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One man's "greatest game in the world" is another's letdown

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would really love to have someone release a WWII shooter that actually felt like WWII. And while EA likes to boast the realism, frankly that only goes as far as the weapons, the launguages and the location. The game is 100% linear and 99% predictable, and after finishing it, I feel more like I have finished reading a book, not playing a game. Honestly, the mistakes are so glaring that EA really could have made a better game if they would have tried harder. This is definatly one you will need to try for yourself, and reach your own conclusions on.

The GOOD:
- Missions remain interesting throughout the game.
- Some wonderfully scripted encounters, and occasionally you will get to see wonderful character actions in your allies as well as your enemies.
- Nice range of American and German weapons, and fairly accurate noises. Tanks are fairly life-like as are aircraft.
- Lots of speaking (English and German). Scripts are correct for the locations, and you don't run into situations where dead soldiers are carrying on conversations and such, as you do in some other titles.
- Accurate uniforms (within reason).
- Sniper rifles are accurate, powerful and fun (and there are plenty of opportunities to use them, if that is your thing).

The BAD:
- The graphics are not as good as, for example, Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the Xbox (I'm using a Nvidia GeForce4 64mb DDR video card), or as nice as Delta Force Blackhawk down (which is a better game).
- When shot, your character's aim flies across the screen. This may enhance the realism, but when you are confronted with multiple enemies it makes it virtually impossible to hit anyone and soon becomes incredibly annoying.
- Enemies have certain locations from which they spawn, in fact you can find them and stand there and gun them down as they suddenly materialize. Also, some enemies (like snipers) have not materialized until you step past a certain point (into their line of fire) and then they spawn and fire.
- Cannot interact with surroundings (doors, windows, etc.)
- Lack of blood (to maintain the Teen rating).
- Very linear.

The UGLY:
- MG42/44 is lethal in the hands of the enemy, but when you have the opportunity to man one the bullets fly everywhere but where you are aiming, in fact, the machine gun is only slightly more effective than any of your standard arms, and much more frustrating to try and use.
- Allied AI is NIL, and considering some of these guys are supposed to be Rangers...they just run into the open and fire then stop, then fire and stop again while they are being gunned down. I was happy to see them get slaughtered so at least I could move (oh yah, you are stuck behind any obstacle as if it were twice as wide as it really is).
- Enemies continue to rush you with no regard to their own casualties, and will even run from around a corner straight into your fire, requiring no effort from you to gun down entire squads.
- Shrubbery and leaves will block your bullets, but not the bullets of the enemies, making Snipers almost impossible to kill unless you rush their positions.
- Snipers are way too good (even when I knew exactly where they were they could see me before I could see them).
- The signifigant lack of an ending of any sort is unforgiveable. What did they do, just give up halfway through???

Medal of Honor : Allied Assault

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Medal of Honor : Allied Assault is a fps set in the real world during the second world war and you get to play an american soldier. The multiplayer gameplay is poorly designed but the single player gameplay is excellent with great level design, fairly good enemy ai and intresting missions, But it has the worst ending ever in a computer game. The d-day mission is one of the best levels ever in a fps, it makes you feel as if you are really there and it is quite disturbing, It alone is worth buying the whole game. Mohaa is built on the quake3 engine, I played it on the OpenGL video mode and it runs great. The graphics and sound are great but the main menu is badly designed and confusing. The load times are not long and the quick loading is almost instant. Medal of Honor : Allied Assault is an excellent computer game and not to be missed if you like fps.

Absolutely Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You've all probably heard about the great graphics and sound of MOH:AA, but thats not actually its strong point. I just played the single player demo and I can definitely say that this game has the best artificial intelligence of any game EVER. The only games that come close are Half-Life and Unreal Tournament. Both your friendly squad and the Germans behave exactly like real soldiers would and provide a real threat. The enemy can take cover behind almost anything, they work in squads to flank you, they shoot around corners, they snipe while hidden in foliage, and they cover each other's advances toward your squad. Your squad on the other hand covers you when needed, clears garrisoned buildings in a very realistic fashion (grenades around corners, use of point men), and will also call out any and all threats that they see ("Germans, right flank!"). Your team is a real asset in missions. In games like Ghost Recon, your team is not necessarily essential (its fairly easy to beat the game with one or two people on your squad and using very little saves). In this game however, you develop a real dependency on your squad and you WANT to see them to survive. If they die, the game becomes one hell of a lot harder. If the grahphics, sound, and every other aspect of this game were not good (which they aren't by a longshot), I would still highly recommend this game from the AI I've seen in the SP demo. Simply amazing.

Excellent Realism

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Of all the games that I have played that are based on the WWII theme, this is the most realistic out there. Contrary to most reviews, the game runs beautifully on my PC and unlike Return to Castle Wolfenstein (which is an excellent game itself, don't get me wrong here) which is more like a supernatural FPS than a realsitic one.
The way the guns fire, the way the Axis soldiers fall to the ground in pain, the way the camera shakes when hit, all these things come together to make an experience quite similar to the "Saving Private Ryan" motion picture, which wanted to transport us into the very heart of the horrors of WWII. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault did a great job in emulating that experience and transmorphing it into the Action/FPS genre of PC gaming.
The key words here are realism, integrity, and quality. The game's quality and integrity enchance its realism, making this game, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, a classic, realistic FPS for the PC.

On the Beach

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

In my Marine days, I had made amphib assaults, against mother nature and civilian tourists on the shores of Camp Pendleton, Ca. I had always wondered what an opposed assault would be like. Now I don't want to know.

This is my opinion of ONE single player mission from this game.

Its like the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan in your face. I was shocked at the amount of detail, from the sounds of the MG-42s, grenades, screaming of commands, soldiers yelling for their buddies, or mostly for medics, the dying, the impacts of high velocity rounds against metal, and the surrealistic feel of a battlefield. The heavy artillery and mortars are hellish. I can look back behind me and see just thousands of americans. The scenary is alive, and with lots of cinematic detail...

Great game... but nothing special

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'll start with SP over veiw:

Graphics: Pretty good. Very well scripted faces and emotions.

Gameplay: Very fun and VERY hard. The enemy AI is pretty good but its so heavily scripted that the same thing happens every time. It does lag quite a bit on big levels too. And there IS blood. You jsut need to download a blood mod and there you go.

Replay Value: I've replayed all of the levels trying to get all of the medals and easter eggs.

While the singleplayer is good the multiplay is... well poor...

Levels: Fun at first... but they get too repetive and after awhile boring.

Lag: I don't get any except on one map~ Snowy Park.

Fun: ugh... too many rockets, shotguns, and snipers...

Over all this game is only average. The singleplayer in RTCW is too short and the monsters are way to hard to kill. While this game takes tactics and different methodes of approach. But the multiplay is much better in RTCW.

The Best RPG available today

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game and worth every penny. The graphics are stunning, the realism of the situations and strategies are second to none, and you can pretend you are in the middle of WWII while sleeping in your own comfy bed at night! I've tried demo versions of Ghost Recon, Soldier of Fortune, and America's Army, and this one is head and shoulders above the rest.

Exceptional

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I first got this game and was amazed at how good it was. The graphics are great, the AI respond to your actions, the D-Day mission ruled, and the historical accuracy of the game was very high. Of course soldiers names were probably made up, and the missions were not real (but still based on actual missions), but I, being a WWII history freak, have yet to find errors. The graphics of this game really blew me away, the trees are actually 3d! The missions are great, good variety of environments, weapons, objectives, and many challenges. I was very surprised at the great detail in character models. I thought Operation Flashpoint was good, but this is almost perfect. Even though there are a lot of glitches in the game, just downloading the 1.11 patch fixes most of the bugs in the game. It's that easy. You can also download files that allow you to add blood, new maps, weapon skins, character skins, etc... Multiplayer is just as good as singleplayer. It allows you to have an all out battle and test your skills with up to 64 players on hundreds of different maps and levels! I highly recommend this game for anyone above the age of 10. Great game, if you like first person shooters, this is the game for you.

NOTE: it also has an expansion, Spearhead, which is really really cool, the D-Day mission is the best of all, very overwhelming. Dang, its great.

American duty, honor and friendship for all free people!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Medal of Honor" , this pc game remembers to us Europeans, the honor, the duty, the life sacrifice of thousands and thousands of american young men in The II World War for a free Europe and World! Buy it for 100% to remember the history too!

holy CRAP!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WOW this is simple! This is one of the best games i ever played in my life.Where to begin oy how about the normandy beach landing how can you not like this game. And how aout the AI the enemies are as life like as you can get. As for the rest of the game buy it and you will see what i mean! So go out and purchase this game it is well worth it!

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