Though longer and more diverse, Breakthrough is an altogether much less appealing expansion set than Spearhead, running with a ‘more is better’ approach to gameplay. New levels abound in greater numbers, this being Breakthrough’s strongest asset, and all of them focus on the Allied push into Nazi-occupied Europe through its soft underbelly – North Africa, Sicily and the Italian peninsula.
Overall level design is good, but not quite as polished or as impressive as the missions seen in Spearhead or Allied Assault. There are no massive charges that evoke a sense of awe, no daring parachute jumps in the face of roaring flak fire, no epic town assaults with your pals. Ultimately, there is not a single scene here that I found particularly inspiring. Levels alternate between fair detail and bland emptiness, with city streets that look incomplete, night raids that are too dark and friendly soldiers that drop faster than flies. There’s an omnipresent feel of hackneyed design and rushed work everywhere.
The game starts off with your deployment in Tunisia, with a first mission pitting you as a lone gunner against German trenches during a terribly obtrusive sand storm. The opening mission isn’t half as memorable as Spearhead’s cinematic D-Day drop, but later levels pick up more steam and get to show off the scripting better.
You’ll eventually be tasked with defending a column of tanks against overhead ambushes from German troops, dodging both bullets and your fellow Shermans who drive ahead with no concern for your safety. Then it’s off to free a detachment of British SAS soldiers, who ultimately get killed in a scripted event; then you must plant charges on garaged fighter planes in what must be the easiest stealth mission ever conceived. Interspersed are numerous rail-shooting sequences to keep the action going, most of them quite fun, and you’ll also get a chance to drive a tank yourself early on.
Breakthrough does at least attempt to brake free of the previous game’s geographical predictability, and the Italian soldiers and sights are a welcome diversion from the German Wehrmacht and destroyed Norman towns. Several weapons and manned guns have been kept from Spearhead, and a new Italian armory comprised of a Beretta handgun, Carcano rifle and Moschetto submachinegun are now available (along with several other weapons, including a portable anti-tank rifle and a mortar that’s impossible to aim).
Medal of Honor’s second and final expansion set will indeed offer several day’s worth of blowing stuff up, but it’s a technical mixed bag, laden with all the hallmarks of a game pushed out the door before it was ripe for shelves. Half life 2 mods. Some areas resemble barren wastelands, as opposed to Allied Assault’s more brimming scenery, certain weapons are unbalanced and gameplay shifts between fun and tedious.
System Requirements: PII 450 Mhz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 16 MB Video, Win 9x/ME/2000/XP
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June 6, 1944. Omaha. You’re in a landing craft, waiting. Behind you, a crude representation of a face somehow manages to convey terror. A mortar explodes, hitting the adjacent craft and sending its occupants into the sea. You reach the land. The craft stops and, for a moment, everything is peaceful. Then the whistle blows and the guns start to fire. You run, die and reload, over and over again.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is one of the highest-scoring FPSes of PC Gamer’s history. Our reviewer, Steve Brown, praised its confident plot and outstanding level design, calling it “the best FPS we’ve seen since Half-Life”. I, too, have fond memories of the best entry in EA’s Medal of Honor series, and particularly of the atmospheric beach landing sequence. And yet, going back, it’s not quite the standout sequence I remember. It’s not bad, but… well, as painful as it is to say given everything the series has become, Call of Duty did it better.
June 6, 1944. Three miles west of Omaha, and three years after Allied Assault. You’re in a landing craft, waiting. A more realistic-looking soldier empties his stomach over the floor. A mortar explodes. A stray bullet hits one of your squadmates and everybody takes cover. There’s no peace, just escalation. The whistle blows and… you fall. You watch, helpless, as your comrades run and die. Someone is shouting at you, but you can’t hear them over the sound of your beating heart.
Allied Assault feels old fashioned, and not just because it’s 15 years old. The Call of Duty series has changed how war is portrayed in an FPS. The opening of Call of Duty 2’s American campaign, a beach landing on Pointe du Hoc, is directly comparable to Allied Assault’s Omaha mission. Such similarities are unsurprising—Vince Zampella and Jason West were both part of the 2015, Inc. team, and would go on to found Infinity Ward. But what sets Pointe du Hoc apart is Infinity Ward’s talent for set piece design, and an eye for memorable directed experiences that would forever change the genre.
Much of Allied Assault is drawn from Saving Private Ryan, with settings and scenarios recreated from the film. But ironically, despite Spielberg’s involvement with the Medal of Honor series, it’s Call of Duty that feels more cinematic. That moment when you’re lying injured in Pointe du Hoc is drawn directly from the language of film. It’s essentially a Band of Brothers sequence—all excitement and melodrama. It’s also exactly as interactive as a Band of Brothers sequence, by which I mean it isn’t at all. It’s a series of moving images, constructed to not be ruined by a player enacting their agency.
Allied Assault is arguably the better approach, because its design favours playable scenarios over fixed camera placement. Its beach landing is harrowing not because of the scripted deaths of your comrades, but because it’s difficult to play. Making it across the beach requires using the Czech hedgehogs for cover, however they’re an awkward shape—forcing you to jostle squadmates to avoid being pushed out into the gunfire. It’s a loud, tense and disorienting sequence, even though age has stripped away much of its sense of scale. Even playing now, I died a lot.
Call of Duty 2’s set piece sequence has, alas, aged better, and offers a more consistent and less frustrating experience. Allied Assault’s attempt to craft an atmosphere primarily through interaction is laudable, and feels preferable to CoD’s more directorial approach. But my many Omaha deaths didn’t make me think about the tragedy of war, so much as the annoyance of quicksaving in a location far away from the one medic hiding across the beach. It worked at the time, but I’m looking back through the lens of over a decade of Call of Duty-influenced design. Put simply: CoD won the war, and this is history as written by the victor.
Incidentally, EA’s other war series, Battlefield, produced an affecting sequence about the endless brutality of war that is conveyed through play. Battlefield 1’s prologue switches character on every death, hammering home the relentless churn of lives through the war machine. It’s great, by which I mean it’s very sad.
Across the board, Allied Assault is a product of its time, unaware of the lessons of both Call of Duty and Half-Life 2. But where Omaha is a messy attempt at creating an ambitious, singular experience, elsewhere the lack of heavy direction is a boon. The opening is classic war drama, effectively expressed. You hide in the back of a truck as part of a convoy that’s infiltrating a Nazi camp in North Africa. A guard checks the documentation of the truck behind you, and your squadmates wonder whether he’s buying the ruse. It’s a short introduction that sets the tone, giving the scant justification needed to shoot up a level full of Nazis.
These opening missions feel like a way to bridge the original Medal of Honor games with Allied Assault’s later focus on being the unofficial companion to Saving Private Ryan. Both sections feature excellent mission design and variety. There are stealth sections, sniper sections, solo infiltrations and full-scale invasions. There’s also some turret sections, because, despite everything else, Allied Assault is still a ’00s FPS. There’s a brilliant early mission that involves walking disguised through an enemy base, using a false ID to bypass checkpoints. Still, the lack of a cohesive through line does make the campaign feel scattershot.
The protagonist, Lt Mike Powell—yes, I had to look that up—has no real personality. He’s a cipher for a collection of war experiences, with no story to link them. Neither are his comrades noteworthy. Powell works as part of a squad, but his allies are disposable and quickly killed off. By Omaha, which doesn’t occur until the third chapter, I was desensitised to the plight of the basic AI.
In the years since, FPS campaigns have done more to characterise squadmates, and often use multiple protagonists to justify the whistle stop tour of different war scenarios. It’s easier to connect to characters facing impossible odds than with the vague terror of a terrible war.
Despite time not being kind to its presentation, Allied Assault is still a good shooter. It feels precise, with a focus on longer range combat. If you’re caught by surprise, the enemy can be deadly, and so there’s an emphasis on scouting, particularly in the open areas. Fortunately, Allied Assault features a recreation of the M1 Garand that still holds up. It’s a fantastic gun that’s crisp to fire and has more personality than many of the game’s characters. Allied Assault is no simulation, but a nice quirk is your inability to reload the Garand mid-clip—something considered too awkward to be worth attempting in the middle of a firefight.
Allied Assault is still an entertaining war shooter, and a fascinating step in the journey from Wolfenstein 3D to the upcoming Call of Duty: WW2. That the Medal of Honor series would destroy itself trying to mimic CoD is a shame, because Allied Assault proves that effective systems design can shine outside of Hollywood set pieces. This is, at times, a subtle representation of war, with a lightness of scripting that creates a distinct, now almost unrecognisable tone.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead (2003 Video Game)
GreyFox3713 November 2003
to correct ulmer there, you play a 1st lt. by the name of mike powell in allied assault.
as for this game, wow, what can i say. 9 missions really was worth the 20 bucks i spent, and the cutscenes with gary oldman narrorating were surperbly done. i didn't think anything could top or meet the omaha beach scene from the original, but once barnes leaped out of that plane, my jaw hit the ground at the atmosphere i was seeing. the medal of honor series are perhaps the BEST games EVER made next to the highly noted thief series. world war 2 is such a fantastic and fun time to study about, and with these games, you can take part in a piece of the history and the sacrifice that we went through in order to achieve what we did. way to go EA
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In 'Medal of Honor: Allied Assault,' you get to play as a Sergeant in World War II. You go behind enemy lines in France, rush the frontline on D-Day, and even get to drive a tank around.
In 'Spearhead,' you are Sgt. Jack Barnes. You get to parachute down into the towns of france; you get to fend off attackers at the battle of Ardennes in Belgium; you get to sniper off Germans in their home world. The expansion pack, 'Spearhead,' is ten times better than the original. The graphics, the sound, the environment, and the levels are much better. I recommend you pick up the MEDAL OF HONOR ALLIED ASSAULT DELUXE EDITION like I did, which contains both games, as well as a preview of the upcoming Pacific MOH game. Oh, it also comes with walkthrough guides, for all the cheaters out there. 4/5 for MOH: AA, 5/5 for SPEARHEAD. Medal Of Honor Allied Assault War Chest
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Allied Assault was better than Spearhead because of the fact that most of the missions were probably real,
In Allied Assault you play as OSS agent 1Lt. Mike Powell, you lead the way in Africa, destroy the Sub Pens in Norway, land in the infamous Omaha Beach, fight your way through bocage country in Normandy, steal the plans for the Tiger 2, fight you way through a war torn French Village, drive a tiger tank and storm a German fort, the game play was amazing but some of the graphics and skins were iffy, one of the best WW2 games on the market and it lead to the production of Call of Duty In Spearhead, the missions are somewhat glitchy, laggy and for the most part factious, there are many noticeable mistakes in the game, in the first level Welcome to Normandy, the officer in front of you speaks in a New Yorker voice while during the initial jump when everyone stands up his voice changes to British, in fact you don't land in Normandy you land in Holland, the 501st PIR landed in Normadny no allied unit during D-day ever penetrated Danish Airspace, no Britihs paratrooper ever landed in an American Dropzone vice versa, during the bulge you lead 4 soldiers to take out a German depot, that for a fact would not have happened as all 4 would've been killed. During the German assault if one enemy soldier even gets past the trenches you fail the mission, no American unit ever used German weapons in strength during the Bulge they all had American built weaponry, and the ammo came from dead or wounded soldiers. another noticeable glitch is trying to shoot down the Stuka, you can shoot 300 rounds of 40mm ammo and the stuka will still be flying and you fail the mission, during the battle of Berlin a doubt that any western allied soldier ever made it to Russian lines through German control territory, a T-34 needs at least 3 crew man to man it, in the game your character is the only soldier manning the tank. i give MOHAA a 8.5/10 and Spear Head 2.5/10 Medal Of Honor Allied Assault Torrent
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1.The Americans technically did not paratroop with the British, but they sometimes got mixed up.
2.Barnes in Berlin is an OSS agent (whom you may have heard of in MOHAA), and is there only for the documents that are contained in the safe. 3.There were both Rangers in and 101st guys at Bastagone! 4. Glenn Brody is right in every aspect! The PIR landed with the Americans. The Americans frequently got mixed up. The British fought alongside the Americans on D-day
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I think you misinterpreted jinjaninja's comments..
1. There were British paratroopers on D-Day, yes..however, they did NOT drop with the Americans. They were on the other end of the beachhead 2. He's saying that, in the game, there are Rangers in Bastogne rather than the 101st or 82nd ABN troops who were actually there OK, with that out of the way..this is a fun little expansion, but way too short for the money. A gamer of decent skill can have it finished on the same day they purchase it.
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First of all, you obviously don't know A LOT about WWII history..
#1: Of course there were British paratroopers on D-Day!!! What the hell do you think the PIR was? For an American, I'm guessing you've never seen 'The Longest Day', with Sean Connery who plays a British paratrooper ON D-DAY!!! #2: NO, you are wrong that it was only Rangers who fought in Bastogne. HELLO! Again, you've never seen 'Band of Brothers'! The famous Easy company, PARATROOPERS, where best know for the pushing back of German troops from the frontline. and #3: WHO CARES what Barnes is doing in Berlin during the Soviet raid? In fact, I found it to be the funnest level in the game. It reminded me of 'Enemy at the Gates'. This was a very fun add-on and I enjoy playing it over and over again, whether it be single-player or playing the multiplayer. I recommend buying it..but I also recommend stop being so technical and just loosen up! It's only a game, after all.
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There are a number of mistakes in this game: 1. The British did not paratroop with the Americans on D-day.
2. The allied soldiers in the winter levels are rangers, not airborne. 3. What the hell is he doing in Berlin? However I felt that the game overcame these, and was very enjoyable to play.
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Medal of honor allied assault free download full version game for windows is an action game that is based on first-person shooter game style that is totally free to download and play. Medal of honor is also known as MoHAA. The game was published developed and released by EA games a game developing company. The game was released for multiple platforms like Microsoft windows and play station, Xbox. The game was available and the released date was in 2002. The Medal of Honor is a very war type simulation game. The game was released as its 3rd release after the first version was out this one is the third. The player can choose what kind of gameplay he wants.
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The gamer player can choose also what type of graphics he wants to play the game on you can choose high-level graphics also low-level graphics are not bad but you need a high and fast computer to play the game on high-quality visual experience. You can play the game as you want but you'll need to complete a specific amount of missions and objectives to open new missions and places and locations on the map so you can go where ever you want but you also have a certain amount of health if that heath goes zero you will re-spawn from the place you last saved the game and where you left your last objectives. The game has autosave feature which saves automatically your gameplay. You may also enjoy Medal of Honor Warfighter.
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