I recently played the new medal of honor pacific assault demo, and found myself greatly impressed with this games potential, at first i thought it would follow the now very borring formula of the previous medal of honor franchise, but instead i found myself fighting alongside inteligent comrades who had personalities, and were capable of holding their own. in the latter part of the demo you man a machine gun turrent and try to blow stuff out of the sky, the explosion animations are first rate. i really liked the animations for the japenesse, there leaders would whip out their katanas and preform a bonzie charge, fearless and frightning they are. the fire animations seems a little behind the curve, i was a little dissapionted it really subtracts from the explosions when the fire looks out of date. my only real beef with the demo is that it follows the heavily scriptedness of its forebearers and because of that none of you buds get killed until they are scripted to, so they'll take more lead than you sometimes and keep on going, but from what i saw in the demo the game is heading in the right direction, especially with the addition of a medic character, i only wish that your teamates could actually die, that would add to the sense of ergency. at this point i think that medal of honor might pass up call of duty, but how will the new brother in arms manage? brother in arms looks potentially mind blowing, and the multiplayer has the potential to be revolutionary, can you imagine wealding an AI team in multi player to pit both your fps reflexes and your tacticle prowess against your enemies, that would make for some great gameplay. but we'll just have to wait. until then i play battle field, rtcw mp, or call of duty to get my fps WWII fix. rtcw has magnificent mp, my only problem with it is that the engine sucks and is as lagy as a whore, but the great thing about it is that the developers weren't afraid like most others would have been, when you play most online games they hold back on the power of explosive weapons usually, not rtcw, you shoot a rocket laucher into a bunker and no one is gonna come out, nothing is coming but a huge explosion that is so great and fantastic that no even ut2004 can compare. I truly love this game. BAttle field, that game is timeless, but i have many problems with it, you'll never find a good servre with more than 40 people on it, there are never enough freakin vehicles, being a foot soldier isn't that much fun because you move to slow, the weapons don't have a good kick to make you feel like you are fire any sort of fire arm, the exploions are really weak sauce, i wouldn't mind the lack of vehicles if being a foot soldier kicked ass too, but it doesn't, but yet somehow this game is adicting, and i love it, the massive battles are a great experience when they happen just right it is something to behold. i personally want to see a battlefield with graphics like farcry, or better yet a farcry mod that changes it to battle field, because lets face it, farcrys multiplayer sucks and needs some mager patching. that's enough complaning for now, until next time peace out