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A more realistic MOH

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This MOH game brings about many changes in the series. This game is much more realistic, tactical, and much less run-and-gun. Therefore, it is a bit more difficult. You must use cover and peek around corners to efficiently attack enemies. Other new add-ons include:
1. Holding medikits (to increase health and heal comrades - you can carry these and use them as needed).
2. Earning revives (earned by achieving special objectives, automatically used when your health meter reaches zero).
3. An adrenaline meter (which fills up by killing enemies and can later be used to attack without damage and with unlimited ammo - difficult to use correctly at first but with experience becomes a huge advantage).
4. You control a group of comrades that fight with you (you can give simple "go here" and "retreat" commands - they aren't good for much, but they do kill - on occasion).
As I said before, this game is much more difficult than the previous MOHs, so the frustration factor is much higher. There are no save-points or checkpoints, so if you die at the end of a 30-minute mission, it's back to the beginning. There is no co-op mode which is a bummer. I don't play online so I can't say anything about that. Despite being very different from the other MOHs, this is a great WWII shooter. You get the same great WWII realism (battles, uniforms, weapons - and in this one, a machine gun can actually take a guy out in a bullet or two, unlike old MOHs where you'd have to empty a clip). Two great additions in this game involve grenades. You can allow a grenade to cook, which shortens the time til explosion and eliminates the enemies' chance of throwing it back or kicking it. And if an enemy tosses a grenade in your direction, you can kick it. One down-side to this game is its length. There are about 12 missions in 4 different geographic locations. However, there are 4 different difficulty settings, with the hardest being almost impossible. I don't know if this game is worth it's original retail price, but now that it's in the greatest hits, add it to your MOH collection.

European Assault isn't Frontline, but it's okay.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You play as United States Lieutenant William Holt as he engages in various missions, which includes fighting in Stalingrad and the Battle of the Bulge, in Europe during World War 2. Eventually Holt has to stop a mad Nazi general or something from dropping a Dirty Bomb on London.

This is your basic Medal of Honor game - you run, jump, and crawl around in first person, shooting and blowing up Nazis with a wide assortment of WW2 weapons such as athe M1 Garand or Thompson, while doing random objectives like planting charges, calling in airstrikes and what not. However, European Assault does bring some new things to the aging franchise. For starters you can now command a team of three soldiers (starts off with British, then Russian, then Americans), but sadly their AI so so atrocious you'll probably try leaving them behind or not care if they die. Secondly, you can "revive" yourself when you die by collecting these white pill looking things throughout the levels. And finally, there are secondary objectives which actually encourage you to explore the entire level - in otherwords, non-linear level design unlike the previous games.

Moving on, the enviroments look pretty war torn and good as well as decently realistic. The lighting looks real good, and the guns look perfect. Sadly, almost all the character models look exactly the same - a typical in the Medal of Honor games.

Musically speaking, this game has an awesome soundtrack. Michael Giachinno, the composer, really knows mix heavy grief & sadness with heart pounding tension & anxiety. The voice acting is really good as well, and the same goes with the sound of the weapons and explosions. The explosions sound exceptionally well.

The only replayability factor I can possibly think of is going back into every stage and finding every objective to earn a gold medal. Maybe a few multiplayer matches, but other than that its a no go.

Like always, the ending was garbage. William Holt stops the Nazi general, and the bomb explodes in a bunker..some how Holt manages to survive the explosion, American troops come and give him orders to head to Berlin. After that, you hear a real life William Holt explaining what the war really meant to him. Other than the real life Holt tlaking, the end wasn't very interesting...but neither are any MOH endings.

The AI...was terrible like I mentioned. Not your enemies, they had pretty good AI by taking cover, using their surroundings....your Allies AI was disgusting. You would order then to take cover behind a wall and then they will run right in front of it while getting shot with a gun emplacement. Better yet, you would (like I said) try leaving them behind so you can engage in a serious firefight (which happens alot) and they would come running right into the battlefield screaming "HOLT HAS THE RIGHT IDEA!!!". Pending on how many, if any, survived you get medipacks for the next stage (ie: 3 people lived, 3 medipacks earned)... so its really not even worth it to keep them alive.

To finish it up, although European Assault is short and very hard at times - it is a pretty good shooting game with wide open levels and fast paced WW2. I suggest it as a rental to die hard MOH fans, Brother in Arm fans, or shooting gamers.

Room for improvment.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A OK game. The missions are OK. But some of it is complrtrly screwed up. You now have to defeat a bose every level that is 10x more powerful than anything else(he can take like 2 rocket hits.) All the melee attacks are bassicaly the same. And you're squad is made up of people from a retard house. The multiplayer is OK, only if you have LOTS of people. The overal game is alright, but just needs some tweaking.

Cool Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It was A Gift for my dad. He has the first Medal of Honor Game..This one is a bit of a challenge for him but he really likes it. He says it will certainly take him some time to finish this game. That was my whole point of buying it for him. He is retired and loves to play games in his spare time. So he should be occupied for some time!!!

OK but could be much much better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When i heard that a new MoH was coming out i had to get it. But really it isn't that great. The graphics are not good at all and are very much like a cartoon than like a game. The whole OSS secret agent going behind enemy lines and killing 100s of nazis is old. But you do get to use a squad to help you out. But its a shame that they usually do absolutely nothing, and end up dead. U can tell that this game was kind of thrown out there to keep up with Call of Duty and all their success, becuz it contains many of the same features. This is the first PS2 MoH game where you look down the sights to aim. Another dissapointment was the multiplayer. The graphics are horribly toned down and the weapons are limited. Rent it, don't buy it.

Good, But not quite what I remembered from the series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I recently picked this up used for $15.00 at Game stop. And I had it a couple of days and beat it. There really wasn't much challenge with this, Simply because this game gives you a maximum of 8 med kits, not to mention revives, and Adrenaline which for a short period of time makes you invinible and gun ammo is unlimited!Although I think the adrenaline and revive concept is cool, since no other MOH game has that feautre (That I know of.)The germans are more relentless in this game then I remember in past MOH games. Maybe it's just me I don't know. But It's decent for anybody to play, not only giving your kids or you a fun night of shoot 'em up, Also gives you a sense of great knowledge of the history behind these games, knowing what our guys in green did for us behind the lines, risking their lives. I'd buy this If I were you, But I do believe that the past MOH games might be slightly better though. The only gripe I have is, there is no SAVE CHECKPOINT, But if you have the patience & if you're willing to ignore this annoying thing I'd get it.

ChangChang

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Medal of Honor: European Assault has powerful gamesplay and stunning graphics. It has sloppy controls and a 2nd rate story line

The story starts out in the famout battle of St. Naizaire. From there you travel to Afica, Russia, and finally the Battle of the Bulge. During gameplay, Medal of Honor European Assault features some of the most realistic bullet tracers ever to date. The campaigne itself is unique, but short and leave you wanting more. As you play from mission to mission, there are Nazi secrets in the area that are uncovered such as collecting the documents. However you can't read them, and they have very little to do with the story. The gameplay in Medal of Honor European Assault is solid unlike those dark, gloomy games like Medal of Honor: Rising Sun and Call of Duty: Finest Hour. Medal of Honor European Assault has nothing new. All the leaning, shooting mechanics are all very old, but this time, the games has inagrated them so they are actually useful. These features include, adreanaline, leaning and shooting, and a objective compass that you will find your self using more than ounce. In multiplayer, it only allows four players per map, there is no online mode. This is really disappointing, considering that the games is all stardard gamesplay everytime.

Medal of Honor: European Assault has solid gameplay that will keep you playing for hours. But the non-compelling storyline and the lack of online play will leave you emotionally detatched.

great action

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i think it is a great shooting game and action game,its worth buying

No more WW2 Games!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am getting frickin' tired of these games! If they are going to make another medal of honor game, put new things oh say... BLOOD AND GORE! It's good but no more WW2 games. EA, make a new bloodier medal of honor! no more games with no blood!

Medal Of Honor European Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I sent this item back as I wanted software for the computer, not for the Play Station Two. It was my mistake in ordering. When this becomes available for the computer, please let me know. I rated this item at 5 stars as my husband has the other Medal of Honor games and loves them !

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