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works and plays great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After reading the reviews about the crashes and the instability I didn't have any problems at all just 10 minutes of updates and it was fine, it did exit but that was my anti virus the causing problems i have a 8800GT (nvidia) and the visuals and effects were AUSOME!!! no problems that would make me stop playing except being bad at the game all I know is that I didn't have the problems that were described so I'm happy.

Crashed and burned. Horrible tech support.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after having really enjoyed the first CoH. It was a truly innovation on strategy games, no more silly minerals to mine! The first CoH had some minor technical issues but the company worked them out and got the game running just fine. So I decided to give CoH Opposing Fronts a try.

It was a total waste of time and money.

My machine was a month old top-of-the-line souped up laptop. 4 GB of RAM, dual core centrino, 512 MB of video. One would think that so much power would be enough to run a simple WWII game, right? Wrong!

I couldn't get the game to run, so after I jumped some hoops, downloaded about 700 MB of patches and followed complicated install-uninstall-reinstall sequences I got the game to finally run. Now I'm a senior software engineer and even I got frustrated by this, I can't even imagine what it would be like for the ocassional non-technical user.

The cinematic sequences ran truly slow and sometimes crashed the whole game, so I just pressed ESC when one of those popped up to avoid these crashes. Playing the German Campaign was OK, but sometimes it got really frustrating because I couldn't get my units moving in time to save the barracks or whatever because the game engine ran too slow!

Then the game just stopped working at all in the middle of the British Campaign. No matter what I tried, and I spent hours debugging the problem, the game would not advance, so I decided to contact Tech Support.

The guys at Tech Support demanded some files from the DirectX diagnostics tool, the game's log file and other information about my operating system. I guess they were trying to discourage me from further contact because their demands were extremelly hard for the non-technical user (ie. opening the game's debug console mid game) but since I had no problem getting this information so I sent it right away. Then they asked me for a few days while they looked into the issues.

A whole week passed and no response, so I decided to email them to see what was happening. To my surprise they didn't do anything with all the information I provided. So I asked again if they could look into it.

A few days later another tech support guy, an outsourced foreign guy I could barely understand, told me that my laptop wasn't on the supported list. Well of couse my laptop model wasn't on the list because it was a NEWER 2008 model! Then this dude just said "the game requirements were printed on the box previous to your purchase, sorry, no luck, no refund, bye bye"

I was truly polite, understanding, and helping right until the point they told me to stick it. But even after I escalated the issue, I got no response from them.

Lesson learned. I gave them some money, and they gave me a buggy game. No tech support whatsoever. I haven't bought anything from THQ since. There were some games I was interested for my PlayStation 3 but I didn't buy them because they were from THQ. They've lost about $680 right there! That $29.99 refund would make sense now wouldn't it?

best world war two game!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you have played world war two games, then you will have to have this game! Buy it right now!!!!! And you will love it, I got it! And I really like being the Germans, in the campaign. Thats right! German campaign! So buy this right now! And play, best ever! One tank, is one tank, and one guy/man is one guy/man! And you can get into builds, knock buildings down, you get artillery. And much more! Like air strikes! And machine gun nests! I just wish they would make another one1 So buy this game already!

are you serious????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have yet to even play this game due to the EXTREMELY long patching process. It is seriously on patch number 5 right now. WTF!!! I have been literally been installing this game well past the 2 hour mark. I have high speed internet and a super speedy gaming rig. This patching nonsense is for the birds. I dont care HOW fun this game is, it will always be tarnished by the most excruciating installation in the history of PC games. If you enjoy watching kids cry and baby seals getting clubbed, this is the game for you. You WILL be aggravated.

If you enjoyed the first...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

You will enjoy this one as well. Not going to go into incredible detail. But definitely worth getting if you like Company of Heroes. I love the new German Panzer Elite. They are really versatile with defense as well as offense. Definitely great if you like fast attacks. I haven't played much with the British and from what I've experienced, I don't like them all that much. They will definitely take some getting used to. Campaign is great fun as well, I've finished the German campaign and I'm currently working on the British. This game is worth getting. I recommend it.

Can't use a router if you want to play multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was addicted to this game for quite awhile. I stink, but I was still addicted. It is a fun strategy-type game, putting you in an semi-omniscient god mode. It is a worthy successor to the original, as the new units are fun to use.

The big problem for me is that I have networked my and my wife's computers at home through a router. This game's multiplayer mode will simply not work online if you are trying to connect to it through a router. And this little tidbit of info is nowhere to be found. I finally did connect to someone in multiplayer mode who knew about this and was kind enough to inform me.

I have no idea why this is so, but more to the point, there is no reason why this should be so. This is supposedly a known problem with the game, and it seems like they could issue a patch to fix this. But there hasn't been one.

Obviously, this is fixable by disconnecting the computer from the router and connecting directly to the internet without it. But that's annoying, and then I'll forget to reconnect the router and get hell for it from my wife who hasn't a clue except that she knows that she can't get online.

Otherwise, enjoy.

Best world war game .. Ever !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

play 2 or 3 games then u will find urself addicted to this game

the graphic is perfect..

dont hesitate .. buy it now !!

Good but not as good as I thought it can be

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It is truly an exciting game. However, the forces are kind of unbalanced, with King Tigers and Jagdpanther dominate the whole field of armor and the British trench digging are render useless by mortar halftracks and motorcycles that just wander around capturing and cutting out your forces. It seems to me as if some of the doctrines doesn't even have the effect Relic intend to produce (or I am bad at the game...) The music is barely okay, and the campaigns get super repetitive after a while and especially after you earned all the metals. Online and local skirmish are the only elements that are the elements I like and have high replay values. The units are also detailed if your computer's graphics allows it to be. My PC is weak and sometimes experiences a few lagging experience. However if your computer is good then you are good to go. Take notes, the patching up is annoying. I spend two-three hours fixing almost nothing expect to play online (which I rarely do).

Like a chess game...with explosions and swearing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is by far my favorite game on the market today. THQ has outdone themselves again by adding the British and (FINALLY) the German forces to do battle in what feels like a tactical chess game. The game has an eb and flo much like real combat and a gameplay feel that is much smarter than Blitzkrieg and Sudden Strike RTS games. The graphics are outstanding and dynamic. The sounds give the game a real combat feel, especially the explosions. My favorite part however is what the units say when selected or perhaps over selected (they tend to get upset....he he). If you are buying the game you will have to spend some time downloading patches, but it is worth it. Once you can play online against other human players it will give you a completely different experience. The regular game is very entertaining, but the skirmish and online games a fun forever. This is a game that will not get thrown on the shelf when the story part is complete. Whats next for Company of Heroes?????.....Hopefully a eastern front version, with the Soviet army? Buy this game, it has hours and hours of fun and entertainment.

BETTER THAT FIRST

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The new battels are great lots of fun I play this game alot got tried of battlefield 2. On line play is fun too, If you have the first you'll like this one.

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