Posted on: June 13, 2013
TK2692
Verified ownerGames: 67 Reviews: 1
A Classic, Plain and Simple
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was the game that turned me from a strategy only player into the FPS genre, where I remain to this day. It definitely set the tone for the avalanche of WWII FPS games that would soon follow, but none truly captured the experience (although the first Call of Duty came close, probably because it was made by many of the people who made MOHAA). MOHAA was the first game to combine the WWII setting with nice tough of realism to create a new and refreshing WWII shooter that many later games appeared to try to emulate. Medal of Honor was well made because it felt like a shooter in that it wasn't so obsessed with "realism" that it detracted from the gameplay, yet had enough realistic elements not to make you feel like you were playing a brainless shooter. The diversity of the missions and settings (from a North African city, to a Kriegsmarine u-boat base in Norway (including a brief section inside a u-boat itself), storming Omaha Beach on D-Day, combat in the French countryside and within urban environments, to Germany itself, the game successfully avoids any lack of diversity in this sense. In some missions you fight alongside other American troops in a full scale noisy assault, in others you infiltrate silently to reach your objectives as quietly as possible. However, even though there are portions where stealth is advised, it is rarely mandatory and you can go in with guns blazing if you simply MUST do so.
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