Medal for genius. (Medal Of Honor - Allied Assault (PC))

Member Name: Mr Bigglesworth

Product:	Medal Of Honor - Allied Assault (PC)
Date:	13/07/02 (47 review reads)
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Advantages: Great gameplay

Disadvantages: NONE

Medal Of Honour: Allied Assault. My jaw dropped, (nearly)along with the contents of my stomach (beer and chinese food.

Is that the sort of reactiopn you want from a game? Well, it's the same one I had watching "Saving Private Ryan" with a hangover, and for a game that owes more than a passing nod to Hank's finest hour, I reckon the developers would have been proud.

After launching out of the landing craft I spent the first couple of minutes ducking fizzing bullets and dodging the mass of dead corpses littering the beach. A quick sprint through the tank traps, and I was in front of a bunker, ready to dump a grenade and clear the way for some up-close-and-personal action. It was pretty intense stuff and if not as horrific as the film, still pretty grisly for a WWII-based shooter.

Like "Wolfenstein", Medal Of Honour also utilises the Quake III engine to provide jaw-droppingly lifelike visuals. Where the games differ is that Medal Of Honour looks that much more realistic. Running through villages with planes spiralling down to the ground, and using the sniper rifle to pick through individual leaves on the trees in order to get a clear shot on a target while tanks rumble in the backround, made me feel I was inside the Spielberg epic. In comparison "Wolfenstein" looks more polished, more Quake-like and less gritty.

Allied Assault is set between 1942 and 1945, and it takes place over 20 single-player missions with solo and squad-based play. These include the aforementioned Normandy landings, the assault at Arzew, a rendezous with the Resistance outside the village of St. Lo, a brief sojurn to the deserts of North Africa and a push through Nazi-infested lines towards the bridge of Remagen. Each mission culminates in an objective similar to the Assault levels of Unreal Tournament, so you might be charged with the silencing gun batteries, or sabotaging U-boats, providing you can survive the in
itial charge up Omaha Beach Of course. EA is working with the Congressional Medal Of Honour Society (CMOHS) to ensure real-life accuracy. So you can expect real-life weapons(21 in total, including Thompson sub-machine guns, Mark II frag Grenades, Flame-throwers and my favourite, the 'sticky bomb') You'll also find vehicles you can interact with (ie shoot at) like Sherman tanks and M3 Half Trucks, day/night and weather effects and the ability to call for artillery strikes if you're too much of a wuss to deal with things on the ground.

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