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Frontline Hits The Top

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Medal of Honor Frontline is a great forst-person shooter game. It has about 24 levels with about 3 or 4 levels per mission. In these 6 missions you get to storm Omaha Beach, infiltrate a U-Boat, and its harbor, ride a train, take a French town occupied by German armor, and take the German lines.

This is a great action game with weapons such as, Thompson sub-machine gun,.45 pistol, Springfield '03 Sniper Rifle, Gewher Sniper Rifle, B.A.R., STG 44, MP 40, grenades, and bazookas/panzershreks.

Graphics are great, but could be improved. Unlike in some games, the rounds you fire are not tracers, this makes it more realistic, because you know you have hit your enemy when he falls to the ground, or stops firing.

Multiplayer offers 5 different arenas to play in. These are areas used in the missions. You play multiplayer in a vs. situation, you can form teams, but there's no playing with a friend in the missions. In the options menu you can access a folder named "Making Of" In this you can see how the mission levels were made. I really think this is a neat feature. After every level you get evaluated on your performance. Gold, Silver, or Bronze stars. If you complete a mission in which every level was rated Gold, you can access this folder.

I would give this game 4 of five stars, or about a 9.0 of ten, because you can't interact with other allies, (.8 points off) and the graphics could improve, (.2 points off). I think this game is worth buying overall.

Get this if you haven't played it before

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: October 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing FPS on all levels, regardless of what system you buy it on. Movie quality production values, customized controls..basically you're playing Saving Private Ryan. Amazing!

A pity EA deep sixed their plans to port Allied Assault over to the Xbox, so Xbox users could enjoy the vibrant online game that it has.

As it stands, this is the PS2 version with an afterthought-like multiplayer mode and a few refinements. If you already own the PS2 version or have played it before, there isn't enough here to warrant another purchase.

What was all the hype about?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After reading gushing reviews and playing through some of MOH: Allied Assault on my Mac, I was really looking forward to this one. The first mission is Omaha Beach and it delivers big time. Very exciting, very chaotic. If you liked the opening sequence to Saving Private Ryan, you'll love this mission--I did.

Then things took a decidedly downward spin.

Basically, your character is given a mission and you go to it. The problem is that the mission is ABSOLUTELY linear and you can't deviate from your objectives at all. Things start getting suspicious when there are walls, hedges, and roads which are blocked for use. You just run up to 'em and then you can't go any farther. Lame.

The game quickly goes downhill from there. Germans can (and will) pick up the grenade you tossed and throw it back at you. You're not able to return the favor. Why? The enemy AI is okay, but not great.

I've heard the multiplayer of this is pretty amazing, but it's not an XBox live title so unless you have a lot of friends with XBoxes and a system link, you're out of luck there.

Take a pass on this one and wait for Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Loved the game despite some drawbacks

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first FPS game I've ever played, and I really enjoyed playing it. The storyline and missions are engaging, level of difficulty is good (sometimes too difficult), and the weapons are very realistic. Since I have never played MOH on a PC, I can't really comment on some of the complaints other reviewers here seem to have, but I have had no problem taking aim and shooting down the bad guys. Most of all, I think I liked the human/realistic aspect of this game particularly coz I'm not a big fan of the sci-fi FPS games where you're shooting down demons (can't stand the gore in those games...but that's just me). As for the drawbacks, well there are some major ones:
(i) no save points during a mission which becomes very frustrating as you progress to increased levels of difficulty,
(ii) very lengthy game, which can be good or bad depending on your preference, but at some points in the game, all I cared about was completing a mission rather than trying to get a gold. One positive of the length is that once you complete the game, you can play it again and you'll still enjoy it...it retains its "newness" factor moreso than other shorter games.

All said, the game is a LOT OF FUN!!

Almost perfect

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to say, I'm new to XBox. I've only had the system a week. However, I know a great game when I see one. Medal of Honor: Frontline is outstanding. It has everything you could want in a game. Imagine this, level one of the game and you find yourself on a Higgins Boat heading straight into hell on the beaches of Normandy. If you have surround sound the game is even better. You can tell exactly where shots are coming from. Hear the difference between weapons. A Tommy gun sounds different than another machine gun etc.

Gameplay is awesome, and enemies are actually tough. I've never seen an enemy 'goon' in any other game actually kick or throw a grenade back at me when I've tossed it at them. I was very surprised the first time I died this way. Also, enemies have to reload their weapons. Imagine being pinned down by an enemy sniper. You can count his shots as you're hiding behind a bunker. If you count to 10 shots, you know he has to reload and you can pop up and blast him out of his perch.

This is the best video game I've ever played. My only gripe is that if my character is a Lieutenant, privates in the game shouldn't be calling me by my first name. Oh well, life goes on, that is untill you die, then you have to restart the level.

Ok, but this is no HALO

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: December 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you like smooth gameplay, crisp graphics, strong AI and a good story line then skip this game.

First the good, the weapons are unique and seem to be authentic and are fun to use especially the Gewher sniper rifle, the intro graphics (at the start of the first mission) and all similar graphics are exceptional, and the look and feel of what you would expect a WWII game to be like are there.

The bad - this is no halo, the story is not compelling, the gameplay is not smooth (you throw grenades underhand and not very far), the aiming recticle is difficult to use (I will be within arms length of enemies and blast away with a BAR or other machine gun and miss), the power weapons and weapon effects are boring (explosions are LAME), the missions end up being about shooting your way through a straight line map to get to the end, and multiplayer is not smooth or exciting. I just played on the easiest level until I finished all missions and I do not expect to play it again. Don't buy this game for the gameplay and excitement, buy it for the atmosphere, they put way too much effort into the mood of the game (it feels like a movie with bad interactive options) and almost nothing into the gameplay.

I bought the game to play with my family during the holidays and after 2-3 deathmatches we switched back to HALO multiplayer and played for hours until we were all bleary-eyed (that about says it all). Bond and Turok on N64 were better FPS games, HALO makes this game look like a college programming project.

I have owned almost every system on the market since Atari came out and this game is ok if you are a WWII buff or like mood games, otherwise your [money] are better spent elsewhere.

Very good engine quality overall but can be fustrating...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Medal of Honor frontline(MOHF), which was imported from PC to the XBOX, is quite a good game. The game play is history pratically, your playing history, your playing world war II from the 1940's! And the AI is great in medal of honor frontline, as well as the graphics. Highly detailed environments and great audio quality as well as very smooth frame rates and very difficult fustrating but fun game play of medal honor frontline for the XBOX makes it a worthwhile game, and an great convient addition to XBOX's libary of FPS genere-type games. The reason why I game medal of honor four stars is because of it's fustration to me in game play. Besides that, this is a great game! I suggest most XBOX fps gamers purchase this game if they are interested and didn't have a power enough PC to run it, want to see what the XBOX version is like, and people who haven't purchased it for any system yet. Still, I recommend this game for most FPS XBOX gamers. :-)

The game that captures the epic-ness of the greatest war!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

MOH Frontline is by far the best WWII game I've played, and I believe in large part because of all the epic history that the game captures. From landing on Omaha beach, it's got it all. A wide assortment of weapons allows you to fight your way through France, taking out snipers in bombed out buildings. Setting off explosives in a U-boat. Fighting through yards in a neighborhood occupied by Nazi's. Not near as one dimensional as Castle Wolfentstein: Tides of War. Great A.I. with enenmy interaction as they go to kick the grenade you just threw back at you! wincing and grabbing up to the face as you pop their helmet off with a shot from your .45 pistol. I've thuroughly enjoyed this game on Xbox and also love the new MOH game, RISING SUN. Don't be fooled by bad reviews, I would say just rent it and see for yourself if you like it or not. It has a ton of depth in terms of missions, scerenery, tasks, allies, and enemy encounters. You'll fight through houses and castles, kithens and trails. So load your weapon and prepare to save the world from the Nazi's!

Just trying to capitalize on the PC version

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have had this game for about 2 weeks. Compared the PC game "Medal of Honor: Allied Assualt" this game is horrible. I was looking forward to having another great XBox game to play with friends and figured that Medal of Honor would be just the ticket, but was greatly disappointed. The graphics on this game are bad, reminding me of the old shooting games from the 19th century with metal plates that moved back ond forth. In "Allied Assault" for example, the enemies in the bunkers in the Normandy invasion level move, and are rendered in detail, even when they are seen at a distance. In "Frontline", all you get is a crude silhouette that doesn't move at all.

On top of those disappointments, there is no XBox Live connectivity. Half the fun of "Allied Assault" is shooting it out with 30 other people over the internet, but the best you'll get with "Frontline" is 4 people sharing a split screen. You can't even link the systems like you can in Halo.

The XBox has some very impressive games that not only have wonderful graphics and sound, but enveloping gameplay, but sadly "Medal of Honor: Frontline" is not one of them.

Honour your dead. Then be glad this is only a game - for you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Pros: gameplay, definitely has to be the game play, and the SOUND, The feel of World War II's realism factor doesn't get any better but here, First Mission, WW2 Depicted Well, Incredible gameplay, unreal sound, historically accurate, excellent game, Music, a good variety of levels, good choice of authentic weapons, By far the best war game out on the Playstation 2. Realistic and gripping!

Cons: frame rate, controls take a bit of getting use to because of the sensitivity, Replay Value, over-sensitive, some rendering quality, wish it was fully 5.1 format, A bit hard, Sometimes shaky aiming control, seems like TOO much fun to be healthy, What happened to Tom Hanks?, Real as this game is it would've been nice if there was some blood, Too short, not enough cinematic sequences between missions, Maybe a bit too fast paced for some, levels can get repetitive, Becomes too linear in latter stages and little replay value once completed.

Overall: 4.5

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