Sets the standards for PC expansion packs
User Rating: 9.1 | Call of Duty: United Offensive PC
Call of Duty United Offensive is the expansions pack to the original Call of Duty. Now first off let me say that even if you have already played Call of Duty 2 this is a must have that fans and owners of the original should most definitely check out. The American missions play as the famous Battle of the Bulge with the 101st Airborne Division. Then hop in a plane and shoot down some Luftwaffe's storm the coast of Italy with the British. Finally then join the battle for Kursk with the Russians. First off lets talk about the US side of things. Like I said before the levels take place during Battle of the Bulge which if you have seen Band of Brothers and have paid attention at least a little in World History you should be pretty familiar with. Whether you are blowing up tanks or storming through cities this is a fun campaign that was in my opinion a good way to start the game. This is most likely my favorite of the three campaigns. Then there are the British missions. You start out in a plane shooting down German aircraft above Holland. Then in a crash landing you are separated from your teammates and join up with a local resistance force. Then once you are joined up again with your teammates you make a stealthy invasion of Sicily as you get ready to invade Italy. Like it seems in all the Call of Duty games I think that the British missions are the shortest of all three campaigns. The third and final missions are the Russian missions. These missions take place at the Battle of Kursk. This is a fun group of missions, as you will control tanks and do regular ground missions, which are the hardest in the game. These levels will test what you learned in the first Call of Duty and push them to the next level, expect to use the quick save and quick load features a lot, because trust me you will need them. Overall the gameplay is pretty much the same as the first one, but there are two things that I would like to talk about that were in the original that were taken out, and I have no idea why. First of all, remember that helpful grenade indicator that was in the first game, well for some reason it is gone, this really angered me. Another thing that there was is that the AI randomly becomes Superman and can take hits to the head, falls down and gets back up. As for things that were added to the game were the obviously new single player, some new multiplayer maps new weapons, and vehicles. These are everything that I would hope to see in an expansion pack to one my all time favorite games. The graphics are the exact same as they were in Call of Duty, still though the explosions are something to look at and even though this game doesn't look like Call of Duty 2 I must say that it still have a great sense of realism. This game overall looks very good especially looking at it from the time that it came out two years ago. The sound in this game is amazing; the music fits the game so well. The voice-overs are great and so are the explosions, gunfire, and vehicle noises. There is no in-game chat for multiplayer, but that is ok, that is not needed for a game to sound as good as this one. Now on to the multiplayer. Let me just say that there is a reason why most of the time at Xfire.com all three COD's multiplayer games are in the top ten most played. They are just one heck of a time. This game is nothing different. The new maps, weapons, and ways to play just make the game even longer in the sense that you are gonna want to go online and shoot up some people. Everyone has their poison and I am willing to bet that you can find a game mode online that you will absolutely love and never want to stop playing. Overall Call of Duty United Offensive on the PC is a game that fans of the series must play. Who cares if you have already played the second Call of Duty, I still think that it is worth going back and giving this game a try, I guarantee you will love it. Despite the two most standing out errors of this game that I mentioned earlier this is one good game to follow the great Call of Duty.
