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Style over Substance

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My SYS SPECS: P4@3.0/800fsb ...RAM - 1gb DDR2 ... Card - Radeon X800SE PCI Express 128mb
Yet, I had to turn down the Video Settings. The gameplay didn't make up for the demanding SYS REQ. Choppy/Jerky/Slow gameplay and the graphics weren't all that great. MOH:PA almost brought my machine to a slide-show gaming experience.
I have virtually nothing running in the background + turned down my desktop resolution to 800x600.
Games like Line of Sight:Vietnam; Deadly Dozen:Pacfic Theater and Marine Sharpshooter 2: Jungle Warfare all did a nice job with jungle/foliage, while keeping the SYS REQ within reason.

Not good enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

While the graphics are top-notch, the plot is seriously lacking. As some reviewers have stated, this game pales in comparison to Call of Duty. In essence, what the developers tried to do was capitalize on what the Call of Duty series perfected.
The Pearl Harbor action was well done...BUT...I seriously doubt that the Japanese 1) used that many aircraft and 2) could afford to lose that many aircraft in such a strike.
After that...the game goes down hill and in a big hurry. It becomes very repetitive and on any difficulty setting above Easy it becomes a product of frustration. Die, reload, try again, die...you get the idea. It appears that the enemy AI is much more adept at seeing through the jungle foliage than the friendly Marine AI units. Another thing: it also appears that the enemy AI concentrates on YOU more than on your squad.
And then we get to the piloting the fighter-bomber... Whoever came up with this part should have been canned. WHY did the pilot bail? Just so that you can pilot a plane and do some WWII Pacific theater piloting....with a mouse! Horrendous.
Anyways...I would recommend this game to players but only once it hits the bargain bin.

BTW...the multiplayer aspects of the game are terrible as well. Not fun at all.

Good game for a powerful computer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall I really enjoyed the game. I just completed it over the Christmas and New Year Holidays. Like the original Medal of Honor, it ends abruptly, leaving you wanting more (hence the expansion packs). The graphics are good. All the effects are great. Historically it was awesome, from the campaigns to the weapons, everything (which was the reason I got it). The only thing I did not like was the fact that it includes a lot of video, which seems to slow the game down a lot. I was using a laptop with a 1.8Ghz processor and it took a long time to load in each level and to reload after being "killed". I have heard that laptops generally aren't a good machine to run a game on, but it's all I have. In addtion to the slow loading speeds the game would also stall and get stuck when there was increased action, such as many characters or a lot of shooting, explosions, etc..

Medal of Honour: Pacific Assualt

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game through most of the missions. It has a training mission to learn the first person controls. Then you get into it. Some thought is necessary to complete missions successfully, I like. What I don't appreciate, in any game, is where the vehicle controls are made difficult just to make the game harder. You are able to fly an airplane, but the game doesn't support a joy stick. I know what has to be done for the mission and the task is made harder by the slow controls(having to repeatedly lift the mouse from the desk to turn), so even veteran gamers must repeat the same portion over and over. I could create a joystick profile. Load times can be long for missions and I needed to enable shaders 2.0 on my ATI graphics card to increase the speed of the game. I bought this game because I really enjoyed Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30. It's a different play experience than this.

I love this game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

From start to finish, MOHPA is a blast. The single-player levels are intense and extremely challenging. You get to use the full-range of small arms employed in that theater. You even get to fly a fighter and knock out an aircraft carrier and destroyer. Very cool.

You start in boot-camp, move on to Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Makin Atoll, and finally Tarawa Atoll. That brings you through 1943. I assume that additional games will take you to Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

Something interesting also happened as the game progressed. You're placed in a squad with four other characters, who stick with you from boot camp to the last episode in the Battle of Tarawa Atoll. Men in your squad are shot down and injured from time to time (of course). During firefights, instead of running for cover, I ran out and grabbed the injured and then dropped them near the corpsman. Very strange. I really got into working as a squad member.

The Director's Edition contains background historical information on the Pacific Theater. It includes interviews with several veterans of that conflict (similar to interviews conducted with vets in the Band of Brothers series).

If you're a military history buff and love FPS games (as I do), you'll have to buy this one. It'll blow you away.

Awesome Game, Challenging More realistic than COD, nice break from Europe

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game, if you like realism this one is great, on par with Rainbox 6 Vegas and GRAW. No Rambo play, unless you use the cheats. Like those games though sometimes it's a little too realistic and you have to try a lot of times to get past certain points in the game, I myself just used the widely published cheats that allow you to load the next level.

I have a mid-range computer with a lower mid-range graphics card and I had no problems with the loading, it did take longer than most games but not frustratingly long. I had everything set on high/very high and it looks beautiful! Yes the first "mission" is just training at the base which is fairly boring for anyone who knows how to play an FPS with overly long cut scenes, we just want the action EA!

This one is better with the AI good guys doing their part, in COD3/COD2 most of the time the AI good guys are useless and won't move up until you kill a lot of baddies on your own first. You feel more like another soldier in this game.

For (...) or less this is a HUGE value, I could see myself playing through 2-3 times!!

Specs:

Gateway AMD 3800+ X2 desktop
160 GB HD
2GB memory
eVGA Nvidia 7600 GS 128mb

Great Game, what a Shame

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great story, acting, graphics, music, game play. Too bad they put in those hidden objectives to chase medals and "hero moments". Instead of going through it like the great documentary novel and testimony to the bravery and selflessness of those marines who fought there that it is, we chase the medals from level to level trying to gather all those in truth meaningless tidbits for our ego gratification. I'm sure those maraines were not thinking of medals - they were trying to survive with their buddies, as I tried in Vietnam...please play this game with that in mind.

not bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: November 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

i have a p4 2.4gh. 640 ram. 40 gigs. 128 geforce nvidia pci video card. i was able to run the game well on medium detail. there is a slight problem with the color buts its not to bad. this game was made to be like call of duty but failed horibly. it should of been more of the mohaa stlye. the first 2 of 5 levels are boring and have about zero action. but the next 3 levels are awsome. its sort of cool fighing in the jungle but not really. just really realistic. some levels are lame b /c they make u protect some hill for like 20mintues straight. dont buy this game untill its 30$ or 20$.

Great Game!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: August 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Good game... Good grapics, good game play, realisic, and worth the money!!!!!
The only problems I had with the game was that its hard to get certain guns, such as M1 carbines, and there is NO FREEDOM!!!!!! you go were your suppose to go and thats it!!!!!!! Unlike Battlefield Vietnam which has more freedom in it than any other game i've played, but the game still at the same time has objectives to complete.

here is a link to battlefield Vietnam.... (...)

Superfluous Departures from Battle Tactics Environment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There is a lot of movie cut-scene type of stuff in the beginning that made me impatient to get into battles such as were in the Allied Assault game. The authors tried too hard to give sense of real environments and began to bore me with the boot camp dialogues and tour of Pearl Harbor streets and buildings. Then, early in the game, I got stuck inside the sinking ship Arizona at Pearl Harbor, and found myself trying to solve MYST-like puzzles while the roof was falling on me. How to get to the valve handle, turn the handle, oh - go get that axe, what should I do with it, etc etc. I kept getting killed by falling ceilings and never did get into a battle with my gun. Could not get past this scenario. Got disgusted after half an hour and gave up. Packed the game and sold it off to someone with more patience. I did not get far enough into the game to generate a valid rating. Twas NOT fun getting stuck in some chaotic scenario inside a sinking ship. Yes it was real war environment, no it was not the kind of battle action I expected and wanted.

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