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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Is it just me, or are there other silent gamers out there who are too afraid to voice their contempt toward politically correct heavily fantasized ww2 games? I am sooo damn tired of being stuck with absolutely no choice in options as to which side i can play. You get to play our side, and thats final. If ya don't wanna be the good ol' blank faced g.i., charging machine gun nests and knocking out tiger tanks single handedly, then you're a damn pro french commie who should be tarred and feathered.

Just once, i would like to play a high profile game that lets ya play from the axis side. Just once i wanna be a grizzled wehrmacht, or ss grunt, digging his final trench, and fighting against hopeless odds. Maybe even man a lone computerized 88 mm gun against a wave of sherman tanks. I wanna kill some g.i. bots for a change! Should i be shot for that? Just thought it might be fun to play as some historical soldiers who were actually required to fight, not as dudes who left their artillery and their air power do the hard work.

peace

Not what these people have reviewed,

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'd like to play the game that all these people rate as a 5 start game, because obviously it's not Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. I'll list the reasons for why I don't like it, so you potential customers can take a look at both sides of the story (Instead of reading reviews made by 9 year olds who rate as 5 stars all games where they can shoot something).

First, the title. Why is it called "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" when instead of historical WWII battles all you do is James Bond missions, blowing up secret bases, stealing devices "that could change the fate of the war" and etc? It should be called "Medal of Secrecy: One man Assault". Obviously, the title was made to fool people like me (Maybe you too) who wanted war games, not espionage games. That's just a title, and may not bother you, so I'll move on.

Only once, during the entire game, I felt I was in a war (During the D-Day level). During the rest of the game, I was running around secret bunkers and factories following some pesky Coronel's secret missions, killing ridiculous amounts of Germans (About 80+ per scenario), destroying artifacts that were suposed to give superpowers to the Nazis, alone, with no troops helping you. You probably read the thing about using a german uniform to sneak in unnoticed, but the problem is that you only do that in 2 levels during about 20-30 seconds (Then the game is set to automatically discover you).

Wait, it gets worse. Espionage would be ok, even with all these uncountable errors, but the problem is that during all the game, you have to go from point A to point B (Like going trough a tunnel) to complete your mission. That means that you don't have to think about strategy or what weapon to use in a specific situation; The whole game, and I'm not liying, is going trough a hallway/narrow street/Narrow path, with no alrternative routes, shooting at the nearest thing that moves. It's not fun; You use the guns instead of your head.

Maybe you're now saying "Ok, ok, but I still get to ride a tank and a jeep". Sorry but you don't ride the jeep; You just sit in the back, without being able to move, shooting to the nearest germans, while the driver takes you from point A to point B (Like a Disney ride, but with shooting). The tank is more or less the same thing, except that you control the turret and you can fire at other tanks (And destroy about 20-30, which redefines the word "Unrealism"). You can only go from point A to point B, across a very narrow path in the so called "open spaces". I've never been to France, but I highly doubt that the French put think brick walls to the sides of every road in their country.

It still gets worse; During the game, you can't switch weapons. Let's say you have a american sniper rifle but want a german sniper rifle (Which is the best). You can be stading on top of it but you can't pick it up and throw your original rifle away. The same happens with grenades unless you deplete them.

The medals are very eye-candy, but for the first 5-6 minutes. You won't stand there watching a medal all day long, won't you? Also, the game is called "Medal of Honor" but you can't win the Medal of Honor. That's rather disppointing, you know.

Is this the reason for why toushands of americans died for in Europe? To be remembered as super spies that killed hundreds of germans single handedly, that changed the fate of the war just in a couple of secret missions? If I was a WWII veteran, I'd be offended by this game.

If you want a first person shooter game, buy "Operation Flashpoint: Game of the Year Edition." The fact that it was Game of the Year and the fact that it works even on the most terrible computers leaves it quite clear.

Good.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Single player's good, multi-player's great, that's all that needs to be said.

Fantastic FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was hooked on this game shortly after the multiplayer demo came out and have been playing it ever since.

The single player game drops you right in the middle of WWII and allows you to experience some of the most well known battles of the war. Each campaign demands different techniques. In some you are storming through bunkers machine gunning everything in sight, while another puts you in the middle of a dreary sniper-ridden village where paranoia reigns supreme. Along the way you'll work with and be assisted by other troops who are more than willing to put themselves in harms way for you. My only complaint is that the single player game is a bit too short. There were more missions than I was expecting, but I wanted more.

The multiplayer game is a different beast all together. There is a different set of maps for multiplayer. The games range from free-for-all (deathmatch) to objective based team matches. The multiplayer game is as least as much fun as the single player. The biggest downside here is the use of Gamespy. The game has an internal browser for finding network games, but you'll probably find yourself using Gamespy since the internal browse is quite poor. With Gamespy you'll be subjected to watching ads (unless you decide to register it) just to find a game to play.

Finally, I just have to say the initial release of this game was terribly buggy. After playing the demo for months with no problems I installed the release version to have it continuously crash on me early in the game. I was stuck with a non-working game until the patch was finally released. I had similar experiences with F1 2001 and Black & White. EA's initial releases are clearly beta (at best) and should be treated as such (ie: don't expect much until the first patch is out). Luckily the patch for MOH is out now and most of the problems appear to be resolved.

Go out and buy it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've actually read some negative reviews on this site, obviously they didn't play this game. Everything from the hollywood scale movie like scripts to the intense battle scenes copied directly from Save Private Ryan, this game never ceased to amaze me. Just as an example of this, in one level where you have to disable the enemy air-denfense, you start at a battered outpost where you have to fight your way through Germans dug in at a barn house. After you clean that out, you are ordered to out flank half a dozen snipers behind the tower where you will find a radio from fallen comarades. Immediately, the suspense builds as Germans rush into your position and you have to fight your way back to the barn, man the machine gun and mow down advancing soldiers all while your own men are screaming and fighting by your side. Afterwards, you move towards a 88m cannon that is raining morter fire all around you and while you take cover, you have to use that radio you ust retrieved and call an airstrike, then you sit back and watch bombers clear the area for your advance. And that was just a quarter of one of the 30 levels.
Equally amazing is the incredible friendly AI where your troops can duck, fight, use med kits, and cover your position. Not to mention the Omaha beach level (which I felt was more intense that Spielberg's masterpiece). Also, if you have a five piece surround sound set, you will be treated with the most chaotic simulated war experience of your life. I felt all these playing this game on a 433mhz celeron with a voodoo3, imagine what your experienc will be if you paired a p4 with a geforce3. Must Play Omaha Beach Again, see ya!

Medal Of Honor

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had a pretty good story line and decent gameplay. The graphics are fine and so is the music.
What really annoyed me about this game is that when someone sounded an alarm in a few of the missions, the game kept flooding you with guys until you turned off the alarm, (the reason I gave it 3 stars, not 4) but otherwise this game is great.

World War II: It doesn't get any closer than this.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You are onboard a Allied Troop Carrier. You have no reached the Omaha Beach on the deciding day of World War II. One bullet can make all the difference. Nope, this is not the real thing. This is the closet you can get. Medal Of Honor: Allied Assualt is the exciting installment in the best World War II series ever made. With realistic graphics, real missions, real guns, and Steven Speilberg (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan) as consultant.

You play a young soldier who joins the Allied forces in World War II. You are thrust into the most dangerous missions from finding secret war documents to fighting the batte of them all, D-Day. The controls are pretty simple. W is for moving forward, S is for backwards, and the mouse does the rest. That good for people like me who can't remember all the controls for PC games.

The graphics are amazing. But, the A.I. is pretty wierd. It is like all of the Nazis are mind readers. If you want a multiplayer game, get Half-Life or Return To Castle Wolfenstien.

World War II has never been this exciting. If you like Saving Private Ryan, get this game. You won't regret it.

V-Day for the first person shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am not usually a fan of straight first person shooters, preferring games that incorporate some form of real-time action with an overlay of strategy, like the Close Combat series. I find that games like Quake, which relies on reflexes alone, are unrewarding after a while and have little replay ability.

Medal of Honour - Allied Assault, however, is the one first person shooter that is guaranteed to distract strategy hacks from their usual genre . . . at least for a while.

The game's realistic rendering of scenery and WWII weaponry and its attention to detail are unparallelled. One of my favourite moments is during an early level, when you enter a room that turns out to be a toilet and can see the boots of an enemy soldier under the cubicle door. You throw open the door and pistol whip the unsuspecting sentry into submission before he's barely had time to pull his pants up.

The presentation of the story line is excellent and there are some truly memorable moments, such as when you finally enter one of the German pillboxes overlooking Omaha Beach. From there you can see the whole scene; the tiny figures of the GIs scrambling over the sand dunes and barbed wire far below, periodically being mown down by machine guns or blown up by shellbursts. Then you can turn the MG42 in the pillbox on German positions to your right and let them taste some of their own medicine.

The game nonetheless has several downsides. Its biggest fault is that the missions are too linear. Unlike Delta Force, in which you can explore an entire three dimensional landscape around each target, attacking from whatever angle you choose or picking targets in your own order, Allied Assault forces you generally to follow a narrow path designated by the game. For example, when street fighting, you are usually forced to conduct full frontal attacks up the mainstreets of the towns rather than being given the option to duck down a side street and try to flank the enemy. This makes the game a little boring and predictable and limits replay ability.

The endings of missions are also heavily scripted, finicky and often a bit illogical. In one ending, if you stay in the building, you will be killed by falling debris. To win, you must leave the building and then re-enter it. If you follow the correct sequence, the building will not collapse on you.

The online game is also not particularly interesting -- it is very similar to that of the Delta Force series with a large number of cheats running around and most people opting to use the bazooka or panzerschreck as the lowest common denominator of weapon.

These points aside, Medal of Honour -- Allied Assault is a fun game that will keep you playing at least until you've obtained the nine decorations needed to fill your medal box.

THIS IS IT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Wow!! What a game! My girlfriend and I bought the DVD,
Saving Private Ryan and I stated "gee , they need to make a
game like this". She stated they had and at was this game.
It has a lot of scenes from the movie,even the extremly
moving scene of the first part of the movie,where the
GI's are approaching Omaha Beach, I freaked!!! Being a serious
1st person shooter,the shooting is a little different. Its almost
"real life shootin" ,where its not quite exact. With most
1st person games, you can basically shoot anywhere close to the guy,with this you have to be precise,its very realistic! No its
now trying not to get "tied up" playing this game. The first
night I played for 5 hours. GO BUY THIS GAME!

This sums it up

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, this is going to be real quick because its rather easy to understand. This is the best game I have ever played for any system and of any genre. Done.

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