"excellent game!! the multi player has some quirks but overall well
worth the $$" - Anonymous
"fun though not a "Ghost Recon" realism in the game so realism
experts need not apply. game worth buying if only d-day mission included
in the box. you gotta pump the nazi pigs full of lead before they die and
you take alot of hits also so again, if you are looking for Ghost Recon
realism don't. overall EXCELLENT" - squeek
"It’s very hard to create a good game, and it’s even harder to port an old
idea from the Psone, change it a little (but not too much to please fans), and
then put it on the PC. You see there are many first-person shooters out there,
and if you are a console owner you will know of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Red
Faction (another Ps to PC port, but this one didn’t do so well). But on the PC,
however, there are LOADS. Half-Life, Duke Nukem, Thief. There are too many to
count. Therefore the FPS market on the PC is very hard to please. But MOHAA does
it. With apparent ease. I’ll start off with the graphics should I? I’ve got an
NVIDIA GeForce MX –400 graphics card, and MOHAA runs beautifully on my PC, and
as long as you have got a PC that can handle modern to semi modern games, your
PC will make it look fantastic too. The expressions on the Nazi’s faces as you
have just shot them is a great thing to behold (I’m not sounding like a psycho,
am I?), and detail of your surroundings is great, too. All these things give the
whole game a solid and a believable look. But anyone that knows a little about
MOH games knows that MOHAA has something that the others haven’t, something
special (in gaming terms, anyway)…
Yep, you guessed it, MOHAA has the D-Day landings. Apparently EA realized
that they had something special with this and asked the MOH Frontline developers
to put it their aforementioned game, as well, but the PC version had it first.
Let me just run you through it. You start off in a tin can boat (you know the
ones, they’re in ‘Saving Private Ryan’), and you are waiting, just waiting.
Shells are exploding in the sea all around you. One hits the boat to the left of
you. You gulp. A soldier behind you gives you a quick mission briefing, and you
hear a whistle. Now is where the nerves kick in. The door drops, and the two in
front of you immediately perish. You wade through the water, hoping that you
will manage to get to your next mission…. This unbelievable moment in gaming
history is revolutionary. I have never, ever, experienced any other gaming
experience more exciting in my entire life. You don’t feel invincible anymore,
because there are people all around you dying, perishing, and your chance for an
unsung death are all too present for this reason. You don’t feel like a one-man
army, like in say, 95% of other FPS (a hint of anger there). You feel like a cog
in the gears of war. Not important, but strong enough to make a difference to
other people’s lives. And that’s the reason why it is revolutionary, because it
has changed my perception of what I expect from a game, and it will to you, too.
But enough about me, let’s talk about the game play. For a guy hardened to
console FPS controls, I found it a little difficult, at first, to control my
character. That is why there is a superbly helpful training mode to help you
through things. After I completed that, and then finished my first two levels, I
was shootin’ like a pro. However, I did occasionally have a weird thing happen
to me, maybe it was me pressing too may buttons at once to kill an annoyingly
hard Nazi, but at one time my gun seemed to point to the ground automatically,
and not come back up. I had to swerve my mouse around a few times to get it back
up. By the time I had done that, though, I was dead. Not exactly what you would
call James Bond material, but there you go. A little niggle from an otherwise
great game.
Then there is the multiplayer. MOHAA supports both network and Internet play,
and if you have got the ability to play this way, the DO SO! It’s absolutely
fantastic. You have two options; you can start a game up, or you can join a
game. When you do choose to start up a game, you have four choices at what kind
of game it will be- Free for all, Team Deathmatch (where you choose to be either
Allies or Axis and fight for your time to the, well, death), then there is a
round based match (where you compete in rounds to a pre-determined number of
points), and finally there is an objective match, and this is where you pick a
team, and then you have to complete an objective or two to win the game. Of
course you choose what the game is called, and what costume your player has on.
And you can pick which TYPE (there is only one choice of weapon, but you do get
a pistol and ‘nades along with your specified firearm) of weapon you want to
play with. Joining a game is a completely different altogether. Unless you
download patch1.11 you can’t join a game at all, but unless you download gamespy
arcade you really can’t play a thing, unless you know the IP address of the
server.
So what is wrong with this game? Well, even though levels like the D-Day
landings are great, once you play them over 5 times, they are not a challenge
anymore because you know what to do. That partially takes the excitement out of
them. Anything else? Erm…nope. At least I can’t think of any thing. If you can
think of something, then e-mail me at the games mag address, which you will find
at the ‘Top 10 games’ section of Tony’s web site.
This is a fantastic game that not only gives you some fantastic experiences,
but also gives you a heightened sense of respect for our war veterans. Something
that you should drool over. 9.5/10" - Nathan
