Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
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Video Game Reviews of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Customer Review: Neat WW2 Game
Summary: 4 Stars
World War 2 is finally made better than it must have seemed! This earns only 4 and a half stars because of how complicated things get. That's the beauty of this game! It has great graphics, realistic, life-like battle scenes, and violence. Just like that movie Black Hawk Down, but it is different. How, you may ask? Because, this was in Germany. That was only in Africa. The beginning of "Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault" is almost like you're in Africa. *Shrugs*. I don't know. It's Germany anyway, but you won't find Hitler anywhere soon. Maybe he shot his eye out with his Red Ryder 200-shot Range Model Air Rifle, so you don't have to kill him. Oh well.
Apparently, I had already played another awesome Medal Of Honor game before, when I thought it was this game.....I was right. It doesn't need blood to be a good army game. It just is. The graphics are cool, the battle is cool, the weapons are cool, the projection room you go into to review a mission after you've completed it is cool....
THE WHOLE GAME IS COOL!
Customer Review: Disappointed.
Summary: 3 Stars
The game is set during WW2, the bloodiest war in the history of mankind, yet in MOHAA you wont see a drop. Its seems like the enemy drops to the floor and plays dead when you shoot them. Not very realistic. Im not saying I need to see gallons and gallons of blood and body parts but come on, its WW2. Does EA really believe that "sanitized" violence is somehow less violent. There are no civilians caught in the crossfire. No friendly fire, you dont need to practice ammo discipline because the battlefield is littered with it, you cant lean left and right in the singleplayer campaign, and overall the enemy AI is not very sharp. There are no cut-scenes either. That said, MOHAA does have some very enjoyable sections, beginning with the Omaha landing, but again, it didn't seem realistic. It was almost arcade. Keep in mind enemies are spawned as you progress through each map. For example, a guard tower may seem empty, however move forward enough, and the game will instantly spawn an enemy into it, effectively barring your ability to use stealth. You cant sneak up on something if its not there. Worst of all was the conclusion. The last map was pathetic. I felt like the game just fizzled out. Maybe I was expecting the game to end in Berin somewhere, not some ho hum chemical weapons plant. The game starts out weak builds to some very good levels, but in the end it disappoints you, it did me. Its OK but it didn't make me want to buy any of the sequels, and I probably wont. Customer Review: Best FPS Ever Made!
Summary: 5 Stars
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault may be the most exciting game I have ever played. The gameplay is quick and fun, and the graphics are great!
It is imperitave that you buy this if you are into PC games. You will NOT regret it!
Customer Review: BEST FPS FOR THE PC
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's What I think of this game:Graphics 10/10:
Wow, if you have a PC that alows you to play MOH:AA on all the high settings, then you'll be blown away with the detail in every level. Weather it's the scared look on a fellow rangers face or the smoke from a recently fired Kar 98 Sniper Rifle, everything looks real. There are very few things that ever look amiss in the game.
Sound 8/10:
Don't get me wrong, the sounds is really good. You can here soldiers wispering, wimpering, rain falling, defining explosions, far off gun fire, taunts, and pretty much all sounds that you'd expect in a WW2 game. But, and yes there is a but, the game tends to have a few sound gliches. For instance, in parts of the game, you'll fire a weapon and there will be no sound. You'll here the bullet hit what ever it is you shot at, but there wont be a "BANG" when you press the fire button. There are other similare problems, weather its a bug in the game or what, im not sure. But what i really like is how the weather effects, muffle rifle shots. So when hidding, knowing there are enemy snipers around you, you're left wondering if it was a gun shot you hear or distant clap thunder. At points in the game, it gets really intense.
Single Player Mission Structure 11/10:
Perfect. Simply perfect. The missions are very well done. From North Aferica to Norway to France to Germany, you'll be leading ranger squads, sabotaging German equipment, infiltrating German HQ, and you even get to drive a KING TIGER TANK. The D-DAY mission is by far the best level I've every played in a FPS, followed up by the mission where you're a sniper and are sneaking around a bombed out French village, taking out opposing snipers. What I also enjoyed was how you'd be awarded medals for doing secret objectives (e.g. destroying a group of Tanks)
Weapons 10/10:
In this game you're givin a wide range of different guns and granades, all look and sound really good. You can use the Colt. 45, OSS Hi-Standard Silenced Pistol, M1 Garand (best rifle in the game) Springfeild '03 Sniper Rifle, Thompson SMG, the BAR, Mark 2 Frag Granades, Bazooka, Winchester Shotgun, .30 CAL Mounted Machine Gun, Walther P38, Mauser KAR 98K, MP40, KAR 98 Sniper Rifle, STG44 STURMGEWHR, MG42 Mounted Machine Gun, Stielhandgrenate and the Panzershreck.
Muliplayer 7/10:
It isnt bad, but nothing new. You have your free for all, team death match, round based match and objective based match. The maps are good and are very detailed; giving you a real sense of fighting on the WW2 front.
Realism 9/10:
This games about as real as your going to get. The soldiers on both sides where the appropriate uniforms, say and do the logical thing when attacked and suprised, your team mates arnt completely useless (unlike other FPS like all Delta Force games) and theres depth in what the characters say. Soldiers will cry out with emotion and bark orders with rage, non sound as if there being read from a script. However, your team mates aiming isnt that accurate. For and example, there points in the game where a German soldier will be right infront of fellow ranger. Both will shoot at each other and both will miss, even if there face to face. Also, on the D-Day level, theres a Medic on the beach who has a Colt pistol strapped onto his side. In any armed force, now and then, Medics werent aloud to carry wapons. These things are small and dont really effect the game much, unless your a realism freak or a history buff.
Overall 10/10:
Worth its weight in gold. BUY IT!
Customer Review: Not what these people have reviewed,
Summary: 2 Stars
I'd like to play the game that all these people rate as a 5 start game, because obviously it's not Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. I'll list the reasons for why I don't like it, so you potential customers can take a look at both sides of the story (Instead of reading reviews made by 9 year olds who rate as 5 stars all games where they can shoot something).
First, the title. Why is it called "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" when instead of historical WWII battles all you do is James Bond missions, blowing up secret bases, stealing devices "that could change the fate of the war" and etc? It should be called "Medal of Secrecy: One man Assault". Obviously, the title was made to fool people like me (Maybe you too) who wanted war games, not espionage games. That's just a title, and may not bother you, so I'll move on.
Only once, during the entire game, I felt I was in a war (During the D-Day level). During the rest of the game, I was running around secret bunkers and factories following some pesky Coronel's secret missions, killing ridiculous amounts of Germans (About 80+ per scenario), destroying artifacts that were suposed to give superpowers to the Nazis, alone, with no troops helping you. You probably read the thing about using a german uniform to sneak in unnoticed, but the problem is that you only do that in 2 levels during about 20-30 seconds (Then the game is set to automatically discover you).
Wait, it gets worse. Espionage would be ok, even with all these uncountable errors, but the problem is that during all the game, you have to go from point A to point B (Like going trough a tunnel) to complete your mission. That means that you don't have to think about strategy or what weapon to use in a specific situation; The whole game, and I'm not liying, is going trough a hallway/narrow street/Narrow path, with no alrternative routes, shooting at the nearest thing that moves. It's not fun; You use the guns instead of your head.
Maybe you're now saying "Ok, ok, but I still get to ride a tank and a jeep". Sorry but you don't ride the jeep; You just sit in the back, without being able to move, shooting to the nearest germans, while the driver takes you from point A to point B (Like a Disney ride, but with shooting). The tank is more or less the same thing, except that you control the turret and you can fire at other tanks (And destroy about 20-30, which redefines the word "Unrealism"). You can only go from point A to point B, across a very narrow path in the so called "open spaces". I've never been to France, but I highly doubt that the French put think brick walls to the sides of every road in their country.
It still gets worse; During the game, you can't switch weapons. Let's say you have a american sniper rifle but want a german sniper rifle (Which is the best). You can be stading on top of it but you can't pick it up and throw your original rifle away. The same happens with grenades unless you deplete them.
The medals are very eye-candy, but for the first 5-6 minutes. You won't stand there watching a medal all day long, won't you? Also, the game is called "Medal of Honor" but you can't win the Medal of Honor. That's rather disppointing, you know.
Is this the reason for why toushands of americans died for in Europe? To be remembered as super spies that killed hundreds of germans single handedly, that changed the fate of the war just in a couple of secret missions? If I was a WWII veteran, I'd be offended by this game.
If you want a first person shooter game, buy "Operation Flashpoint: Game of the Year Edition." The fact that it was Game of the Year and the fact that it works even on the most terrible computers leaves it quite clear.