Opposing Fronts demo inbound

By Robert Purchese Published 27 November, 2007

War of what you love.

THQ and Relic have enlisted a new demo for Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts to the ranks of the Internet.

It fills its uniform at 2GB, and whisks you back off to World War II as us Allies floated en masse down behind enemy lines in Operation Market Garden, before being plucked out of the sky in an elaborate game of duck hunt by the Germans.

You fill the metal seats of the Panzer division in this case, and get to sample a couple of missions from the full game.

Opposing Fronts is a standalone expansion for Company of Heroes that was released back in September. Along with the Panzer division you get to play as the Brits liberating Caen in France. We swear more, too, thus better.

There are numerous other bits and bobs, but it is these two differing factions that bring the most refreshments to the table. It is a little less accessible than the original campaign and suffers because of it. However, a definite try for those even mildly interested, even if its single-player is but a stepping stone to the main multiplayer event.

Pop over to our Opposing Fronts and Company of Heroes reviews to get up to speed.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Darren #1 4 years ago

    Sweet jesus, a 2 GB demo!!! /shocked

  • bioreit #2 4 years ago

    Will download this tonight. I want to buy CoH, but it necessitates a graphics card upgrade and I'm just not sure if I want to get back into PC gaming.

    Slightly off-tangent, it really does surprise me that my PC struggles with the CoH demo on medium settings, yet the Supreme Commander demo flies along on dual-monitor with all settings maxed out.

  • bushwod #3 4 years ago


    HELVETICA vs ARIAL

    -- opposing fonts --

  • bioreit #4 4 years ago

    lol bushwod

    'I really can't decide between the *ahem* pneumatic brunette on the left and the rather forward brunette on the right'.

    APPRAISING FRONTS?

  • bioreit #5 4 years ago

    Free the Ferns!

    (OPPRESSING FRONDS)

  • BadBoyBonner #6 4 years ago

    What card do you have Bioreit?

  • bioreit #7 4 years ago

    Just an 8500GT 256mb passive cooled.

    But the main spec of my PC is a Core 2 Quad 6600 with 4GB RAM - which is why Supreme COmmander runs so well, methinks.

    The card is SLI, so I might just buy another one and see what that does, but I might just go for a couple of 8600GT - I'm really not wanting to go the whole hog and get a ninja-bast PC again (I have my 360 for most games), but I just want to upgrade it to play the odd game.

  • Res #8 4 years ago

    Get an 8800GT 512mb you will find one for under £200 at scan.co.uk and will easily recoup the loss with savings (since the rest of your computer wont need upgrading) on PC games over their console counterparts.
    Edited by 1 at 28/11/07 @ 01:17

  • bioreit #9 4 years ago

    @ Res

    Thanks for the advice, but I will probably only ever play CoH and a couple of other PC games - I don't have time to complete any of my 360 games as it is! I'm not interested in Crysis or UTIII on PC (my setup consists of a low table for mouse/keyboard in front of my Sumo Omni, so is far more suited to RTS than FPS), so with only three or possibly four PC games, I'm not going to recoup much cost.

    Whatever I eventually do, I'm going to hold off until just after Christmas - payday plus bonus plus savings plus sales could equal me getting some hefty kit anyway.

  • UncleLou #10 4 years ago

    But the main spec of my PC is a Core 2 Quad 6600 with 4GB RAM - which is why Supreme COmmander runs so well, methinks.


    Get an 8800 GT for 170 quid or whatever they cost and you're sorted for two years at the very least with that PC. Using a 8500 with a Q6600 with 4GB is a painful waste. :)

  • bioreit #11 4 years ago

    @ UncleLou

    Not for video editing it's not :-P