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PC | Action | Medal of Honor Allied Assault

Boxart for Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Medal of Honor Allied Assault 39 screen shots
  • GRAPHICS: 5.0
  • SOUND: 5.0
  • CONTROL: 5.0
  • FUN FACTOR 5.0
  • AVG USER SCORE 4.6
  • AVG CRITIC SCORE 4.2
Winner of the GamePro Editor's Choice Award

Review: Medal of Honor Allied Assault

Review by THED-PADDESTROYER | 01/22/2002 | 14:32:29 PM PST

If you have a PC and you like shooters, you have no excuse not to get this game this instant. Seriously.

If you?re just looking for the best shooter for the PC?a game that engages your senses, thrills your nerves, and impresses your neighbors?stop reading this right now and go get Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

The idea of the Medal of Honor series is to strip away the rocket jumps, plasma rifles, and quad-damage power-ups from the shooter genre and replace them with realistic war situations and opportunities for real heroism. The series exists to give you a taste of real war without all the burdensome realism of a Tom Clancy game and to enable you to wield real-period weapons and complete reality-based objectives. Allied Assault?s developer, 2015, has succeeded in presenting an engaging, exciting war backdrop without relying on genre conventions like secret doors and the like to deliver a fun experience.

You?re Lieutenant Mike Powell, and you?ve just been recruited into the OSS, the WWII-era organization that ran covert operations in the European theater. You wander through gorgeous levels built with immense attention to detail (kept ?real? by advice from Hollywood military consultant Capt. Dale Dye), and you really get the feeling of being in a war. Planes fly over and drop bombs, buildings fall apart from damage, and machine gun fire tears your fellow soldiers apart in front of you. The only thing missing from this war is blood and gore, and with everything going on, you won?t have time to miss it.

Allied Assault is the first MOH to feature extensive use of friendly A.I., and for once the A.I. is extremely intelligent. Your allies and enemies alike duck behind cover, sneak for better vantage spots, and even drink from a medical canteen when wounded. You can even count on a medic for a medkit from time to time if you manage to keep him alive. It?s nice to have allies who are actually helpful and do a lot to advance your objectives.

The Medal of Honor series is known for its amazing sound, but Allied Assault puts even its predecessors to shame. Everything, from rifle shots to officers shrieking orders, sounds exactly like it must have sounded in WWII. Likewise impressive are the graphics, which are so sickeningly realistic that you?ll be squinting for muzzle flashes to find snipers or watching your friendly soldiers to see if they?re limping from damage. Take a time-out to just look at the game and see how lovely it is because the action is so intense you won?t have the chance to smell the roses too often. No shooter is perfect without great controls, and Allied Assault scores here, too. As with most shooters on the PC these days, you have ultimate control over your keyboard layout, but there?s no long list of obscure commands like there is in Wolfenstein. (What?s the Kick button for?)

Please, for crying out loud, if you like PC shooters, play this game. You won?t miss the rocket jumps or the deflector shields, and you?ll find yourself playing what could be the best first-person shooter in history. Allied Assault receives, with no hesitation, the highest honor GamePro can award.