Medal of Honor™: Pacific Assault

An amazing experience for the fans of military shooters

It was certainly an experience to get a first-person interactive view of WWII events, but there comes a time when you, an infantryman, forced to the trigger of an AAA gun, where inexplicably the entire war depends on your ability to shoot down a constant buzzing of Zeros that, eventually, failure to kill them all prevents you from experiencing the rest of the game. Granted, I'm not a seasoned gamer (I tend to like seeing the whole game through the first time on "easy"). I guess I just need the "Easy" setting to get me through the stupid parts of the game.

There really isn't much to say about this game. The game can be fun at times, sure, but it is so average there really isn't a reason for this game to exist. To quote AVGN's Independence Day review, which pretty much applies to this game as well, "It's okay, but, that's the problem. It's so... okay that it's not even worth... existing. It's so bland and mediocre that it's hard to even come up with legitimate complaints." Except I do have legitimate complaints. Things like animations (especially death animations) are the ones that have aged the worst, and the graphics are just bad overall. I am not the kind of guy who likes to review titles based on graphics, but compared to other games from the same era, this game is just...ass. What are some of the titles from the exact same period that have aged well and look good to this day? I am talking about games like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Far Cry, and KOTOR II, and what I mean by "look good" is their overall look, their graphical style. However, what these games do have in common is that they are also tremendously fun. MoH: Pacific Assault? Not so much. I've played like three hours and a half, and I'm already bored, not to mention stuck at a section because of a bad checkpoint location.

The game has a severe problem with it's key bindings. I kept dying because Melee and Crouch keys refusing to work after a few minutes. This problem is around on default bindings too. Don't buy.

Terrible hit bix issues. It's almost impossible to play sometimes..