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Summary: Excellent, but short and expensive!!!
Review: I absolutely love the MOH series and this expansion pack, but I have to be honest and say short, pricey games like this are why software piracy is so prevalent! I was finished this expansion pack in 6 hours. Just when it was getting good!!! Shame on you EA!
Ok...BreakThrough will have you working hard to win. You jump from vehicles to fight then back into the vehicles to cruise again. AWESOME! I love the new and interesting missions. Game play is faster and more intense. Guess what, no picking up your dead enemies weapons(not sure if this is a glitch or not) this time so use your ammo carefully!The BUGS - Your buddies can get in the way at times and are very poor shots when you need them the most. I got mad at MOH:AA and Spearhead because you could be right over a wounded soldier shooting him and it would have no effect, he would just stand back up and shoot at you. You get the same deal here! I wish EA would resolve that! Dead soldiers still disappear halfway into the ground or walls too :-( Overall, this is a great expansion pack so don't miss out on it - BUT - I think this is too expensive for what you get. I say wait until this package hits the $20 mark. Anything higher is just ripping yourself off. EA has made a lot of money of the MOH franchise, they could kick back a low price by now.
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Summary: Forget the mishaps of Spearhead and buy this
Review: I am a Medal Of Honor junkie. I beat Allied Assult in 3 days and Spearhead in 2. Allied Assult was great, Spearhead was awful. The EA games at the beginning showed that it wouldn't be the same as Allied Assult. It was much worse than I thought it would be. The levels were harder so you had to play them over and over til you beat them. There were fewer levels because of this. Breakthrough was different. Despite being obviously shorter it took the same time to beat as Allied Assult. The game play was better and there was actually a plot. The game had a few sound problems but otherwise it went fine. The new weapons were cool especially the Vickers Berthier. The first level, the Kasserine Pass previewed the rest of the game and I new it would be good after that level. If your one of the people that said they wouldn't buy another Medal Of Honor after buying Spearhead, take it back before you look stupid.
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Summary: Outstanding Game
Review: I got this game just a couple of days ago, and I have to say I love it. I really enjoyed MOHAA, as did most gamers, so I assumed (rightly so) that they wouldn't change much for this game. If you've played the regular game, there are really only a few small differences. First of all, there are new weapons. You can use Italian weapons in this game, as well as 'possess' AA guns, artillery cannons, even mortar cannons. Pretty sweet really. Also, I noticed that in this game not all the enemies drop weapons or ammo. In fact, MOST of them don't. This can make for some really hairy situations where you need to conserve your ammo. Nothing sucks worse than running through a battle with nothing but your Colt sidearm as a weapon! Very challenging. One more difference I noticed, was that the developers seemed to try and bring new themes to the levels this time. Some of it is traditional: blow up X number pieces of equipment, or steal X documents. But some levels are very unique. In one level, you must repel a tank attack with mortar cannons, while in another level you run through a bombed out city and use the enemy's artillery to blow up German tanks. Totally sweet. Graphically it is, of course, the same. The only significant difference is some desert battles in the beginning, where sand blows around and limits your vision to an extreme degree. Simple but effective. I cannot recommend this expansion enough. The developers have done exactly what the box says: taken an incredible game, added some weapons and new levels, and not screwed up a system that works extremely well. Way to go EA!
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Summary: Outstanding Game
Review: I got this game just a couple of days ago, and I have to say I love it. I really enjoyed MOHAA, as did most gamers, so I assumed (rightly so) that they wouldn't change much for this game. If you've played the regular game, there are really only a few small differences. First of all, there are new weapons. You can use Italian weapons in this game, as well as 'possess' AA guns, artillery cannons, even mortar cannons. Pretty sweet really. Also, I noticed that in this game not all the enemies drop weapons or ammo. In fact, MOST of them don't. This can make for some really hairy situations where you need to conserve your ammo. Nothing sucks worse than running through a battle with nothing but your Colt sidearm as a weapon! Very challenging. One more difference I noticed, was that the developers seemed to try and bring new themes to the levels this time. Some of it is traditional: blow up X number pieces of equipment, or steal X documents. But some levels are very unique. In one level, you must repel a tank attack with mortar cannons, while in another level you run through a bombed out city and use the enemy's artillery to blow up German tanks. Totally sweet. Graphically it is, of course, the same. The only significant difference is some desert battles in the beginning, where sand blows around and limits your vision to an extreme degree. Simple but effective. I cannot recommend this expansion enough. The developers have done exactly what the box says: taken an incredible game, added some weapons and new levels, and not screwed up a system that works extremely well. Way to go EA!
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Summary: Another worthy expansion!
Review: I had read on Gamespot that this game was more of the same and that you should spend your time and money elsewhere. To a point I agree with them. You do some of the same things as you did in the other games like stealing papers to get by guards and having to ride in a vehicle and shoot the targets and hope you have any health left. But I like all of these games and the familiarity keeps me wanting more. The single player game is longer than Spearhead and you get 9 more multi player maps and a new mode, liberation, for on-line play. The only problem is that most of the new maps were too laggy (I found that only about 3 of these maps were not laggy, and I have a cable modem) though they were all done very nicely. Liberation was pretty cool in the fact that when you were killed, you were put in jail and had to hope that your teammates could get you out of jail, which made for some tremendous battles. Except for some of the things I mentioned earlier, there wasn't much else I didn't like about the game. Any true fan will enjoy the new maps, weapons, and modes this game has to offer. A worthy eaxpansion.
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Summary: waste of money
Review: I have all the MOH pack and I have to say they get worse and worse. Missions are boring and the bots are stupid. The expansion pack offers nothing new, except some crappy maps. The overall game has not improved at all. Save your money and go get Call of Duty. It offers all the improvements that should have been in MOH.
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Summary: This games Multiplayer rocks!
Review: I have been a huge fan of Medal of Honor since I bought Allied Assault and even after Spearhead's shortfalls, but this is just terrible. This expansion pack should have been awesome, yet it failed terribly. The missions have potential, but are horrible. The African campaign where you had to defend the braindead minesweeping tanks was sheer agony. You have to stay ahead of the tanks to protect them, but if you take the time you need to kill the Germans who threaten you and the tanks, you'll likely be run over by the tanks you're protecting. It's very difficult to keep an eye on your tanks, keep moving up and shooting every German all at once. After a few minutes, it gets very tiring.
In the Italian campaign, you fire one round, ALL the Italians will know exactly where you are and you'll be surrounded in seconds. Being shot from every angle (where each shot throws off your aim) while using your Garand can be difficult, especially since there will be no health for you until much later. Later on you will have to fight off hordes of Italian tanks with mortars (as if those mortars could scratch a tank.) You're in a house with a small wall around it, you have to use these cumbersome mortars to destroy these tanks from two different directions, and if one touches the wall, you fail your mission. Even if you destroy it a split second after it touches the wall. Even though the enemy is destroyed, the enemy still has broken through.
One very annoying thing is the lack of ammunition. You have to conserve ammo like mad. About one in every 10 soldiers drops some ammo, if you're lucky. In most situations, I had to fight a group of Germans at close range with nothing more than my sniper rifle and pistol (at least the Italian pistol is decent) only to rewarded with no ammunition. It's very frustrating.
The single player mode ended twice as soon as it should have, and I was left with the feeling of "That's it?"
Like Spearhead, the shortfalls in singleplayer were somewhat made up for with improvements in the multiplayer. However the improvements were nothing spectacular. New modes, weapons and maps were nice, when I could play it. Apparently Breakthrough has a problem where when you try to connect to a multiplayer game, it says your CD key is already in use. Natrually I thought someone was using a pirated copy with my CD key. That is, until I went to their website and found out that's not the case at all. Apparently it's some bug where they screwed up and you have to pay. The explanation on how to fix the problem is of epic proportions (you have to delete the game in a special way and re-install it in a special way) and I just felt cheated. They screwed up so you have to compensate to use the product you paid for.
This is only everything I feel like writing about right now that I can remember (I gave up on this expansion months ago.) Just stick with MOHAA or Spearhead if you already have it. If you really want to try this out, don't spend over $10 for it.
EDIT: Since I wrote this review, I re-installed Breakthrough out of curiosity and the multiplayer works fine this time. I don't know how common the problem I mentioned is.
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Summary: Great Addition to the series
Review: I have been playing the Medal of Honor series since the beginning. This expansion pack adds many challenging single player missions and some great new multiplayer maps.
Graphics are great, but you had better have a good graphics card or you're wasting your time. For multiplayer nothing below a cable modem with bring the game to life. Like all games, the better your system, the better the game play.
The sounds are what made this game series my favorite.
You can find me and a few regulars online most nights playing, but if you find me, bring your "A" game, we don't take it easy on anyone.
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Summary: Another MOHAA Expansion?!?! Good...
Review: I have feverishly played the Medal of Honor franchise for a couple of years now, but mostly I have played Allied Assault. The original game was awesome, with great graphics and awesome sound. It became one of the best games to kick off the year 2002, and it was one of the best games ever made! It was the best game that I owned! Then everyone heard of the new expansion for Allied Assault, Medal of Honor AA Spearhead. Spearhead featured new levels, new multiplayer content, and it raised the bar for Medal of Honor. But while Spearhead was a great game, it also suffered from some serious problems. The multiplayer game was essentially the same, and the single-player game was brutally short. I beat it in two days! Everyone was kind of let down with Spearhead. Finally, Allied Assault Breakthrough has come along, and EA is really busting themselves to make this a great game. They are completely adding a new single-player game, bumping up the visuals, adding new sound, and reworking the multiplayer content to a whole new level. It's like a whole new game entry in the Medal of Honor series. I think that fans of the games are very excited about this new expansion for the game, and I know I am too. ..
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Summary: Best MOHAA Expansion
Review: I really recommend this over SpearHead.
It is fun. The battles and maps are alot more realistic than SH's. If you loved MOHAA, then you'll really love this.
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