for many people. Problems include inability to play online as game freezes on login in screen. Some people are unable to even play offline without physically disconnecting their computer from the internet as the game tries to log you in online to verify your software. This problem occurs even for those who have their DVD in their drive.

Should be a good game if they figure the bugs out.

The worst and most greedy software release ever.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The original COH was great, until this "expansion" comes out. Opposing Fronts is extremely buggy. The game freezes all the time. Worse, after you kill the frozen game, it won't recognize your DVD any more. So, you have to reinstall it. Worse yet, the updates cannot be downloaded into your hard drive, so you will have to wait for the 200MB download every time you do the reinstallation. If you think this is frustrating enough, you have not seen half of it yet. The Panzer Elite faction in this expansion was made super strong, as in the super human sense. Even a newbie playing Panzer Elite can easily, and I mean easily, defeat a veteran of the original game. I suppose the vendor wants to make sure you buy the new package instead of staying with the old COH. To make sure you absolutely do not have that option, they also force you to play against Panzer Elite in multiplayer setting. There is no way to opt out!

And to add insult to injury, they sell the expansion pack as a "stand-alone", i.e. full price. After I bite the bullet and pay up, I realize that I still cannot get the great gaming experience back because everyone else in the multiplayer lobby wants to play Panzer Elte, and two such players cannot play against each other. So, I either have to join the other 17 players in waiting for a clueless cannon fodder to come along, or I have to be that cannon fodder. Either way, it is no fun.

Great Game with the Worst Patching Scheme I've Seen

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First of all, there are a lot to like about the CoH series. The graphics, the physics and the unit strategy elements of the CoH series of games are by far among the best in the RTS games I have played, and I have played RTS games for almost 20 years starting from a very young age. This series of games present campaigns in managable segments and load them with tons of strategic elements to make them fun and refreshing. The opposing fronts game adds two more armies: Britsh 3rd Army and the German Panther Elite to which you can command (in addition to the original CoH's US Army's 101 air born able company and the German troops).
My interest in the WWII history made this game even more fascinating to me personally as I can engage my computer units in some historically signifcant WWII campaigns. The game does a good job of including bits of actual WWII history to further engage the players. The representation of the units and equipment is also quite authentic, true to the real life. However, this can be somewhat problematic as the Panther Elite troops tend to be very strong (true to real life). In a small skirmish setting, this in-balance leads to some game play problems, as in a multiplayer game, a player commanding Panther Elite units can quite easily over power other players due to the high fire power and the great mobility of the Panther Elite units.
Panther Elite units are heavily armored, fast moving, and the basic grenadier units are good in both fighting and vehicle repair. The Panther Elite also has the best troop carriers, best armor protection and incredible mobility and mobile fire support to provide fast recharge to mobile units. This make the Panther Elite a force that is very difficult to defend against in games against actual human players. The problem with balance is not significant in playing against the computer in campaigns as the balance is well tuned in those missions. But in playing against human opponents on an even play field, a player playing Panther Elite has significant advantage in the game play.
With British units, the mode of play is more concentrated in defense and longe range barrage, as the British tanks are slow, the engineering units are also slow and expensive. The British troops need more leadership guidance, and has relatively weak weaponry in comparison to the German and even the Americans. The artillery units of British is where the action is for this faction, so I guess depends on your prefence in gameplay, the British could be fun. But for me, I prefer a quick and efficient run of armored units, so Panther Elite units are far more entertaining, much to my dismay (as my historitical learning, and dispise of Nazis always tugs at me whenever I play the Panther Elite and lay waste to allied units).
The intallation process was a huge pain however, which is why the game gets 4 instead of 5 stars, the intall from the Opposing Fronts game DVD reverted my patched intallation of CoH to an earlier version, so upon login I had to download patches AGAIN!! What's so insane is that the patches are not cumulative. In order to get to version 2.2 let's say, one has to download and install version 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5... INDIVIDUALLY!! This is the most insane patching scheme I have ever seen. Every other game can handle patching any previous version to the latest patch with just one install, but not CoH series, this just drives you nuts. It tooks over 3 hours overall to install CoH: OF then having to download and install all the patches.
Stability is overall great on my system, with a Dual core proecssor with a Nvidia 8800GT video card on 2 GB of RAM. I did not experience crashing problem many others experienced, but I also didn't get the game until patch 2.2 is released which seemed to fixed a great deal of issues.
Overall, this game is lots of fun to play and a big pain to install and patch. But if you can stand the wait (give you self 3 hours on a fast internet connection) it takes to install, you will be rewarded with an execellent RTS experience as long as you have the right hardware to handle the game (fast video card and lots of RAM for all the eye candy). Make sure to patch the game to the latest version.

worst game I have ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of COH. After saw some negative reviews, I hesitated to buy this. After a few weeks, couldn't resist and made the purchase.
After a few weeks play I have to say it's the worst game experience ever.
The installation went OK, no problem. It's the game play part. The game constantly hung and crash. It normally starts fine, after a few minutes some times 20 minutes playing, it just freezes up.
I tried many things, upgrading driver, reinstall, etc, no help. Trying to send emails to THQ, no response.
Don't buy this game unless you want try your luck.

Update on 02/15/2008
After many email, finally got response from THQ, they basically saying I need unload all non-ms services. So I tried and no surprise game still hangs. And I sent them all my dxdiag info per their request. That was three weeks ago. So far no response. And my game still hangs. I played COD4, BioShock, HL2 on this pc with no problem. So it's unlikely hardware problem.
And today I uninstalled this P*S from my PC, bye-bye! No more COH series.
I spent $40 for two months trouble. Well guess lesson learned.

Loved COH, Hate Opposing Fronts... So far.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

In my oppinion the original Company of heroes is one of the best games ever. I was really excited to get the expention... first of all, let me just say that I've been installing and patching for 2 hours and I'm writhing this review without playing the game. ... So far, it uninstalled the original game, and installed itself (45 minutes)... you can't play the game without being online. You have to crate an accout, and install EVERY PATCH they have. That's not an OPTION... after a long download, it takes a long time to update. Then you turn on the game with hope to play the game BUT there is another patch... and there is another... Nowhere in the min specs does it say you NEED to have internet! Internet connection is under Recommended Spec. YOU CAN'T PLAY THE GAME.

Definitely some bugs and they ruined the original

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have to agree with the other posters. Something causes my machine to crash quite often when I am playing Opposing Fronts. The original COH was smooth and quite reliable. Somehow, in their rush to get the graphics slightly better and sounds more authentic, the gameplay has slowed for the original american and German forces. If you are not in a rush, I would wait until the next major update to all the crash problems are addressed. It's definitely frustrating and shame on you Relic for releasing such a piece of buggy software. You should have waited instead of wanting the $$$$ so soon. This will come back to haunt you. I would not recommend this to my friends yet.

Might be a good game - I wouldn't know

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Company of heroes heralds 9-9.5 in the ratings from most magazines, instilling in me the eager desire to play this game. However, after purchase I would have to say the game is more problem than it is worth.
If you own Windows Vista DO NOT GET THIS GAME. I have run 4 patches for CoH, 2 hotfixes for Windows Vista, and have posted my problems to their lame technical forum all to no avail. If you want to spend $40 then spend an additional 8-72 hours of your time trying to get the game running then CoH is the game for you. However, I would recommend from personal experience to invest your money elsewhere.

Not as good as the original.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: September 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts I've only played this for a few hours but I liked the original a lot more than this one. This seems slower and not as interesting. The new version also uninstalls the original so I can't go back and play it without uninstalling the new version?? What's up with that?

I hope that I'll get into it more as I play it more but so far it is a substantial disappointment.

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next 

Actions