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DONT KEEP THIS BABY UNDERGROUND | | Adam Rush from Sydney, NSW, Australia says (25/Sep/2001): | Medal of Honour, was an excellent game, that truly prooved that a first person shooter would work on the playstation. Medal Of Honour Underground, backs up all this good work by being an exceptionally great sequel.
When playing MOHU, the idea of being a French freedom fighter is great and adds a hint of rebelious excitment. The missions and levels are well structured and weapons and health kits are well placed to make the gameplay challenging yet fun. I particulary liked the desert levels that combined a variety of characters and enemies, with AI that must be complimented. One of the coolest features in the game is the way that the enemy kick or throw back the grenades you hurl at them. Also the way your enemy's helmet may fly off when struck with a bullet, protecting him from an inevtitable death. The various death scenes are spectacular, that leaves other death scenes in other games in the dust. A stunned soldier will sit flabergastered as he is shot in the back, not knowing what him. Or the valiant, determined soldier that attempts to bust a cap in your ass as he dies.
Multiplayer, somewhat is lacks the appeal the game has. The weapon kits are a great idea but the levels are rather annoying to play on and take away the thrill from the gameplay. This could be made up for if the multitap feature was available. Dont let this put you off the game though as it is only one minor fault.
I was pleased with the cheat codes that are available, and the way that all the levels are unlocked, allowing the codes to work on them first go (unlike MOH where you have to beat a level before you can use cheats on it). I do not urge you to use the codes straight wawy though. Try to beat the game first though before cheating.
Finally, i would like to say that i found MOHU a great game, better that the original (how bizarre, a sequel better that the original!). I give it 9 out of 10. Please, play this game and realise how much fun war can really be!
| Not so good at the start of the game | | Tai from Salisbury,England says (7/Aug/2001): | SINGLE PLAYER
When I first played this game I didn't think it was that good because the first level was quite boring. All you did was walk through the small and very limited streets looking for your brother. It got boring very very very very very quickly. but as I reached the second level I started to enjoy the game alot more, a machine gun is way better the a pistol and thats one of the main reasons I liked the game better, at least you could kill the bad guys with ease. Overall the one player mode is really good but it may not come to everyones liking.
MULTIPLAYER
The multiplayer mode is really fun because you can select a funny supply of characters like Shrek,Napoleon and a Devil like creature plus alot more. Although the levels are quite small it's still fun stalking your enermy with a snipper rifle around the level. It's also quite hard to see what your doing somtimes but that dosn't matter when your having so much fun.
| Don't buy this game. | | A gamer from London says (21/Jun/2001): | If you liked MOH, which is a truly great game, then I'm afraid you'll be sorely disappointed with the sequel. Those lazy oafs have lined their pockets from the first game, and not bothered too much in this one.
Call me weird, but when I play a shooting game, I actually expect the bullets to go in the middle of the cross-hairs. Unfortunately, this is not the case in MOHU. Once you get past half way, it's downhill from there all the way.
| Great game. | | Scorch from Sunderland, England says (9/Mar/2001): | I have just lent this game of a firend and i think it is very good. I did notice some good points, shoot a nazi when he fires a machine gun he'll continue firing the gun as he dies. There is only one thing, what is it with the dogs in the last level? Dog's armed with guns? Funny that. It reminds me of the pacman ghosts in wolf3d.
| cant get better than the ww2 for 60 years ago. | | kenneth from Norway says (7/Mar/2001): | if you like to kill german nazi its the game for you its very realistic and lots of fun to do. the enemy AI is not bad either, if you shoot them in the head they die, a shot in the groin they wont care about shooting you, just not much anyway. Well do you like to be a hero of the world Medal Of Honour is the best game on playstation.
| Good game. But were the makers sniffing something? | | Taylor "NIGHTWALKER" Johnson from Canada says (28/Jan/2001): | Ok, I played the first MOH, and I liked it more than GOLDENEYE 007, for N64. But I Just recently rented MOHU, and I couldn't believe what they had done. I like the game, and give it a 8/10, but the makers slacked off too much. Besides copying other games,the made the aim WAY OFF, for one, which really displeases me. I am the kind of guy who likes to pick people off from long distances with non-long distance weapons. For instance, I would just get someone in sight, where I can see them, but they cant see me, and I would give them a head shot with the pistol. Also, if you play the first level where you are Jimmy, (its a top secret level) They have guard dogs with guns. Whats up with that? I am unable to complete that level, so I am thinking on giving up.
I am being very generous giving them an 8/10. I still think that the makers were sniffing glue, or snorting their pencil shavings, but thats my opinion.
Finally, I think that this game is worthy of renting only. Its not a buyer.
| The payoff isnt worth the journey. | | Bill Ludwig from Providence, Rhode Island says (3/Jan/2001): | Why are prequels so disappointing? Taking place earlier, at the start of WW2, "MOH, Underground", is the SLOPPY prequel, NOT sequel to the original Medal Of Honor. I'm sort of shocked that Dreamworks thought that this was "good enough". The game is filled with minor glitches and problems. Playing it all the way through was like reading an e-mail from your buddy who can't spell - Dreamworks forgot to use the "spell checker" on this game.
MOHU is a memory PIG! Often times (TOO often) there is too much on screen action for the PS1 console to handle. The play gets jerky and trying to hit your target becomes as tricky as dialing a pay-phone with mittens on!
General targeting is often VERY bad. Unless you are DIRECTLY on axis with your target, your bullets are often shooting WAY to the left, right, or above the crosshair's Bullseye. Who tested this game?? This was never noticeable or a problem in the original MOH. So many times your bullet tracers are off by a country mile - you might as well have NO crosshairs and start shooting Doom style. (Or take out your trusty pistol - the only weapon of accuracy in close combat.)
My next complaint was the BLATANT thievery of the game Mortyr (A PC game similar in style to MOH). Boy!! It was like Deja vu. I began to lose track as there were so many things that were lifted from that PC game.
The new "eerie" classical music used in mission 3 "Amongst the dead" was not similar to that used in Mortyr, it WAS the music used in Mortyr. (The only thing that seemed original about Michael Giacchino's score was his interpretation of the music.) In fact, MOHU's fascination with catacombs, abbeys, cathedrals, and monasteries, is SO derivative of Mortyr. Portions of certain "Playfields" for MOHU were DIRECT copies of Mortyr. "Mayhem in the Monastery" for instance used identical courtyards and staircases complete with identical statues.
Lots more items were lifted too. "Ally in the dessert" where you connect with an airplane in the very end, is essentially the same mission/level idea as Mortyr's "Spaceport" mission. The ability to silence alarms with a couple of blasts from your weapon rather than turning them off manually like in the first game (small detail I know) was gained from Mortyr. The new use of elevators and more "vertically stacked" playfields in MOHU was adopted from Mortyr. The Panzerfaust battles with Panzers was "inspired" directly from Mortyr. The new "fog" added to certain levels and the sight of airplanes flying above was first seen in Mortyr. The list goes on...
I lose respect for a game when I start seeing TOO MUCH "borrowing" from other games....how could you not?
Also, has anybody noticed that you can't complete Mission 6, levels one and two while using the secret code "invulnerability" ? (The new "Politically Correct" game phrase for "Invincibility"?) For some reason (Like Dreamworks wasn't paying attention), the game won't recognize your "action" button on the very final stage of "Plans for destruction" and "Sabotage!". You can't activate the tram or shut off the grid!! So there you are - all the way through for nothing! The very next level WON'T let you get in the final hallway because the door is LOCKED even though you activated all the door controls!! Another level you CAN'T complete!
I noticed certain enemies exploding for no specific reason (No, their Panzerfaust didn't hit a target too close as they fired)...bullets come from strange places for no specific reason. The Air Force Pilot that you have to save at Monte Cassino, many times would just stop at a door on one knee and freeze up. He would never get the lock picked and that was it. You have to quit the mission and restart!
Did anybody get "stuck" behind certain structures while playing? There seems to be an increased number of collision problems between Manon and solid objects. It's quite irritating. I got stuck behind a "pillar" on one level and COULD not get free,..jumping, crouching or strafing, didn't work. Many small openings and crowded areas were real trouble spots, or "dead zones". You constantly clip solid items while playing. On difficult levels (like the CHEEZY bonus round), collision problems mean a quick death. The game movement doesn't flow. I mean c'mon, these are all things that should have been picked up in testing I would think.
Final thoughts; I really LOVED all the great phrases that the German soldiers would say in the original MOH. They would constantly taunt you when you engaged them with phrases such as "You're not fit to live" and "You're no match for the Wehrmacht!" WHERE DID THESE PHRASES GO?! "Lower your weapon" or "Move and die" is about the only thing I heard the enemy say in MOHU. Lame. Remember "American commando, come out and surrender your weapon and you will be treated with kindness and charity." THAT WAS GREAT! (PERFECT diction) Yet NO WHERE in MOHU do you hear any great lines like that. BUMMER!
Final, final thoughts; Remember the EXCELLENT gunnery evaluations in MOH like "jewel thief" or "home wrecker" when you had shot your enemies an exorbitant amount of times in the groin? Or if you went for all headshots, you would get tagged as "Discount barber" or "Melon popper"! That was great stuff (And accurate military slang phrases too). GONE! They have been replaced with juvenile gunnery evaluations such as "Kablooie Armstrong"...hinting to NO specific part of the body. LAME!
I'm still at odds with the female lead character - obviously there is the one side of me that applauds Dreamworks for fitting a female into a lead role independent of big boobs and shorts. (This could have easily become MOH, Tombraider). But, (and this is a big but), give me Jimmy Patterson ANYDAY.
Getting the impression I didn't like this game? I HOPE that Dreamworks will get it together and blow us all away with the definitive MOH in the next offering. If you are listening Dreamworks, I'll GIVE you the game idea that will work. Build the next game's theme around the tremendous battles between Russian allies and the Germans during WW2 - Stailingrad for instance. Historically, that was THE street by street, building by building, battle to the end, that would be PERFECT for the MOH game experience. Are you listening?
LOSE the German Shepherds driving Sd.Kfz half-tracks, and concentrate on what makes this game so good - REALISM. And for gawd's sake, make it PLAY well. I mean, WHAT was Dreamworks thinking with that cheezy "Mario Brothers" final level? I wasted DAYS on that near impossible "bonus mission",...and for what? There should have been a bonus mission JUST for completing that bonus mission! (HARD!) As it stands now, I have finished all levels and have to solidly say that the final payoff was NOT worth the journey.
| Great Gameplay = Tons of Glitches? | | Bryan from Upper Darby, PA, USA says (26/Dec/2000): | This new lengthy and quite entertaining game certainly filled my Winter vacation with glee. I have never played the first Medal of Honor, which probably makes this review a little more interesting than the others. I had overheard friends talk about the game, but I didn't trust them, for they enjoy most FPS. Skeptical, yet curious, I put the game on my wish list this Christmas. I wasn't suprised when I got it, but extremley suprised when I played. The graphics at first seem glitchy and dark, but later as you play the engine and detail definitaly make up for the scene. The score is awesome, and fits the war-time mood. I have never had so much joy listening to triumphant classical music! The controls suprised me. I expected a much smoother result than the outcome. What REALLY irked me about the controls is that ( if you have a dual shock analog controler) the game forces you to use it. Being a traditional gamer, I enjoy my D-pad, but for this occasion, the analog works great. One aspect of MOH:U is that the history is accurate and well dialouged. Overall: If you enjoy a bash of history, funny soliders, great gameplay, or you just want to touch up on your German, this game is for you.
| Technical glitches hamper game play of MOH2 | | James Patterson from Grand Rapids MI says (19/Dec/2000): | A very good follow-up to MOH. However, there is one terribly annoying tendency to "glitch-out" when the fighting gets "heavy"....this was observed in the first Medal of Honor in very few levels. In this sequel it happens CONSTANTLY, since the amount of detail and number of foes has been greatly increased. It has to do with frame rate and targeting trouble in the "Heat of a battle". The PSX console seems to run out of gas. Memory trouble and processor speed slow the game down to almost frame by frame. The result? You usually get blasted to bits at the most INOPPORTUNE moment. This nearly RUINS the play for serious gamers....
DON'T run over to ebay trying to score a replacement laser for your Playstation 1 console,...that's not it. I tried switching to a brand new game console with less than 5 hours on it and had the same horrible results. This is just more evidence that the new Playstation 2 was badly overdue.
It also seems that the design team may have spent too much time reviewing other people's products in making this sequel. There is evidence of other game ideas in here - and that's not a good thing. They seem to have spent some time looking at MORTYR, for instance, another Nazi first person shoot 'em up for PC. THAT game has LAVISH graphics but horrible ideas. MOH2 has a bonus mission that is just as ridiculous and "out of place" as when MORTYR, switches over (roughly) 3/4 of the way through the game to "Future Germany", now firing laser pistols at Cyber-Nazis!! RUINS an otherwise excellent, and historically detailed game.
The Vintage French music (Love song) playing in the background for ambience on a particular level was "Borrowed" directly from MORTYR. The new "Panzer tank battles" was also borrowed directly from MORTYR as is the Stuka airplane flying above. ("Street by Street" level I believe?)
Also,....what's up with targeting?? Now in MOH2, many times the bullets are hitting WAY to the right of the target. (Just like MORTYR). Another gripe is that it now takes an OBSCENE amount of body hits to take an enemy down....was that a limp-wristed way to increase difficulty or what?? Also you are getting hit by bullets coming through walls for no reason (This is with OR WITHOUT the secret code "bouncing bullets" on)...I call all of this glitches.
I don't know,...this one just didn't do it for me like the first one..also seems to have to many ideas that didn't get refined or de-bugged - like they rushed it out. If I had to recommend this or the first version to anybody who wishes to try it out, I would QUICKLY point them to the first game.
Perhaps a new version (MOH3?) for the new console will result in something EXCELLENT (Like how about some new graphics that don't need an eye for "impressionistic art" to appreciate? HORRIBLE!)....to Dreamworks I say, "better luck next turn."
| If you liked the first Medal of Honor you will love this one. | | Billy Tomlinson from Perth Westaine Australia says (15/Dec/2000): | Medal of Honor the first game was great. Now this one kicks butt.
if you've played the first one you would know what I'm talking about.
If you haven't, i'll explain. Its a bit like Duke Nukem, Doom, Alien Resurrection and The World's Not Enough. Where you can only see your hand and your weopon. I know what some of you people think (oh not a boring WWII game) but you're wrong the game idea keeps you hanging on to youre seat. The objectives are challenging the weapons are great like the rocketlauncher, flamethrower, chaingun, petrolbombs, machinegun and loads more.
You go under cover as a German to get into Germany and other places where its full of Nazis and army tanks. I just bought it yesterday and I haven't stop playing it.
| This is no | | Craig Shuman from OK City, OK says (8/Dec/2000): | When I heard that Jimmy Patterson only has a "cameo" role in the new MOH, and that a female would be the lead character, I was worried. I thought perhaps Dreamworks had decided to go the route of "Tomb Raider" (and so many other first person "shoot 'em ups" lately).....Nope. Just an excellent sequel with an excellent game theme: to Liberate German Occupied France. (Historically, of which many women were part of the OSS)
Game play is not that much more difficult. The biggest improvement is that Dreamworks gives you much more of what was MISSING in the first: TANKS!...make that Tanks, Halftracks, Stuka Dive bombers, BMW side-hacks, - in short, VEHICLES with which you can battle, not just person to person combat.
Musical soundtrack and ambient sounds were great as always, however certain levels had music that was right out of "The Shining"....less "heroic" and more "Horror movie-like" (Doesn't seem to work here).
Playfields/levels are expansive (Read: LONG). Details are up,...love the plaza under the Eiffel Tower. It's worth owning, no need to rent.
| GREAT game, but I am | | Bill Kosby from Panama City, FL says (8/Dec/2000): | DONE! Just four evenings to complete all 7 missions and 28 levels PLUS the somewhat silly BONUS mission ("Panzerknacker unleashed").
The first 5 missions (and all levels within) are mildly challenging. Fully Decorated veterans of MOH may even find them "easy". Mission 6 should stop you in your tracks however. The difficulty level ramps up sharply. (Remember "attack on impenetrable Fort Schmerzen" in MOH? Remember all the heavy machine gun nests you had to face off with? Same deal).
Mission 7 contains horribly long levels that are bordering on ridiculously difficult. They are long, street by street battles, that go on forever.
Musical score and ambient sounds are great but don't create the super intense intimacy of the first game however (The excellent "Sewer Chase" on MOH comes to mind...WOW!)
Secret codes differ slightly from MOH. There is of course the "Nifty Powerups" for multiplayer and "invincibility", but also added is some new twists. There is "No reload" mode (Nice), "bouncing bullets" (needed to reach "Excellent" rating in the "sidecar shootout"....you'll see.) and "Podoski Mode". This secret code allows you to kill any enemy with a single bullet from ANY weapon, ANYWHERE in the body. The downside is that they can take you out with a single shot. *This mode makes play next to impossible on most levels.
If you have seen every nook and cranny of MOH, this game will be a piece of cake to beat. Just use all the same techniques and skills learned in MOH. All of them apply. It's a great game and an EXCELLENT sequel, but I WON'T be buying "MOH 3" should one be released.....frankly, I am MOH'ed out. This stuff gets WAY too repetitive. They should take a look at their last level in MOHU entitled, "End of the line"......
| WOW! Great game | | David Lander from Sydney, Australia says (7/Dec/2000): | I only purchased this game on 7/12 due to the release date being pushed back 2 weeks in Australia as the PS2 was coming out. I played Medal of Honour and really thought that the PS couldn't do much more. Well MOHU does more with interactive items such as being able to shoot down gas powered lights causing a small explosion. The new weapons are fantastic. The Walther P38 gets used a lot more in this game addtional enemies including Tanks make the game very difficult (only widh you could tank comand of a tank and blow some Nazi's back to Berlin). Being a bit of a WWII buff the historical features of this game are superb.
Graphics: 10/10 - Very good considering the specs of the PSOne
Sound: 10/10 - Music is great, voices, gunshots and tank etc sounds are realistic.
Controls: 10/10 - Same as with MOH and for the PS Controler they are quite easy.
Life: 9/10 - Good re playablity. Levels not much easier the 2nd, 3rd or even 4th time through.
This is one game that is very easy to learn but very hard to master that is one of the main things I look for in games.
Final comment: Will there be a MOH 3??? :)
| Coded Genius | | Andy from Derby, England says (5/Dec/2000): | A game by Spielberg? With a full orchestral soundtrack? With the chance to butcher Germans and be home in time for tea?! It's time for the sequel to the original MOH and this time they've pulled out all the stops and made the sequel everything the superlative original might have been.
Pointless to list all the improvements because EVERYTHING has been improved!! Especially the enemy aggresiveness!
You'll never play a better first person shooter on the Playstation, and maybe it is arguably the most immersive game of its type on any platform? Can you imagine if they tried to make this game (or ANY game for that matter?) on a PC with specs eequivalent to a PSX? - 2mb of RAM, with a 33MHz processor. So pound for pound this is probably the greatest game of its kind ever.
Just buy it! It is pure genius.
| You've Got to Get It! | | Alex from usa says (26/Nov/2000): | I just got this game so I'm not very far, but so far it is very cool. I love the new weapons, and they even have some old weapons like the German gernade, which I like to call tossels. The New Characters Are smarter cooler and stranger.
| AWESOME GAME!! | | ATFSniper1 from Omaha Nebraska USA says (17/Nov/2000): | This Game is better than Medal of Honor. I can't wait to see what the next one is on. In the Undergorund game it seems more interactive. The Graphics are AWESOME~Mega Cudo's to the Artist. Some levels of this game are so challaging it makes you not want to put down the controls. With the opposing side shooting back at you with not only rifles, machine guns, RPG's, Gernades they have now added _________ and _________ and __________ and _________ . Well if your wondering what is missing in the blanked out items...Get the game and see for yourself!~
Excellent GAME~!
| this game rules | | Russell Shepherd, Jr. from Ohio, USA says (9/Nov/2000): | I didn't think that the original MOH could be topped, but after playing Underground I know I was wrong. They've made one of the best if not the best playstation game even better. The gameplay, and control of the game are a 10 for sure. The graphics are also great, if you haven't played it u should, and if u have and know some cheat codes let me have them. later
| The Best Game Ever. | | raymond.j. lee from Benicia, CA USA says (8/Nov/2000): | The new Medal of Honor: Underground is the best game for the Playstation. If you liked the game GOLDEN EYE,for N64, this is better, way better. You're a secret agent in World War II. Your mission is to fight against the Nazis and try to infiltrate their plans to rule the world. You get an assortment of cool, new weapons. and new levels... very cool levels. The enemies are smarter, too. I've played the game myself and I was very impressed with this title.
GET THE GAME.
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