The Bottom Line
Pros
- Stays true to many elements from Medal of Honor Allied Assault series.
- Single player campaign is intense and has some very good action sequences.
- Very good AI, game quite challenging.
Cons
- Unbearable load times, too many cut-ins, heavily scripted.
- Graphics are good but don’t match that of other top notch games on the market.
- Lacks new features that sets it apart from other WW2 games.
Description
- Revamped A.I. Takes advantage of squad tactics to create real, emergent environments.
- When on your last breath, call a medic over, and hope for healing in time.
- Eight mulitplayer maps with 3 modes of play.
- Fight your way through more than 35 single-player levels in the Pacific Theatre.
Guide Review - Medal of Honor Pacific Assault Review
Playing the role of Marine Tommy Conlin, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault opens as one would expect, with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The single player campaign has some 20 missions and covers most of the Pacific, as you hop from island to island. The multiplayer game offers four classes of soldiers; infantry, corpsman, combat engineer, or ammo technician, and 3 modes of play; deathmatch, free for all, and an objective based mode called invader.
The one new feature that I liked that made the game more challenging and fun was the way you have to manage your health. Gone are the health canteens and first aid kits. In Pacific it’s up to summon your squad’s medic to restore some or all of your health.
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault features virtually all types of weapons and machines of war from both sides, and has a very challenging AI at harder levels. Ultimately however, it’s continually bogged down by terribly long load times and the graphics don’t match that of games released prior to it such as Half-Life 2 or Doom 3.
