Medal of Honor: Allied Assault War Chest

I spent endless hours on this game both on the single-player campaigns (base game + expansions) and the multiplayer, when the servers went down, i was actually very sad about it, as of today, i'm still sad about it, this game and Dungeon Siege were the two games i loved playing multiplayer, Medal of Honor Allied Assault is the only game i ever truly loved to play multiplayer and with actual humans instead of bots. I had lot of fun on the multiplayer, the countless hours i shrunk into this, honestly, the number probably went above 4000 hours and that only on the multiplayer part not counting the single-player. Not only it was (and still would be if the servers wouldn't be closed) an amazing multiplayer and single-player game but the lan with friends and family was really amazing, you know, but i guess that those days of lan are over, a shame really. So what's so good about this game? Its textures, graphics and models? No, certainly not, even 90's games had better textures and graphics. So what is it? Well it's simple, to me it was the design of the maps, the simple but good gameplay, no health regeneration, no bullcrap unlocks, just fun. I loved the maps and the gamemodes, the gamemodes added by the expansions were really cool too but i didn't had the opportunity to play on those since they were dead by 2005. Objective mode was my favorite part, but teamdeath matches were really fun too, or even the freeforall matches, i hate those yet i did liked those in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. There was also those custom gamemodes such as sniper rifle only, base building, etc... Pure joy it was. So in the end, for me, its greatest point was the maps, It has nothing to do with nostalgia, the maps really are fun and enjoyable to play on. You can still play multiplayer but there are barely any players so it is not worth it anymore...

MOH-AA really left an impression when I first played it. The intro mission was something I hadn't seen before. After playing the demo I HAD to get the collector's edition of it - and I was far from being disappointed. Just when I started to get bored from shooters, this game wakened my interest again. Playing through it was a time well spent, even if I have to say that I didn't like the expansions as much as I loved the main game. Also it has one of the best soundtrack I have heared in a shooter so far.

Enjoyable first person shooter, one of the first to do the whole "World War 2 as inspired by Saving Private Ryan" thing, to which Call of Duty followed in it's footsteps. The game really holds up well, graphically it still looks decent and the enemy animations and AI is great to fight against in close quarters gun battles. However... it really suffers from some serious difficulty spikes which turns this into a quick save management game rather than a WW2 shooter. In the later levels where you're put into more open outdoor environments, enemy troops seem to have laser x-ray vision and can see you through the thickest shrubbery and shoot you instantly and accurately. Switching the game to Easy still proved to be an incredible challenge as all it seemed to do was reduce the damage you take, meaning you had a few extra seconds to figure out who was shooting you and do something about it. Combine this with being hugely outnumbered (especially on the final mission) and for me this meant I found myself quick saving every 2 steps and not having a great deal of enjoyment. Therefore I just turned on God Mode and that solved it and I was again able to enjoy myself. Still played as though I could die, finding cover etc... but knowing I wouldn't sniped and killed from an unseen German suddenly made it a lot more appealing way to spend my free time. Good game, enjoyed finishing it but man alive, games used to be more difficult not sure how I used to play this back in the day like I did. I guess my spare time wasn't as precious back then. :)

This game thought me that german soldiers like to hide in wardrobes... I've played this game in my childhood. It was fun back then and still is! I can honestly say that it aged very well, if you don't dislike old-ish graphics. This is the game that inspired the first Call of duty. Many devs from this game actually went to develop the first Call of Duty. It's a fun, challening world war 2 shooter with missions that actually look and feel like you're an elite soldier during ww2. There's a bunch of unique missions, the most obvious one being the D-Day mission. There's also some pretty good 'infiltration' missions where you have to find a uniform and papers to pass through some of the level undetected. You have to upgrade your papers to progress further, at the risk of being identified. It dosn't take long before you complete your objectif of blowing up some top secret german weapon, which starts the action of the level until your escape. It's a classic game, really. Worthy to be on this 'Good old Games' site.

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.