Perhaps even more so than in CoH, super-strong single-player experiences are a prime aim for Opposing Fronts: “We’re aiming for the same length in total as the original CoH, so expect to have a good 15-20 hours of gameplay,” says Mosqueira. “As you start, you’ll get to choose the Caen campaign as the British or the Market Garden campaign as the Panzer Elite. You’ll be able to swap, so if you’ve played a couple of missions in one, you’ll be able to start up the other one as well. It’s important to know that it’s not a mirror campaign; each campaign is entirely separate and has its own missions, its own maps and its own objectives.”

In Caen, when the Allies arrived, Hitler had some of his best SS Panzer divisions placed around the city, which led to some of the largest tank battles fought during the war. Here, playing as the Brits, this intense urban warfare takes place among some of the most devastated landscapes that CoH has offered, with barely a wall left standing in the entire city. There’s also a truly inspired setting in the form of the innards of a blasted cathedral, complete with missing roof and crumbling walls.

Carota mentions a particularly nice little touch: “In all of our cities in OF, you can actually see in the distance the cities that you’re going to go to. When you’ve completed the first mission, you’re actually looking at Caen - and during the mission you can look over and see it, Carpiquet or Hill 112.”

The other campaign, Operation Market Garden, in which the Germans attempt to repel the largest airborne assault in history, offers its own opportunities: “It’s important for me and the rest of the art team to visit a new place like Holland, because we’re getting pretty sick of Normandy,” laughs Carota. He continues: “Playing as the Panzer Elite in the Market Garden campaign gives you a chance to see the conflict from the other side. After all, you do play both sides, and that was a tremendous advantage in the narrative, to be able to allow a sense of empathy to appear.”