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Call of Duty & United Offensive Expansion
System: PC
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Year: 2003, 2004
Rank last year: 12 (v 7)
Call of Duty is arguably one of the most influential first-person shooter games of all time and together with the United Offensive expansion pack, it also brings so much content that it keeps being replayable. The game also features the most addicting and competitive multiplayer-mode modelled after older 'arena-style' shooters like Quake and Unreal Tournament, but with a less 'jumpy', more realistic twist. It's so good, that this game remains one of the few games I ever play online and every once in a while, I'll even go back to it.
The single-player mode is where my real interest lies however. With both the main game and the expansion, Call of Duty covers most of the most iconic events in the European theatre of one the world's most influential periods in history; World War II. The action is epically presented in a very direct and sometimes shocking way and the horrors of this war are shown to the player from the perspective of three soldiers. One British, one American and one Russian. Each slowly moving towards the Reichstag in Berlin. The expansion adds to that another line of missions to play, with equal excitement.
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