Aspyr Media Inc. Ships Call of Duty: United Offensive for the Mac.AUSTIN, Texas -- The war the changed the world rages on. Call of Duty(TM): United Offensive(TM) is the highly anticipated expansion pack to Infinity Ward's award-winning Call of Duty(TM) -- which has received over 80 Game of the Year and 50 Editor's Choice Awards worldwide. Call of Duty: United Offensive is a robust expansion pack, introducing 13 all-new single-player missions distributed among historical U.S., British and Russian campaigns, an expanded multiplayer eXpanded MultiPlayer (XMP) is a multiplayer expansion to developed by Legend Entertainment. XMP contains just one game mode that is similar to Capture the flag but requires more sophisticated tactics. experience featuring 11 new maps and three new modes of play, plus new weapons, player abilities and special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. . Developed by Gray Matter Interactive Studios, Call of Duty: United Offensive has been brought to the Macintosh by Aspyr Studios and is licensed by Activision, Inc. Call of Duty: United Offensive allows gamers to experience more of WWII's most legendary conflicts through the eyes of Allied soldiers fighting for the liberation of Europe through 13 intense new single player missions. Featuring three all-new campaigns, the game lets players join the U.S. 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge Battle of the Bulge, popular name in World War II for the German counterattack in the Ardennes, Dec., 1944–Jan., 1945. It is also known as the Battle of the Ardennes. On Dec. , the British campaign as an airman shooting down German ME-109s from a B-17 bomber, and the Russian frontlines as a conscript in the crucial eight-day Battle of Kursk The Battle of Kursk or Kursk Campaign (July 4 – July 20, 1943), also called Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle) by the German Army, was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II, and the last German blitzkrieg . The expansion pack also features a handful of enhancements, such as new realistic WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two weapons, including the German Flammenwerfer 35 Flamethrower flamethrower, mechanism for shooting a burning stream of liquid or semiliquid fuel at enemy troops or positions. Primitive types of flamethrowers, consisting of hollow tubes filled with burning coals, sulfur, or other materials, came into use as early as the 5th cent. and Panzerschrek anti-tank weapon, American M1A1 Bazooka bazooka, in warfare, portable, lightweight metal tube from which rockets are launched, usually operated by two men. It is used by infantry as an antitank weapon and also for attacking pillboxes and bunkers. , Russian Tokarev SVT-40 Self-Loading Rifle, portable deployable machine-guns, smoke grenades and more. Furthermore, Gray Matter has added an entirely new special effects system to Call of Duty: United Offensive, providing visually stunning moments to players with realistic explosions, weather and particle effects. Additionally, Call of Duty: United Offensive expands on the popular multiplayer experience of the original Call of Duty. Players can go online for the ultimate battle between Axis and Allied powers, now including vehicle combat aboard tanks and jeeps as well as tank-and-foot-soldier combined arms action. The expanded multiplayer component offers 11 new maps and three new modes of play -- including Base Assault, Capture the Flag and Domination -- where squads must take control of key locations while preventing enemy troops from advancing. And, a newly added ranking system now lets players earn additional weaponry upon completion of objectives, call in artillery support, and gain the respect of friends and foes alike. The game is rated "T" (Teen -- Blood, Mild Language, Violence) by the ESRB ESRB Entertainment Software Rating Board ESRB Estrogen Receptor Beta ESRB Explosive Safety Review Board and is available now at http://www.aspyr.com/games.php/mac/coduo/. About Activision Headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., Activision, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Founded in 1979, Activision posted net revenues of $948 million for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. Activision maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Australia, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's World Wide Web site, which is located at www.activision.com. About Aspyr Media Inc. Aspyr Media Inc., based in Austin, Texas is an established publisher of interactive entertainment software. Aspyr is a leading publisher of Macintosh, PC, and Game Boy Advance games This is a list of games for the Game Boy Advance handheld game system, organized alphabetically by name. This includes games released in the US, Japan, and Europe for the system. , as well as DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and audio CDs. Aspyr is committed to delivering high-quality entertainment products to consumers worldwide. More information on Aspyr and their line of products can be found on the Internet at http://www.aspyr.com. |
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