I first made contact with Medal of Honor on the Playstation 1. Back in the days this game had brought a fresh style in the genre and can be named as an instant classic. Pacific Assault today isn't this great experience anymore. First I will start by the graphics. I don't know but it seems thats it's an unwritten rule that no EA game has to run fluidly. PA makes no change here. Even on high end machines you get frame drops in many locations. For the graphic quality I can say that it's good in the most levels. As I started and played the first levels I was pretty surprised that it wasn't shoot everything right from the start. Actually you get a feeling that you are just one soldier under hundreds. And that is exactly how I hoped MoH PA will be. Unfortunately this gets dropped after the first three mission. As soon as you get into the jungle fights it gets really repetetive and boring. The AI of the soldiers isn't that bad but ain't that good either. There will be often situations where your teammates run in open MG fire and you can do nothing about it. Thats where I felt I couldn't really command my squad cause the four commands I had seemed way to less. Another big negative is the amount of damage your guys and even the enemys can take. So one guy of you gets shot ten times by the enemy with no effect, pretty stupid. Also sometimes enemys seem to take five or six direct hits till they get down. Plus you can't shot through wood or japanese cabins. So you are in the jungle and there is one guy behind a little knob, you hit the knob and the bullet won't get through. Well, thats just disconcerting . But the low point is reached when you have to do the plane mission. Yeah you control a plane, sounds funny, unfortunately it isn't. To keep it short, the graphics a catatrophal, the speed is slow, the controls feel clumsy and especially the aircrafcarrier objective is completely messed up. It's just one thing they better had left out. So in the end there are some missions and moments worth playing but if you in for an good squad based shooter I would suggest you wait what Brothers in Arms will have to offer.
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