Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player commands World War II infantry and tanks that shoot, shell and kill human soldiers; hits produce blood and leave bodies on the field, but there is no dismemberment or gore.
The campaigns dramatize real WWII battles — the liberation of Caen and Operation Market Garden — where soldiers are killed on screen as the driving subject of play.
Soldiers under the player's command shout mild profanity such as 'damn' and 'hell' in combat barks.
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What it is
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is a self-contained strategy title set during the Second World War that runs in real time. Players lay out installations, collect supplies, and direct groups of foot soldiers alongside armored machines through a pair of storylines: one follows Britain's 2nd Army as it retakes Caen, while the other puts the player behind the German Panzer Elite as they hold the line during Operation Market Garden. The action is viewed from above at a tactical angle, and infantry and tanks clash on European terrain where the conditions shift with the weather. When troops fall, blood appears and corpses and destroyed machines are left on the field, yet the game stops short of severed limbs or graphic detail. The characters occasionally utter mild outbursts during play. Sexual material, nudity, drug references, and in-app purchases are all absent, and matches can be arranged over the internet with other players, although this version indicates it lacks any embedded chat by voice or by text.
How it's framed
Content here is cast as strategy rooted in real military history: the fighting depicts the machine-driven warfare between rival Second World War forces, viewed from the remove of someone directing troops rather than lingering on graphic wounds, and each storyline is narrated as a country's wartime campaign undertaken for national pride and duty, given equal treatment on the Allied and the German fronts.
Details
- Developer
- Relic Entertainment
- Publisher
- SEGA
- Released
- Sep 24, 2007
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