military and espionage

Having never seen Medal of Honor played on anything other than a PC I was skeptical about picking this game up. I did however and now I'm glad that I did.

In Medal of Honor Frontline you are Private Jimmy Patterson. It is your job to go through 20 missions on 6 levels to help stop the Nazi war machine.

The game is made by Electronic Arts and looks to be built on the same engine as there other first person shooter games. The company is known for making the James Bond games and this really is James Bond meets Saving Private Ryan. The gameplay is pretty clear and crisp. The controls are different from any other first person shooter I've played on this system and that took some getting use to. I've got it down pat now and I like the challenge that it offers to you.

Unlike the Bond games the auto-aim function isn't here on Medal of Honor. You have to do all of the aiming yourself on those Nazi soldiers. It makes the game a little frusterating at first with the different control set up, but once you get use to it I think you'll like it.

I was a little saddened with the Multi Player features on the game. All you can do is hook up and play against three other human opponents. There are no options to add any AI Bots which I found to be a little disappointing. I love to hook up with by brothers and fight them and 5-6 AI Bots. That would have been great to do with WWII weapons and maps but they didn't put that option on this game.

I love this game. It's a decent game. I like it better on this system than the PS2 or Xbox. If you really want to experience Medal of Honor though, I'd pick it up for PC.

Now, don't get me wrong. The Medal of Honor series is better than most games out there, and amongst the better FPS. Since EA took over 007, the games have been less than good, and we all know that. The first Medal of Honor game for the PlayStation was a pretty decent effort, and one of my favorites on the system. And though we are offered a bit more now, it's pretty much the same as the original: kill the Nazis, run around and accomplish your mission.

Here I will list the pros and cons of this game and rate it at the end:

The Pros:
1.) The graphics are nice, though a bit grainy as you draw nearer to things. The guns and the people look amazing, and there is more realism involved, especially in the first level.
2.) And speaking of that first level, it's amazing and captivatng and everything you want in a video game. It's by far a great beginning to the game.
3.) The sounds are great and the music even better. It's haunting and frightening and sets the tone for the entire game.
4.) Overall the levels are exciting and sometimes a bit difficult. They vary as well, and having other soldiers with you from time to time takes away the feeling from the previous games that you are the only person fighting in the war.

The Cons:
1.) If you are stuck in a level, you can press right on the control pad and it will tell you what to do next. Now, you don't have to use it, but it's tempting all the same.
2.) Though the graphics look nice, they are not up to the standards of other games on the GameCube. It truly does look like a port from PS2...which it is, so we must deal with it.
3.) One of my biggest complaints with the first game was the feeling of claustrophobia. I always felt like I was trapped. After the first level, I thought they had changed that, but I found much the same thereafter...why am I mostly in buildings or other small areas outside? Other than a few select levels, I'm either in buildings or on trains or places where I feel as if the walls are pushing against me...which they are, of course.
4.) The enemy AI, which was so great in the first games, seems, well, dumber now. The Germans sometimes throw grenades that bounce of walls and back at themselves. Normally they would run away or kick them aside. Here they just keep shooting. Rarely do they pick them up. Never have I seen them kick them away. Maybe it's just me.
5.) Multi-player...it's terrible...again.

Overall, Medal of Honor: Frontline is a good game, and one of the better action games on the market today. Hopefully future releases will be tweaked a bit more. Better graphics, better AI and more exciting levels that don't feel the same as the one that preceeds it would make this a killer game. Also, it wouldn't hurt them to make the multi-player levels as large as the levels in the game. This, with a bit of work, could really make people say, "GoldenEye? What about it?"

4 stars. It's worth the money, but it could be so much better. I don't regret buying it though. It's still fun with some of the problems.

This is what really got me intrested in FPS games, you get to go like, everywhere in ww2, with authentic weapons, M1, Colt .45, B.A.R, Sprinfield Sniper Rifile, and more! Hope you enjoy this, heres a cheat code: DOVE, it unlocks mission 5.