I splurged......

[Assault (CAN) 1]

On Tuesday I went to the local Electronics Boutique and decided to pick up a copy of 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault'. I don't regret it but I should have saved the money for the upcoming 'OFP Resistance'.

If you are a fan of realism and like a lenghty game, do not buy this game. If you like fast paced action and entertainment, go ahead and buy it. I was a little let down by this game, mainly by the length or lack thereof. Only 6 missions? No mission editor? What the hell is that? I bought the game Tuesday and was finished by Thursday. At the end I was left thinking 'was that it?'. With all the hype and fancy intro movies I was expecting alot more.

A few things the people who made this game did pissed me right off and even made me laugh.

At the briefing for the first mission in the Arzew in North Africa, there is a famous, but altered picture in the background. Does anyone remember the picture of two British troops approaching a German tank where the Germans are out of the hatches with their hands up? It is located in the middle of the desert with another burning tank in the distance, the British troops are approaching the tank with their Lee-Enfields leveled at the surrendering tank crew. Anyways, the picture was digitally altered and the British troops were replaced with American ones, this got under my skin.

Another incedent was just before the D-Day mission. They showed a map of the invasion beaches and the countries who were responsible for each landing beach. When they showed the Canadian flag, it was a modern Canadian flag, like the one in my avatar. Funny, that flag wasn't even adopted until 1964. During WWII we used the

'Red Ensign'

This is just a little nit-picking but little stuff like that can add or take away from a gaming experience.

The thing that bothered me the most was the fact that it took 3 shots from a .30-06 Garand to kill an enemy but 1 shot from the .30-06 Springfield Sniper rifle would do the trick. I also hated the fact that there was a health bar and that you could pick up an MP-40 which uses 9mm ammo and use the ammo for the Thompson which uses .45 ACP, the same goes for the pistol and rifles.

I also hated that the enemy would respawn, even if you cleared the whole board of them. They would also repeatedly run into a room when I was pouring fire out the door. The grenades are WAY under powered with a kill radius of about 1 metre.

I did like the way the AI would stick their MP-40's or rifles around a corner and fire away blindly, this made for some intense firefights.

All in all, I could have put up with all of the flaws IF the game was a little longer and had more varying missions.

Tyler

[Aculaud 0]

Ya know, i tried a demo of this once, and just about the only thing that sparked my fancy was the bombed-out-urban-area combat. Thats the only thing it did well. Kolgujev had so many opportunities for this, but they never let us up to the god damn second floor!

[Sheriff 0]

I liked one thing about MOHAA. How soldiers threw themselves on grenades when in the presence of an Officer or other soldiers, Now that's Loyalty!.

[Antichrist 0]

Now that's scripting......

[John C Flett 0]

MOH had a lot of nice touches but it was a really clumsy game. I got a loan of it, played it through in a weekend, enjoyed some parts, hated others. At the end of it though I had no desire to ever touch it again.

Thought it was better than Wolfenstein and Ghost Recon though. I think Flashpoint has kind of spoiled these kind of games for me. Anybody else who wants to do a military style shooter is going to have to really raise their standards to follow in the footsteps of BIS.

[Assault (CAN) 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think Flashpoint has kind of spoiled these kind of games for me. <span id='postcolor'>

Same here. Playing OFP just after MOHAA was a nice feeling, almost like coming home after being away a while. The people at BIS put alot of work into OFP, they don't crank out games like assembly line products, at least that's what it feels like.

Tyler

[Hilandor 1]

i still say that the beach landing mission was the most atmospheric and intense mission ive ever played i think i played that one about 30 times.

[RedStorm 0]

Yea, it's the best mission in the MOHAA campaign, and IMHO one of the best missions I've ever played in a game. I liked the constant screaming of soldiers on the beach, I think it was something like:

"Sir, where's the armour!"

"They're either destroyed, or at the bottom of the canal, either way, we're on our own!"

"Sir, what's the rally point??"

"Get off the damn beach! Go, go!"

lol, aah the memories. The bit where that Higgins ship next to you gets hit is nice too. If you listen carefully, you can hear a guy in your own ship say:

"Jesus Christ!"

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

The beach mission was absolutely amazing the first time around. I had no idea what was going on died quickly. After about 5 retries I figured it out how to beat it. I then went on with the game.

I came back after a while though, and suddenly realised that the beach mission is CRAP! It is the SAME every single time!! I can get up to the bunker without a scratch now. When I realised that I thought "wtf"...

MoH:AA is crap

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

Nah...

The best mission in MOHAA were the one u start out as a spy... and end up taking the train with ya fellow soldiers after blowing up a sub.

The landing mission was for me VERY disapointing. This is only because its:

1. Too short

2. You cant get shot if standing behind a 5 cm stick pointing up from the water (gah).

[Markov 0]

MOHAA, Patterned after popular mainstream video games such as Quake and Doom, the game turns intraracial violence into "entertainment." The swindlers that own these game companies are clearly trying to spread their hate-filled vision to a wider, computer-savvy, younger audience through the violent body-strewn world of shoot-em-up computer games while hoping to make some money along the way.

HA HA HA!

[Aculaud 0]

in other words, let this be a lesson to us all to never again think that anything could substitute for OFP

[Antichrist 0]

I knew from the first moment i installed OFP that nothing ever going to substitute it!!!

Except for OFP2

[EBass 0]

yeah the piccy really grates with me now I see it. I get annoyed when yanks make out that they won the war single handedly but when they have to digitally alter a picture just to show that the Brittish acctally did nothing well that, yes that really annoyed me. The beach is very good but u should have continued past the bunkers into the back trenches and it should have been less scripted, its always the same

[Assault (CAN) 1]

I like OFP multiplayer aswell, there seems to be a far bigger group of older, more intelligent people. With MoH:AA, I get alot of 15 year old kids saying stupid stuff like; 'america rox' and annoying stuff like that, there is also alot more swearing and general idiocy.

God Bless OFP

lol

Tyler

[Tex -USMC- 0]

The thing that ticks me off most about MOHAA is the cheap enemy respawning in Single Player. I cant count the times that I have walked into a building, cleared it, and walked out, and then had an entire platoon worth of Nazis comecharging out of the same house. Go figure.

[madmike 0]

I bought it a week ago becuase Im bored of ofp and I wanted something to fill the space until june 21st.

I thought the beach landing was good with the guys being sick and theres the chap lying on the floor with the medic trying to fix him. "dont worry private, IM gonna fix you up". he dont though

One thing I hate is that its the same old follow this route, theres no planning or sratagy. 1 thing I love is room clearing with the tompson, the sound is just like off saving private ryan.

[hovmand 0]

I dont think there are any decent FPS games out there anymore, after a couble of days they tend to get boring, its just the same over and over again.

[Aculaud 0]

Hence the one major folly of the "Stereotypical" FPS.

OFP started something new. This game is litterally a real time strategy game from the first person perspective.

[LauryThorn 0]

About the beach landing mission..

I think that no game can give me such atmosphere as OFP does, that beach landing mission is nothing compared to "After Montignac" or "Ambush"...

Just my five cents..

EDIT---------------------

The good thing with MOHAA is, that you can use the

sounds when making OFP missions.

[moerty 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Assault (CAN) @ April 20 2002,07:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">At the briefing for the first mission in the Arzew in North Africa, there is a famous, but altered picture in the background. Does anyone remember the picture of two British troops approaching a German tank where the Germans are out of the hatches with their hands up? It is located in the middle of the desert with another burning tank in the distance, the British troops are approaching the tank with their Lee-Enfields leveled at the surrendering tank crew. Anyways, the picture was digitally altered and the British troops were replaced with American ones, this got under my skin.<span id='postcolor'>

stuff like this truly embarasses me, these guys had more balls than most of us dream of and yet some ball scratching, crack-sweat marketing executive decides they don't fit the "image" of their product so they must be replaced.

i can't wait when in 50 years kids are taught in american highschools that "allied" in WWII was just a nick-name for american.

[Aculaud 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (LauryThorn @ April 22 2002,00:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">EDIT---------------------

The good thing with MOHAA is, that you can use the

sounds when making OFP missions.<span id='postcolor'>

Id sure like to know how this is done. I mean i know in theory, but is there some place i can get MOH:AA sounds?

Also, LauryThorn,

Your so right. After monignac, i fealt so utterly alone and helpless the first time i played that.

[LauryThorn 0]

If you don't have to game, then I guess you can't use

the sounds..

But hey, I don't think that they are great..

[Ether Dragon 0]

I don't know the picture you speak of, but as an American, I'm shocked to hear that they needed to doctor some picture up. It shows a lack of effort on the part of the developers, IMHO. There has to be thousands of suitable pictures in the national archives that could have been used in place of some doctored pic. Believe me, it's not part of any conspiracy to rewrite history in America's favor. It always bothers me to hear Europeans express that concern and actually mean it.

Americans are rightfully proud of their participation in WW2, but no one thinks for a minute that it was America itself that brought about victory. If there are, it's due to a lack of education, rather than an education aimed at revising history.

[WKK Gimbal 0]

I tried the demo and as soon as I realized I could not lie down when using my sniper rifle, I uninstalled the crap.