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Game Information
- Platform: Windows 98 / 2000 / Me / XP / 95
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 15
- Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Over 20 levels that the player must accomplish specific objectives and goals in order to succeed and advance
- Fully realized 3-D worlds utilizing the powerful Quake III engine
- Over 1000 unique character animations for unsurpassed level of realism
- Multiple online options including team combat and traditional last man standing modes
- Encounters with 22 different enemies
- Access to over 21 historically accurate World War II era weapons
- Special 'disguise' mode that allows players to put on enemy uniforms to evade capture
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Until now DreamWorks' acclaimed WW2 first-person shooter series Medal of Honor has been confined to the PSone, but with MOH Allied Assault the bestselling franchise makes it onto the PC. The first thing you'll notice is that the format is relatively unchanged. The OSS bunker is there in all its glory, as are the Pathe News-eque briefings and the fantastically atmospheric music and ambient sound.
But although the format is cosy and familiar for Medal heads, the move to PC has brought with it some great new features. Firstly although it's not squad-based, in several of the missions you will gain comrades in arms; you can't control them, but the speed of your actions will decide whether they live or die. Secondly the medal system has changed. Whereas the original was pretty formulaic, clear the level with over 75 per cent health and killing all enemies, in Allied Assault there are "secret missions" which you don't have to complete to clear the level but if you perform above and beyond the call of duty, such as rescuing a POW or risking life and limb to acquire a manifest, you are rewarded accordingly.
Graphically it's a bit disappointing. Some of the hedgerows in the boccage level are rather pixelated, but what it lacks in looks it makes up for in atmosphere. The fantastic (Indiana Jones alike) music is back and the sound is literally stunning as bullets, explosions and shrapnel rain about you. But what really raises MOH Allied Assault above Wolfenstein, is the Omaha Beach level. This is possibly the most intense war-gaming experience ever on a PC. Around you people are crying, praying, dieing and you having to run up a beach to the shingle dodging a hail of machine gun bullets. It's insanely difficult to make it, even on easy level, but you will be gripped by the sheer full-on intensity of the experience, so much so that the next time you see Saving Private Ryan you'll nod sadly remembering how you were there. --Kristen Bowditch
Manufacturer's Description
In Medal of Honor Allied Assault from Electronic Arts, players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion who gets recruited by the OSS and battles through over 20 levels that are based on historical military campaigns of World War II.
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, Medal of Honor Allied Assault gives players a sense of the courage it took to survive the landings at Normandy, the assault at Arzew, a rendezvous with the Resistance outside the village of St. Lo, and the push through the heavily defended border of Germany itself to take the bridge at Remagen.
Staying true to all the gameplay features that made Medal of Honor one of the most acclaimed and best-selling games launched in 1999, Medal of Honor Allied Assault will build on the success of that game and add new player weapons, new interactive Allied vehicles such as Sherman tanks and M3 Half Tracks, smarter enemy AI, and the ability to call for artillery strikes.
Medal of Honor Allied Assault is headquartered in Cabinet War Rooms at Whitehall, dispatching players on numerous campaigns, each with specific objectives to meet in terms of infiltration, execution and exfiltration. Missions will be based in the deserts of North Africa, on the bloody shores of France, across the tundra of Norway, and, ultimately, over the Rhine into Nazi Germany. These missions range from silencing the gun batteries at Port Arzew, to sabotaging U-boats at the sub pens of Trondheim, surviving the landing at Omaha Beach, and finally, holding the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen- the only battle where the Germans used their dreaded V2 rockets in a tactical capacity.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pushing the FPS genre forwards ......,
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This review is from: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC CD) (Video Game)
Well, FPS games have landmarks - DOOM, QUAKE, HALF LIFE, UT ...... and now we have tough battle for the next landmark game. RTCW - yeah its a great engine and it looks lovely, but nothing too new that pushes things forward. AVP2 - again, good ideas but still doesn't "feel" right. So what about MOH:AA? Well the first thing i noticed was that it was one of the most realistic and gritty FPS's I have played. For the first time it feels more like real combat and less like simulated worlds. The enemy AI is basically superb. It is the best use of opponents using cover i have seen - which just adds to the realism. Playability - its like playing the soldiers from half life all the time, with each encounter containing a different twist and turn of events to create a freash experience in each battle. If you have watched the series Band of Brothers, it basically is as close as you can get to that without actually being in WW2. Only one problem - no blood unless you download unofficial patches. I am sorry but to make the game a succesful replication of WW2 combat you need blood guts and glory. If somone applied the damage realism of Soldier of Fortune and the GeoMod tech of Red Faction, it would be the game to mark all others by for years to come.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazingley realistic and great fun.,
This review is from: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC CD) (Video Game)
this has to be the most realistic game i have ever played, The recreation of world war 2 is both brilliant and shocking, Brilliant in the way every weapon or uniform is extremely detailed and the levels are so atmospheric that you fall so deep into the gameplay that you can easily lose 4 or 5 hours just trying to complete a couple of stages.The main level im sure every one will be talking about is the omaha level, this has to be the closest any of us will get to actually storming the beaches of Normandy. Let me describe a bit of it. You start the level aproachingthe beach in the higgins boat there are about 5 of you in there and you can hear the explosions in the distance. As you get closer the boat a couple of yards over from you gets hit, the guy next to you is praying he will survive this onslaught and then the whistle blows preparing every one to get ready to charge. As the door slams down the first row of people are mowed down before they even get of the boat and you rush for the nearest wooden stack just to survive the first two yards, then all you can see through the hail of bullets are the allies rushing and dying in front you and as your jaw drops at the amazing recreation of the omaha landings you also feel a bit saddened because it reminds you of what the real life soldiers must have gone through thats how realistic it is.The graphics are great especially if you got the machine to handle the full spec, And the AI is great too Another great part of the game is the multiplayer. Yes it has your average deathmatch and teammatch but it also has an objective match where you and about twenty others can choose between allies or axis and you either have to blow a bridge or a flak gun or you have to defend them either way it is much better than just shooting people. Right i think i've said enough, oh by the way this is a MUST bye for anyone even if you dont like first person shooters. BYE IT NOW.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Completely Absorbing,
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This review is from: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC CD) (Video Game)
I bought this game after several recommendations from various friends - I have not been disappointed.What makes this game come alive is the variations on the standard fps genre. You can use that tank! Additionally the changes in pace- from desperate all out panic on Omaha Beach to the calculated sniper sequences. On the whole worth every penny; great graphics, stunning sound and to die for (no pun intended) gameplay.
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