

For example, if the player takes the enemy flag, but the enemy also takes the players, neither team can score until one of them retrieves their flag. A team can only score if they have their flag intact. The objective is to steal the enemy's flag and take it back to the players own to score a point. Each side has a flag that they must protect. The most traditional game mode is Capture the Flag. In some modifications of Base Assault games, teams must use only anti tank weaponry and satchel charges instead of tanks to destroy the bases. A team wins either by destroying the most bunkers before time expires, or completely destroying all of the opposing team's bunkers. Then they must keep the other team from defusing the explosive so it will explode and destroy the bunker. To completely destroy a bunker, a player must sneak into the basement of an exposed bunker and plant an explosive.

Once a bunker takes enough damage, it is not destroyed, but exposed to infantry attack. On each map, both teams have three bases they must defend and attack. To win, a team must either have the higher score when time runs out, or capture all of the control points on the map.īase Assault requires teams to use heavy weaponry such as tanks and artillery strikes to attack their opponent's bases and destroy them. Every time a team captures a control point, they add a point to their overall score. After a certain amount of time, the area is captured by the players team. To capture a control point, a player must stand near it with no enemies nearby. There are usually at least five or six of these control points scattered around the map, and are usually found in key strategic locations. The objective of Domination is to own all of the control points on the map. United Offensive adds three new multiplayer modes to the game: Domination, Capture the Flag and Base Assault. Petrenko.įighting in a bombing mission with M2 machine guns. Antonov survives the entire conflict, as does Pvt. Antonov is the player's squad leader during the Battle of Kursk. Petrenko takes part in the entire Battle of Kursk by defending their trench bases, securing Ponyri, destroying German armor in Prokhorovka, and assaulting and defending Kharkov until the arrival of Soviet reinforcements.

Yuri Petrenko is the third playable protagonist in United Offensive. The Dutch Resistance, with the help of the SAS, rescue him before he is captured by the Germans. Doyle is a Royal Air Force B-17 gunner who is shot down over the Netherlands on the RAF's first daylight mission using the B-17s. James Doyle is the second playable protagonist in United Offensive, serving as the playable character in the British campaign. Riley takes part throughout the entire Bastogne campaign by defending Bois Jacques, capturing and securing the crossroads and town of Foy, and capturing Noville. Scott Riley is the first playable protagonist of United Offensive in the American campaign. 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.Ĭpl. The biggest changes made by United Offensive are in the multiplayer aspect of the game. Several new abilities, are added to the game as well, including the ability to deploy light machine guns, use flamethrowers, to sprint (which makes the character run faster but at the cost of not being able to fire their weapon), and the ability to "cook" grenades (allowing the fuse to burn somewhat before throwing the grenade). A minor deviation from the original game is an on-rails mission set in a plane in which the player mans several M2 Browning machine guns in order to defend an RAF squadron of B-17 Flying Fortresses attempting a first time daylight cross-Channel bombing run on a Nazi-controlled industrial complex in Rotterdam from enemy Luftwaffe fighters.

The game also includes historical battles, such as the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Kursk, and the Invasion of Sicily. James Doyle, and the Soviet Union as Pvt. The game features single-player missions centered around the three major Allied forces of World War II: the United States as Cpl.
