[[zErO]Cool]

Okay, Dont get me wrong , I love MOHAA but I'm sick of people praising it up so much so here we go.
Medal of Honor: allied assault was a much awaited game for all us avid gamers (especially for those who strived to get the demo b4 the release, which was a hard task) Only this game could have you playing the same demo level for three months , day in day out. The feeling you got when you played this game was unlike no other!. But then the game hit the shelves and we got to see what other marvels it had in store for us all. Then it went to hell. Apart from being occasionally impressed with some explosion or such, It was a very average game. Every last level you were stuck to taking a very narrow path with next to no freedom, The scripted scenes caused bugs when they werent triggered in the right place and the mg42 parts made me flash-back to serious sam with hoards of enemys just appearing and appearing. The AI which was nothing short of the terminator's highly skilled cousin, dont get me wrong I hate games where the enemys need some contacts and spent more time shooting the walls than you but the germans were just that little bit too skilled, like those uber-snipers that can see you through vast amounts of shrubbery and trees. The guards that no matter how well your hidden know where you are once you were spotted 5 mins earlier in another part of the level.The fact that you cant save your men no matter what you do sometimes is poor, and the one's you can save have as much life as a fruit-fly.Now on to a subject that has many people raging! gore. Despite many blood mods (inc: the best one: [zerO]Cool's Ultimate Blood Mod) the lack of gore in the game is pityful! a quote from EA :

"The Germans wore several layers of clothing so you didnt see much gore"

WHAT?!? r u kidding EA? If you do some research you'll find that little puffs of white powder didnt shoot out of them! there was a lot of gore in the war ALOT! and its not like we are psychos or anything but that brings the realism down 200 notches. And the main let down was, at the last level when everything was blowing up , most people only felt like they were only half way through the game, I did anyway. accompianied by the 'The End' I can say I was far from wow-ed!. Now graphically I cant really fault the game, but I'll try the clipping is really bad, theres nothing worse when your hiding around the corner from the people on multi-player just to be comprimised by the gun poking through the wall, and the muzzle flashes and grenade flashes that can be seen on the other side of a wall instead of just the side your on. The detonator drivers for nivida cards on windows XP r terrible, leave you looking at moving stripes on some of the walls and textures. And OH THE THINGS WE WERE PROMISED! I can say I was mightly disappointed at the MOH official website in the features section (it still states this today) and I quote:
"Access to over 21 historically accurate World War II era weapons, including Thompson submachine guns, Mark II Frag Grenades, .50 al mounted machine guns, flame-throwers, and "sticky bombs"."

flame-throwers and sticky bombs?!?!? I'm sure I didnt play the game with my eyes closed and I didnt see any flame-throwers or sticky-bombs , though i can tell you how much I was looking foreward to them! Now EA says these will be released in further additions to MOH, so is that what it boils down to? another HL type game where you spend £20 a month getting the latest add-on! poor, poor show by EA. Now to multiplayer, now that all the cheaters have been pretty much taken care of multiplayer was also a dissapointment, with too few levels and none of them very open (apart from Omaha which hasnt got the scale of the SP level) many people r already bored of the multiplayer aspect. And not many servers use the 'realism' mods so u end up having to pump a full mag into someone b4 they die!

CONCLUSION: okay people you can now rip me to shreds but I'll say again , I love Medal of honor! Its the best game ever to be released! I just thought it needed a critical review!

[zErO]Cool


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