Medal of Honor: Frontline : Games : Web Wombat

Deriving inspiration from the classic, yet graphically sickening Oscar award-winning movie Saving Private Ryan, Medal of Honor Frontline continues the engrossing series developed by EA games.

Frontline features a number of scenarios, capturing the emotion and gritty experience of the battle of Normandy, to the sabotaging of the dreaded German U-Boats.

And one man, Jimmy Patterson (played by you), achieves all these feats.

Patterson, a 24 year old Lieutenant in the Air Transport Corps, is a man with a substantial amount of courage, considering he single-handedly penetrated Nazi strongholds, housing hundreds of highly trained SS Officers.

What's one important attribute that a war game must contain? Obviously, the answer is action, and what makes the action in Frontline so breathtaking, exciting and realistic, is the wide variety of weaponry.

From Grenades, to rifles, from sub machine guns to heavy weapons like Bazookas, Medal of honor has it all. It should be noted that the controls do take some time to adapt to and aim properly.

There are six main missions to complete, all involving smaller sub-missions, so in total there are 19 levels, ranging from blowing up anything German that moves, to playing it cool and safe and secretly going undercover as a German SS officer. It's pretty cool sneaking behind enemy fortresses, even sharing a beer with a bunch of drunk German soldiers bellowing out a tune on a piano at their local pub.

He also liked toasted cheese sandwiches

By completing each sub-mission, medals are awarded, either gold, silver or bronze depending on how many Germans you eliminated. And mark my word, it is extremely hard to consistently receive gold medals. If you do though, the medal of honor will be yours to cherish. And cherish you will!

Graphics wise, this game is very easy on the eye, is largely blemish free, with the remote Dutch countryside and the beach of Normandy coming across very convincingly. It also makes you realise that real soldiers fought the same way, but they unfortunately didn't have a restart button.

The sound is best described as spine-tingling, with Crack, Bang and Boom surrounding you from every angle, and bullets whistling by your ears.

The accents from the Germans is quite authentic to my ears and let's say that EA games wasn't afraid to use profanity, even racist comments towards the American soldiers. But along with the graphics, the sounds makes you duck for cover, and pause the game at regular intervals to take a few deep breaths and have a glass of water.

The only negative aspects of this game is that it can be completed quite quickly, there little multiplayer (see Xbox version), and if you are not patient enough, you could throw the PS2 controller into a volatile barrel full of nitroglycerine in frustration due to its sensitivity, which as I said before takes time to get used to.

Medal of Honor Frontline belongs alongside some of the greatest WWII games made, and the success of the game has been proven by the amount of sales causing it to go platinum. Oh yeah, and have fun in the depths of the mines of the German stronghold, in which a roller coaster ride takes place with the use of a mine cart. Viel Vergnugen!!

Game: Medal of Honor: Frontline
System: PS2
Players: 1-2
Online: No
Developer: Dreamworks Interactive
Distributor: Electronic Arts

Rating: 90%

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