Call of Duty: United Offensive
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| Developer(s) | Gray Matter Interactive |
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Activision Aspyr (Mac) |
| Producer(s) | Ken Turner |
| Designer(s) | Dan Koppel |
| Programmer(s) | Jed Adams, Alexander Conserva, Ryan Feltrin |
| Artist(s) | Corky Lehmkuhl |
| Writer(s) | Michael Schiffer, Richard Farrelly |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino |
| Series | Call of Duty |
| Engine | id Tech 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Call of Duty: United Offensive is a 2004 expansion pack for the first-person shooter video game Call of Duty. It was developed by Gray Matter Interactive, with contributions from Pi Studios, and published by Activision. It was released for Microsoft Windows on September 14, 2004. It is a final title developed by GMI before it was merged with Treyarch.
The biggest changes made by United Offensive are in the multiplayer aspect of the game. There are new maps which are much larger than the ones in the original game, new weapons from the single player campaign, an in-game rank system which grants additional bonuses with more points, and vehicles such as tanks and jeeps.
Cpl. Scott Riley is the first playable protagonist of United Offensive in the American campaign. Riley participates throughout the entire Bastogne campaign by defending Bois Jacques, capturing and securing the crossroads and town of Foy, and capturing Noville. The "Bois Jacques" and "Foy" missions of Riley's campaign are reminiscent of HBO's Band of Brothers episodes Bastogne and The Breaking Point, respectively.
Sgt. James Doyle is the second playable protagonist in United Offensive, serving as the playable character in the British campaign. Doyle is a Royal Air Force Boeing Fortress gunner who is shot down over the Netherlands on the RAF's first daylight mission using the Fortresses. The Dutch Resistance, with the help of Major Ingram, an S.A.S. operative, rescue him before he is captured by the Germans. Doyle (now an S.A.S. operative) and Ingram are then sent to Sicily with other S.A.S. operatives to knock out several huge cliff mounted cannons, not unlike those in the 1961 film, The Guns of Navarone. Doyle returns in Call of Duty 3 as the player character of the British/French sections of the campaign.
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