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Addictive Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is such a fun game, I can hardly stop playing it.....I usually have to tear myself away just so that I can get outside in the real world....and I'm a 37 yr. old female....so what's that saying about me? hahaha Seriously, one of the best around, plus the Rifle Servers make for quite a challenge...if you can practice with these first...you can go to any Freeze Tag Server and usually kick [..]!!!

very challenging

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it's not easy, but it's worth a better score than a 6 or 7. i find it very challenging, with great graphics. not easy but engaging. a buy indeed especially at this point.

Close to five stars but not quite

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, Breakthrough is worth ten bucks even if it is short. Ten Bucks is nothing. I am semi-surprised it went that cheap. Heck, buy it used for 5 bucks.
Anyway, about the game. The graphics, battles, guns, and sound are all very good. And one thing that I really like about it is that the AI is not so annoying. In the first medal of honor the AI would hit you without even aiming. Or they would see you even if you were extremely well hidden. The AI in this is better, and the action is crispier. Anyway, I think that for the price it is a good buy and you will be playing it through more than once.
It's a good game and was definitely better than Spearhead.

Flawed but consistent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you liked other MOHAA editions, then this is fairly true to the original format. Being so, it provides little in terms of new dynamics. Some new weapons, and the setting in the African/Italian Theatre add some appeal. Overall, you get what you expect. There are some very frustrating attributes to this expansion: ammo can be scarce, seemingly where it is needed most. A particular part in the game where you're fending off the enemy while your comrade unlocks a door for the longest 30s known to the universe with low ammo provided many hours of cursing, to the point where I just loaded to an earlier point, conserving ammo in anticipation of this part of the game. Thus gameplay can be stilted by unimaginative challenges. As usual, the game AI is poor, compensated by amazing sharpshooting skills of every enemy soldier. Stealth is almost useless in this games as with other MOHAA installments. But, if it wasn't fun on some level, I wouldn't have finished it. Recommend picking up cheap or used if you can. Not worth full price of admission.

This games Multiplayer rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! When I got the original I was a little dissapointed that the multiplayer wasn't working so I was stuck with the single player:( But after I purchased Breakthrough for some reason the multiplayer work and before I knew it I was slaying everyone! There are some great modes (Objective match) with some great maps too (V2 Rocket Facility, The Hunt). Anyways I want to inform you that this is a great game. So sign up soldier and get ready to be massacred by lt con da man. Thats me :) Hope you fools will try out the multiplayer!

Review on GAme

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: September 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Review On Game:
The game that will blow your mind....

Where do I go? What weapon do I use? These are some of the questions you could answer on the video game, Medal of Honor. This game is a "killer" buy. It has really good speed
(Loading), good graphics, pretty much good everything. If you ever go to buy a video game, I highly recommend this one.

(...)Isn't that such a fabulous cost? So if you really wanted a video game but your mom would not buy it for
You, show her this really, really cheap game and I guarantee
You she will buy it. Other games such as Need For Speed Underground and Enter The Matrix cost about five dollars more.

The special effects and sound effects on this game are awesome! The gunshots fill the air with a loud BANG!
The special effects are really good because the explosions on the game really and truly look real.

This game does not have a good theme for ages 7 and under. That is because it involves killing and stealing. Basically, this is a really good game. I highly, highly recommend this one.

Breakthrough to Breakdown

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been a huge fan of Medal of Honor since I bought Allied Assault and even after Spearhead's shortfalls, but this is just terrible. This expansion pack should have been awesome, yet it failed terribly. The missions have potential, but are horrible. The African campaign where you had to defend the braindead minesweeping tanks was sheer agony. You have to stay ahead of the tanks to protect them, but if you take the time you need to kill the Germans who threaten you and the tanks, you'll likely be run over by the tanks you're protecting. It's very difficult to keep an eye on your tanks, keep moving up and shooting every German all at once. After a few minutes, it gets very tiring.

In the Italian campaign, you fire one round, ALL the Italians will know exactly where you are and you'll be surrounded in seconds. Being shot from every angle (where each shot throws off your aim) while using your Garand can be difficult, especially since there will be no health for you until much later. Later on you will have to fight off hordes of Italian tanks with mortars (as if those mortars could scratch a tank.) You're in a house with a small wall around it, you have to use these cumbersome mortars to destroy these tanks from two different directions, and if one touches the wall, you fail your mission. Even if you destroy it a split second after it touches the wall. Even though the enemy is destroyed, the enemy still has broken through.

One very annoying thing is the lack of ammunition. You have to conserve ammo like mad. About one in every 10 soldiers drops some ammo, if you're lucky. In most situations, I had to fight a group of Germans at close range with nothing more than my sniper rifle and pistol (at least the Italian pistol is decent) only to rewarded with no ammunition. It's very frustrating.

The single player mode ended twice as soon as it should have, and I was left with the feeling of "That's it?"

Like Spearhead, the shortfalls in singleplayer were somewhat made up for with improvements in the multiplayer. However the improvements were nothing spectacular. New modes, weapons and maps were nice, when I could play it. Apparently Breakthrough has a problem where when you try to connect to a multiplayer game, it says your CD key is already in use. Natrually I thought someone was using a pirated copy with my CD key. That is, until I went to their website and found out that's not the case at all. Apparently it's some bug where they screwed up and you have to pay. The explanation on how to fix the problem is of epic proportions (you have to delete the game in a special way and re-install it in a special way) and I just felt cheated. They screwed up so you have to compensate to use the product you paid for.

This is only everything I feel like writing about right now that I can remember (I gave up on this expansion months ago.) Just stick with MOHAA or Spearhead if you already have it. If you really want to try this out, don't spend over $10 for it.

EDIT: Since I wrote this review, I re-installed Breakthrough out of curiosity and the multiplayer works fine this time. I don't know how common the problem I mentioned is.

You get what you pay for

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

---- Contains minor spoilers ----

I only paid $10 for this expansion pack so I didn't really expect all that much. I'd played Mohaa all the way through without any major problems so I was suprised to find that some portions of this game are ridiculously difficult. I found I kept running out of ammo because the vast majority of bad guys don't drop ammo when you kill them.

Other parts of the game are also poorly designed such as the bit where your buddy is trying to unlock a door. You get swamped by grenade launching dudes and don't stand a chance. There are several other points which are extremely difficult too. There doesn't really seem to be a good reason for designing a game with this level of difficulty. And, yes, I'm playing on 'EASY'.

The standard cheats don't seem to work on this expansion set and I can't find any cheats online which either means there aren't any or no-one cares enough about the game to research them. Either way, the only way around these impossible sections is to jump to the next map.

There are some cool new weapons such as a powerful air-rifle, a wimpy sub machine gun, and an excellent machine gun. You also get to use mortars, ack-ack, and other heavy artillery. There's also a good dose of humor too.

Overall I'd say it might be worth $10 but not a penny more.

battle of frustration ridge

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a computer gamer of 30 years (you read that right), I found this to be the most frustrating piece of crappy software gaming I've ever played. If you enjoy playing one scene over and over and over and OVER until you finally figure out that you have to first do thing 1 before you do thing 2 (and it doesn't have to be something logical), then this is for you. It's one thing to be challenging, but this game takes it over the top. Ridiculous.

Spend your money on Call of Duty - EXCELLENT!

save your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game has its moments, but most of the time its more Rambo-style kill everything that moves action. Also, there is very little ammo to be picked up. The game throws a LOT of enemies at you, and several times I've run out of ammo. There may be a pile of corpses at your feet, but you can't get their ammo or weapons. Very frustrating. I am wondering if this is a bug or intentional. At one point I found a cheat code on the net and gave myself ammo that way. The gameplay and graphics are ok if you have enough ammo to survive. There's nothing here however that you can't get out of CALL OF DUTY or the other Allied Assault games. The ammo problem takes away at least one star for me. It literally makes it impossible to play on certain levels.

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