Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (PC CD)

.co.uk Review ------------- Medal of Honor ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XORO/${0} ) has been a huge hit on the console systems. Now PC owners get to see what the fuss has been all about. From the look of things, the fuss is warranted. Allied Assault takes users into a realistic re-creation of World War II and allows them the chance to pummel the Nazis. One of the levels is based on June 6, 1944--D-day. You start aboard a boat, facing Omaha Beach and almost certain death, while the soldiers around you alternately pray or just sit there looking green... not unlike recent war-film footage such as the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan. But this is no surprise: Spielberg's Dreamworks studio has had a hand in the development. One of the innovations the game is touting is the range of realistic facial expressions given to the characters. Nazi soldiers look angry, or fearful as you surprise them. Your own compatriots on the landing craft look positively frightened or grim. Other missions will have you playing sniper in a ruined French town, disabling a Tiger Tank platoon and other missions based on WWII fact and speculation. WWII isn't often given realistic in first-person shooters (such as Return of Castle Wolfenstein ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005N5F0/${0} )) but that's what makes this one special and so hotly anticipated. --Andrew S Bub Manufacturer's Description -------------------------- In Medal of Honor Allied Assault from Electronic Arts, players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion who gets recruited by the OSS and battles through over 20 levels that are based on historical campaigns of World War II. Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1945, Medal of Honor Allied Assault gives players a sense of the courage it took to survive the landings at Normandy, the assault at Arzew, a rendezvous with the Resistance outside the village of St. Lo, and the push through the heavily defended border of Germany itself to take the bridge at Remagen. Staying true to all the gameplay features that made Medal of Honor one of the most accled and best-selling games launched in 1999, Medal of Honor Allied Assault will build on the success of that game and add new player weapons, new interactive Allied vehicles such as Sherman tanks and M3 Half Tracks, smarter enemy AI, and the ability to call for artillery strikes. Medal of Honor Allied Assault is headquartered in Cabinet War Rooms at Whitehall, dispatching players on numerous campaigns, each with specific objectives to meet in terms of infiltration, execution and exfiltration. Missions will be based in the deserts of North Africa, on the bloody shores of France, across the tundra of Norway, and, ultimately, over the Rhine into Nazi Germany. These missions range from silencing the batteries at Port Arzew, to sabotaging U-boats at the sub pens of Trondheim, surviving the landing at Omaha Beach, and finally, holding the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen- the only battle where the Germans used their dreaded V2 rockets in a capacity.

• About this item Over 20 levels that the player must accomplish specific objectives and goals in order to succeed and advance Fully realized 3-D worlds utilizing the powerful Quake III engine Over 1000 unique character animations for unsurpassed level of realism Multiple online options including team combat and traditional last man standing modes Encounters with 22 different enemies Access to over 21 historically accurate World War II era weapons Special 'disguise' mode that allows players to put on enemy uniforms to evade capture.