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An amazing predecessor to the original

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 64 / 67
Date: October 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As I stated in an earlier review "Call Of Duty" is one of the best First Person Shooters I have ever played, and the unquestioned best in the World War II sub-genre of FPS's. So you could imagine my excitement when "United Offensive" was announced, a 13 mission single player expansion with revamped multiplayer features. I was sure to pick it up the day it came out, and I haven't stopped playing it since.

Let's start with the single player missions. Right off the bat it's clear this expansion's campaign was intended for those who played through the original and were looking for a more prominent challenge. Since I hate it when people reveal later missions in the game I wont tell you what to expect later on, I can however tell you this. In the first mission you find yourself on patrol with members of the American 101st Airborne in the woods of Bastogne. Bam, out of nowehre you're suddenly caught in the middle of a relentless German push foward, for those of you who may not be World War II buffs this is part of the infamous Battle Of The Bulge.

All of the original elements of the inthralling single player from the first one are still here, the AI still responds well, both enemy and friendly. You'll without a doubt find yourself barking out orders to your comrades as if they were standing right next to you, and your heart will race as you charge enemy positions in a bloody attempt to secure strategical areas. As with the original you play through three campaigns as the Americans, British and Russian forces in different theaters of operation. You may have seen previews in which you take control of a gun turret during a British bombing mission over Holand. I can tell you now, this is without a doubt one of the most intense moments of the game, and it provides a nice break from the squad based infantry combat. You'll also get to drive tanks in several missions as in the original, all of these missions are equally amazing as well, but as I promised I will reveal no more, you must find out for yourself.

Now to confront the issue of the completly revamped multiplay. I've been an online gamer for years, I've played everything from Warcraft II to mostly all of the Half Life modifications. The original Call Of Duty's multiplayer was fun at best, but didn't provide a lasting quality, it was something you played every once and a while. United Offensive is a much, much different story. For starters the developers made better levels, complete with jeeps and tanks at your disposal. This alone is amazing, I can't tell you how much fun I've playing with others in the short time this game has been out. Nothing beats a tank push with 4 or 5 of your teammates, while the rest of the team advances on the flanks with jeeps and infantry. All of the games new weapons, including the Flamethrower, are available for use, and this time around you can put the Bazooka to good use against an advancing enemy Panzer. For those of you concerned about balancing issues fear not, the game is easy enough for new players (noobs) to pick up and provides enough of challenge for veterans to more than enjoy. One of the key features is the ability to call in an airstrike on an enemy position with your binoculars, though to do this you must achieve a certain high score and also be one of the highest ranked members on your team. Another great addition is new modes of gameplay such as base defense and capture the flag, both multiplayer classics now brought to the COD universe. To call the multiplay for this game an improvement from the last would be an understatement, it almost feels like a different game.

To sum it up the Call Of Duty team has done it again, and then some. This expansion more than satisfied my hunger for a great expansion to an amazing game. Keep your fingers crossed that this trend will be kept up because if it is we're looking at even more dropping games...no, no, even more jaw dropping experiences in the future.

A great follow-up to COD.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 29
Date: October 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game. What made COD so great is also found here in this game.

You have very intense action, great graphics and sound, and pretty good missions. The action was so intense at times that it almost wasn't fun because you couldn't really enjoy the scenery.

I see some reviews talking about how they don't like it because it is scripted. News flash: Every game is scripted. Only the games that are coming out now (though not released yet) like Half Life 2 and Medal of Honor Pacific Assault are not gonna be scripted. As for all other like RTCW, MOHAA, and Doom 3, they are scripted. So don't let that deter you because this games action never stops.

My only real complaint is that the SP is too short. You have 13 missions, but no mission last much more than maybe 30 minutes. You have maybe 6 hours of game time here not including the reloading you will have to do when you die. And this game is hard. That is probably why most don't like it. It is hard on every setting.

As for MP, it is a little better now. The aiming of the gun for SMG's still sucks, but the maps are better designed and a lot better to play. Some of the new weapons are cool too. They also have a sprint key you can use now to run quickly for a few seconds until you are "rested". The new modes aren't anything great, but are still fun. If they would have just fix the aiming, this would be even better.

Overall, this expansion pack rocks. If you haven't gotten the origianl COD yet, wait unitl they put both COD and this expansion together and buy it. It will be worth the money. If you have COD, get this expansion. You will only be dissappointed in how short the games is.

United Offensive...A Work of Art!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There are few games that give me a lasting impression. Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty: United Offensive. No, I didn't forget the original Call of Duty although it's a great game, I liked the whole MOH series better than COD. United Offensive on the other hand is a work of art! UO could have easily been a stand alone game and I think it should have been. For only $30 you get allot over the original. 11 new maps, new weapons, a new rank system in MP mode and last but certainly not least UO adds vehicles! We're talking tanks and Jeeps. You can also control flak cannons too.

That may not seem like much on the surface but adding those few elements completely changes the game. The part that really changes the game are the vehicles and the new ranking system. You start out as a private and have very little ammo and you "level up" by killing then you gain more ammo. That includes more grenades (frag and smoke) and even something called "Satchel Charge". A satchel charge is like having 3 or 4 grenades explode at one time. Finally when you reach the highest level which is a Platoon Sergeant. When you reach that rank, you can call in a artillery strike which will decimate everyone (friend or foe) within the blast radius which is considerable!

Driving the vehicles are very pleasant and easy to operate! A medium tank can handle two occupants. A drive which operates the main turret and a submachine gun within the tank and a secondary person to operate the main machinegun. A Jeep can handle 3 occupants. A driver, a passenger which operates the machinegun and another passenger riding shotgun who can fire is own weapon.

Let me just say that Call of Duty: United Offensive is the best multiplayer game out so far this year by far! The single player mode it excellent too of course but it's the MP that really shines.

The only real competition COD: UO has is Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault and Half-Life 2. If your a FPS fan then you definitely want UO! Just remember that you must have the original COD to play UO!

Update:
Since I wrote this review, I've had the chance to play Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source and the MP demo to Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault.

UO is much much better than MOH: PA in oh so many ways. It has some high points but the point is that UO owns it in nearly every category!

Comparing it to Counter-Strike Source or CSS is a little bit more difficult because CSS looks SOOO good now that Valve has updated CSS to the Source engine. That said, COD: UO still beats it; albeit by a very slim margin. Of course a true FPS gamer would buy both ;).

If you like FPS games at all you need to buy Call of Duty: United Offensive. Again don't forget that you need to own the original Call of Duty in order to play United Offensive since UO is an expansion pack.

Expansion for the 2003 Game of the Year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 23
Date: August 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

let me say this, if you enjoyed Call fo Duty for the PC then this is a must have. it adds over 10 new single player missions and 3 new multiplayer MODES. the multiplayer on the original was great and this is going to add 3 new modes and over 10 new maps. this game also has great mods which are free and add a lot more conent to a game. i say this is definatley a must have!

Call of the Expansion pack

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: September 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty was a fast paced, realistic, World War II shooter which was successful because of it's unique look and feel: the shell shock, the bullets whizzing by and the ability to fight as differnt people on differnet fronts. No game has ever done that. Also, the squad based action made you feel compasion for the men fighting alongside you, fighting together, it was so different to medal of honor. So if you want another dose of the action buy the expansion pack with 10 more single player levels and new and improved multiplayer maps and scenarios. Buy this game and remember; in war no one fights alone...

Great expansion so far, and that's just the multiplayer ver!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: September 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just got this this weekend, and launched right into multiplayer games, since this is the real strength of this game. So far, it's awesome! The addition of tanks, jeeps, tank destroyers makes battles more dynamic. This is fast approaching the quality of combat simulation we used in the army! The best thing is that there are enough tanks for everybody...no one is waiting around for one to spawn like in BF1942. Same for anti-tank rocket systems as well, which balances the use of tanks. The infantry can defeat tanks with well-placed rocket shots from behind bushes which demonstrates the need for tank-infantry combined arms tactics (just like real life!).
Additionally, the expansion pack fixes every deficiency the previous version had - allowing for cook-off of grenades, allowing you to sprint short distances (to cover/concealed positions).
The multiplayer game is supposed to have flamethrowers as well, but I haven't seen them yet.
The best part is this all still runs on my 800mhz 4 year-old Dell. BF Vietnam reduces my PC to a crawl.

Ut 2004? I think not!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all Ut2004 copied of of bf1942 so pay no attention to the guy down there (waaaay down there).
Secondly the multiplayer ROCKS. The addition of vehichles, the ability to cook off grenades, and the new maps really add to the multiplayer expierience.
The single player, like the original Call of Duty, Is split into three campaigns, the americans,the british, and the russian campaigns.
The british campaign follows the story of a british soldier in a bomber. You have to man the guns on the plane but you also have to put out
engine fires and and take the place of your slain teamates.
The American campaign is mainly about the Battle of the Bulge. You basically have to fight in
trenches and buildings while bazookaing tanks.
The Russian campaign follows
the plight of a Russian conscript drafted to fight in the battle of Kursk while it can't quite live up to the original's Stalingrad it comes pretty
darn close In how it makes you feel a sense of hopelessness as you battle your way through the trees.
Some people are complaigning that United Offensive's single player is just like the
original's which I think is a good thing I mean if it ain't broke don't fix it right?

I think that united offensive is a GREAT expansion pack to an already great game. Kudos to Gray Matter for creating a worthy follow up to Infinity Wards epic.

best game ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this expansion pack is amazing and provides great improvements to the regular call of duty game. don't buy it for the single player - buy it for the amazing multiplayer. the graphics and movement have improved greatly. you can now run instead of just walk, and use smoke bombs, a great improvement. the weapons feel better - the action is fast-paced and more realistic.

however, it's not perfect. many of the maps are so-called "tank maps" because they revolve around the use of tanks and jeeps. the jeeps are pretty cool, but these are a detriment to the game. you're better off not playing any tank maps at all. tanks are useless in that if you get in one, you'll almost instantly be blown to smithereens. in addition, the tanks keep spawning so this lame idea of "fun" is repeated ad nauseum. also the maps are much bigger and you spawn far away from the action, so there's too much walking or driving in UO.

other negatives - sniper rifles are much much less useful than in regular COD. why? well, people can sprint and the faster people move, the harder they are to hit. also, smoke bombs cloud the sniper's vision. (still, the smoke is simply amazing).

one more negative - artillery. artillery is a feature where when you reach a certain rank, you point with your binoculars and planes drop huge bombs on the enemy. for the most part it's cool, except there's simply too much artillery and when one team uses it on the other team's spawn point, the game is virtually over, because you can't stop from being killed by it. this is a stupid oversight on the part of the makers of UO.

other positives - new types of games, especially capture the flag, my personal favorite, greatly add to the fun, instead of playing old boring team deathmatch. also, make sure you turn your search filter on to search for "mods" so you can play new modifications and maps that people created. this adds to the freshness and excitement of the game. also turn "auto-downloads" on so you can download these new maps when you click on the server.

despite the negatives, i still play this game almost every day. even though i've played it for countless hours, it's still sooo fun. i think this qualifies as the best video game created to date.

The best WW2 similator out there now!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I agree with everybody about the multiplayer in the game. It is simply awesome! First of all the original C of D multiplayer was simply awesome and in this game it's even better here's why:

Now you can drive tanks or be the machine gunner on top just like BF1942 but driving and shooting is a lot more fun! The tanks have more fire power than BF1942 and you can shot quicker it seems?

There is now deployable machine guns in this game. I have found they are great if you can find a good place with a view to set up and mowe down anyone going by but just running around on the maps and looking for people to shot can be inefective to say the least because if you do spot someone they have the advantage because they can just aim and shot you but you have to right-click to set up the gun then load in most cases and then left-click to fire so by the time you do all this your dead from a Thompson gun carring soldier.

You can also shoot anti-tank weapons like a American Bazooka or the German's copy of the weapon. Which leaves tanks very vulnarable for destruction. You can also fire canons at tanks, buildings and soldiers which is fun. In all reality this is BF1942 all over again but 10X better. You can drive Jeeps to. The only thing you can't drive in the game is Airplanes but this is a ground combat game and besides BF1942 can have thier planes because even if you got one off the ground you couldn't hit anything due to going to fast or stay in the air very long without crashing into something because the controls were to hard!

As mentioned by a previous reviewer, flame throwers were added and if you want to find one you will most likely have to kill the guy who is carring one. I did on the Berlin map. So make note of that.

All and all, this game is awesome. Single player is in my persective is a lot harder unlike what another reviewer said. He must be some ex-millitary guy or something because I found it very challenging especially the first battle in the game. I am currently on the second mission and have no ammo in the middle of a fire fight and that's not good! Yes, single player is th e same thing as the original but why change something that's already great? Just add some new weapons and different maps and battles and go with it. I think people expect to much out of games especially expansion packs. If the orginal game was a success then the expansion must be ten times better..............wrong! You guys need to live in reality. There is nothing wrong with this game at all except it being short but it's a expansion pack! Not a entire game! Come on guys get real!

Anyway, enough venting I just get tired of people wanting the moon and stars to boot out of games. Oviously they never seen the pregression of game through the years and how far they have come since the day of pong?

One last line in responce to Joel's review. Joel, I had the same problem with my single player in fact I couldn't even get the game installed on my PC because of a missing game file so I returned the game to EB and got a new one and it works like a charm now! I don't know if that's what you will have to do but make sure you install the (1.4) patch for the game or it won't run at all which is the latest patch version out right now.

Here I come Star Wars Battlefront! I heard this game was great!

See you on the UO battlefield! Latter....

Single player okay, multiplayer greatly improved

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

There are really two games in this expansion, and the single player game is about 3 stars, while the multiplayer is a 5 star addition.

The single player missions are overall not quite as good as those in the original CoD. Often they show a lack of imagination in level design, or are too difficult or too easy, as others have reported. But the real problem is that most of the levels show a lack of integration in how the events are "triggered." In CoD it was clear that events occurred according to triggers, but the triggers were well integrated into the overall level, scene, or scenario so that they seemed natural. In the expansion the triggers are much more obvious (ooh, who wants to bet that the moment I climb this ladder all h*** is going to break loose?"). Additionally, the same events occur over and over again in certain scenes where you are neither dying nor advancing the plot. When you've watched the same guy take 20 or 30 shots and keep getting up, you don't feel much urgency to protect him anymore. In fact, you wonder why in the heck he isn't doing more to protect YOU. This happened less frequently, but more importantly, less obviously in the original CoD.

Also, the way you are tracked in certain maps is irritating. In one notable example, you are literally walking a path between two minefields between one trigger point and the next. Maps are designed to channel you to one, and only one, assault point -- no flanking moves (unless ordered), no leap frog assaults, etc. The level designers set up "cool" scenes, and darn it, you are going to play them just they way the designers want you to play them.

But where the game shines is with the multiplayer maps and new weapons. Without the programmed bots, and without the need to do exactly what the games designers envisioned, the creeping, rushing, creeping nature of infantry assaults really come alive. Plus, with the addition of man portable machine guns, lanes of control and true fire bases become possible where you want them, rather than where the designers inserted a machine gun nest.

The looks are great on most of the maps, but where the real improvements have been made are in flowthrough -- the fights can come together over natural landmarks, or swirl and fragment into individual dogfights -- all depending on the skills are tastes of the players. You can't ask for too much more than that.

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