Time Stamps: Intro: 00:00 Development: 01:28 Gameplay Discussion (Base Game): 04:37 Gameplay Discussion (Expansions): 13:05 Conclusion: 15:22 Thank you very much for watching! If you are interested in more Medal of Honor Retrospectives here are the ones on the PS1 games. Medal of Honor: th-cam.com/video/Oz7V31fxByc/w-d-xo.html Medal of Honor Underground: th-cam.com/video/c-3Lz9yULXc/w-d-xo.html
Allied Assault still looks sharp to me. I remember back in the day thinking them showing your bullet cartridges on the right side of the screen was SO cool lol...I never knew they flirted with making it rated M. I would have loved to see what a gory MoH could have been. It may sound sadistic, but gore in FPS games has always kicked things up a notch for me. It makes the shooting more visceral and if authenticity was their aim, I feel like showing gore in a ww2 game is the way to go. Look at Cod WaW. That game just nails the feel
I am with you! The bloodier the better! But for bloodless shooters all the weight is on the sound effects and enemy animations and many of the early Medal of Honor games excelled at it!
well, have you tried the multi-player with the extra blood and spurt mods? you can definitely tell when you've hit somebody even at a distance. plus, the new HD graphics 👌
D day assault has never been matched since this game. As you said, even Call of duty WW2 has a cutscene between the craft landing and the actual free gameplay. This medal of honor is the only game that lets you in control of the landing. Thanks for the review Joe!
also I want to defend that first mission with Jack Grillo, I thought it was incredibly awesome to sneak around North Africa and try and get across the map without being seen. The adverse is that if you are caught, you will be descended upon with MG42 fire. There's several very well-designed little areas where the player wouldn't normally interact with the enemy directly, such as a room full of soldiers playing cards, or standing outside of buildings patroling their territory, you really have to think about what you're doing even if it's not super hard and the game's general linearity means that there is one true path to follow regardless. It's still engaging enough. I love the general worldbuilding and design of Allied Assault. The same character mission from the start takes you from Operation Torch in Algeria, all the way to German-occupied Norway, sabotaging a military fuel depot beforehand, jumping into a jeep, destroying a bunch of airplanes on an incredible on-rails driving mission, and finally entering a radar installation on the Mediterranean coast near a LIGHTHOUSE to signal reinforcements that may help turn the tide against Rommel and the Afrika Corps. You then get into a ruck, escape, and in Norway steal plans to the U-259. You then go undercover (the best mission in any game ever imho) as a German soldier of the Wermacht in order to get onto the German U-boat and destroy it. I think I still remember this entire game front to back in extreme detail and I haven't played it in 15 years. Truly a testament to how great this game actually is. I really want to play it again... But it was for sure the first shooter game I ever played in 2002 and sits super well with me. If it had some updated appointments and visceral content from an engine like Unreal or Source (doubtful but just saying), I bet a remastered edition would sell extremely well, and they might even be able to add much more to the experience of the platform historic action shooter, with technology that has levelled games up in the last 20 years since its release.
Great video man! The MOH series was fantastic for a long time. I think the original game might have been my first ps1 game and part of why I fell in love with that system. Then the series really hit its stride on the PS2 imo. Frontline and Rising Sun were excellent.
The MoH games stood out for their great musical scores and sounddesign. Especially the first one had that Hollywood production value feeling because of that,nd allied assault as well.
Allied Assault was my first Medal of Honor game, introduced to me by my cousin when we were still in middle school. What an experience it was to play through the levels that had so much atmosphere and depth, and that soundtrack... perfection. Even when I was a kid I noticed that the developers of this game were the same ones who worked on the original Call of Duty, and their talent shows in both games. I still haven't played the expansions but what I would give for a complete remastered collection of this game as well as all the other games in the Medal of Honor series. Great review and thanks for bringing me back to those good old times!
This game is up there with one of the most immersive games I have ever played in my life, even to this day. Watching saving private ryan in 1998 and then getting this game in 2002 was a no brainer. The film made you feel like you were in ww2, while this game you played in it and felt incredibly realistic and way ahead of its time for 2002
@@joethealternativegamer3935 I think that kickback is actually good thing.It forces you to be more careful,also it would be rather unfair if opponents had suppression animations like falling back or getting stunned,but you just have reduction of health points.
Like many others here, I got MOHAA when it was first released, in the form of a Christmas gift from one of my uncles; I was around 14 at the time. My only FPS experience before that was Goldeneye 007. I was genuinely blown away by this game, never before had I played a game that sucked me in and engaged me so quickly and deeply. To add onto what you said about how the guns sound, the musical score of MOHAA was incredible and really added to the overall feel and atmosphere of the game. I do remember hating the rainy section with all of the snipers, it took me forEVER to get through that lol this will always be one of my favorite FPS and WWII games...I enjoyed COD 1 as well, but somehow it just didn't hit me the same way.
@@joethealternativegamer3935 I never played another game in which the thompson sounded so damn punchy 😎 and the silenced pistol is godlike haha. Too stronk
This game is the reason why I developed an interest in history and storytelling in general. I literally have a career thanks in part to this masterpiece. One thing that I believe you didn't wish to miss but kinda did was the soundtrack and the UI, it is phenomenal. It still makes me cry to this day, hearing the opening theme as it reminds me of the people who died fighting in this war (my great-grandfather fought in the battle of Singapore) the sound design is absolutely fantastic as every step you take feels heavy, it sounds like you're geared up to the teeth with sounds of your bandoleer, grenades, and boots mixing together as you walk/run. The screen shake is actually bad, coupled with The Last Tiger and Sinper's Last Stand's frustrating enemy placement, however, despite these complaints, one cannot deny the fact that the game oozes with atmosphere, it actually captures certain moments from Saving Private Ryan itself, be it the Normandy landings, the destroyed rain-soaked French village in Sniper's Last Stand, or the damaged radio tower in the country-side flanked by MG-42s and anti-air guns. It is perhaps the closest game or piece of media to my heart to this day as it has literally shaped my life. It has its problems but at the end of the day it is in my opinion, a masterpiece.
I’ve always had respect for the people who played through Allied Assault and its expansions on Hard mode. The games could be absolutely brutal even on normal difficulty.
How did you play this game? Did you have an original PC disc or what? Because I would really like to play these old PC MOH-games but I don't know do they really work in modern computers?
"should have updaetd the screen shake with a patch". Patch? That wasn't a thing at the time. I played this on a computer with no internet when it came out 😂
best shooter of all time? MOH multiplayer set the standard for decades to come i feel. my entire family played: my two brothers, dad, and even mom all played. some of the best memories on that game shoutout (TLE)MAD_MOMMA
Literally every video that talks about the d day mission in this game the reviewer says how difficult or frustrating it is….it is not. You even say there is little cover….there is cover all over the beach lol. Hiding behind the hedgehogs will completely stop the bullets. The only way this mission is frustrating is if you play it wrong and storm the beach mindlessly. When you're about to be shot the game lets you know with plenty of time to get to cover by seeing the bullets hitting the ground in front of you. Once you see that you sit behind cover until it stops. Once it does, you move to the next cover and repeat. Playing the mission like this (the way the devs intended) will allow you to make it up the beach with very minimal damage taken. It just blows my mind how everyone thinks this mission is hard. It is not hard, you’re all just playing it incorrectly.
Playing the game on "easy" difficulty you might not notice how bad the game actually is. Enemies have perfect accuracy even when moving, shoot you through trees when you can't see them, bad level design (sniper town) when the only way to progress is to save scum. I honestly prefer original Medal of Honor games on PlayStation 1 to this crap.
Time Stamps:
Intro: 00:00
Development: 01:28
Gameplay Discussion (Base Game): 04:37
Gameplay Discussion (Expansions): 13:05
Conclusion: 15:22
Thank you very much for watching! If you are interested in more Medal of Honor Retrospectives here are the ones on the PS1 games.
Medal of Honor: th-cam.com/video/Oz7V31fxByc/w-d-xo.html
Medal of Honor Underground: th-cam.com/video/c-3Lz9yULXc/w-d-xo.html
Allied Assault still looks sharp to me. I remember back in the day thinking them showing your bullet cartridges on the right side of the screen was SO cool lol...I never knew they flirted with making it rated M. I would have loved to see what a gory MoH could have been. It may sound sadistic, but gore in FPS games has always kicked things up a notch for me. It makes the shooting more visceral and if authenticity was their aim, I feel like showing gore in a ww2 game is the way to go. Look at Cod WaW. That game just nails the feel
I am with you! The bloodier the better! But for bloodless shooters all the weight is on the sound effects and enemy animations and many of the early Medal of Honor games excelled at it!
@@joethealternativegamer3935 they did and GoldenEye comes to mind too, although it wasn't TOTALLY bloodless.
Goldeneye is another great example. Yea it had a little blood but those animations and gun sounds are great!
well, have you tried the multi-player with the extra blood and spurt mods? you can definitely tell when you've hit somebody even at a distance. plus, the new HD graphics 👌
Legendary game series. Makes you feel proud of the men who fought for our freedoms.
Part of the reason I want to cover each one! This series very much respected the troops that fought and died for freedom!
Man now you're talking nostalgia for me. Started playing this game when it first came out and continued for years. Day and night many times. Love it.
Always good to look back at the greats!
The memories of spearheard with friends and the mods. I think MOHAA / Spearhead and Delta Force Black Hawk Down.
D day assault has never been matched since this game. As you said, even Call of duty WW2 has a cutscene between the craft landing and the actual free gameplay. This medal of honor is the only game that lets you in control of the landing. Thanks for the review Joe!
Yea this and Frontline do a really good job with it! I’m glad you’re enjoying my Medal of Honor series :)
also I want to defend that first mission with Jack Grillo, I thought it was incredibly awesome to sneak around North Africa and try and get across the map without being seen. The adverse is that if you are caught, you will be descended upon with MG42 fire. There's several very well-designed little areas where the player wouldn't normally interact with the enemy directly, such as a room full of soldiers playing cards, or standing outside of buildings patroling their territory, you really have to think about what you're doing even if it's not super hard and the game's general linearity means that there is one true path to follow regardless. It's still engaging enough. I love the general worldbuilding and design of Allied Assault. The same character mission from the start takes you from Operation Torch in Algeria, all the way to German-occupied Norway, sabotaging a military fuel depot beforehand, jumping into a jeep, destroying a bunch of airplanes on an incredible on-rails driving mission, and finally entering a radar installation on the Mediterranean coast near a LIGHTHOUSE to signal reinforcements that may help turn the tide against Rommel and the Afrika Corps. You then get into a ruck, escape, and in Norway steal plans to the U-259. You then go undercover (the best mission in any game ever imho) as a German soldier of the Wermacht in order to get onto the German U-boat and destroy it. I think I still remember this entire game front to back in extreme detail and I haven't played it in 15 years. Truly a testament to how great this game actually is. I really want to play it again... But it was for sure the first shooter game I ever played in 2002 and sits super well with me. If it had some updated appointments and visceral content from an engine like Unreal or Source (doubtful but just saying), I bet a remastered edition would sell extremely well, and they might even be able to add much more to the experience of the platform historic action shooter, with technology that has levelled games up in the last 20 years since its release.
Great video man! The MOH series was fantastic for a long time. I think the original game might have been my first ps1 game and part of why I fell in love with that system. Then the series really hit its stride on the PS2 imo. Frontline and Rising Sun were excellent.
MOH 1 is still awesome! And agreed Frontline and Rising Sun are great as well!
The MoH games stood out for their great musical scores and sounddesign. Especially the first one had that Hollywood production value feeling because of that,nd allied assault as well.
Allied Assault was my first Medal of Honor game, introduced to me by my cousin when we were still in middle school. What an experience it was to play through the levels that had so much atmosphere and depth, and that soundtrack... perfection.
Even when I was a kid I noticed that the developers of this game were the same ones who worked on the original Call of Duty, and their talent shows in both games. I still haven't played the expansions but what I would give for a complete remastered collection of this game as well as all the other games in the Medal of Honor series. Great review and thanks for bringing me back to those good old times!
This game is up there with one of the most immersive games I have ever played in my life, even to this day. Watching saving private ryan in 1998 and then getting this game in 2002 was a no brainer. The film made you feel like you were in ww2, while this game you played in it and felt incredibly realistic and way ahead of its time for 2002
The shooting in this game is amazing
Yea! It is near perfect, just remove the horrible kick back when hit lol
@@joethealternativegamer3935 I hate kick back in every shooter
@@joethealternativegamer3935 I think that kickback is actually good thing.It forces you to be more careful,also it would be rather unfair if opponents had suppression animations like falling back or getting stunned,but you just have reduction of health points.
Like many others here, I got MOHAA when it was first released, in the form of a Christmas gift from one of my uncles; I was around 14 at the time. My only FPS experience before that was Goldeneye 007. I was genuinely blown away by this game, never before had I played a game that sucked me in and engaged me so quickly and deeply. To add onto what you said about how the guns sound, the musical score of MOHAA was incredible and really added to the overall feel and atmosphere of the game. I do remember hating the rainy section with all of the snipers, it took me forEVER to get through that lol this will always be one of my favorite FPS and WWII games...I enjoyed COD 1 as well, but somehow it just didn't hit me the same way.
One of the best soundtracks in any game! Great memories playing this game!
VERY good video, from a small channel. Always love that. Almost as much as I love this increidble game...
Thank you :)
And thank you for watching!
(I subscribed as well. cheers mate)
@@sacredxgeometry much appreciated :)
the only thing i hated about this game is how the screen goes insane when you are shot , it was somewhat painful to look at
Yea it goes nuts lol
The amount of hours I have in this multiplayer haha. Still play it every now and then. Stalingrad ftw 🤣
Cause it is awesome!
@@joethealternativegamer3935 I never played another game in which the thompson sounded so damn punchy 😎 and the silenced pistol is godlike haha. Too stronk
@@liveyourdreammedia the gun sounds in this will make you a man! Lol
@@joethealternativegamer3935 haha my balls dropped in at the Normandy beach landing 🤣
@@liveyourdreammedia 😂😂😂
This game is the reason why I developed an interest in history and storytelling in general. I literally have a career thanks in part to this masterpiece. One thing that I believe you didn't wish to miss but kinda did was the soundtrack and the UI, it is phenomenal. It still makes me cry to this day, hearing the opening theme as it reminds me of the people who died fighting in this war (my great-grandfather fought in the battle of Singapore) the sound design is absolutely fantastic as every step you take feels heavy, it sounds like you're geared up to the teeth with sounds of your bandoleer, grenades, and boots mixing together as you walk/run.
The screen shake is actually bad, coupled with The Last Tiger and Sinper's Last Stand's frustrating enemy placement, however, despite these complaints, one cannot deny the fact that the game oozes with atmosphere, it actually captures certain moments from Saving Private Ryan itself, be it the Normandy landings, the destroyed rain-soaked French village in Sniper's Last Stand, or the damaged radio tower in the country-side flanked by MG-42s and anti-air guns.
It is perhaps the closest game or piece of media to my heart to this day as it has literally shaped my life. It has its problems but at the end of the day it is in my opinion, a masterpiece.
The Battle of the bulge is ok but the hold the line segment was needlessly difficult.
remake this game!? please man this is when shooter games had heart
Allied assault and the expansions were great. In the end though I preferred the squad and more personal feeling of Pacific assault.
could have given the soundtrack a shout out. anyway great to see this gem get some love!
Then I guess I’ll need to make more videos on it 😁
Great review from a fellow allied assault player
Thank you :)
The best Medal Of Honor game in MOH series. A true Medal Of Honor fan. :)
It is great!
Trying to get this game to run full screen is impossible
I’ve always had respect for the people who played through Allied Assault and its expansions on Hard mode.
The games could be absolutely brutal even on normal difficulty.
Medal of Honor.. [🏅] is Not Just A Game..
It's Part of Our Childhood... 《⭐》
Medal of Honor... Still My Favorite And Always The Legendary Game..
Well said! I miss these games!
@@joethealternativegamer3935 We Hope For The Game... To Gets Great Developers
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Hi my brother,i love your videos from south Africa bro
How did you play this game? Did you have an original PC disc or what? Because I would really like to play these old PC MOH-games but I don't know do they really work in modern computers?
I played the GOG version!
Thanks! That War Chest one?
@@lekko2372 yes
@@joethealternativegamer3935 Has GOG been safe place to buy games?
It has been safe place?
Would love to see this game remade with the unreal 5 engine.
We just need a remaster by nightdive
Good narration.
Awesome review of an awesome game!
Thank you :)
I remember playing this bad boy on the ps2, omg the soundtrack was amazing EDIT: shit na I think that was pacific assult lol
Pacific Assault was on pc as well lol! Maybe you mean frontline or rising sun?
@@joethealternativegamer3935 shit ahhaha, well then now I got no idea
Or European assault or vanguard lol
2:23 I shoudn't be alive.
There are areas in this game that are stupid hard.
"should have updaetd the screen shake with a patch". Patch? That wasn't a thing at the time. I played this on a computer with no internet when it came out 😂
best shooter of all time? MOH multiplayer set the standard for decades to come i feel. my entire family played: my two brothers, dad, and even mom all played. some of the best memories on that game
shoutout (TLE)MAD_MOMMA
Sniper alley is just a class on how to be an asshole dev. That's why we love/hate it
Great series up until Airborne
What didn’t you like about Airborne?
@@joethealternativegamer3935 it's a bit short. But I mean it more like: the last two weren't all that great. Airborne still was :)
Oh the modern reboot ones?
Airborne was the one I stopped at. I always wanted to play it
@@joethealternativegamer3935 Yup, I played them and enjoyed them. But at the end of the day that is where they lodt their magic.
Literally every video that talks about the d day mission in this game the reviewer says how difficult or frustrating it is….it is not. You even say there is little cover….there is cover all over the beach lol. Hiding behind the hedgehogs will completely stop the bullets.
The only way this mission is frustrating is if you play it wrong and storm the beach mindlessly. When you're about to be shot the game lets you know with plenty of time to get to cover by seeing the bullets hitting the ground in front of you. Once you see that you sit behind cover until it stops. Once it does, you move to the next cover and repeat. Playing the mission like this (the way the devs intended) will allow you to make it up the beach with very minimal damage taken.
It just blows my mind how everyone thinks this mission is hard. It is not hard, you’re all just playing it incorrectly.
Lol I very well could have played it ineffectively
Да, играл
Playing the game on "easy" difficulty you might not notice how bad the game actually is. Enemies have perfect accuracy even when moving, shoot you through trees when you can't see them, bad level design (sniper town) when the only way to progress is to save scum. I honestly prefer original Medal of Honor games on PlayStation 1 to this crap.