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Gripers miss the point on MOH: Pacific Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you're reading these reviews you are most likely a big fan of military real-time strategy games like I am. One thing I've noticed in many of the reviews are people carping about the load times. Sure, its a bit slow, but not excessively so. A lot of the younger types never had to deal with loading times on the old 386/486 PC's. You could start one of them and go have lunch before it was ready to play! Anyway, to get back to MOH:PA. The graphics are superb - you better make sure you've got a good card. I had to replace mine even though the one I had installed met the minimum hardware spec. Gameplay is intense on most scenes, and the variety to scenarios is the best I've seen so far in any war game. The Guadalcanal sequences are relentless.

Another thing I like about this is the accuracy historically speaking. Weapons are correct for the time period, etc., and they did a super job on the enemy AI. You can almost feel that bayonet sliding into your gut when you screw up and get overrun!

Many say "Call of Duty" is a better game. I would say that each game is excellent, and any differences are largely due to the approach taken by the writers. Each has its subtleties, its strong and weak points. On balance, they are about equal. Enjoy MOH:PA for what it is, and for giving us some inkling of what it was like to go through those events face to face.

God Bless all those brave men who went in harm's way for us all.

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.

Immersing, thrilling, all around fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for someone who likes their games to have a bit of plot and background to spice things up. The gameplay is great, and the loading screens aren't THAT bad. They're kind of long, but not hard to sit through unless you have crippling ADHD or something.

Yes, this game has some cutscenes and mandatory training you have to go through. Don't like that, and just want to blow stuff up? Buy a different game, this one's not for Halo kiddies.

Flanking the enemy one mission at a time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is an extreamly good game that has a very real feel to it. I have read many books about WW2 and find that this game is the closest to the war than any other. Although many dislike the realness of this game i belive that is stands out from the rest. You can man a quad flak gun at pearl harbor or a 30 cal. air cooled mounted machingun at Guadacanal. Some of the most intresting parts of the game is the amount of weapons and their detail, including the two seperate versions of the Thompson SMG one with a 30 box clip and the other with the original 50 round drum you see in the gangster movies. You even get to control mortar tubes in certian missions. It also has a great storyline and some very sad and happy moments, and you really get to see just a glimpse on what our veterans went through on the most destructive war in human history. Get this game, but don't get it becuase you are looking for a game like call of duty, or the older medal of honor games, because this is a game that gives meaning to the saying: There are no athiests in foxholes.

One of the best in class

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault has some excellent action, and these are the times that make it worth playing. The only con is the most annoying loading times of any PC game caused by over-protective copy protection. Why must they annoy the legal owners of the game?

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, when it's on, it can be intense, exciting, and thrilling. To some degree, Pacific Assault follows other World War 2 games like Medal of Honor Allied Assault and to a lesser extent..Call of Duty(i prefer medal of honor series over Call of Duty). The game is mostly linear, and it contains a lot of mayhem mixed in with scripted events. However, this is definitely not just another World War 2 game. It is different in some good ways.

For starters, Pacific Assault's on-foot action is less scripted than other WWII games have been. The jungle firefights remind me a lot of last year's "Vietcong" than Allied Assault. You creep slowly through the jungle and encounter small groups of Japanese troops, and then engage them in short but sweet firefights. The firefights are mostly unscripted, relying instead upon this game's underrated AI. Both your squad mates and your enemies are pretty smart about staying alive and using cover. It's very satisfying to relieve your pinned down squad by finding a way to flank your enemies, and then blast them from their rear. Sometimes, the hardest part of a firefight is just finding where the enemy is hiding. Using cover is paramount to surviving, and so is popping out from behind cover to deliver quick blasts with your weapon. Enemies will attempt to do the same to you. However, sometimes, when you are winning a battle, the last couple of guys in a Japanese squad will rush at you screaming in a mad, desperate Banzai frenzy. This leads to some truly memorable moments.

The medic is a great mechanic that seems to borrow from games like Halo and Vietcong. The idea is that instead of picking up frequent health packs and armor, you can be healed if you find some safe cover for a while. This adds a tactical level to the game that most first person shooters don't have.

The jungle scenes are the best part of this game in every way. It's too bad that you have to play the game for an hour and a half before you experience them. That's how long it takes you to get through the tutorial level and the disappointing Pearl Harbor level. The game mixes up the action quite a bit. Specifically, there are rail-shooter and turret-shooter sequences sprinkled here and there, where you shoot at enemies while riding in the back of a truck or operate an anti-aircraft gun and shoot down Japanese Zeroes. There is even a flying mission. None of these other missions are particularly memorable, and some of them are quite bad. There is one ridiculous "shoot down Zeroes with an AA gun" scene that is literally impossible until you learn that there is a lame trick that makes it easy to complete in about 60 seconds. It takes dozens of trial-and-error quick save and reload sequences to learn this (or, you can look on the internet for it), and this totally ruins that part of the game.

The visuals aren't as nice as Half-Life 2 or Far Cry, but they are still very good. The water, fire, and smoke, all look very nice. Best of all is the most beautiful and realistic looking sky that I have ever seen. The jungle is also very convincing. The music is sort of generic, but it's high quality stuff. Best of all, the game feels very authentic. It maintains the high drama of the other World War 2 games, while giving it a different feel too.

The campaign ends after about 10 hours, which isn't very long, considering that at least 2 or 3 of them are spent looking at the loading screen. The way that the loading screens disrupt this game's flow cannot be understated. The ending is also horribly unsatisfying. I absolutely hated the ending level of this game with a passion. It is a maddeningly and impossibly difficult, unforgving quick save fest where you are constantly getting cut down by two or three machine gun nests at a time, all of which can reduce you from full health to zero in about two seconds. The entire last two hours of the game is filled with trial-and-error and trying to scamper from cover to cover in increments of about three feet, reloading your game constantly as you get cut down in seconds. The last level is filled with barbed wire (which you cannot climb over) and invisible walls, which funnel you into these death trap trenches that have machine gun nests awaiting you at the end, and absolutely no alternate path. The game gives you no flamethrower or bazooka, and no ability to call in naval strikes. The last level is designed to kill you. There is no other way to describe it. Overall? This is great game. The verdict? If you like war games you are obligated to add this gem to your collection.

Pacific Assault

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that this is the most immersive MOH instalment yet. Whilst I and other gamers I know are getting rather bored of WWII shooters set in Europe against the forces of the Third Reich, this game breathes new life into our gameplay. The game takes you from boot camp right the way through to the final mission on Tarawa Atoll and feels rather too real at times. I am certainly not used to bayonet or samurai sword charges from the opposition when they run out of ammo. That really picks up the game a notch. This games absolutely rocks. It is immersive and sucks you right in. There are a few AI annoyances but the rest of the game makes up for it. Do make sure you have a reasonably up to date rig to run this beast as it's a system hogger. Good system = great gaming.

As real as real can get and then some...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so friggin unbelievable... I downloaded the free demo from EA Games and I just love this. I have to buy the director's edition when I get money. Historically very accurate as to what the battles were really like in the pacific back in the 40's. My grandpa fought against the japs and after playing this game, I have so much more respect for him now than I ever did before not only for what he did for our country with protecting our way of life but also for the intensity and willpower to survive something so brutal and awful. This game has probably close to 50 different weapons. BAR, the M1A1, .50 caliber machine guns, grenades, and so much more...

After seeing what my grandpa went through in the pacific, this game was a very shocking reality about how violent and graphic warfare really is. When the japs came at my character across the airfield with about 50 guys drawing samurai swords, and bayonets attached to their rifles I was like, "oh f***"! I jumped on the .50 caliber and took them all out. If you buy this game, or even just like to play first person shooter games, you will not be disappointed at all... It is worth every penny spent

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.

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.

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.

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