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Excellent expansion up to Game of the Year If you loved Call of Duty you're likely to enjoy the expansion pack, maybe even love it. It's more of the same and in this case that's a good thing, after all some game sites declared the original Call of Duty `Game of the Year'. There are, however, a few distractions that drop the expansion pack a level or two below its famous parent. Spawning enemies. At many locations in the game the Nazi enemies will continue to pour from the hills or buildings or wherever without end, ceaselessly and remorselessly as if there were a Nazi producing assembly line. A dirty little secret of the game is that sometimes you're supposed to advance on an enemy position and sometimes you aren't. It's pre-scripted. The designers deal with an unscripted advance by ripping your character to shreds with gunfire. At some point you'll find yourself trying to judge whether or not an enemy position spawns enemies or not in order to figure out whether to advance. If it's a spawning enemy position you'll need to advance or else run completely out of ammo. Non-spawning means you have to take out the enemies before advancing. Judging whether or not the enemy is spawning definitely breaks the illusion of the game. It's also tiresome and cheap. One of my least favorite scenarios in the original Call of Duty was the ones where you protect your position against an overwhelming advancing force. United Offensive is full of these and some are HARD. Anyone playing the original Call of Duty should remember the bridge scenario where you had to defend against endless advancing soldiers coming from all directions. It was my LEAST favorite scenario. The expansion pack features a pile of new ones. It does help somewhat that the game includes more save spots. The beginning and ending were duds particularly the ending where you protect a generic train station and then the game suddenly ends. Still, it's Call of Duty and it's a load of fun. There are some fun sniper scenarios and some great house to house assaults and lots of Nazi's. The good definitely outweigh the bad if you can get past some mind numbingly difficult section. The game was actually longer than I expected and could have passed for a full game.