Opposing Fronts Review

My schedule today's been hectic...

I wake up at 3, 4, and 5 am due to the brownout ~ stupid meralco; thus, didn't get good sleep for the SAT. damn

After which, I come home; eat a late lunch since it took forever for sina Dwight, Gian, and Vince to get out (my test finished at 12:20, waited for them till 13:35 then left) before attending a "meeting" in GCF.

Being tired and all, I walked to Coffee Bean after the meeting to prepare for the "SS-OS Soiree" next friday at 10 am which was followed by a 20 minute extraction mission at Shangrila Mall to pick up the game title you see above ;)

So lets get to it then.

First of : Installation
Once you insert the DVD, something different happens... the wizard checks to see if your PC has CoH. If it does, it uninstalles CoH and installs CoH:OF which actually contains the CoH system w/o harming your saved game files and screenshots.

You next enter in your DVD key and will then be greated by the usual progress bar of doom... which actually comprises über cinematics and awesome background music as your computer installs the game. Not bad, huh?

Setting Up System
Once you have it in your PC, you'll need to plug in the CoH (original) DVD Key to activate the CoH content and the CoH DVD. Also, I've noticed that if you're not connected to the internet while playing CoH:OF [CoH becomes CoH:OF at this point], it asks that you leave the DVD inside the drive for "verification purposes".

One of the first things that grab your attention is the loading screen layout - yeah, they even updated it - followed by the new menu layout which is more customized for auto-online access. If you are connected online, the game doesn't seem to ask for the disk anymore... but it did ask me to download 137 mb of patch files for CoH:OP which I'll do tomorrow.

Fragging till the end.
In response to the never ending moronics of gamespot : they're the biggest game dumbasses in the entire industry! I jumped headfirst into the controls of the Panzer Elite and whipped the asses of two hard computers, followed by an Expert A.I. in one on one battles while trying out the different doctrines. [You'll find out which new doctrine I've come to love down below]

I've also tried the British side of the game which I will be playing heavily for the first few tries.

[Gian... Know your enemy [British] and know yourself [Panzer Elité], and you can fight a thousand battles undefeated ~ Sun Tzu].

But I must say... those damn 25 pounder howitzer guns and the 17 pounder AT guns are intimidating... moreso with the instant sniper upgrade of every british infantry squad!

After playing around with the new factions, I wanted to see how I'd do against the new ones.

Using the Brits up first, the smart-ass expert kept on moving his HQ around nearly deploying right next to my base. After constant blowing up and attacks with Pak 38s, I put him back where he belongs, no problem (using the old fashioned Wehrmacht).

And now, presenting... my screenshots :D


Meet my answer to those stupid immovable 105 mm Howitzer Cannons of the Americans and the light armored M7 Priest of the British...

Real long range targeting system, mobile, fast, and cheap!

One shell knocked out the bridge while the other one destroyed the MG nest. The third one missed the OP.