![]() ![]() The first campaign re-visits Operation Market Garden from the perspective of the Panzer Elite. This marks a nice change from the original game which only allowed the player to play as the Americans. The game offers two single-player campaigns, one for each army. The centerpiece of Opposing Forces are the two new fighting squads joining the battle for Europe, the defensive British 2nd Army and the stick-and-move Panzer Elite. The result is an expansion pack that (thus far at least) isn't the magical experience of the original game, but when a game is this good, more of the same is pretty damn cool. After something like that, what does a development team do for an encore? In the case of Opposing Fronts, the new expansion pack for Company of Heroes, it seems like the Relic team just decided to give us more of the same. ![]() Not only did it offer an amazingly innovative RTS experience, it also offered a fresh take on historical events like the D-Day invasion that have been recreated so often that that seemed impossible. ![]() That's what made Company of Heroes, our 2006 PC Game of the Year, such a stunning achievement. World War II is sometimes called the "last good war." Perhaps that's why it gets revisited so often in games that the setting has become trite and cliché. Below you'll find our first impressions of the offline portions of the game. A full review of this game will be posted shortly, once it has undergone testing in the same conditions that you'll play it in. Editor's Note: It's GameSpy's review policy to test all online-enabled games in real-world multiplayer conditions before posting a final review score. ![]()
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