Call of Duty: United offensive

[Dark0ne]

The first expanion pack to the award winning Call of Duty, United offensive adds 11 new levels and a bunch of new weapons to the mix.

[loveme4whoiam]

Umm, i'm not entirely sure what i'm doing here, the vast array of scary topic names: The Official Topic for... :blink: Anyway, since i've played Call of Duty, and i plan (at some point) to buy the expansion, i thought i should comment. I;ve played the demo of the pack, and i'll admit, i was impressed. There isn't that much to spoil so i'll summarise what happens in it. If you really don't want to know, er, don't read it.

 

You start off with a small sqaud of Americans, who are doing a patrol in the Battle of the Bulge section. After the obligatory banter between Sgt. Moody and a private, named Ender if you can believe that, you set off, carrying three clips of M1 Garand ammo and a couple of grenades. Just round the corner, you run into a German advance party, who unfortunately for you come complete with a Panzer. You're treated to a brief scripted scene before legging it back to the Sgt and the awaiting Jeep. You take off, and play through a couple minutes of on-rails shooting, before reaching your HQ and restocking on ammunition. You find out that there is a full frontal attack heading for the treeline your company is occupying, so you run out into the trenches and deal out merry hell, getting to play with the new Browning .50 cal machine gun, before the mission runs out. All in all, its about 5 minutes long and reminds you of both the best and worst bits of CoD.

 

It stayed true to the original's gameplay, with jeep shooting regurgitating the British mission after the Dam one (i forget the name) almost to the letter. The trench section is the best part, obviously, and the game has actually been improved slightly, although this may just be that fact that the scene is so reminiscent of the Band of Brothers episode, complete with haystacks. teh enhanced particle features, or whatever they're being called, are very, very good. Mortar hits throw up Hollywood-esque clouds of dirt, the fires from burnt-out Panzers look much more realistic than before, and thats about it. The rest of the graphics might of benefited from a tune-up, but to be honest i couldn't tell.

 

Umm, i've run out of things to say. I don't know why i had a compulsion to write that. To be honest i think i felt a littl ebit sorry for Dark0ne, with his name against twenty topics with no replies. Anyway, if people would like to comment on the game itself, i suppose we should be doning it here. After all, this is the Official discussion topic for it <_< .

[Dark0ne]

Heh..basically the backend I've written for Gaming Source makes a post in the PC Gaming section whenever I add a new game to the database. That way people can comment on the game through the site..its all a bit complicated really, but works out quite nicely.

 

Nice descriptive review of the game. I played the original CoD but never tried the expansion. It was such a nice change from Medal of Hono(u)r, which, in my opinion, is the balls. Although events were scripted CoD did such a better job of making it feel as though it wasn't scripted. And quite frankly you didn't care since there were so many enemies to deal with -- unlike MoH where you come across a German every 5 minutes.

[Sibry]

Call of duty: United offensive is a great expansion pack. I love the game its the best WWII FPS ever. I have a clan so take a look if you want to join. :wink2:

 

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[Dunedain]

i agree its gotta be the most fun and exciting WW2 FPS ever however keep an eye on brothers in arms that game looks amazing as well and it should be coming out soon....cant remember the release but im sure it was sometime in february, just check gamespot.