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Another Great Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 29
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The first look at Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (I Am in the designing buisness =P ) It looked AWESOME!!! Its great lighting, nice sounds good graphic left me speechless. I would reccomend this game to anybody who likes a good shooter game.

Another thing that makes this game good is that it is more than just a shooter game with a good amount of levels (35) is that the new AI is really smart.

I CAN NOT WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON THIS GAME! :)

THE MULTIPLAYER
With class based gameplay, all-new Invader gametype, integrated PunkBuster Technology, and eight original gameplay scenarios, multiplayer is the best i've ever seen it in an MOH game.

I NEED THIS SOO BAD!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 67
Date: September 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I will keep this short and sweet. I absolutely need this game in my Medal of Honor arsenal. It has been way too long. I have resorted to starting up a new mission about a week ago on the older MOH when I say this I mean Allied assault + the two expansions, I swear that it is the only way to get enough MOH at one time because I can play for two hours at a time easily. That doesn't sound like much but I am also playing the Call of Duty-United Offensive expansion pack and have also been deep into Doom 3 (about 2 or 3 levels remaining), Painkiller, and Far Cry (also about 1 or 2 levels remaining),I am also greatly into the Age of Mythology series and the C&C Generals series, so I am truly doing whatever I can to get by until Pacific Assault gets released and like always with the MOH series I am sure that this will also be a great investment in both dollars and time taken from my life.

More of the same...except...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 30
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pacific Assault is more expansion pack than new game. The opening sequence at Pearl Harbor is excellent. Afterwards, the action is similar to previous MOH's. The reason? Most of the development crew moved on to create the far superior Call of Duty. And the new A.I. they tout? It's a load... enemies are more effective in groups, but the action ends up the same old thing. Unless you are passionate about the MOH series, save this for a $20 pick-up.

This Game Looks Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 37
Date: October 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I cant wait to get this game. I have 5 Medal of Honor games. I have Medal of Honor Rising Sun, Medal of Honor Frontline, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Medal of Honor Breakthrough and Medal of Honor Spearhead. I liked them all. I also want Call of Duty Finest Hour for PS2. I cant wait.

oh look, another tree!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The most pleasing to look at level was the ones without the trees or inside a claustrophobic battleship. I now have a much better understanding of why other game makers hasn't tackled the Pacific theater in other FPS games...it's boring. No matter how great they texture the trees, when you get hundreds of them, it don't make them anything else then an obstacle. Hours upon hours of running around in similar looking locale, and your fighting spirit is sapped away. In the original Medal of Honor, there was dramatic scenary. From the ruins of Omaha beach, to the green and luscious forest estates, to crumbling villages. And because the trees are so tightly grouped, there isn't much room for movement. You try and dodge a little bit to the side, and you're now stuck on something (a tree, most of the time)

Close spaces seems to be a theme in this game. From the tight corridors of a burning battleship, to the trench system of Tarawa, and *shudder* the tree infested jungles of everywhere else. Add to this the tendency of the enemy to charge you with their bayonets (and when they charge, they put a sidestep move on you that'll inspire the greatest of the NFL players), and your weapons needing time in between shots = you get stabbed by a bayonet doing hella lots of damage. But the good thing is that your teammates are invincible to death it seems.

The controls in the game isn't too responsive. this might be due to my graphic card being outdated (Geforce ti-4600) however.

Wasn't a bad game, but I expected more from MOH line. It's just too bad there isn't any other (to my knowledge) Pacific theater FPS game out. So if you're hung up on needing to play in this part of the war, then you're stuck with this game. Good thing - the price here in Amazon is amazing!

FYI - don't bother with the director's cut. Never even used the damned light machine gun and didn't miss it. And the extras are damn near unwatchable. You won't miss anything. So save yourself that extra $10 and buy the regular version.

New yet already old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The new MOH Pacific Assault has some interesting settings (Pearl Harbor during the attack, for example) but the game play is only good (not great)even when run on a Pentium IV 3.2 with a gig of memory--which is way past their minimum requirements. The reload of rifles seems slow and there is a lot of forest the game just won't let you enter. The medic and the way the squad works "together" are good elements as are the abilities to carry a wounded soldier and apply bandages. However it feels as if they kept an old game engine and tried to tweak it instead of moving forward with the technology. Farcry and Call of Duty both play much better and would be my advice for an investment.

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.

I agree with everyone else, Call of Duty is still the king!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 27
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I agree for once with the other reviewers. This game is kind of boring after you get passed the Peral Habor part. Basicly, you are a U.S. Marine fighting your way through the Pacific Islands that all look the same with the same old missions "kill the ememy (Japs) and destroy or rescue a downed polot." I have not finished the game but I am all ready mad at it. I think I am towards the end fighting through the missions on Guadacanal or however you spell it? I know you will finnish up on Tawana during the battle but I don't know if I realy want to finnish it. The AI seems to have the advantage as others have mentioned. They run at you and there really is too many of them to kill efectively making dieing and restarting missions a way of life. They probably though they were making it challenging but its just more frustrating than anything for the player. No Health packs in this game and when you really need your medic he either gets shot or blown up by an ememy grenade and dies well, he's dead unitl you expire then comes back to life. I like the health pack version better like in C of D because you don't have to rely on the AI to keep you alive!

Anyway, if you really want a great PC game that involves the Pacific Theater of WWII wait until "Midway" comes out next Summer in 2005 (third quater). I read a preview on this game and from I read it sounds totaly awesome! They said you will be able to fly planes like HellCats, WildCats, Zeros, SpitFires, etc. and then command Battleships, Subs, Carriers, Destroyers, PT boats with all the weapondry on them kind of like BF 1942 but 10X's better because of the advanced graphics engine and real time physics invloved. You can even fight as a Marine on land so they are covering every aspect of the war in the Pacific during WWII not just the Marine side of it like M of H Pacific Assult. (and excluding the flying mission of course!) They also will include not just Multiplayer but Single player campaigns as well unlike BF 1942 and it's bad single player that did not really exist, no this will include all the major battles of the Pacific theater from every side who fought them including the Navel, Aerial and Land sides of the war and in the battles such as Midway, Iwo Jima and many more!!! Cheak it out at their web site and see for yourself!

M OF H Pacifc Assult Directors Edition/Full Game did sound great a year ago also but I guess when you have played the best (meaning Call of Duty-2003) then nothing else will even come close! I think everyone will agree with me on that one!

Highly Detailed, Authentic and a blast to play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First off the most common complaint seems to be that the setting for a few of the levels is the jungle. "It all looks the same" ok, um let me see, well it is called Pacific Assault! If I'm not mistaken MUCH of the land based fighting in the South Pacific took place in jungles and tropical environments. The designers of the game put a tremendous amount of research into this game and it shows in accurate weapons, uniforms, battles, and tactics. It is as far as I've seen the most realistic WWII shooter I've played. This is mostly due to the fact that you fight as a member of a squad through entire battles like that of Guadal Canal. There is no aimless jumping from country to country like in Call of Duty (although that is an excellent game) therefore it adds to the realism. Over all it has a very theatrical feeling reminiscent of WWII films like The Thin Red Line.
The A.I. is very intelligent and the medic healing system is very creative and adds to the realism of the experience. The only problem with this game is that it requires a very advanced graphics card and a powerful processor. If one does not possess anything above 2.5 Gig speed and if you don't have a 256MB graphics card forget it; because it will appear "laggy." To avoid this on slower machines I advise you to turn off texture shader 2.0 in the settings menu. Anyhow if you are looking for an authentic, graphically superb first person shooter set in WWII Pacific this is it! It is far superior to the abysmal consol game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. If you are a WWII buff and a fan of the Medal of Honor series it is a must own.

I Had Too High of Expectations

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After playing MOH and COD way too much and loving them both, I was really looking forward to this game and even bought the "director's cut" to get is sooner. But after about a total of 6 hours I was playing COD again. It is a decent game but it is laggy and certaintly does not meet my high hopes.

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