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Not as Good as Medal of Honor (the original) | | Thierry Henry is the Greatest footballer ever and Arsenal is the best club ever from Auckland, New Zealand says (10/Jul/2004): | The graphics have improved a bit and the movement of the character (this time Manon) has also improved but the story line is not as good. Even though it is still a pretty good fighting/war game. Near the end the levals begin to become more and more stupid starting at valhalla level where there are knights that can move and kill you (if you let them) with their swords. Later there are dogs with bazoocas and green men that when you kill them blow up a second later. My favourite levals are the ones in Morrocco when you have a camera and the soldiers pose.
| Not as Good as Medal of Honor (the original) | | Thierry Henry is the Greatest footballer ever and Arsenal is the best club ever from Auckland, New Zealand says (10/Jul/2004): | The graphics have improved a bit and the movement of the character (this time Manon) has also improved but the story line is not as good. Even though, it is still a pretty good fighting/war game. Near the end the levals begin to become more and more stupid they get starting at valhalla level where there are knights that can move and kill you (if you let them) with their swords. Later there are dogs with bazoocas and green men that when you kill them blow up a second later. My favourite levals are the ones in Morrocco when you have a camera and the soldiers pose. If you play this game too much it gets boring or if you get stuck.
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| | evil guy says (27/Dec/2003): | it is a not great game. the graphics suck and all of the weapons are stupid. I hate the game and it was so bad i snapped the disk. I hated how the people were strong and i also hated that every time i play i would have to look at the breifing . all of the items were not nearly as good as a single one of any bond game and all of the weapons are the worst weapons i ever saw. there are barely any gadgets and all of the cheats i found suck and each person is so annoying.
| nice idea | | mj from port-harcourt, nigeria says (16/Nov/2003): | basically its a lovely game with a nice idea. realistic effects,etc. i played it first without cheats then with them. would have liked it better if most of the cheats weren't available only on stages that had already been played. big downer if i may say so. other than that, i loved it. peace out y'all.
| Best Game Ever! | | Caitlin from Marysville, WA says (27/Jul/2003): | There is only one word that describes this game, and that would be awesome! This is one of the best games that I have ever played. The graphics are excellant but upon occasion things will tend to get a little sloppy around the edges. It's a great game for people who like action, suspense, and blowing the heads off of unsuspecting Nazi's. It's a great game with plenty of variety. You move all over the world from places like France to Africa and you also have a wide range of arsenal. The only thing that I can think of that bugs me about the game is that most of the missions are at night so you can't hardly see where you're going. But all in all, I'd give this game a rating of 9 stars.
| awsome... for a while (until i cleared it out)still cool though | | j. miller from pittsburgh,pa, usa says (30/Jun/2003): | i liked medal of honor but the graphics were very bad and i hated the Nazi Knights were they woudln't die except with a grenade. the germans were stupid but unrealisticly smart. they were all the same bad guys and it was a one shot-one fill basis. i hated how the music was oppra(h)style and that funky lady singing. in the monte cassino cathedral then if you are expirenced and fast (like I!!) then u could see guys popping up in your face and if you shoot guys in the head their helmet flies off but their head was still there but i was disapointed about if you shoot a gur with a colt he flies back ten feet and does a back flip! a great game though i don't own a PS2
| The best game on psx with moh | | CriSToBaL oF cHiLe from calgary , canada says (26/Jun/2003): | This game is excellent, the weapons, levels, missions...etc but the only thing that sucks on this game is the enemy intelligence and the multiplayer but the rest... the best weapon in smg is the stg44 the in the bazookas obvious panzerfaust , the in the guns the walther p38 and in the rifles gewehr43. the missions are super good but not the mission 3 "undercover in crete" is not so good the mission 4 is the best one "wewelsburg dark camelot " because the weapon combination the stg44 and the gewehr43 rifle are excellent. in conclusion the game is GREATLY EXCELLENT !
| the best war game on psx | | jake from australia says (10/Jun/2003): | i think that the game rulz. the only thing that spoils it is the level " when beagals dare" i don't like the dogs dancing and how they can shoot the panzerfaust. that really suks. the graphics are great game play is also great i think that the lifespan of the game will make you play it over and over again. i also like the weapons in the game. the stg44 is my fav i think M.O.H.U. should be the numberone game on psx
| WooHoo! | | Sare from QLD, Australia says (27/Mar/2003): | For the people who did not enjoy this game, you must be completely mental. When I first played Medal of Honor/Underground (It came with both) I liked it from the start, even though my Dad played other sorts of war-type computer games (and they were pretty repetitive and boring) and I didn't like them as much. As soon as the controls were in my hands I was enjoying the game every minute. The missions are all worthwhile and they make it scarey and eerie when they have too, with the objectives, storylines and even by putting in the music which makes me tense and alert. This game is one of the best games I've played for awhile. Pure brilliance!
| It's ok | | Mike from quebec, Canada says (2/Mar/2003): | the graphics arent good but what can u say? it's an old game and it's for playstation one. I had to play for at least a week to get used to the controls and all. but overall it's a good game. i would say frontline is better though!
| Whatever.. No good sequal.. | | Erika from Florida says (3/Feb/2003): | Not good. I love WW2 themed combat games and was tickled when I found this.
This game is filled with bugs and overloads the CPU when too much is going on on-screen. This game also is filled with plenty of DOOM style taps where you grab an item and you get your back swarmed with creepy crawlies coming out of secret doors. My main problem with this is that I often would get shot with a machine gun and would be unable to turn or run. Instead I would just jerk back and forth as my heath meter ran itself into the ground.
Yes, the tanks and halftracks were lots of fun, but when I have to replay each level a billion times until i've memorized who will pop up where and when as my only way to beat the game, I give it a thumbs down.
The variety of levels and setting were a nice change from the first one as well as the music.
Playing a woman ? No big deal.. This in no way affects gameplay in fact you can't even see her..
| .,Heavan has arrived | | nicholas from Beverly Massachucets says (31/Dec/2002): | This game is a thing of beauty.They make it creepy when they have to.The graphics are the same as medal of honor,kinda fake. And the peoples lips don't move when they talk.Everybody looks the same.All the werchermacht look the same,the millice look the same.But that don't stop me from playing.The camera levels are my favorite.The germans look so stupid in there poses when you take there picture,and go flying when you blow them up.The soundtrack is great!And like I said,they make it creepy when they have to.I have beaten it several times,and each I beat it it to get shorter.The germans are smarter and dumber at the same time.I like trapping the photographer.I wish you could go in the bathroom,though.Just kidding!And the panzernacker unleashed mission is freaky.I mean dogs with guns!This games fun factor is from 1 to 100,about 150!It's pretty origanal.I got this for christmas this year,and I love it!I recomend this to history,or war lovers!Which by the way I am.I have the whole medal of honor collection.Frontline is my favorite.But this is a close second.Gotta go!
| Sweeeeeeet! | | Steve dude from USA says (23/Dec/2002): | Well, what is there to say about this game, it really stinks, ya right! It is like a dream! Heaven! Or, somthing realy cool! anyway it's sweet. I really like how good real it is, like if you shoot some person in the foot, they jump on the other foot!
| Awesome game... for a while | | John Mimidas from Newark, New Jersey, USA says (31/Aug/2002): | For the most part I’m not a big World War 2 game fan. All of the games that are based in this era that started in the late 1930’s and ended in the middle of the 1940’s have been well rather a cheap way to cash in on a license. Let’s see… Wolfenstein—gave game fans a chance to killing (gasp!) Hitler in a castle—and then there are the crappy war simulation titles—cheap-ass titles that, in most times, rather confuse players then entertain them for hour on end. Nonetheless, DreamWorks Interactive (yes it is related to the movie company of the same name) released Medal of Honor in late 98 in the U.S. While I myself have never played this game, I did however hear many opinions on how this game in every way reinvented the war-themed first-person shooter genre. Half of the opinions I didn’t believe, but nevertheless a sequel was released called Medal of Honor: Underground. And unlike the original, I actually gave this game a purchase; and yes it was a great purchase.
In Underground you play the part of Manon, a French protestor of sorts. In fact, Underground focuses a lot on France in the early portions of this game. This is because France was one of the first allies (along with Europe) to go put a stop against further aggression by the Nazis. However, Nazi Germany invaded the country and in a matter of weeks after the war began when Adolph Hitler invaded Poland, France had surrendered; leaving the French totally out of the war at all costs which is kind of sad because they only lasted in the war for only a couple of weeks. Nonetheless, Manon joins a Resistance group in France to thwart Nazi attacks, and soon Manon becomes a recruit at the OSS, which tries to thwart Germany in whole. However, this quest and storytelling of Manon’s won’t be an easy thing; and five bucks says you already knew that.
Anyway, Medal of Honor, as you see, is true to the subject of World War 2. It even makes the game look the way with all of the authentic movies and areas; which include not only France, but also Africa, Greece, and some more remaining territories. And as mentioned there are authentic movies and screenings which should put a smile to any war buff; and which should (gasp) actually teach you some stuff that you probably never knew about the war before (hell it told me more about Heinrich Himmler then I ever wanted to know). Hell there is even authentic weapons that should damn well impress almost anybody (Steilhandgranate Stick grenades… anyone?)
While there’s plenty of authenticity to pass along, this game is more focused on its own gameplay merits; rather then just showing off a bunch of old TV rails with war combat. As said before this game is a first-person shooter and as part of that genre this game in every way succeeds many other FPS war games (by a lot really). Here you must complete missions in the specific area you are in; and these missions are all excellent and each one tends to be different then the other (as long as you take away those annoying photographing missions—which I’ll go into detail later on in this review). Of course you will have enemies to stop you. And these enemies are (surprise!) the Nazis; sorry no alien future-like bosses in this game though you should wait if you still want to see a half-naked alien with a Swastika outfit (hey!). Nazis move around by foot carrying German oriented weapons; assault rifles, silenced pistols, sniper rifles, and stick grenades are all included. Not all Nazis move around their feet; though. Some German Nazis will bombard you with lead; from the submachine gun included in motorcades that some Nazis tend to ride on. Other Nazis will onslaught you with heavy fire missiles; which comes from tanks—the dubious, but still worthwhile effort at making this game a bit more of a challenge.
Other then carrying pistols and consecutively running around with tanks, some Nazis will take you down by hiding in their specific terrain. Some soldiers will even hide behind walls and will fire when you are not looking at them; and almost all Nazis do this making it sort of an annoyance. Nonetheless, the smartness of these soldiers is sort of on an all-time low. While German Nazis will shoot you once they spot you or hear your sporadic gunfire, other soldiers will do nothing but ponder and just wait to be shot. Hell there were times when I shot a Nazi with my sniper rifle and he didn’t do anything to fight back—or even worse a siren goes on telling enemies about my presence and these armed Nazis still don’t do anything. Still this might be a good thing to some who want easier sort of difficulty, but still there should be some challenge here and there (especially since I was playing this game on Normal difficulty; the 3 difficulties which you can choose from are Easy, Normal, and Hard).
While enemy soldiers may not be so focused on their intelligence; they are however carefully brought over to the brink of realism and this not from their authentic military clothes they wear, but from their every action that they do and that you witness once a bullet hits them in a specific body part. By hitting them in the hand, for example, the soldier will start moving his hands due to the fact that a bullet went right through it; and this right here gives you a point of attack due to the soldier being focused on the well being of his hand. The same thing happens when you give them a body shot; except this time they might fall to the floor struggling in every way to get back up. More impressive stuff happens when you hit them in the head; either their full-plated helmet falls off, or the soldier immediately and instantaneously falls to the floor… dead. It’s all very impressive; and shows just how far DreamWorks wanted to take this title to being very high-quality—after all its release date was in 2000, the final peak of the once successful PlayStation.
There are 24 missions for you to complete and fully accomplish in this game; and as said each one is different and some may even scare the living crap out of you—but chances of that happening are minimal. And as also said, there is a lot of variety in this game; friends help you, and Disguise Mode goes into full practice as well. Disguise Mode goes into being when you are in a North Africa mission; you supposedly steal a camera and credentials of an honored Nazi civilian—not to mention that you lock the photographer up in his own room. SO, in Disguise Mode you carry a camera and you are allowed to enter prohibited areas by fooling enemy soldiers. Not all enemy soldiers are idiots; though. Some Nazis will approach you and ask to see your credentials as a photographer; half the times they’ll be easily fooled, but not always (I did say ‘half’ did I not?). Sometimes they’ll uncover you and take out their rifles and shoot right away; while other times they’ll hit an alarm, which will then send out Nazis at full force and health on your way. Not a pretty sight at all.
However, this variety doesn’t last though all the missions; as most are just basic ‘shoot-the-enemy and complete objective’ sort of grouping that many have come to known throughout these kind of games. That’s not of course to dismay you into not giving this game a try—all I’m saying is that you shouldn’t expect back-up all the time, nor should you expect to be in the camera guise as well. Oh, well help won’t come to you forever, I guess
Now to talk about your character’s, Manon’s, weapons. At first you are equipped with a Colt 1911A1 Pistol; useful weapon but it only carries up to 7 pieces of ammo and then you must reload. At first you are also equipped with Petrol Bombs; poor, sappy, and pathetic explosives that will occasionally damage you, not the enemy. Nonetheless, as you progress you will eventually get your hands on automatics—like the Sturmgewehr 44 Assault Rifle and the Sten SMG. And soon a sniper rifle will be in your hands—not to mention stick grenades and the devastating Panzerfaust robot.
As you complete missions you will get one of three specific ratings; ratings include average for poor treatment of the level—because you had lost a lot of health and didn’t kill a lot of Nazi soldiers—then there is good for more beneficial exposure to the level, and then there is the excellent rating which tells you that you covered the level completely and thoroughly. In fact by getting the Excellent rating in well over 3 to 4 missions you will then receive a medal. There are over ten medals for you to collect in this game; medals don’t serve too much of a purpose, but they tell you just how well you have progressed in this game.
The main reason I had bought this game was for its two-player mode. While I was left sort of disappointed, I still however got a kick out of the whole thing. In two-player mode you and your opponent go against each other, head-to-head, using a different variety of weapons. While many will get a pleasure from playing this game against a friend, I for one didn’t. Sides you have to really advance in this game so you can finally get things going; don’t expect to be fully enjoying it right away since many things, as said, have to be unlocked.
Before moving on to the graphics and sound there is still one more point that I have to bring up; and this point justifies the whole inept purchase of this game. And this point is the game’s darkness. I, for one, have a T.V. that is compatible with both bright and dark colors; and when I put this game on I had the settings put on for the dark colors. Bad mistake. A T.V. with dark colors makes it impossible to look where you are going; especially since the first few levels have a dark sort of scenery (which is used to count down the amount of polygons used). So I adjusted the setting to the brightest of levels and then I finally started to play this game. This kind of pissed me off because for the first few days I was left with a dark unplayable shooter that horribly dismayed any of my future tastes for these kinds of games in the future. Also, there’s another small problem. Almost every time I come upon a swarm of enemies a huge lag takes place making you move very slowly, which might also disappoint some. Nonetheless, these are just some of the minor problems that I have experienced and have seen within this game.
As far as the game’s visuals are concerned, don’t fret—because they’re pretty damn good for a PlayStation game. There’s some great lighting effects done by DreamWorks, and also every Nazi and ally of yours are carefully detailed; hell when I was fighting Nazi knights in the Valhalla levels you can see how much detail was put in—everything from a Swastika symbol on their arms, to full plated metal covering their body, not to mention a helmet that cracks open once you hit it with an automatic submachine gun. This is a bold example of pure and untainted artistry; in fact the only ones who will probably be displeased are those PlayStation 2 owners sick of seeing sprites (which some PS2 games do have).
As for the audio; well let me just say that one will probably never be displeased with the natural and rather sad tunes, not to mention the impressive sound effects and the thumping of enemy footsteps coming down a hall just telling you that enemy forces are coming your way. The composer and producer of the music in this game is Michael Giacchino; the same person responsible for the audio in the first game, as far as I have heard of course. The audio is, in a way, the factor that brings one in to such a game. It is very melancholy, but that just fits right in with what the game is all about. Also, the French accent from your character is great, not to mention the weird German phrases that some Nazis yell at you several times. I’m surprised a soundtrack of sorts was never made since I’m sure that if one was made, I’ll be the first to buy it.
Overall, Medal of Honor: Underground is a great first-person shooter that unpleasantly dismayed me at first. After I got things straight, though, this game has been great; in fact this is one of the few good first-person shooters on the PlayStation. It has a level of challenge that will excite and please some, not to mention a great story that adds in to the original World War 2 story line about France and other accolades. All I’m saying is that you should give this game a try; if you don’t like it, then well… you don’t, but if you like it, then you can fully enjoy a rather sensational and astounding experience from beginning to end.
| WONDERFUL, CHALLANGING , RIVITING | | Rein Moffith from Junction City -Kansas-USA says (29/Aug/2002): | I played the first one and I was a happy camper. This one Makes me say to myself, how happy I am That I didn't miss out. I am a older player who just likes to play the games that arn't complicated, and you don't need 15 fingers to play. I have played games that did not offer a variety of weapons or scenaros and I gotta tell you that this is the one. I play it a lot because I keep thinking there is something I missed. Now I know you have another one ready to come out and I can't wait. Just let me know when so I can get it on. Thanks for thinking of us old guys and making the game easy and exciting and challanging.
| Kick Butt!! | | A gamer from Mesa AZ USA says (5/Jul/2002): | Medal Of Honor is the best game ever. You can even turn it into a cartoon if you know how to do it. The way the enemies have the AI to duck behind cornors and even stick put just the gun there fireing behind a wall to kill you. I say that Medal of Honor shall go down in history as one of the first real AI game that EA Games has come out with!
| Great followup | | Davezilla from Mesa, USA says (18/Feb/2002): | This game rocks!!! It's a great followup to the first one. I loved how it had more espionage scenarios. The variances on enemies is cool, too. The only issue I had was with framing. If you can't support the speed for non-choppy play because you have too many enemies, then don't arrange them like that. Holy cow! In some areas, the game almost came to a stop and everything was a choppy-blur. Frustrating. Aside from that, I totally enjoyed this game and still play it even though I've beat it twice.
| Comment on Rhys | | Placito from New Orleans. says (11/Dec/2001): | What I was stating in regard to European cities, is that the streets were not designed for auto's. Take an ariel shot of Milan, Paris, London, Berlin, and St. Pete in Russia. You will notice great similarities. I am not refering to the architecture or the actual buildings, I am talking about the layout. They are all based upon static street plans and outlines that mimic each other. I know this for a fact, it's called MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain). All armed forces perform some variation of this training and we model most house to house training off of european style cities.
| Yeah, its pretty good. | | Rhys from Newcastle, UK says (14/Nov/2001): | Placiti mate, to be fair, I live in Europe, and the cities in Britain arent the same, never mind the massive variety across Europe. Id even go so far as to say there is considerably more variety here than in the US - few cities, for example, are built in grids. Anyhoo - the game still is brilliant. It has good atmosphere, and loads of nice touches, as well as being fundamentally a good game.
| Fairly good in respect to the military design | | Placito Miceli from New Orleans, LA says (12/Nov/2001): | Well, to start off I would love to blast all the gamers who state that their weapons are not firing as accurate as they were in the original MOH. Boo-hoo. I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps (3 in Okinawa deployed with the 31st MEU(SOC) and the rest in training stateside, Pendleton and the east coast) and I can tell you that when rounds go down range in a weapon with a high cyclic rate, your tendency is to pan or yaw those rounds. The weapons on MOHU have great first round targeting, however, they tend to pan or yaw when held in full auto. That is exactly what a real sub-machine gun would do. Especially the weapons that were available in that time period. Heavier rounds meant a heavier weapon. When those rounds were displaced the weapon became invariable lighter. This in turn caused your weapon to pan or yaw. This is accurate shooting. You are not meant to just walk through this game. And if you want to complain about the sniper rifle, try firing a real one and dealing with widage and the offset of minutes of angle. You would wish you were so lucky to have an accurate shot from 400 yards. As far as stealing from other games, that's a legal intellectual property excuse, not to be too debated here. Games steal from each other. If it was that big of a problem, don't play it. The reason why some scenes looked similar if not almost identical was that they were fought in the same areas. If you have ever travelled to Europe you would see that most cities are designed the same way (unlike America). So when you are fighting in small streets with a multitude of statues, that is how it really looks. You can only make a game so realistic. They wanted this to have the air of realism and in doing so, they ended up looking like other games to a certain extent. Yes, some points you do get frozen and can't move, but I was able to escape some of them. As for the screen freezing or going slow when there was too much on screen. That's going to happen when there is excess movement. Why was there that much movement on screen in the first place? It happened to me once, and that was because I went crazy and rushed an area (only to be slaughtered). If you perfom proper fire and manuever, you won't have excess movement on the screen and you will perfom better. I don't profess to be a gaming whiz, but if you want an acurate depiction of how this should be in relation to the uniforms, weapons, and AI (i.e., the Axis tactical positioning), I would have to say this is very accurate. Enjoy the real play. Semper Fi.
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