Posted on: June 18, 2018

Frostcat_

Games: 225 Reviews: 3

Fun gameplay, but overstays its welcome

MoHAA is by today's standards a fairly unique shooter. It wasn't so back in the day, but some key features like health pickups, no iron sights for most weapons and the fact that the player is in complete control for most of the experience make it stand out now. The first thing you might notice when booting the game up is the rather lacking texture work. Yes, this is 2002 and a lot of the game looks fine, but some walls and terrain just look muddy and rushed even for the time. Not that that's such a big issue since it's compensated fairly well by the fact that the weapons look and feel great. I'd say that the main draw of this game is being able to use these WW2 era weapons to mow down hordes of nazis. The music in the game is also superb and more than one track managed to wiggle itself into my brain after I had completed it. Now the gameplay itself is just a whole lot of shooting nazis while going from point A to point B and that is fine and fun for most of the game, but towards the tail end of the campaign there's a distinct increase in the amount of enemies. This the last couple of levels wars of attrition where you have to fight for every inch often times against enemies who hide and take a couple of shots at you before you can even fire back. The last mission especially just drags on and on and throws countless enemies at you and by the end all I could feel was some slight frustration because the game refused to give me a breather. Also, sometimes I felt like enemy placement and reaction time was rather unfair. Not Shogo levels of unfair, mind you, but sometimes I'd round a corner only to be shot instantly by a machine gun I couldn't see before. And this wouldn't be such a big issue if your crosshair didn't go all over the screen when you got shot making it impossible to shoot back. Quicksave often. In conclusion, it's a flawed game with some pacing issues, but definitely worth buying if you're looking to kill some time or if it's on sale.

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Posted on: April 28, 2020

bad3das

Games: 27 Reviews: 1

A World War II History Lesson

MoH:AA was one of the games I sped more time in my life, when I had 13, 14 years, specially in Multiplayer modes.. Now I'm 30 years old... and I can feel the same adrenaline playing the campaigns, listen one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever made for a video game. Medal of Honor Allied Assault is a Master piece, and of course, a excellent lesson of History.

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Posted on: May 8, 2020

holgac

Verified owner

Games: 114 Reviews: 2

Has good nostalgia value, but that's it

I downloaded and played this during quarantine as part of my quest to clean up my game list. I played the main game and the expansions on wine without an issue. MoH:AA is great (5/5) and it brought back memories, but it doesn't really bring much to the table so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that didn't play it back in the day. With MoH:AA done, I moved on to the expansions. Spearhead (3/5) was alright, but a bit too linear. One annoying example I can still remember is a chapter where a tank sneaks up behind you. I shot it many times but it always ended up killing me. Turns out, I had to keep moving forward so that the tank gets blown to pieces by a bomber. There were a few more examples like this, but the game is relatively short so it was tolerable. Breakthrough (2/5), on the other hand, felt more like a chore than fun due to its length. The game is extremely hard even on medium difficulty, ammo is scarce and the enemies aim like soviet snipers. For most chapters you solve this problem by quick saving as if you're playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and moving slow and steady, but the games where you man a vehicle gun makes this impossible. There are still two chapters left, but I'm done with Breakthrough.

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Posted on: June 2, 2020

zstauber

Verified owner

Games: 1533 Reviews: 10

Main game works on W10, expansions don't

MOHAA main game gets 5/5 stars. It's stable, fun, levels are not too complex in terms of objectives and finding the way through, but not too easy to get through, controls are great, selection of weapons is the standard WWII spread (from M1911's through StG44s). Has mounted weapons, but no vehicles are available. Unfortunately Spearhead and Breakthrough, which I assume are just as great, didn't work at all, one star off for each. I have tried literally every fix on GOG's support pages and plenty others I found online, plus a lot of my own ideas, without any luck. I don't have any older versions of Windows to try out so I guess I'm out of luck. Everyone says they fine work on W7, so if you're still on that, this is a great deal.

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Posted on: June 11, 2020

traysty

Verified owner

Games: 89 Reviews: 1

A great pack to play this !

This game even that is released in 2002 and 2003 is still a great one. A great combat, great soundtrack and of course a great story. Medal of Honor was a great franchise, i like almost all of them, they are great and it gives you a great time. I recomend this package without any questions, i bought it from a sale, so great job GOG. The reason that i give this game 4 stars is because i didn't like to much those expansions. They are okay games, but sometimes some levels are maybe to hard and it becomes frustrating. I fully recomend the first one, and maybe you should give a try if you like this WWII theme. Good times from old EA, i kinda miss those days... By the way, after you finish the first Medal of Honor game, the 2 remaining games won't open for some reason. There are some tutorials to fix this issue, but i wanna let GOG know that they have to find a way to make all of them work. In conclusion, this is a great package and i reccomend without any problems, some great tunes from 2002 and when EA actually makes games. I hope one day they will change their plans and do great games like those back in the days...

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