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I skipped my Calc 221 final

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: December 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off, I skipped my Calc 221 final because this game came the morning of my final and I forgot the time and played right through it.

This is such a great sequel to the original. More Weapon, Vehicles, Levels, and it's all comptible with the original Call of Duty. The graphics are amazing. I don't have a great computer (iMac, 1.0 Ghz G4, 768 Mb RAM), but I can play on the best graphics and they are incredible. Halo has better graphics, but only if you have a top of the line computer.

So much is new. There are about ten new guns, plus flamethrowers, two new grenades, and rocket lauchers. There are 11 new multiplayer maps, plus all the old ones, and so many custom maps that are easy to download. In UO, you can drive the tanks and jeeps, very cool. The best part though is the improved gameplay, it's much more realistic. You can run, cook-off grenades, shell-shock, and so much more. And the sniper rifle actually looks like a scope, with dirt on the lens.

The Multiplayer is alot harder because you get more serious gamers buying UO. there are no "untitled soldier"'s run around waiting to get shot. Everyone has played the game, or they wouldn't have bought UO. There are more game types in UO, I particularly like Capture the Flag. The multiplayer maps take a while to learn because they're so fricken huge. Not like Battlefield 1942, but there is actually stuff on the levels unlike in BF 1942. You really need to take a jeep or tank in Capture the Flag to get to the other side of the level.

If you got Call of Duty and found it fun, you will definitey like UO. It's cheaper than the original and improves the gameplay so much more. Check it out.

Review for the Alaska Apple Users Group

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A while back I had the chance to review one of the best World War II shooters on the market, Call of Duty. Now I get to re-visit the title in the form of it's expansion pack, Call of Duty: United Offensive; recently released for the Macintosh.

United Offensive brings more of the same awesome game as well as a few new goodies. In summary, it brings 13 new single player missions that span the alliance, 11 new multiplayer missions, vehicle-mounted weapons, and mobile heavy machine guns.

The new missions are most welcome! Though separate from the original campaigns, they carry you through cohesive strands of the war as seen by American, British, and Soviet perspectives. Your first mission has you fighting in the epic Battle of the Bulge for the 506th PIR, which was recently made more famous by the HBO mini-series, Band of Brothers.

The added equipment is a welcome addition too. The new weapons and vehicles are well balanced and provide a more realistic depth of tactical options in both single and multi-player modes. Being able to relocate heavy machine guns and shoot from the back of jeeps, for example, make things much more interesting at times.

This was not a hastily developed expansion. The maps are just as carefully built and feature trenches, cities, forests, and even more destructible terrain - or at least it seemed that way when a tank destroyed a boulder I was using as cover the other day!

One thing is for sure, air strikes, tanks, and mortars play a more active role in United Offensive. Some objectives have you taking out German anti-tank weapons so tanks can move in, mortars often stop your advance, and P-47s and Stukas swoop overhead much more often. Not to mention my personal favorite part of the game - a mission that makes you a gunner on a bomber in the air war!

Unfortunately, United Offensive was substantially slower than the original on the same hardware, so be prepared if you're on the low end. It also runs as a separate application and requires a separate CD so switching from COD to UO requires you to quit, swap CDs, and then to start the game you want to play. That's a hassle.

In the end though, those technical issues are overshadowed by all of the additions and I am left with an overwhelmingly positive opinion of the game. It does well where the original did and keeps Call of Duty at the top of my favorites list.

Excellent Graphics and Realism, Online Play Erratic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For a long time I was a Medal of Honor (MOHAA) junky, particularly the online cooperative team games. I was a little skeptical when my peers told me that "this is MOHAA done the way it should have been done from the start". The hype is definitely warranted.

This game is so much more realistic in terms of the graphics and gameplay (what happens when you take a bullet, etc) that there's really very little comparison. It does require pretty hefty hardware (I recommend a G5 or dual G4 and a Radeon or GeForce card with at least 64MB of VRAM. 128 is better), but if you've got the hardware it's a blast.

The one thing I'm not impressed with is the online play. While the setup for online servers and such is more flexible than MOHAA, certain game types seem to be very laggy for some reason, even on 4mbps cable. At first I thought it might be my system but for whatever reason the ping and general performance you get from this game seems to be a little erratic (even when all other online tasks work flawlessly for me).

YMMV, but I thought it was worth mentioning. Still very much worth the price of admission though. Single player game by itself is worth it. :)

Requires too many resources

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have an iBook G4 1.2GHz with 768MB RAM. The original Call of Duty ran fine. The expansion set, even with the lolwest graphics settings, does not run well. Picture jumps too much making it impossible to play, especially during big battle scenes.

This game rules. You must buy it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like the original, you'll love united offensive. My only complaint (and this goes for both the original and the expansion) is that they don't last long! Perhaps I'm exceptionally geeky and I spend WAY too much time playing games, but it seems to me that I am finished with all the levels just when I'm getting into it. Other than that, it was some of the best gameplay I've ever experienced... while it lasted. I think this one was even a little bit more challenging than the first (you'll see... and you'll get SLIGHTLY frustrated). Now stop reading this and go out and buy it!

It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I thought the original COD was excellent, but this expansion raises the bar. The graphics are excellent. The missions are wonderful, but, in my opinion, the best, by far, is the all-too-short stint you do in a RAF B-17. Running back and forth between top guns, waist guns and tail guns is very exciting. The US missions are excellent, too, as are the Russian missions.

As for resources, this game requires them. I have a middle of the road G5 and it runs fine. The only time it bogged down a tiny bit is during the final Russian battle in the rail yard. I have everything maxed out, though, so I could lower the settings and have no problems.

So, if you have a newer machine, or you are ok with lowering the settings, you'll be ok.

I'm anxiously awaiting more expansion packs for the Mac. In the mean time, I'll up the difficulty one notch and replay both games again.

It's THAT good.

Trust me.

Call of Duty United Offensive Mac Version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: December 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Was looking forward to this expansion pack with much anticipation. Very disappointed. This version is not ready for general release. Very buggy. Too bad because the original worked great. After contacting ASPYR their response was that they are working on it. Since then I have encountered more bugs. Very frustrating to get to a point in the game and you can't proceed because the game shows error message and you can't go any further on that level. This is during single player mode.

Brilliant, Challenging expansion pack for Call of Duty.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just got Call of Duty: United Offensive, yesterday evening.

I've played through the american levels, and finished the first of the british levels (the bomber one).

Wow. I didn't think that I could get frustrated with difficulty in a Call of Duty expansion pack, considering that i've beaten call of duty on Veteran fairly easily.

I have the expansion pack set on Regular difficulty, and it's extremely hard. I can invision some people who would just not be able to beat this expansion pack. If you don't have lightning reflexes, a cunning mind, and know when to quicksave and when not too, you'll be fine.

As far as the quality of the levels. WOW.

The game opens with one of the most intense battles i've ever played in a computer game. The First 4 levels of the game are all American levels, and are all Battle of the Bulge. It's really like one giant level.

And for those of you that are thinking "$30, for an expansion pack"? don't worry. Each level is longer than any level in call of duty, making the game about the same length. I am blown away. I love being challened. I love the fact that I have to think really hard to do it, and it's not easy.

Buy this if you've become frustrated with the easiness of call of duty.

It got better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I didn't think it was possible for CoD to get better, but somehow, with this x-pac, it did! Multiplayer, as always, is amazing.
I noticed a mention of bugs in an earlier review, and they were there, but the recent patch has fixed them up.

war games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good action most of the time but could get monotonous some of the time. Would have been more fun if the ability to choose another weapon was there like for example a sniper rifle would have been better for a lot of the action.

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