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The next chapter in the #1 rated RTS franchise thrusts players into a hellish war torn landscape to command two battle-hardened armies in relentless campaigns for honor and country. Players lead the tenacious British 2nd Army during the heroic World War II liberation of Caen, France, and command the German Panzer Elite as they struggle to repel the largest airborne invasion in history.

I see a lot of review saying how terrible it is to patch the game, but I bought it a year or so after its release and have had no problems. I would recommend buying it on steam, because it patches automatically with relatively little fuss (though I still had to nudge it a few times).

That aside, I think the two new factions you can play as adds a great new dimension to the gameplay. The british are fun as they are extremely mobile: you can move all your headquarter operations right to the gates of your enemy if you so desire. They are much more specialized, in that you can focus much more heavily on tanks or artillery tactics, with some of the best capabilities in the game for either of those.

The panzer elite are a little harder to get used to, but also a great payoff once you do. They are great at anti-tank maneuvering especially, and their hetzer tanks are probably the toughest units in the game to kill.

There are many more sublte alterations to the gameplay for each faction that makes it new and exciting to play all over again. All in all, a solid expansion offering more units and factions that offer vastly different gameplay opportunities to an already wonderful game.

Enjoyed Company of heros but Company of heros Opposing Force is an instalation nightmare.. Before you can even get a look at the game you have to go through series of downloads some of which are over 100MB for a total of over 471MB once that is finaly finished you would think finaly you can see the game NO YOU STILL need another download it does not give the MB but takes 1 hour and 46 minutes useing high speed dsl...this really turns me off THQ/rrelic.

This is not a fault of Amazon but you need to watch out when purchasing used software. The game I purchased was used and the CD arrived in great condition and worked properly - so what's my gripe?
I bought this for my 13 year old son and after a successful install he downloaded the necessary patches to allow the game to be played on-line with other players. After a connection attempt a message appeared saying that his software key was already in use! Basically we have no recourse. This situation could have been caused by the seller of the software (not Amazon directly)who may have copied the disk keeping it for his/her own use and sold the original. The game installed OK and can be played solo on my sons' machine but will not allow on-line play because the CD kay is already in use - bummer! So when purchasing used software try to get a written statement from the seller as to the status of the key and a commitment to refund in the event that the key is already in use.

COH the original is fantastic. Love that version. This one with it's PATCH HELL...is just that. HELL. Stay as far away from this version and the JOKER who crated this mess ([....]) as possible. Give us a [....] break already with your non-pirate B.S.. We just want to play a game, not contend with nightmares of non-sequential updates/patches. This blows.

I usually disregard Amazon reviews of video games because they always seem overly negative and repetitive about bugs I never find in the game... that is not the case with COH OF. I played the first COH by disconnecting my internet whenever I played the game in order to avoide the online fiasco; however, this time I decided I wanted to play the game online(I did try my hand at disconnecting my internet to skip to single-player and the game read: "No Validated media" or something along those lines, so I thought I had no choice but to go through the online madness.)

Essentially, I started out by not being able to get past the install menu. After scanning through forums, I found out you had to turn off user account control(computer protection measure) and go through a process of right clicking on the icon, clicking explore, going into files bla bla bla... basically, it was much harder than it should be to install a game. Anyway, I got to the first page and it requried a patch. I clicked to download the patch... 3 hours later and with the patch harldy at half-way, I went to the internet to find a more effective method. After a long search through forums, I found an employee from relic that explicitly recommended file planet(a site that has nothing to do with relic)... So I went through the meticulous process of downloading all the patches from fileplanet(which requried me to install a download manager unique to the site) and I canceled the patch I had downloaded straight from the game(for some reason it only goes 1 kb/s when you click it on the game... employees on forums were saying you need to turn off your fire wall[I did this later with little avail])

Anyway, I got a bunch of versions and thought I was done... to find out that I had to apply it to the game. So I went through every single one and applied it to the game. Then the game wanted more: It said I still required patches. But this time, when I clicked download patch, the browser exited and brought up a unique relic downloader that had not been mentioned ONCE on any relic forum I had scanned. Well, it took forever. It took forever and one of the patches stalled and stopped at 63%... I applied the rest and tried re-booting COH again. Nope, I need a patch(it wasn't even the same one, this patch only had 1.38 mb whereas the other was much, much larger). Okay, download the patch. The patch is downloaded and now the game needs to restart. Okay, restart the game. You need a 1.38 patch! Again, and again, and again... Oh my god, relic... really? Could you not have just tested this game a bit more before making me download half the godd*mn game!? Not to mention the fact that all your employees on forums had nothing substantial to say but "maybe", "possibly", "try"... I could speculate myself, I'm looking for answers so I can just play the game!

If every game operated like COH, I would stop buying video games... its the most tedious process I have ever gone through. A relic employee claimed that many companies use the patch company that relic does, but not many companies have customers download half their product AFTER spending a bunch of money buying the game! One word for this game: Fubar. I'm never buying a game from relic again--even if the gameplay is great--until relic stops concentrating on getting the game sold and instead concentrates on providing decent service for its customers. Oh, and I'm still dumb and trying to figure it out... I got the patch from another site and am downloainding 2.40 to 2.50.... 20 bucks for 20 hours of frustration? Waste of money... Maybe Tales of Valor is configured differently(The game had lower rates so I got this one) BUT I HIGHLY DOUBT IT

If your looking for quick enjoyment(ie you want to play a game now), do not want to spend several hours downloading patches and surpassing bugs, or your looking for a quick online RTS: DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. I WOULD HIGHLY, HIGHLY DISCOURAGE BUYING THIS OR ANY RELIC PRODUCT.