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If you have a PC, you *need* to get this game.
It is, quite simply, stunning.
The level everyone knows, Omaha beach doesn't actually arrive until the 3rd mission.
And yes, it is exactly like playing the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
But it is without question, the greatest set-piece in computer gaming I have ever witnessed.
I'll do a proper review where it should be, but you need to try and understand the ferocity and jaw-dropping moment of landing at Omaha beach.
You start off in the boat.
You can look about the boat at the soldiers around you, the guy behind is green-faced and terrified (his expression changes as the shelling starts).
To your left are more boats.
The shelling starts.
Water explodes up and fizzes into your craft, the guy behind you starts to whimper and he's ducking down now.
Look to your left and the nearest boat explodes, sending bodies into air.
Your Sergeant behind you is shouting instructions but you can't hear him very well.
You reach the beach and the ramp drops down.
Before you are acres of beach, with barbed wire and metal anti-tank blockades buried into the sand.
You start to move forward and the first row of soldiers are hit, they do down in screams and now it's you in the water.
Bullets tear at you and you need to reach the 1st little bit of cover, but the water makes it slow to wade.
To your left and right, more soldiers are getting mowed down and explosions send more bodies flying through the air.
There's a break in the shooting for a few seconds, time to dash to the next meagre bit of cover.
There's 3 of you crouched behind a tiny metal strip of protection.
1 guy starts to move but is shot in the face, falls down and the guy next to you panics and runs.
He's dead now as well.
Bullets are still screaming through the air and explosions shake the beach.
All around you, soldiers are being blown to bits.
Run now?
You start to move but a stream of bullets whack into you, now your health is down from 100 to 32 in 4 seconds so you duck back.
You can see, in front and across what feels like a mile of sand, another tiny bit of cover.
Wait for a break in the shooting, wait for them to reload and then you're running in a crouch.
You fall behind the cover and your companion is sitting down, holding his head and shaking.
He's lost his mind, he's talking over and over about something.
To your right is another explosion, 3 soldiers are throw back down the beach along with mud and sand and screams.
Run, fall behind a small barrier.
Here is a medic, he gives you 50 health points so now you're on 60.
The Medic is tending to a guy laying at your feet.
The man is crying and the medic is trying to reassure him.
If you look closely, the medic takes the soldier's hand and holds him as he dies.
It's now only about 40 feet to the end of the beach.
But that 40 feet might as well be 40 miles.
Another break in the onslaught of shooting as the Nazis reload.
Stand and run, head for that crater.
An explosion throws bodies past you, the screams rise and are cut off.
You look back down the beach from the crater.
A soldier is dragging his fallen comrade to cover.
But a shell tears them both to pieces.
You can see some lucky men have reached the end of the beach, they're laying flat under the fire. Safe for now.
One final dash and you make it to the end of the beach.
Your Sergeant orders you back down to grab bangoliers.
That barbed wire has to be blown so you can proceed.
So you dash frantically to get them, bullet tearing the sand all around you.
You've got them, back to the Sergeant now and he blows the wire.
That's it, you've made it up the beach.
Now you just have to get to the trenches and clear the bunkers ahead of you.
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That is the Omaha Beach level.
What sounds simple enough, clear the beach took almost an hour of constant reloading and retrying because you can barely move without being killed, until you start to learn to dash from cover to cover.
It is totally immersive and chaotic.
Furious machine gun fire streams you constantly, explosions tear the beach from under you.
Your comrades die next to you, friends are blown to pieces.
I cannot adequately describe the utter relentless fury of this beach level.
It's noisy and scary and frantic and it's more luck than skill if you make it to the top.
This is just 1 level of an amazing game that includes clearing a farm of Nazis etc.
Medal of Honour: Allied Assualt.
The best game I have played.
Ever.
It is, quite simply, stunning.
The level everyone knows, Omaha beach doesn't actually arrive until the 3rd mission.
And yes, it is exactly like playing the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.
But it is without question, the greatest set-piece in computer gaming I have ever witnessed.
I'll do a proper review where it should be, but you need to try and understand the ferocity and jaw-dropping moment of landing at Omaha beach.
You start off in the boat.
You can look about the boat at the soldiers around you, the guy behind is green-faced and terrified (his expression changes as the shelling starts).
To your left are more boats.
The shelling starts.
Water explodes up and fizzes into your craft, the guy behind you starts to whimper and he's ducking down now.
Look to your left and the nearest boat explodes, sending bodies into air.
Your Sergeant behind you is shouting instructions but you can't hear him very well.
You reach the beach and the ramp drops down.
Before you are acres of beach, with barbed wire and metal anti-tank blockades buried into the sand.
You start to move forward and the first row of soldiers are hit, they do down in screams and now it's you in the water.
Bullets tear at you and you need to reach the 1st little bit of cover, but the water makes it slow to wade.
To your left and right, more soldiers are getting mowed down and explosions send more bodies flying through the air.
There's a break in the shooting for a few seconds, time to dash to the next meagre bit of cover.
There's 3 of you crouched behind a tiny metal strip of protection.
1 guy starts to move but is shot in the face, falls down and the guy next to you panics and runs.
He's dead now as well.
Bullets are still screaming through the air and explosions shake the beach.
All around you, soldiers are being blown to bits.
Run now?
You start to move but a stream of bullets whack into you, now your health is down from 100 to 32 in 4 seconds so you duck back.
You can see, in front and across what feels like a mile of sand, another tiny bit of cover.
Wait for a break in the shooting, wait for them to reload and then you're running in a crouch.
You fall behind the cover and your companion is sitting down, holding his head and shaking.
He's lost his mind, he's talking over and over about something.
To your right is another explosion, 3 soldiers are throw back down the beach along with mud and sand and screams.
Run, fall behind a small barrier.
Here is a medic, he gives you 50 health points so now you're on 60.
The Medic is tending to a guy laying at your feet.
The man is crying and the medic is trying to reassure him.
If you look closely, the medic takes the soldier's hand and holds him as he dies.
It's now only about 40 feet to the end of the beach.
But that 40 feet might as well be 40 miles.
Another break in the onslaught of shooting as the Nazis reload.
Stand and run, head for that crater.
An explosion throws bodies past you, the screams rise and are cut off.
You look back down the beach from the crater.
A soldier is dragging his fallen comrade to cover.
But a shell tears them both to pieces.
You can see some lucky men have reached the end of the beach, they're laying flat under the fire. Safe for now.
One final dash and you make it to the end of the beach.
Your Sergeant orders you back down to grab bangoliers.
That barbed wire has to be blown so you can proceed.
So you dash frantically to get them, bullet tearing the sand all around you.
You've got them, back to the Sergeant now and he blows the wire.
That's it, you've made it up the beach.
Now you just have to get to the trenches and clear the bunkers ahead of you.
---
That is the Omaha Beach level.
What sounds simple enough, clear the beach took almost an hour of constant reloading and retrying because you can barely move without being killed, until you start to learn to dash from cover to cover.
It is totally immersive and chaotic.
Furious machine gun fire streams you constantly, explosions tear the beach from under you.
Your comrades die next to you, friends are blown to pieces.
I cannot adequately describe the utter relentless fury of this beach level.
It's noisy and scary and frantic and it's more luck than skill if you make it to the top.
This is just 1 level of an amazing game that includes clearing a farm of Nazis etc.
Medal of Honour: Allied Assualt.
The best game I have played.
Ever.
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Actually it's out on the 15th Feb.
But you can order it from Amazon and it arrives in 5 days.
Lovely.
Balls to EA shoddy release plans for Europe.
And PCs are compatible world-wide, none of this NTSC/PAL crap.
But you can order it from Amazon and it arrives in 5 days.
Lovely.
Balls to EA shoddy release plans for Europe.
And PCs are compatible world-wide, none of this NTSC/PAL crap.
Do you have a pirate version then, Goaty? Only it's not out until 8th Feb, according to SR...
:-)
:-)
Loki mate, is is incredible.
The 1st mission was a bit rubbish, being led by another character and we thought "Oh. This is alright I supposed" but it leads you in gradually.
By the time you hit the 3rd mission (each mission is split into 3 levels), Omaha beach,you are absolutely agog with the game.
Like I said, it took us an hour to just do the beach invasion, but you don't get frustrated with it, it's too impressive.
And the levels that follow are equally stunning.
My fav moment?
In a lighthouse, a truck full of Nazis approaching.
I threw a grenade from the top of the lighthouse and managed to hit the truck.
It explodes and the surviving nazis get out and hide.
I threw another one, and that hit as well.
2 direct grenade hits.
I ruled.
You can catch AI soldiers laying on the floor, using their dead mates for cover.
It beats Half-Life as the best FPS ever.
Really, it does.
Wolfenstein rocks, but it's more of a standard FPS.
The 1st mission was a bit rubbish, being led by another character and we thought "Oh. This is alright I supposed" but it leads you in gradually.
By the time you hit the 3rd mission (each mission is split into 3 levels), Omaha beach,you are absolutely agog with the game.
Like I said, it took us an hour to just do the beach invasion, but you don't get frustrated with it, it's too impressive.
And the levels that follow are equally stunning.
My fav moment?
In a lighthouse, a truck full of Nazis approaching.
I threw a grenade from the top of the lighthouse and managed to hit the truck.
It explodes and the surviving nazis get out and hide.
I threw another one, and that hit as well.
2 direct grenade hits.
I ruled.
You can catch AI soldiers laying on the floor, using their dead mates for cover.
It beats Half-Life as the best FPS ever.
Really, it does.
Wolfenstein rocks, but it's more of a standard FPS.
Damn. To be honest, I don't normally spend more than an hour or two a month playing computer games at home but I need to play this game. I just bought my GeForce 3 card basically because I saw some pre-release screenshots of this game. I've played the demo throught about 20 times now but I need more. It is the best videogame I've ever experienced (possibly even better thatn ISS Pro Evo 2). The release date now looks like it may go back to the 15th of February now. I really am very annoyed.
At least it sounds like I won't be disappointed when I finally get a chance to play it.
At least it sounds like I won't be disappointed when I finally get a chance to play it.
mandatare wrote:
> DAM!
mines nothing like that
mines ME
64mb ram
20GB hard drive
Amd athlon
> 900mhz
would that do?
Depends what graphics card you have. You could still run the game with those specs probably, but dont expect it to be smooth or high detail. A sure way of upgrading computers is to add more RAM. I remember adding an extra 128mb Ram to the 64 I already had, let me play Unreal Tournament in the next highest resolution.
> DAM!
mines nothing like that
mines ME
64mb ram
20GB hard drive
Amd athlon
> 900mhz
would that do?
Depends what graphics card you have. You could still run the game with those specs probably, but dont expect it to be smooth or high detail. A sure way of upgrading computers is to add more RAM. I remember adding an extra 128mb Ram to the 64 I already had, let me play Unreal Tournament in the next highest resolution.
DAM!
mines nothing like that
mines ME
64mb ram
20GB hard drive
Amd athlon 900mhz
would that do?
mines nothing like that
mines ME
64mb ram
20GB hard drive
Amd athlon 900mhz
would that do?
mandatare wrote:
> whats the requirements for this game anyway
my pc's quite new
had it since
> november 2000
Thats quite old machine compared to todays machines. I would say to get it running pretty nice you would need a Geforce 2 64Mb. Maybe a nice 1ghz processor or more and about 512mb Ram maybe 256.
> whats the requirements for this game anyway
my pc's quite new
had it since
> november 2000
Thats quite old machine compared to todays machines. I would say to get it running pretty nice you would need a Geforce 2 64Mb. Maybe a nice 1ghz processor or more and about 512mb Ram maybe 256.
whats the requirements for this game anyway
my pc's quite new
had it since november 2000
my pc's quite new
had it since november 2000
Sounds like the beach level of Conker's Bad Fur Day.
You think I'm joking, don't you?
Same kind of thing, but with squirrels.
Honestly.
They get shot down in front of you, and you hide under cover, moving from cover to cover as the Tediz reload....
If my PC wasn't crap (I payed £400 for it 2 years ago) I'd consider getting this.
You think I'm joking, don't you?
Same kind of thing, but with squirrels.
Honestly.
They get shot down in front of you, and you hide under cover, moving from cover to cover as the Tediz reload....
If my PC wasn't crap (I payed £400 for it 2 years ago) I'd consider getting this.
Goatboy wrote:
> Or as Hooplah puts it, "This game is so cool you could
> put a moustache on it and call it Burt"
That was the pay-off line. Forget the hard-sell initial post, if you'd said that at the beginning there would have been no confusion whatsoever as to the game's greatness.
> Or as Hooplah puts it, "This game is so cool you could
> put a moustache on it and call it Burt"
That was the pay-off line. Forget the hard-sell initial post, if you'd said that at the beginning there would have been no confusion whatsoever as to the game's greatness.
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