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Game Information
- Platform: PlayStation2
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- First-person shooter
- 15 missions, based on real events that occurred during World War II
- Fully realized 3-D worlds
- Over 20 weapons
- Attack enemy units alone and as part of a crack military squad
- Communicate with friendly units to organize deadly tactics
- Realistic WWII feel
- For 1 player
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Medal of Honor returns to its console roots with this first outing on the PS2 for Lt Jimmy Patterson. This time the setting is June 6, 1944--D-Day and beyond--and the game begins with you storming the beachhead at Normandy. Frontline definitely lives up to its name, and from the outset the action is intense. As you rush up the shingle, comrades falling beside you and artillery ringing in your ears, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were on the set of Saving Private Ryan. Players of the PC incarnation will recognise this mission from Allied Assault, but here is where the similarities end; Frontline is a new game with new objectives and levels designed perfectly for the console.
If you survive D-Day you enter the real meat of the game--Operation Market Garden (Arnhem). From scuttling a U-Boat to clearing checkpoints in the town itself, the missions are brilliantly designed. The true playability of the Medal of Honor series is how immersive it is: narrative, graphics and sound all combine to give you one of the most gripping first-person shooters on any format. Backgrounds are beautifully detailed, and the sound really sets the game apart. The control system is also intuitive, with the option to customise your controller or choose one of the two default options: MOH Sharpshooter (two analogue stick-control) or the original controls used in the PSone's Medal of Honor.
There are only two criticisms that can be levelled at the game. Firstly, the artificial intelligence errs on the stupid side, with enemies standing around watching comrades get shot, and although this changes with the difficulty level it never responds in a particularly "human" way. Secondly, you can only save at the end of a mission (always a feature of console conversions), so it's quite frustrating to be unceremoniously dumped right back at the beginning after battling your way through a level. But hey, this is war, after all, and these are small niggles about what is a genuinely phenomenal game. Sign up now: the Allies need you. --Kristen Bowditch
Product Description
Medal of Honor: Frontline, the franchise's PS2 debut, features 20 levels of gameplay spread across six major missions, all based on real World War II events and all adding up to one complete and uninterrupted story line. The game includes detailed German, British and American troops, as well as Dutch civilians, all with full facial expressions and lip synch. More than 20 authentic WWII weapons include the Colt.45, Springfield sniper rifle, Panzerschreck rocket launcher, MG42 mounted machine gun and the Browning automatic rifle. Enemy vehicles include panzer and tiger tanks, trucks, motorcycles with sidecars and armoured railway scout cars. There are also player-driven motorised railcars, trains and mine carts. Advanced enemy AI requires you to consistently vary your attack strategy as the situation dictates--go it alone for the utmost stealth or work as part of a highly trained military unit to wreak havoc on the enemy. The game offers intense noncombat scenarios as well, such as a disguised, weaponless infiltration of an officer's pub brimming with Gestapo to make contact with a Dutch Resistance operative.
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reaches Parts that other FPS don't reach.,
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This review is from: Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2) (Video Game)
I'm not really a huge fan of the FPS genre. In the last 10 years i've only played through Quake 1 and 2 on the PC and Timesplitters on the PS2. However, i'd heard great rumblings about this game, i'd heard it was an interactive take on Saving Private Ryan. I needed no more convincing...The opening scene kicks off totally in the vein of said Speilberg epic. The sound effects are so sharp and pulsating that it was as though they were lifted straight from the film and the graphics are smooth with loving attention to detail. Real killjoys may notice genre characteristic gaps and clumsy movement when in close interaction with your surroundings but this really shouldn't put you off. The chaotic first mission is not really as intense as the film, that would be impossible, but let me tell you, it comes a close second. I guarantee you will be dodging invisible bullets and you may even shed a tear at the entrance to the German bunker complex when one of your mates is shot to pieces by a machine gun nest. A notable reviewer mentioned that you may feel a certain degree of disspointment when you find out that this intensity isn't carried on immediately past the first level. Disregard this comment. Take a look at any great film or game, you just don't get 200% visceral fury from beginning to end and like Saving Private Ryan, MOH-F goes a little more stealthy and downbeat past the opening bloodbath. Say what you like, but I love it. The submarine infiltration and the following shipyard mission are outstanding. Brillantly paced, scripted and the soundtrack puts many Hollywood blockbusters totally to shame. Another honourable mention goes out to MOH-F for depicting the British during WW2 in a favourable light. Many American entertainment mediums seem convinced we are ridiculous-accented morons who did nothing but ride through WW2 on their coat-tails. Not so here. Although you play an American a latter, particularly harrowing mission, through the streets of Arnheim (emulating brilliantly the final battle in Saving Private Ryan), sees you fighting alongside British paras. You fight inch by inch, side by side through the ruined streets while a haunting choir dramatically provide the musical cues. The voices of the British soldiers around you gave me a genuine moment of national pride! There is really little to complain about in this game. There is some dodgy animation when you man a machine gun post, ladders are ridiculously fiddly to climb and the hit detection when shooting at very long range is occasionally a little inaccurate but believe me these things are so insignificant overall. The level of detail is unbelievable, just listen to the germans chatting to each other, the grind and clank of Panzers moving down onto your position, the valour, the computer generated human sacrifice! You almost feel guilty having such a good time re-living such a dreadful period of history.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The only game to own,
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This review is from: Medal of Honor: Frontline Platinum (Video Game)
I have over fifty games in my ps2 collection. Some of them are really excellent games (GTA: Vice city, Tony Hawk 4, Fifa 2003 etc...) but they don't even come close to this game.It's not just about pointing and shooting. It takes great skill and intelligence to manouver yourself safely around the missions. The graphics and sound are first-class and truly a realistic representation of fighting in WW2. When I completed this game I was so disapointed...I just wanted it to go on forever. Yet playing it again and again has not dampened the addictivness or excitability of this game. A true masterpeice. In responce to the review above: They did not copy of Saving Private Ryan. The D-day landings are a documented peice of history. Everything you see in this game is factual (except for the characters and plot line of course) and not copied from Hollywood fiction.
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best PS2 game yet.,
By Anthony Pugh (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Medal of Honor: Frontline (PS2) (Video Game)
WHAT CAN i SAY ABOUT THIS GAME? Its the only PS2 game i have never regretted parting with money for and the includes MGS2!! The graphics are incredable the music is the best I have ever heard on any system. But suprisingly all this plays second to the gameplay itself. You will actually find yourself ducking outta the way of bullets and even feeling sorry for some of the german soldiers. Dont believe me - the second level - you are storming a bunker , you come through a doorway between some boxes, on the floor there are 2 geman soldiers enjoying a cigarette and talking about what sounds like home.I tried every way to sneak past them buthonestly i had to do a lot of thinking before grabbing the gun and doing the inevitable. This is basically 'Saving private ryan' the game. It emotional its action packed and has a lot of dark humour. The best pS2 game yet. P.S. Try not feeling any terror on the D .Day landing level.
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