Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest

MOH is truly a classic of the genre. Even with an older game of this type, as long as you spruce the graphics up a bit (Virtual Super Resolution) and the sound (EAX restoration) then the classic atmosphere is still there. Prepare to be extremely immersed in snowy forests or NAZI bunkers. Every corner becomes a death defying dance of grenades bouncing off walls and encounters. It's a seriously good sign for me when I'm laughing when I die, lol. Then I know I was fighting well and the enemy got me fair and square. Highly recommended. As to the difficulty here. It's just too easy in modern games that have so many customisation options (for example Ghost Recon Wildlands, Breakpoint) to make "just hard enough" for one's own style of game play. But its just not challenging enough. Basically the game allows you to break the rules, whereas MOH has a set deck of rules. Other games have cover mechanics, regen health - bullet sponges. MOHAA gives a level playing field apart from the easy/normal/hard difficulty. Developers today are so afraid of making the game "too hard" for players that they try and please everyone. They are in danger of taking away part of the fun factor which is the challenge. Some other games that don't seem to suffer from this are one's like AC Origins. It's new combat system is challenging. However in modern games you can always dial the difficulty up and down at will leading to not being able to live with the consequences of one's decisions. Can you image if the particpants were allowed to do that in the middle of an olympic contest ? So MOH is a true testament to the generation who fought WW2. Now we can sit back and say "we won that one". But then WINNING WASN'T EASY WHEN YOU WERE IN THE THICK OF IT !

One of those games that ages like a pharaoh's tomb. On the surface it might look really old and dusty, but on the inside its still solid gold treasure. This game I think strikes that sweet spot of games becoming more cinematic where even though it tries to feel like Saving Private Ryan, its still a game first and it gives the player enough of a challenge with enough agency to tackle it in more than one way whether its stealth or guns blazing Rambo style. The music and the atmosphere are still great, and the vairiety in the missions keep the campaign feeling fresh at all times, its one of those games where the second I finish a mission I'm ready to jump right into the next one. The D-day mission is still one of the best moments in gaming imo, it manages to be both fun gameplay wise while capturing the horrofic feeling that the brave soldiers who fought and died on that beach went through.

• Damage flinch (aim punch) is too overwhelming. • AI can be unforgiving at times (especially in the later stages such as the infamous "Sniper Town" level). • Due to the difficulty and the somewhat "trial-and-error" gameplay, save scumming becomes a viable tactic (the act of saving before each encounter). Overall bad game design if the player has to rely on this. In conclusion, MoH:AA is still a solid experience but the same development team went on to make the first Call of Duty which corrected nearly everything wrong with Allied Assault. My recommendation? Pick it up on sale!

Great gameplay for it's time and still holds up relatively well. You gotta love shooting those m1 garands!

First off the game IS still avaliable for online play, EA games in all their wisdom stopped supporting the servers however gamespy has picked up the slack, I play online daily. As for the game, what could be better? MoH is the pinnacle of FPS creation, it set a new standard which has not been matched since. MoH has a slower paced game style than CoD and other war games but when it gets tough it get tough, without being too in-your-face. Highly highly suggest this game for any FPS fan or any WWII fan out there!