Medal of Honor Frontline

There are 20 levels of gameplay spread across six major missions, all based on real World War II events and all adding up to one complete and uninterrupted story line. Fully realized and highly-detailed 3-D environments include six times the number of nonplayer character animations as in the original Medal of Honor. The game includes detailed German, British, and American troops, as well as Dutch civilians, all with full facial expressions and lip synch. More than 20 authentic WWII weapons include the Colt .45, Springfield sniper rifle, Panzerschreck rocket launcher, MG42 mounted machine gun, and the Browning automatic rifle. Enemy vehicles include panzer and tiger tanks, trucks, motorcycles with sidecars, and armored railway scout cars. There are also player-driven motorized railcars, trains, and mine carts.

An improved enemy AI requires you to consistently vary your attack strategy as the situation dictates. Go it alone to accomplish your mission with the utmost stealth or work as part of a highly trained military unit to wreak havoc on the enemy. The game offers intense noncombat scenarios as well, such as a disguised, weaponless infiltration of an officer's pub brimming with Gestapo to make contact with a Dutch Resistance operative. Medal of Honor: Frontline includes more than 70 minutes of original orchestral music from composer Michael Giacchino, and the game as a whole features eight times more audio than the original Medal of Honor.

I should have remembered that the last two Medal of Honors I've played, Spearhead (for PC) and Infiltrator (for Gameboy Advance), both sucked. Frontline was the first time since Medal of Honor Underground that I played this game on a console. It should have felt like home -- instead, it felt like I was playing Spearhead without a mouse. What caused them to mess up the control scheme so badly, I can't tell. But now your character aims blindly thanks to a touchy-feely right analog stick. I've had to do much more minute aiming adjustments in Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, targeting distant enemies in the head, and I found it even harder here, though the enemy is just several steps away from me. From the first level, I bumbled about blindly because foolishly, the game designers now rely mostly on sound to let you know where to go. Not that bad a thing, except they botched the sound mix. Rule of thumb in sound mixing: Music and effects should never, never drown out dialogue. Here, your superiors' instructions are neatly covered up in the gunfire, overloud music, and ambience. From the beginning, I had to run around the beach while under enemy fire, looking for scattered teammates who were supposed to be yelling and waving at me to reach them. Well, I can't hear them, and since there's no radar, I had to rely on blind luck to find them. A very dumb flaw, easily fixable, but neglected. Did they actually *test* this thing on real players?

As with 90 per cent of games these days, the lighting looks good, and the music is great. But once again, this game qualifies as a good-looking, good-sounding product that flunks its grade on mechanics. I don't feel like I'm in control of my character. Nothing is more of a drag than that. I should've listened to my instinct and passed on this one. I regret even the reduced price I'd paid for it . Medal of Honor and Medal of Honor Underground were such classics, it's baffling how EA managed to botch it all up.


a pretty good game   July 12, 2004
This game is good. U get to go on exciting missions and levels. There are a lot of guns that u can chhose from and submachine guns to let off some steam. but the game is way too short. aiming is also harder than it is on the PC. I think Allied Assualt was better than Frontline mainly because itwas on the pc. the game has challenging spots like the first level in which u could barely hear what u r supposed to do. the places in which to complete objectives can be hard to find especially in cities. But the objectives appear on the start menu and if u clik select you can get hints about where to find stuff. Overall i think the game is good.


MOH: Frontline   July 2, 2004
extremely good game, it is one of my favorites and always will be. the only problem i have is sometimes if you kill a soldier he will switch to his idle look and bullets pass through him. (it happens very rarely)


Dull   June 24, 2003
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm shocked to find myself dissapointed at this game. There are developers who clearly have a fine attention to detail and the right attitude about making games, but there is no cooperative two player, no multiplayer at all, the map designs are rather linear and don't lend themselves to exploration, the game is unplayable without a dual shock controller, and finally, MoH: Allied Assault and MOH Underground were better! Get those instead.


beautiful   June 24, 2003
this game is awesome, wonderful, tough, and fun. Entirely worth it just for the first level alone. buy it, play it, share it with your buddies.