Sure, the other ones will do their part, shooting at and occasionally killing an enemy, but the medic is the one that is most important. We’re introduced to all of these characters through cutscenes describing them, but honestly, the only one that you’ll ever care about is the medic, because while you’re fighting, he’s going to be the one keeping you alive. We find out through narrated letters to his mother and father that Tommy misses his family a whole heck of a lot but he’s making a new family of men he is fighting alongside. We don’t meet up with Tommy again until after the Battle of Midway. Just like that, the whole mission is abruptly over. You’ll man a couple of guns and you’ll be shooting down planes while the game’s particle effects engine delivers stunning explosions and smoke as far as the eye can see. You finally get to leave the innards of the ship and go topside after about 15 minutes of carrying around a bunch of useless guys, and then the game gets impressive. This fetching of wounded soldiers below the deck comprises most of this mission, and it isn’t fun, at all. Most of the rescuing requires you to find someone who is hurt or injured and bring them to a medic who is usually about 30 feet away and not doing anything, making you wonder the whole time why the medic just couldn’t go get them without involving you at all. So your first job as Tommy is to get aboard one of the sinking ships in the harbor to rescues some seamen. No wait, that’s not right, he tells Tommy to get on one of the sinking boats that’s being attacked by Japanese planes. But we all know what happened at Pearl Harbor, and it just so happens that Tommy arrives on the day we now remember as Pearl Harbor Day.Īs Pearl Harbor is getting the crap kicked out of it, Tommy’s superior officer decides that it is probably best that Tommy get somewhere safe so he doesn’t die. The game opens with a quick drive-around the base, getting a tour of the place and meeting up with some of the locals. In Pacific Assault, you play as Tommy Conlin, a fresh marine who’s just been stationed at Pearl Harbor. That’s how pissed we were.īut enough small talk, lets get on with this review… Christ, we dropped atomic bombs on them in retaliation. We were attacked when we had our backs turned and fought not for moral reasons or because it was the right thing, we fought for revenge. In fact, (as far as my memory goes back) this is one of the first games to feature the Pacific Theater and I’m not really sure why. Pacific Assault is quite ironically (the irony here is that it isn’t ironic at all) set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Now, I suppose I should be more specific, because at this point, everyone and their mother (oh man, such a crappy line, “everyone and their mother”) has played a first-person shooter set during World War II. It’s more of the same game, but it’s bigger and feels more involving because strides were made not to reduce the linearity of the game but to hide the linearity of the game.įor those unfamiliar with the background of this game, Pacific Assault is a first-person shooter in World War II. Of course, if you like all the other Medal of Honor games (like I do), there’s a lot to love with this one. You might have read that Pacific Assault is different than the other games, but even with a few tweaks, it is still all about triggered events and you are still a one-man-army. The Medal of Honor franchise has always been known for its scripted, linear action, so if you don’t like that, stop reading, you aren’t going to like Pacific Assault, because in that sense this game is just the same as all previous versions. But while it does do a number of things right, when it does get something wrong, it gets it really, really wrong. Pacific Assault is definitely better than its console counterpart, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, and it does a lot of things well. Pacific Assault is certainly an interesting game, no doubt about it. This either means that Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (Pacific Assault from here on out) is a very challenging game to review or that the nasty cold/sinus infection that I have is reducing my already limited attention span to new, all-time low, making it hard to focus on writing. This is the third time I’ve tried to write this review. Pacific Assault is definitely better than its console counterpart." "This is the third time I’ve tried to write this review. Medal of Honor Pacific Assault (PC) review
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