CoD & Battlefield Heroes

Those crazy cats at Aspyr have released the original Call of Duty and it’s expansion pack:

Call of Duty Features:
• Play through 24 epic single-player missions on four interconnected campaigns, or go online for Axis versus Allies team-based multiplayer action.
• Intense battlefield moments put you in the heat of the action, capturing the chaos of battle like never before.
• Together with your squad, take on Nazi forces through a variety of authentic combat missions.
• Move through the ranks, taking on more dangerous missions such as sniper missions and ambushes until you are promoted to tank commander.

Call of Duty: United Offensive Features:
• 13 new Single-Player missions!
• 11 new Multiplayer maps and 3 new modes, with vehicles including tanks and jeeps!
• Fight in tanks, jeeps, motorcycles, even a bomber.
• Work with your squad through snow and rain, using new weapons including flamethrowers and deployable machine guns, or by calling in artillery strikes.
• Join the 101st Airborne for the climactic moments of the Battle of the Bulge.
• Fight as a British airman shooting down German ME-109’s from the gunner position of a B-17 bomber, before transferring to Churchill’s elite S.O.E. and clearing the way for the invasion of Sicily.
• Finally, follow your Russian comrades into the Battle of Kursk, one of the greatest tank battles of all time.

Also, EA and DICE finally got around to releasing Battlefield Heroes, their casual, pay to customise shooter that’s playable in your browser. I haven’t had a chance to play yet, but Jim at Rock, Paper, Shotgun certainly didn’t seem that impressed:

I only spotted a couple of people who’d bothered to spend money upgrading the ultra-bland insta-soldier that you spawn with. I’m not quite sure how looking ridiculous helps you have more fun on the field of battle, but it’s never hurt the hobo clown denizens of a hundred MMOs, so I guess it’s going to work out here too. I can’t knock it too hard: if it pays to keep the landscape of gaming a little broader, that’s fine. But there’s not a chance in the multiverse that my sad, crumpled cashmoney is heading anywhere near those particular micropayments, and I doubt I’ll sink much more than an afternoon into this.

As there isn’t a Mac version available, I’ll have a play around with Heroes in Windows. I’ve contacted EA to see if a Mac version is coming.