A Game Of Hounor (Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2))

Member Name: ojdude

Product:	Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2)
Date:	13/05/03 (676 review reads)
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Advantages: Great gameplay, very atmostpheric, Great presentation, very authentic, A real challange

Disadvantages: Sometimes frustratingly difficulty, Misson objectives are a bit easy, No two player mode.

Medal Of Honour: Frontline arrived on the PS2 declaring itself to be the "definative" PS2 first person shooter. And it did not disspoint. Set in World War 2, you play a soldier named Jimmy Patterson and the game follows all the usual Medal Of Honour structures: A series of missons with percific objectives, in which you must shoot your way through, collecting weapons, ammo and health.

You begin your campaigne on the day of June 6th 1944, in an absolutely jaw dropping reinactment of the famous attack on Normandy beach. The graphics and colours leap from the screen and although a little muddy at times, never fail to impress, sometimes leaving you in complete awe. This is a truely beautiful game.

The action in Medal Of Honour is outstanding; explosions, bombing planes flying over head and tanks crashing through walls and so-on will surprise you in every level, really creating a great war atmosphere. The enemy A.I. (artificial intelligence) is excellent, with enemies hiding, ducking, running away and grouping. Only with the extremely rare gliche where an enemy can be found running aimlessing into a wall. So as far as the combat goes, Medal Of Honour delivers a real treat for gamers.

The soundtrack in this game is nothing short of epic, it's very effective and moving. You'd expect this kind of music to found in a major motion picture. General sound effects, like guns and enemy screams aren't awsome, but they do the job well. Explosions and things like the sound of planes flying over head sound great though, and further more immerse you in the world war 2 atmostphere.

All of the guns, iniforms, tanks and events are completely authentic and true to the real life World War 2. Some of the levels even use maps and blueprints from the real life places they recreate. And the storyline follows real U.S. missions. All of this makes the game feel extremely authentic, realistic and has a nice change to all of the futuristic
fantasy first person shooters that litter the market.

There isn't a lot to tax the brain in Medal Of Honour: Frontline in terms of puzzles, misson objevtives are failry straight forward, but the gamplay redeems this entirely. As mentioned above, the enemy AI and the action of the game keep you on your toes. Gun fights are tactical, ammo and health pick-ups are cleverly placed and there's plently of coaperation with companions and other U.S. soldiers.

Medal Of Honour: Frontline presents a truely tough challange. There are three difficulty settings: easy, medium and hard. The difficulty curve aross each one is perfect, presenting you with less ammo/health, with stronger and more intelligent enemies which aim much more precisely. Perhaps a downside of this is that sometimes the game is frustratingly hard, and repeating the same level over and over can become a bit tiresome. But this is very minor compared to the sheer satisfaction you get from completing a level. And unlike most games these days you are filled with a real sense of challange and detirmination.

So in colusion, Medal Of Honour: Frontline delivers everything you'd expect from a top quality first person shooter. Outstanding graphics and sound, great gameplay, second to none realism and brilliant narative and story. And as a truely tough challange, this game will last you weeks, if not, months. Recommended very highly to any first person shooter or war games fan. The only thing this game lacks, unfortunately, is a two player mode.

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