EA the best in WWII shooters
Written: Nov 17 '03
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Pros: Great gameplay, great graphics
Cons: Lacks realism (but that's okay), AI is too dumb or too good
The Bottom Line: Absoloutely a must have for World War II enthusiasts.
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| llama726's Full Review: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault For Windows |
The MOH: AA series has recently come under attack from such competitors as Day of Defeat (Valve) and, most recently, Call Of Duty (Activision). It's easy to get caught up in the hype, but which game started them all? Medal of Honor. That's right, Medal of Honor started the FPS WWII craze up in a big way with Allied Assault.
Thrust into vicious conflict with D-Day being the highlight, you are a one-man army bent on stopping the Axis war machine with your Rifle, SMG, or any other gun you manage to procure in your trips across Europe. The gameplay is smooth with a good amount of attention paid to detail. Strap on your boots, we have to wander through the mucky parts of this game next.
Gameplay
The gameplay is fantastic. The AI is not. Axis soldiers stand in the open and fire at you, or otherwise allow you to simply charge and bash them, leaving the game at too simple. Jack up the difficulty, and you welcome death.
Realism? What realism? You can take hundreds of hits, but your Axis counterparts can only sustain a pair of Thompson rounds before a dramatic death (which, sometimes, are jumpy, say when you snipe someone off a high location).
Activision has done a good job with its most recent release, Call of Duty. Despite this, EA will not be bested. Their newest console release could offer a sneak peak as for what's to come from EA Games. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun depicts the same action-packed sequences as Frontline did, only with Pearl Harbor as the mind-blowing action sequence. You can expect that EA's computer division will polish the graphics and add the intensity of World War II Asian conflict to spar with their newfound opponents at Activision.
Unfortunately, I picked up MOH:AA as a box set with the two expansion packs included, so I never played MOH:AA multiplayer, though I hear that Spearhead healed all the issues with this.
On the whole, despite the shortness of the single player Campaign, MOH:AA was a good buy, even with the package set.
Recommended:
Yes
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