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Summary: Raging Combat Action
Review: Allied assault delivers! First person action, causing one to think on his or her toes! As an Army Sergeant, I highly recommend this action game! I enjoy the realism of the period weapons and the fact that your team can and often does get injured or killed off. Often, the missions are no easy task. You learn as you go along. You must think tactically to achieve the goals. You will realize this when at first you see how difficult it is to get of that damned beach! Once you do make it, you know you have acheived something. This is in no way as difficult as actual combat, but it feels pretty genuine once the bullets start to fly in your direction. You have received your orders! Defeat the Germans at all costs!
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Summary: Okay Game
Review: My major beef this game is it is hard to kill German soliders. I shot the as many as fifteen time and the get up and shot you. The play ability is okay but get frustrating at times beacuse it adds to mission that deatil on what you are suppose to do.
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Summary: Ending a major dissapointment
Review: The game has some interesting missions nad features, but the final mission is nearly impossible to beat. I have read several walkthroughs and reviews and they all say the same. It is only by sheer luck that the final mission can be finished. It consists of planting bombs in a building and escaping before it blows up. Unfortunately, by the time you make it to the door, too many enemies are there to kill you. If you stop to shoot them ,you die in the building explosions, if you run outside, the enemies simmply shoot you full of holes before you can board the train. ther were also several problems with freezeups and installation, overall a major disappointment in gaming
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Summary: A mediocre WW2 game
Review: Sure, its more realistic than many of its FPS competitors, but that doesn't make is a great game. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault takes much of its story from Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan", and yet it fails to make a lasting impression or truly engage the player. There are a few flaws that really hinder MOH's gameplay, first of which, movement is much too slow. I realize that your character is supposedly carrying a plethora of supplies (which isn't very realistic anyway), but even so, running is cumbersome and frustrating, especially when trying to escape sniper fire. Also, the game is heavily scripted, which is sometimes lame, such as when droves and droves of enemies appear out of nowhere. This makes much of the gameplay somewhat repetitive, especially without any cool gore effects. Also, in several maps, there are snipers in every open window and rooftop, and some times they are even hidden behind trees--in a position in which they can see (and fire at) you, but you cannot see them. On several occasions, I found myself frustrated enough by the gameplay to actually shut the game off in the middle of combat and not come back for several days. Also, despite EA's use of the wonderful Quake 3 engine, the player models and textures are much worse than similar titles (namely Return to Caslte Wolfenstein). Humans look very cartoonish, and movement effects are also somewhat robotic, and strange. All in all, MOHAA is a decent game, and it does have its share of good sequences, namely Omaha Beach and any sequence when you're gunning from a moving vehicle, but these good times don't outweigh the repetitive and frustrating parts. I'd recommend investing your money in a more entertaining, better looking, and more fantastical Return to Castle Wolfenstein, or for multiplayer, Battlefield 1942.
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Summary: OK, but just...
Review: This game is OK. I had fun playing it, but I was not really impressed.I was not impressed with the realism: -There is no choice of weapons at the beginning of each stage. In the event that you don't like the weapon(s) you have, tough. You cannot drop one and pick up another. On D-Day for instance, you get the Thompson SMG where the Garand rifle would have been more useful. Soliders are getting killed all around, yet there are no dropped weapons to pick up. -Ammunition that does not interchange in real life interchanges in the game. The MP40 (a 9mm) and the Thompson (a .45ACP) use the same ammunition in the game. The Garand and Springfield (.30-06) and the German Mauser K98 (8x57mm) use the same ammunition in the game. All three pistols, which are all different calibers in real life use the same ammunition. In addition all the fixed point machineguns have unlimited ammo and don't feed from a belt as they should. -There is a stage where you drive a German King Tiger Tank. You have to fire the main gun at single German soliders and their rifles, submachineguns, and machineguns cause damage to the tank. -The game was way too short, I was surprised when I finished it so soon There were some good points to the game, and I enjoyed it, but there are much better games out there.
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Summary: Wow. Simply Wow.
Review: First and foremost: God bless our troops. I really admire the courage of these guys, and am truly grateful for all they do. That aside, this game is wow. The previous Medal of Honor games were fun. They had their problems, sure, but overall they were a great playing experience. Allied Assault was an impulse buy for me. I installed it, opened it up, and played it for five straight hours. The graphics are absolutely solid. They're gritty, as World War II should be. The sounds are wonderful. The controls are easy to get, the gameplay is great. It's difficult enough that you won't feel cheated, yet easy enough to not get frustrated. I especially like the new guiding arrow on your compass, alieiviating the problem of level negotiation. The storyline is pretty good, taking you through pivotal moments in the Great Campaign Against Tyranny. Now, the most important part of Allied Assault: it portrays the sacrifice, courage, and valor of the brave men who fought and died in World War II. This game portrays the horror of war, the heroism of men, and the importance of freedom, all the while maintaining a Teen rating. There's no blood in this game, no gore, and yet I still cringed to see my men go down. The D-Day level is the best I've ever seen. I found myself ducking whenever a shell exploded near my character. You hear men weeping with fear. You see men hugging their knees, scared out of their minds. You see other men encouraging them to move forward. You see medics running through machine gun fire to help the wounded, with no regard for their own safety. All these are sights and sounds one would have experienced had you actually been there. I must give EA a standing ovation for their accurate portrayal of the horror of war and the valor of the men who fight in it. Here here. If you buy one FPS this year, make it Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. While you're at it, get the Spearhead expansion. It may be better than the base set, showing you the valor of the 101st Airborne. I swear you won't regret it.
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Summary: Medal of Honor: A must have!!!
Review: medal of honor allied assault is a must have. sadly i dont have this game but i play it at my friends house. anyway, in Medal of Honor, you play Leiutenant Powell of the US Army. You get to use authentic WWII weapons such as Thompson SMG, Brown Automatic Rifle (BAR) and some others like M1 Garand, MP40, Colt .45, and Mauser Kar98k sniper rifle. There are about 10 missions, each having four to five different parts to them. The missions take about 20- perhaps 60 minutes long depending on which mission it is. The enemy AI is very intelligent, like they run away from grenades and dodge your bullets realisticly. Its very fun and very challenging and i really reccomend it. BUT, there is one problem with it!!! the ending stinks!!!! i wont tell u what it is youll just have to find out. i think they ended it the way they did so they could make way for the Spearhead expansion pack, which i have never played. good luck playing MOH:AA -patrick
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Summary: Good overall
Review: Graphics texture quality is a bit bland (especially when compared to other games such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein). The animation, especially the people, isn't that smooth. RtCW, again, does this better. You can only go melee with your pistol while the German troops can go melee with their rifles. (This is resolved in Spearhead). The lack of bloodshed is easily dealt with by getting an add on file that can be found through a web search. Some missions could've been better done. For example, in the COVERT mission to rescue the pilot, you start off with a Colt .45 ACP and the Garand. You eventually get the silenced pistol and the Karbiner 98 sniper rifle. But you START OFF WITH the silenced pistol and the Springfield sniper rifle in the Norway mission. Who the hell missed that obvious inconsistency? My least favorite part of MOHAA had to be the last part of the King Tiger tank mission. Why couldn't I simply use that tank to blast out enemy troops in the buildings instead of running by them and getting shot at? If I absolutely had to run out of the tank to get to that spotting position, why didn't I have a partner? Aside from from helping me with the shootouts, he would've been most useful while I'm spotting and giving firing coordinates. He would guard against the enemy troops that somehow know where you are and come in PAIRS to kill you. This became so ridiculous that I came close to using the invincibility cheat code! And why is that King Tiger tank sitting on the bridge you prevent from being blown up? Tanks are already at a disadvantage when inside a city; staying on a bridge (where you have almost no maneuvrability) is stupid and suicidal. Don't get me started on the uncannily accurate marksmanship of the enemies whose AI is lacking. An example of bad AI is in the last part of the last mission; who runs into a building that's exploding? As exciting as the missions were, it became somewhat annoying to have enemies pop out of spawn points. If you play a mission enough times, you'll soon find where the spawn points are. I was also amazed that I could pick up ammo of the wrong caliber and find that it works. If you actually try to make 9mm bullets work in a .45 gun, I'll laugh my [rear] off. Looks like Dale Dye wasn't consulted enough. These shortcomings are compensated by a very good story line with different missions. Accurate weapon sounds (although I'm not so sure about the StG 44). The scripted speeches coming from the characters within each mission are well done. High quality music. The game is a challenge and not a pushover. D-Day was well done to the point where it was somewhat close to feeling like you were there.
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Summary: lack of gore doesnt spoil this game
Review: at first when i got this game, the lack of blood kind of made me angry. then i realized that with all the scripting and everything, this game played like an old WW2 movie. the kind that they play on tv on saturday afternoons and on AMC. where the soldiers spin around and die glorious deaths without any blood. after i sort of got into that mindset, i enjoyed this game tremendously. solid, nonstop action that looks as great as it plays. chalk up another one for EA!
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Summary: One man's "greatest game in the world" is another's letdown
Review: I would really love to have someone release a WWII shooter that actually felt like WWII. And while EA likes to boast the realism, frankly that only goes as far as the weapons, the launguages and the location. The game is 100% linear and 99% predictable, and after finishing it, I feel more like I have finished reading a book, not playing a game. Honestly, the mistakes are so glaring that EA really could have made a better game if they would have tried harder. This is definatly one you will need to try for yourself, and reach your own conclusions on. The GOOD:
- Missions remain interesting throughout the game.
- Some wonderfully scripted encounters, and occasionally you will get to see wonderful character actions in your allies as well as your enemies.
- Nice range of American and German weapons, and fairly accurate noises. Tanks are fairly life-like as are aircraft.
- Lots of speaking (English and German). Scripts are correct for the locations, and you don't run into situations where dead soldiers are carrying on conversations and such, as you do in some other titles.
- Accurate uniforms (within reason).
- Sniper rifles are accurate, powerful and fun (and there are plenty of opportunities to use them, if that is your thing). The BAD:
- The graphics are not as good as, for example, Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the Xbox (I'm using a Nvidia GeForce4 64mb DDR video card), or as nice as Delta Force Blackhawk down (which is a better game).
- When shot, your character's aim flies across the screen. This may enhance the realism, but when you are confronted with multiple enemies it makes it virtually impossible to hit anyone and soon becomes incredibly annoying.
- Enemies have certain locations from which they spawn, in fact you can find them and stand there and gun them down as they suddenly materialize. Also, some enemies (like snipers) have not materialized until you step past a certain point (into their line of fire) and then they spawn and fire.
- Cannot interact with surroundings (doors, windows, etc.)
- Lack of blood (to maintain the Teen rating).
- Very linear. The UGLY:
- MG42/44 is lethal in the hands of the enemy, but when you have the opportunity to man one the bullets fly everywhere but where you are aiming, in fact, the machine gun is only slightly more effective than any of your standard arms, and much more frustrating to try and use.
- Allied AI is NIL, and considering some of these guys are supposed to be Rangers...they just run into the open and fire then stop, then fire and stop again while they are being gunned down. I was happy to see them get slaughtered so at least I could move (oh yah, you are stuck behind any obstacle as if it were twice as wide as it really is).
- Enemies continue to rush you with no regard to their own casualties, and will even run from around a corner straight into your fire, requiring no effort from you to gun down entire squads.
- Shrubbery and leaves will block your bullets, but not the bullets of the enemies, making Snipers almost impossible to kill unless you rush their positions.
- Snipers are way too good (even when I knew exactly where they were they could see me before I could see them).
- The signifigant lack of an ending of any sort is unforgiveable. What did they do, just give up halfway through???
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