Well, almost every game...

@maximkatsur3870

Жыл бұрын

Not included: the most recent one?

@TheHippieGunner

Жыл бұрын

Dude, you deserve a beer, consistently my favorite gaming channel

@trobriandstorm

Жыл бұрын

@@maximkatsur3870 Which one, that VR game?

@nazlok44

Жыл бұрын

I’ve wished that you would review MoH European Assault as it’s probably my favorite in the series along with airborne. But instead you decided to go above and beyond. (Sorry for the pun). This series holds a special place in my heart as it was one of my first exposures to gaming and probably the first FPS series I played. Thank You for this video.❤

@H3llBaron

Жыл бұрын

He doesn't included last one because it sucks

Considering the shift between WW2 and Modern Military, I'm surprised Medal of Honor never explored the Vietnam era or the Korean War because I felt like the both setting would fit Medal of Honor really well.

@qwopiretyu

Жыл бұрын

Shellshocked: Vietcong is a Nam game. I think SOCOM 1 or 2 has Vietnam missions or maybe those were mods.

@user-ss6co6vj5f

Жыл бұрын

@@qwopiretyu There a ton a FPS games about 'Nam: Men of Valor, these half-life 1 mods about Nam, and famous Dilogy by same original makers of MAFIA series (Yes, 2k Czech) - called "Vietcong" (There even was expansion/prequel for first game - called Vietcong: Fist Alpha).

@jakey14344

Жыл бұрын

Why is no one making a game about Korean war? Oh, I get it because killing the Communist Chinese army won't sit well in China.

@user-ss6co6vj5f

Жыл бұрын

@@jakey14344 >killing Chinese Communists is not okay Bro, literally 'Nam War been too - as Communist (North Vietnam) vs monarchy of Vietnam/capitalists... Are srsly that dumb - you can't read at least one history book?

@jakey14344

Жыл бұрын

@@user-ss6co6vj5f what I mean is that the game won't sell well in China because of that reason not to mention the backlash from the hypocritical Chinese government.

Yup. As a millennial, my grandfather served in the navy during WWII. Was originally going to be a pilot for the navy air force but when the two divisions separated, they assigned him photographer for a carrier due to him being a gopher for a photo company as a teen. Got his own room due to needing a dark room, everyone treated him well because they wanted pics to send back home, and we inherited hundreds of photos he took then and his teenage years in the thirties.

@yeetyateyote5570

Жыл бұрын

Digitize em if you can! Keeps em backed up from the physical version ever degrading or being damaged.

@quarreneverett4767

Жыл бұрын

Nice

@randykeith1203

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was in the army but mainly did tech/military so more a civ army than doing things

@randykeith1203

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather was in the army but mainly did tech/military so more a civ army than doing things

@hannahalexy

9 ай бұрын

My great grandfather also served....I'm Hungarian. We don't talk about it....

Frontline was iconic for me, the D-Day mission was as close as you could get to a recreation of Saving Private Ryan. But there is one thing that makes it the best and that's the soundtrack. It was composed by Michael Giacchino and anyone who's seen any of his films he's done the music for will know how hard his work slaps. The theme of Arnhem gives me chills to this day.

@adamrogowski2748

Жыл бұрын

I remember buying a gaming magazine with a PS2 demo disc and playing the Frontline demo repeatedly. That, as a young teen, made me buy the full game 😁

@ozzyg82

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree. Frontline was so epic and moving - the score really made it. I’ll always have strong nostalgia for that game. Glad i’m not the only one.

@idiot_city5244

8 ай бұрын

Other than a handful of missions, that is probably one of the most over the top ones in the series. I think there's 2 or 3 levels where there are other soldiers fighting with you, otherwise it's you against literally thousands of Germans. It kind of just becomes a James Bond spy game where you are behind enemy lines, which is hilarious because it's called Frontline... lol

@Chronic-ASAP105-cx4gm

8 ай бұрын

@@idiot_city5244 Yeah Medal Of Honor The Rising Sun was even more obnoxious to defend 10-15 Japanese soldiers at once. It made for some unrealistic gameplay...

@idiot_city5244

8 ай бұрын

@@Chronic-ASAP105-cx4gm only played that one once but yeah I remember it being like that

The ending sequence to 2010 MoH where you’re forced to watch your friend slowly die is absolutely gut wrenching, first video game ending to ever make me that emotional

@josephmccann4518

11 ай бұрын

I kept thinking he was gonna make it 😢

@LTenhet

9 ай бұрын

That was how you do a death scene, it really hit a lot harder than most of the Call of Duty deaths do.

@piscessoedroen

6 ай бұрын

whole rescue mission where you have like half your rescue team wiped, meetup with the spec ops guys who are also searching for rabbit, and bombastic setpieces. all that to watch rabbit die. it really hits hard

MOH Frontline’s soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino is hands down one of the most emotional and beautiful pieces of music in gaming I’ve ever heard

@justmichael468

Жыл бұрын

Yes, still chills when I listen to arnhem knights

@rifle2563

Жыл бұрын

@@justmichael468 oooo yeah

@EvilWiffles

Жыл бұрын

Both Call of Duty Finest Hour soundtracks and MoH Frontlines soundtracks make up my childhood memories. It's pathetic modern triple-A WW2 shooters don't use orchestral music but at least some are self aware that dubstep wouldn't fit the themes.

@justmichael468

Жыл бұрын

@@EvilWiffles oh yes finest hours, that one is another nostalgic trip, the intro was really cool

@SoaringLettuce

Жыл бұрын

Manor House Rally from Operation Rapunzel is so good

For the record, you can reload a Garand whenever you want. There is a button on the left side of the receiver that releases the enbloc clip when you pull the bolt back and allows you to insert a new full one.

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

Жыл бұрын

Which from what I remember is not realistic, but I might be wrong.

@lukaz20001

Жыл бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 Are you saying an actual function on the rifle isn't realistic, or that not being able to reload it in games without emptying the clip isn't realistic? TheGunner is right. Pull the operating rod back to remove chambered round, press clip latch, release rod and pull trigger to render the rifle safe. (Note: "Rod" in this case is referring to the bolt)

@DCGMatthew1

Жыл бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 What? Are you saying being able to reload or not reload is not realistic?

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

Жыл бұрын

@@DCGMatthew1 From what I remember you couldn't reload M1 Garand without emptying the whole clip, but as I said - I might be wrong here

@DCGMatthew1

Жыл бұрын

@@mariuszpudzianowski8400 You are very much wrong. You just pull the bolt/operating rod back and press the button on the side and it will eject the clip. That has always been the case with the M1 Garand. It wouldn't make sense for the military to adopt a rifle that requires you to fully empty before you can reload.

I've always loved Pacific Assault. It's like a guilty pleasure. Sure the healing sucks, but honestly Guadalcanal and Tarawa were some of the best levels I've ever played in any video game ever.

@ertnyot784

Жыл бұрын

My favorite one

@okilladmityouarerightbut4827

Жыл бұрын

I loved rising sun when I was a kid. Doesn’t really hold up too well now a days but still nostalgic as hell

@AnakinSkywakka

Жыл бұрын

​@Ok I’ll admit you are right But Same, Rising Sun was my first MOH game so it holds a special place for me. Plus the split screen was fun.

@okilladmityouarerightbut4827

Жыл бұрын

@@AnakinSkywakka I was like 4 or 5 when I played it and the AI for the multiplayer matches would absolutely shit on me lol I love that game I really wish it could be ported to pc somehow

@Rimland23

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Tarawa can drag a bit, but it´s a pretty unique level. I tend to spend too much time in the game´s main menu though. Love how interactive they made it.

Medal of Honor Rising Sun was definitively the moment I became addicted to video games. I played MOH Underground and was enthralled, working my way thru the catacombs, etc. But playing Rising Sun on christmas morning and fending off the attack of pearl harbor and being thrown into the entirely previously unseen environments of the pacific was addicting. For me, the cinematics and immersion and interaction of the game at that time was literally mind-numbing and fully real to me. Love this video you’ve made!

@thingonathinginathing

Жыл бұрын

It made me join the Marines, and sparked my life long interest into WWII lol

@shosc16

4 ай бұрын

This was my first Medal of Honour and was also my first ‘addiction’. I wanted to play the first mission over and over again

The music in MOH games is something that will always hit the hardest. I swear man, hearing the Arnhem Knights theme to this day always makes me teary eyed. If you finished that mission on hardest difficulty, you are eligible for veteran discount

@angmordagnithil7127

Жыл бұрын

For real. Michael Giachinno is a legend, and I wish he got more credit.

@user-yo8ab1ys9e

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you The music is excellent and very nostalgic when I listen

@Andy85uk

Жыл бұрын

I think one of my ultimate favourite tracks is the motorcycle chase from underground

When you spoke about our generation being the last to talk to grand parents that served in WW2 I remembered my grandfather. He was a teacher in the German city of Aachen and would be called to arms pretty late in war. He was sent to the Eastern front and survived the Soviet PoW camps as one of very few. But one should differenciate between the terror of a real war and the great fun those early parts of the game series were. Fun fact: A friend of mine even played through the second game while serving in the German Bunderwehr. 😁

Michael Giacchino's score for Frontline is still one of my favourite video game scores of all time. Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, and Escaping Gotha are simply astounding pieces of orchestral music.

@Youtubeuser797

Жыл бұрын

Border town is fantastic.

@7ilvs

Жыл бұрын

Indeed. You could just feel the weight and tragedy of war. Frontline was by far the most memorable

@imbetterthanyou6927

9 ай бұрын

@@KZreaduser797border town captures the western front perfectly

@williamlydon2554

9 ай бұрын

Manor House Rally is my go to for using the exercise bike at the gym. I feel like *I'm* fleeimg the Germans.

It's crazy looking at Rising Sun today. Back then, it felt like insane graphics. Good times playing that masterpiece with my dad.

@ashleydolin4292

9 ай бұрын

So many nights getting stoned drinking doing blow and rising sun. Fucking loved it

@PyschoKush

7 ай бұрын

bro fr me and my dad playing all the ps2 medal of honors when i was little i still have the 70 ps2 games my dad had and it includes original copys of all the medal of honors

@noobslayer10101

5 ай бұрын

Right? Lol playing MoH split screen coop with the pops was awesome haha

@RyanDob

4 ай бұрын

Agreed!! It was by brother and I's very first FPS and we played the living daylights out of that game. We still sometimes go back to the multiplayer just for the nestalgia.

@PoisondBacon

4 ай бұрын

@@ashleydolin4292that sounds great hahaha

My dad was totally down for these military shooters in their earliest days (Allied Assault, the first Call of Duty) around the turn of the century and yeah, definitely Battlefield 1942. It looks like the talent left to form Infinity Ward and Electronic Arts could never catch up again. I think people really forget how real WWII fatigue was around the time that COD4 came out.

@dawsynasay4841

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. By 2009 WWII games were completely out of fashion. I was surprised to see them make a small return in 2016-2018. I wonder if that short stint was the last we will ever see of major gaming franchises return to the WWII setting?

@unknown-xq9rs

Жыл бұрын

@@dawsynasay4841 i believe in the future we will but it most likely will be in a time that we would really need one just to bridge us from the other games lol

@onemorescout

Жыл бұрын

@@dawsynasay4841 Considering how most of those games landed in 2016-2019, and Vanguard being rejected by both CoD’s community and the larger casual gaming playerbase, I’d say that was the last run of WW2 games for a long while.

@HS_Rick

Жыл бұрын

@@onemorescout Vanguard was just god awful

@Krenki5555

Жыл бұрын

@@onemorescout Vanguard was a World War II game?

Frontline's first mission was an insane experience back in the day.

@texasred7806

Жыл бұрын

Replayed that so many times as a kid. Properly amazed me

@kylewatson6890

Жыл бұрын

@@texasred7806 SAME. That and splash down were my first ps2 games.

@pussydestroyer87

Жыл бұрын

I played that and Arnhem Knights more times than I can count. The graphics haven't aged well but the sounds and music are still some of the best I've ever experienced.

@780Dubb

Жыл бұрын

Specifically made by Steve Spielberg, they got his input for this game if I recall correctly

@kylewatson6890

Жыл бұрын

@@pussydestroyer87 I remember Arnhem Knights was cool because you could go up to the third floor of this building and, idk... I thought it was really cool being up that high lmao.

Honestly, Airborne is the game I grew up on. My dad got it, and I remember watching him play through the early missions, as well as playing through it myself. I always loved the little easter egg where you could grab the c96 mauser near the end, the way to grab both a bazooka and a panzerschreck during the flack tower mission, and even how epic some of the action and scripted moments were. Overall, I loved it, and I'm glad that my favorite MoH game is one of the good ones.

@shcdemolisher

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah I remember playing the demo of it on my pc back in the day, then I got it on my xbox 360. Still love it.

@guerillagorilla4423

Ай бұрын

The C96 is great. You can spray everything in front of you with infinite ammo. Your accuracy does take a hit, though lol.

Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Medal of Honor Spearhead are engrained in my blood. playing those games when I was about 9 years old or so was so breathtaking. Then it went to MoH Breakthrough, CoD1, and then CoD:UO and then to CoD2. Wow I miss those days so much!

My grandfather survived D-Day and several other conflicts of that era, for that I always felt proud of him. As a kid I would ask him to tell me some of his wartime stories and he would always oblige, although somewhat hesitantly probably because of the trauma he endured like many others. Playing MoH on the playstation always reminded me of him so the series is special to me. I also love MoH 2010 and Warfighter no matter what anyone says.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault hits me with so much nostalgia, its main theme always brings a tear to my eye. I can almost 100 percent root my love for history back to that game, got me interested in learning about world war 2, which naturally spread to everything else.

@lindboknifeandtool

Жыл бұрын

God of war did that for Greek mythology for me too lol

@fortune2515

Жыл бұрын

No one will ever convince me that there's a better map than Malta from AA's Spearhead expansion.

@mikaelbiilmann6826

Жыл бұрын

I still have that game among my pc-cd roms and pc-dvds. Good times. After Doom and Quake 2 to Unreal Tournament and Half-Life (incl Opposing Forces) this was a great game… Also have the Pacific Assault game, but quickly quit it when I kept dying to unseen Japanese soldiers in the jungle. After those two MoH was not interesting anymore and I never got into CoD. Battlefield 1942 was so much more fun.

@OrbiTiZZeD

Жыл бұрын

@@mikaelbiilmann6826 i was playing duke nukem 3d when people were playing quake lol

@mikaelbiilmann6826

Жыл бұрын

@@OrbiTiZZeD Loved that game. I had the demo.

Vanguard was the first game in the series that I played and was the first FPS game (not counting Battlefront 2) that I ever played. Still holds a special place in my heart despite all its flaws. That game was the catalyst for my love of history so for that I'll always be grateful for it.

About Heroes and Heroes 2; these games were absolute conquering the handheld FPS multiplayer scene when they came out. I remember playing Heroes 2 multiplayer for years online, with tens of thousands of people playing. It had a massive competitive scene as well. Absolutely mindblowing if I think back about it. The single player campaign were deliberately cut short because the multiplayer aspect offered much more. After Heroes 2 I dont think any handheld device has had such a solid FPS game that was so popular online. The steam deck has the potential to bring this back, but the problem is that you are going up against people that have massive advantages over you with mouse and keyboard.

Frontline and Rising Sun are solely to thank for my 20+ year love of video games. I can't thank them enough for giving me something I could really relate to my father with and bond over, the amount of times we played through rising sun co-op is scary to think of.

@bickyboo7789

Жыл бұрын

I loved playing Rising Sun with my Dad or brother. That game has a special place in my heart.

@ImJef

Жыл бұрын

@@bickyboo7789 Same, I totally forgot about Rising Sun until I clicked on the video. I got hit with sudden nostalgia, remembering playing this as a kid with my twin brother

@moscowvicent831

Жыл бұрын

Both though games were my childhood I love playing them on the game cube such emotions

@bfums

Жыл бұрын

Rising sun was the best. So many hours playing welrod only multiplayer matches

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

Жыл бұрын

@@bfums Holy shit, I remember thinking it was a made up weapon. Also those matches were true test of skill - one bullet mags, one shot kills. Loved it.

Something else that is absolutely awesome about Rising Son is that the entire campaign is playable in split screen co op which as far as im aware was the only time in the series that this happened. My brother and I played rising religiously and i also loved that the multiplayer had different AI levels for each character you threw into your matches. really underrated game i feel

@scottthewaterwarrior

Жыл бұрын

All except for the last level actually, the aircraft carrier level wasn't playable in coop for some reason.

@NotTheAverageGamerz

Жыл бұрын

I played it with my brother on the PS2 and I still have my copy ! Such a great game !

@780Dubb

Жыл бұрын

Amen, me and my cousin would run through this game every weekend he’d come over this and the warriors

@HorrorCrisisTime

Жыл бұрын

@@780Dubb Thats awesome! the warriors is one of those games i look back on and WISH we had.

@gibby3767

Жыл бұрын

@@NotTheAverageGamerz me and my lil brother used to take turns playing this and black everyday on my dads old ps2 (im 19)

MOH Pacific Assault was my first pc game and it was my first introduction into how grand and dramatic video games could be. Still has a special place in my heart as a core memory

I absolutley loved Spearhead as kid. Band of Brothers came out in 2001, and being able to play a paratrooper was a dream come true.

@bahmantap7834

Жыл бұрын

yeah and ACTUALLY, on expansion pack of both spearhead and breakthrough you can lean left and rigth with z and c key on pc ,i sometimes got myself confused which button it is since easily forget if you play mohpa like really they lean using q and e key like wut

@Chronic-ASAP105-cx4gm

8 ай бұрын

Brothers In Arms was able to give fans that Band Of The Brothers vibe.

Rising Sun was a part of my childhood, and I remember playing the vs mode with friends or just with AI and having a blast.

@ScreamEditss123

Жыл бұрын

Same

@zapataboy9377

Жыл бұрын

Same me and my brother would always play vs ai

@volusian95

Жыл бұрын

The multiplayer with bots was weirdly good for the time

One of the weirdest things about Medal of Honor 2010 was that the campaign and multiplayer were on seemingly different game engines so they felt very different from each other.

@bigbake132

Жыл бұрын

They might have been designed by two different studios. Games would do that sometimes back then.

@Giovannithegamepro

Жыл бұрын

@@bigbake132 dice did the multiplayer, if I’m not Mistaken. Why it had a BF feel.

@bigbake132

Жыл бұрын

@@Giovannithegamepro That makes sense. I knew it had a different developer. Thanks.

@Sonyboj

Жыл бұрын

@@bigbake132 "back then" fuck me

@thingonathinginathing

Жыл бұрын

I wish they remade moh2010, that multi-player was so amazing

i always thought it a shame that Pacific Assault didnt get the sequel it hints at in Tarawa and ends in 1943, i truly believe the vastly more different terrain options of 1944-45 (black sands of Iwo Jima, Burnt hell of Okinawa and the pure chaotic urban areas of manila would have made for some interesting gameplay

Pacific Assault was SO good. I had a blast playing it. Really getting into the person and team.

Colonel Hargrove was the first time I encountered William Morgan Sheppard and his voice acting in these games was absolutely stellar. Most people these days know him better as the voice-over guy for the technology quotes from Civilization V. He's sadly no longer with us having passed away in 2019, but I'd say he left a lasting impression on me that'll last a lifetime. "...but no matter what happens I believe that with soldiers like you leading the way we will prevail in this 'Allied Assault.'"

@biwarayoganata

Жыл бұрын

"Good morning, Lieutenant. I'm Colonel Hargrove from the Office of Strategic Services. I'll get right to the point..." were the first lines of his that I've always remembered in the first MoH game, and I somehow never forgotten them even to this day.

Underground oozed with atmosphere and art. The devs really nailed everything from the music to the characters. It's amazing what you could do with the PS1

@royfr8136

Жыл бұрын

I have such great memories of that game. I don't remember it as not being able to look down the barrel of the gun though... and in my mind the graphics were a lot better, almost real life.... hahahah

I won't lie, Vanguard was basically my first experience with shooter games so i honestly really loved it as a kid and i have nothing but fond memories of it lol

man, MOH:AA brings back so many memories! It was definitely my first experiences in real multiplayer against actual players. I remember getting into a clan named UADD and having some tournaments against other clans. Not to mention, the sound design and music were almost right out of Saving Private Ryan, especially that menu theme! One of my favorite things to do that wasn't mentioned in the video, was taunting your opponents with the in-game chat you could make soldiers say. One of the best things was hearing the Germans taunting in their actual language! Such a cool feature. Oh, and PS: about the leaning in MOHAA, there were binds you could input, but they'd be added to your strafe buttons, so if you went against another player with binds, they'd do this hilarious left/right quick lean animations hahaha. It wasn't perfect, but the game play was very fun and the entire sound design was totally awesome!

@hannahalexy

9 ай бұрын

Same! My older brothers were big into pc gaming, and my parents won a decked out Compaq station in 1999. My brother was staying in college dorms not far from where my parents lived, and he'd come over and play a bunch of games like moh aa, diablo 2, starcraft, half life, gta3, and lots of games I wouldn't touch like blood 2 the chosen and Clive barkers undying, because they freaked me out. But I loved sitting by him watching him play, and he didn't mind, even tho I bet I was annoying! I was hooked 😅 Spent so many hours in moh aa and cod uo mps! I stopped playing games apart from wow once I moved out, but those were some super fun times.

I'm sure these long-form retrospectives are a lot of work and a pain to do, but man, I love this kind of content and this is very well done! I hope you cover other series in the future, thanks for the great work!

These games hold a special place in my heart. To this day, my dad will yell out "PATTERSON, GET OVER HERE!" because he heard it so many times when I was a kid playing Frontline lmao.

Frontlines and Rising Sun cemented my interest in war history as a kid. I love those games so much.

Those first 3 games were so special and easy to love. I can remember playing the first level on the first game and hearing the music and the noises in the distance, dogs barking, planes flying etc, it felt so much more real than anything I had played before. It was an experience that I have never forgotten and even as a grown man with college age kids, MOH is a special memory for me.

Michael Giancchino's music for Underground has been burned into my mind since childhood. The series main theme alone is just amazing

@mariuszpudzianowski8400

Жыл бұрын

That and crazy characters in multiplayer

2010 and Warfighter had a really good mix of tactical/sim feeling and arcade style. Both had really fun multiplayer and the gunplay was super satisfying. Loved the elephant gun sniper in Warfighter.

@rusi6219

Жыл бұрын

Warfighter could have been turned around if the Devs cared about fixing the major issues and maintaining it for a bit.

@jonredcorn862

Жыл бұрын

The singleplayer of warfighter was fucking sick.

@itiswho2

Жыл бұрын

I really liked those games. When I got to them Warfighter had a few people still in multi-player and I enjoyed my time in it as well.

@darknight910

Жыл бұрын

I also like how the multiplayer let you pick and choose all these different special forces from around the world with different weapons and appearances to go with them, very appreciated.

@jizzlemack9927

Жыл бұрын

They were actually really good games for people that appreciate more realistic military stuff. Way more accurate depiction than COD 4. Still enjoyed COD 4 more, but the modern Medal of Honor games were good imo.

After rewatching Band of Brothers for like the 30th time recently, I decided to replay Medal of Honor: Airborne. That game is really quite unique in how much it hits yet how much it misses as well. For starters, I played it on the hardest difficulty because I wanted a challenge and a challenge is what I got. Enemies in every corner of the map know where you are the second you touch down. In many parts of the campaign, enemies will also keep spawning forever until you take a certain objective or enter a specific area. But the worst is just how the enemy will hit you. You could be standing out in the open and the enemy AI will miss several shots before hitting you once, but you could also be crouching behind some crates and if ever one sliver of your arm is exposed, or there's a tiny slit/opening between the crates, the enemy will shoot you through it with the precision of Lord of the Rings archers. Granted, this goes both ways and you as the player can also snipe between those crevices, but it becomes a pain when an enemy 300 feet away in a building is sniping you through a crack in the wall the size of a quarter. The gunplay is unrealistic but I kind of like it. You can have a Thompson with a 50 round drum magazine and unload it on the enemy in like 3 seconds with very little recoil. You can hold up to 21 grenades (a mix of gammon grenades, stick grenades and regular grenades) and recreate a small cluster bomb strike with the amount of destruction you can cause with them, although you can't throw them very far. The AI has to be the biggest drawback for me however. It's not the worst ever, but it's bad. For starters, the allied AI: it's there to be a meat shield, nothing more. Medal of Honor has always been a one man army series and Airborne is no different, it simply adds the allied AI to give you the false illusion that you have help. The friendly AI couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and will blatantly miss enemies that are within feet of them. The enemy AI isn't much better. While depending on the difficulty chosen, they may be a cakewalk or absolutely rock your shit, it doesn't change the absurd choices the AI will make. In many cases, the AI *knows* when you are aiming at them and will move, or if they're behind cover, they will stay there until you aim elsewhere. Not all the time, but enough to notice that they do it. They will also take aim almost exclusively at you once you enter an area, even if you have several allies nearby. The oddest choice for me is when the AI stops to do a hand signal animation. They normally do it out in the open and it makes them very easy targets to pick off. Beyond this, they will switch between not being able to hit you to killing you in less than a second and there's no in-between. I still enjoy the game every once in a while, I just wish it was longer. As for Medal of Honor 2010 and Warfighter, I'll say this: they're not bad games by any means. They just came out at the wrong times. Had they both come out 2-3 years earlier respectively, I think they would've done far better. Like how Gmanlives mentioned feeling bored playing MoH 2010? My theory is unless you're in the mood for something/a specific game/nostalgia, you always wanna go for the best experience you can get for the time. Why would I want to play the MoH 2010 or Warfighter stories when I can play the vastly superior Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 campaigns? Granted, I won't argue that MoH 2010 or Warfighter don't have issues and drawbacks because they do, I just think the hate they got in retrospect was unjustified.

"Other countries like Africa and Greece." 🤔🤔

Allied Assault is still a banger after all these years, especially the opening. Something even newer CoDs couldn’t replicate with 100x the budget.

@Helghastdude

Жыл бұрын

That tiger tank mission and its soundtrack still stuck with me.

Allied Assault was my first FPS game. I have SO MANY good memories about that game.

I love European assault, in my opinion the atmosphere is so immersive, especially the russia missions, it feels like your actually in a war

@idiot_city5244

7 ай бұрын

The Russia levels are the best ones in that game. Insane its the only time MoH ever did Russia stuff, as far as I'm aware

@kermut

5 ай бұрын

Played European Assault and Vanguard a disgusting amount of times as a kid 😭

@daveyjones9699

4 ай бұрын

I think European Assault is the best in the series. The soundtrack alone is a masterpiece.

Allied assault will always be my favorite childhood multiplayer shooter! Sooo many memories.

@nuttyjawa

Жыл бұрын

Same here played so much multiplayer on clan base!

@Taxman5scotty

Жыл бұрын

It's still active today!

Medal of Honor is such a special series to my best friend and I. We played Frontline the most, followed by Rising Sun when I eventually picked it up. Soon as I hear the theme music, I'm transported straight back to a much simpler, happier time. We used to shoot our friendlies with the machine gun in the second level of Frontline. The way they hopped around looked so stupid, my friend had the perfect impression lmao. Still have my copy of Frontline, and I always will. Excellent video, cheers for the trip down memory lane!!

My grandpa was a jeep driver during WW2 and we still have quite a few souvenirs he managed to bring back from it (including a whole-ass rifle!), and I'd definitely say that's influenced my enjoyment of WW2 games. I never had any illusions of games being anything remotely like experiencing it, but still I always felt something thinking about how they were based on events he took part in.

I remember how it was absolutely mind blowing that there were vehicles and even npc allies that fought by you in Umderground, like it was seeing real life superheroes.

I remember playing Allied Assault on our family's Dell PC back in 2002-2003....when I was probably 16 or 17 years old. It was definitely a landmark WW2 shooter for me at least. The missions were memorable and challenging, and the soundtrack was amazing. I can still hear the ominous Sniper Town level music while the subtle medal of honor main theme interjects.

@commietearsdrinker

Жыл бұрын

Allied Assault was my first computer game when I was a kid and put me on track to get really involved with shooter games, as well as learning WW2 history. Every mission in that game is unique in some capacity. Different characters, different objectives, different scenarios, different outcomes. It genuinely stands out to me among almost every WW2 shooter to date.

@Mikhail-Tkachenko

Жыл бұрын

I'm playing through it right now, with a few mods to update weapon models & textures. Still holds up and is fun. Medal of Honor: Blurred Remembrance on mod db As a kid my first were the original Medal of Honor, MOH: Underground, and Frontline. I never had a PC good enough for Allied Assault so this is the first time I've played it.

@LagrangePoint0

Жыл бұрын

True story: I know english because MOH Allied Assault forced me to learn it. I'm from south america and over here, we (the poor) cannot afford original games, so piracy is allowed. When I was 15 I bought MOHAA (pirated ofc) but the copy didn't came in spanish (like most of the pirated games), so I had to play constantly minimizing the game so I could translate the objectives in google translate, that's how I started learning english.

I actually worked with a guy who was a programmer on the Wii version! I liked it a lot and he was surprised when I told him how much I liked it, he and the team he was on knew that the motion controls thing could really hurt them, so they tried to go as crazy with it as possible and I think it paid off. He told me some interesting stories about how they made it, the one that stood out to me was how they weren't really given anything useful for the port in terms of files that were actually workable, which is why it was so different than the other version, they just kind of had to wing it, rebuilding it all themselves!

Frontline and Allied Assault also had *INCREDIBLE* music ❤ Great memories from playing with my brother, and glad the soundtracks are on Spotify.

Yo fun fact- in the Operation Repunzel level in frontline, it’s actually possible to stay in disguise all the way to the courtyard with the fountain in it- the guy seeing you at the start doesn’t always happen, about 1/4 times he doesn’t realize you’re the wrong guy. The chef in the kitchen also knows so you have to be careful in the kitchen too. The reason you can’t get past the courtyard is because a bunch of enemy soldiers are jogging around and you can’t get past them without engaging in some way. Makes the level much more doable.

@gregoryberrycone

Жыл бұрын

wow thats really neat if a little frustrating that its random chance and not skill based

@malori.

Жыл бұрын

Not really, there's a way that allows you to pass the whole level without being discovered. Follow the next video steps: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZupyZWGYKzOe9Y.html

@iforgot87872

Жыл бұрын

@@malori. this wasn’t on hard though, I only play on hard, this guy is one shotting with the silent pistol, it would be harder on hard because they would have to all be headshots and the dudes are sprinting around, maybe still possible but much tougher to do Still- it was interesting to see as I did not know there was any way or mode to get through all of it without detection

The AI in the Ps1 MoH games were so ahead of their time. I remember being blown away as a kid when I saw the German attack dog pick up my grenade and run it back to its handler.

The M1 Garand can be reloaded without having to empty the rifle by shooting it...

Bro I got hit by a serious nostalgia bomb seeing that first MoH footage again, my brother and I played that game so much back in the day. The score for the first few games is so, so good too, especially allied assault. Quick correction, you can actually reload the M1 Garand mid clip, but it wasn't portrayed properly in the original MoH.

My dad actually played the first medal of honors when they were on ps1. I was born in 98 so those first few missions are literally some of my earliest memories. MoH infiltrator on the gameboy was what I played while at my babysitters! Definitely helped get me into military stuff as a kid. The nostalgia is flowing and it feels goooood.

What was nice about the STG 44 in Airborne is that the scope is adjustable. You don’t need to keep it attached and can remove it for close engagements

Frontline, Rising Sun and European Assault are the peak Medal of Honor titles. Awesome missions, iconic music, great combat. It is where the serious was at its best. Everything before and after was either building up or falling off of those titles. I have fond memories of playing European Assault multiplayer with 4 friends all the time.

Pacific Assault was my absolute favourite, the narrative and feeling like youre apart of a group is something not done much back then and was a breath of fresh air. I liked collecting the secret Hero moments as that was also something rarely put into a FPS at its time

The first two games have aged far better than they had any right to. The disguise levels always got my heart pounding.

I love it when Gman makes these full series retrospectives. The one for Time Crisis was absolutely amazing too.

@ddjsoyenby

Жыл бұрын

agreed always a good watch.

Greetings from Singapore, I have a special pining for MOH: Rising Sun. Considering it was occupied historically by Axis Japan then. The Tuk Tuk is called “Rickshaw”. Tuk-Tuk are the motorized ones mostly seen in Thailand, they have 3 wheels. Factoid: Rickshaw is the anglicized word for “Jinriksha / 人力車”, Japanese for human powered wagon. The hotel which the Axis summit was held is real. It’s the Raffles Hotel. The pier which the player arrives is Clifford Pier. After which he was on a rickshaw to Chinatown. Yes, Chinatown is a very touristy location in Singapore now. The famous Sultan Mosque at Arab street was featured as part of the game’s backdrop.

I'm with you man with the fact that the music from both the first medal of honor and medal of honor underground on ps1 still stuck in my head till today!

Medal of Honour Pacific Assault is the best game of the series. Been playing it since 2014, and it's so nostalgic to come back to it every once in a while.

Rising Storm also had some really neat collectibles and hidden objectives, as I recall. You could interact with some people or things (it wouldn't give you a prompt, you had to just try) and slightly change the outcome of some levels. Save some people who would otherwise die, etc

Frontline and MoH 2010 will always have a special place in my heart and hope this series makes a comeback

Medal of Honor is based off of a real multi day battle in 2003 in the Hindu Kush, where several companies of Rangers, and Delta force along with 16 Apaches targeted several taliban leaders. It eventually lead to several special forces guys dieing, a couple of apache getting shot down, and a navy seal getting captured. Also a ranger platoon got stranded for nearly an entire when their Chinook was shot down during a rescue mission.

I'm so glad you pointed out Frontline's weirdly botched shotgun. The gun looks and certainly SOUNDS like it has insane stopping power, yet it seemingly barely does any damage at point blank damage when all pellets hit the target. That is one aspect of many little things that trigger me about that game lol

My grandad served as a rifleman in the pacific theater and evidently spent a lot of time with the BAR. I can still remember being a little kid, clumsily playing through a Medal Of Honor game on the lowest difficulty, and him coming in and having a straight up kzread.info/dash/bejne/aYSa0bKAdai0qqg.html moment. "Hey that's my gun!"

I really like these anthology-style videos, hope you keep doing more of these. I get it takes wsy more effort and time to make these, but Im happy even with one of these in a month or two.

I think European Assault was my favorite, next to the first game. The strategy introduced with the squad just felt great at the time. You get 1 med kit for yourself, and for each squad member that survives a mission, that you get at the start of your next mission. If you get revives, then you can use your medkits on squadmates, and the revives on yourself. I loved the cover mechanics, because I was already playing shooters this way, without dedicated mechanics like cover leaning.

MoH Airborne has such a stellar sound design, it still sounds just as good today as it did when it came out, and hearing it on a soundbar/surround sound is a pleasure.

@milans.637

Жыл бұрын

Imo , airborne and pacific are 2 best MoH games, and also im my top 50 games list of all time.

@activatekruger446

Жыл бұрын

Best MG-42 in any video game I've played

The PS2 MOH games were essential buys. Really loved them.

I remember an amazing moment in rising sun when my brother and i were in co-op. I ran out of ammo in the last mission before the hallway to the bunker. We only had 1 life left so i decided i would run through the hallway ahead of him and take everyone out with melee expecting to die but save him some ammo. Managed to get through the whole hallway and pick up ammo and health at the end and finished the game with a life to spare.

I still remember when my brother first put Medal of Honor on the Playstation on the big screen. Everyone was watching him play like we were watching a movie. Medal of Honor may not hold up to modern titles, but damn it holds a special place in my heart forever. A la Golden Eye

MOH frontline still has the best VG soundtrack ever. Skyrim is good, but I’d still say frontline takes the cake. The breadth of emotions, the quality of the orchestra, the memorable melodies, the atmospheric instrumentation.

Frontline is my favorite. I remember playing it as a kid back in the day when I barely knew anything about the war. The chilling and grey atmosphere really had an impact on me.

30:45 The guy in the back ground wearing his skimpies who blows your cover saying "That man stole my pants!" Always cracked me up when I was younger and still does to this day.

Maybe I’m just an NPC but I truly loved European Assault. I think the issue GMan had was with PC only? I don’t remember having the same struggles with squad mates or enemy movement on PS2. Also sad he didn’t mention the soundtrack - European Assault’s opening to the main menu & missions with their war clips & soundtrack are truly amazing. Who knows maybe nostalgia is just too powerful

Soundtracks of older MoH games like Allied or Pacific Assault are just masterpieces.

@z4id4n42

Жыл бұрын

Agreed,shame it never came into MOH 2010 and Warfighter,they could've just remixed it.

I’m one of the few who feels that pacific assault was grossly underrated and far better than rising sun. Compared to new games, it does fall short in many aspects, but as a kid growing up, it did so many things I had never seen before. Not to mention the new composer brought some pretty iconic new music to the series.

I really liked the 2010 one. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were present in everyone's mind back then, but only generally. The actual details of what was going tended to get lost. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare featured fictional battles in mostly fictional locations. Referencing the real life wars going on was kind of frowned upon - see all the problems the finally-soon-to-be-released Six Days In Fallujah had back then. The 2010 Medal Of Honor said "heck with that" and told the story of a real battle that happened a few months into the war in Afghanistan. Some names and other details were changed, but it's a reasonably faithful telling of the Battle of Takur Ghar. I'd also add that the sequence where you're about to be overrun only to have air support come in at the last second and save you happens about halfway through the game, and kind of foreshadows what comes towards the end - again you're being overrun, but this time, while there is rescue on the way, it doesn't get there in time. Two Medals of Honor were awarded for actions in that battle. Interestingly, they're the only Medal of Honor actions to ever be recorded on video (albeit grainy FLIR footage from a drone), and the end of the game is based on that event. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaN_r8yNoce6idI.html I had hopes that this was where the franchise was going to move towards. Telling stories behind actual Medal of Honor awards, especially from the war that still happening, at a time when no one else had the guts to address that subject. That could have been something real special. Unfortunately they decided to go all in on trying to copycat Call of Duty with Warfighter, and it all went to shit.

Allied Assault and Call of Duty 1 were the games that made me obsessed about PC gaming, graphics and building PCs 20 years later to this day.

I really loved Rising Sun. The Singapore and Pistol Pete levels are very memorable and makes me wish my copy still worked.

@sassyboy8606

Жыл бұрын

I played this game at the age of 12, ans that was epic, great moments ans great memories

@jamesedkins2823

Жыл бұрын

Fully agree, also loved playing against the AI in multiplayer

@falloutlover5443

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesedkins2823I didn't have the game myself growing up so I played it when I was at my cousin's house, and the multiplayer was more suited to that play schedule than the campaign, and I grew so familiar with the named NPC characters (also a nice addition) that when I finally got my own copy and played the campaign I was really surprised that they weren't all main cast members.

@MrFlankSinatra

Жыл бұрын

I’ve still got one with my original still-working Xbox, I play it from time to time specifically for Singapore sling and the Pearl Harbor level lol. It aged a lil better than Frontline I think, ironically, which saddens me

@connorrodenfels338

Жыл бұрын

Emulate it dude pcsx2 works amazingly now

Don't forget how amazing the Allied Assualt multi-player was. Had such a dedicated player base.

"other countries like Africa and Greece" ... not quite

The thing with the Medal of Honor (the modern reincarnation) (from memory) was that the single player was made a completely different company on a different engine than what the multiplayer was... So when you got used to the nice shooting, sound and graphics if single players, you were given a kick in the gut as everything had suddenly changed. Not only that, it was very arcadey...

@I_enjoy_some_things

7 ай бұрын

The Multiplayer was developed in DICE’s Frostbite 2 Engine. I liked it a lot for what it was.

This was a fantastic retrospective! Would love to see more full franchise dives in the future if you ever feel up to it!

Thank you for this banger! Was literally combing my watch later for something to watch. Then got the notification of this upload! Grew up playing the og metal of honour and the first 2 call of duty’s… So many memorable missions from both that still stay with me to this day. Happy holidays Gman! 🎉

@abcbcd7974

Жыл бұрын

Call of duty 2 in pc still holds up, the graphics and gameplay is still very good.

Also having grandfathers who were both in the war, (they were both US Navy sailors) its history has been a huge part of my life for as long as I can remember, so this series really meant a lot to me growing up as well. I did not play every single one they made, but I fondly remember the first two, Frontline, Rising Sun, and Airborne, with the latter being my favorite and peaking my interest in the 82nd Airborne Division's WWII history. My favorite WWII game series is still a close battle between Brothers in Arms and Sniper Elite, but nothing will ever take away the nostalgia or what Medal of Honor meant to me in those earlier years. I am really shocked the first few games have not gotten a remake with the success of all the RE remakes and Mafia 1's remake in recent years. Also, Michael Giacchino's work for the series is absolutely amazing. It's gotta be the most iconic soundtrack for any shooter game, or at least any WWII game series. Medal of Honor (2010) was meh... I really enjoyed that one mission where you start inside the troop transport helicopter and then end in that dilapidated building that is getting torn to shreds. Every other mission just felt repetitive or boring to me.

The soundtracks are seriously incredible. Takes me back for sure and the songs are beautifully cinematic.

The best thing about 'Allied Assault' for me is the sound, especially the gun sounds. My favorite being the Thompson. Probably my favorite gun from any game. The leaking barrels are pretty neat as well.

@AntonErgo

Жыл бұрын

And the unforgettable sniper sounds echoing through each and every shot, I can't make my pick from these 2 rifles so I'll favourite the Stg44 sounds.

Medal of honor 2010 is one of my favorites, the fact that it's based on real characters serving during a real operation (Operation Anaconda) and was a pretty realistic depiction of the early days of Afghanistan

@Osh_93

Жыл бұрын

Which to Gman is also the Middle East lol

@Maesterful

Жыл бұрын

I found it enjoyable but short as sheet

@pyramidhead7780s

Жыл бұрын

"Realistic"

@KillBilly13

Жыл бұрын

Same here.... I feel so bad people just wanna hate. I understand that COD kinda did things better most of the time especially with the Modern Warfare series and then (from my perspective) from Black Ops 2 but MOH Warfighter wasn't that bad, well at least not bad enough to end the series. The slightly more realistic and less Hollywood feel to the MOH reboot in comparison to COD games was actually kinda refreshing. It just needed more time to compete because what's happening with games like Battlefield is just sad. COD is clearly a bloody tough act to follow.

@LagrangePoint0

Жыл бұрын

@@Maesterful *shieeit

Bit of trivia for everyone regarding the meme where the bird says "wuewuewuewue" and then looks at the camera. The birds name is Gumi, and he belongs to a guy that worked on the original resident evils soundtrack.

Good old classic Medal of Honor. I forget what game it was on the PS1, but one level I played, I was so fascinated with as a kid, that it inspired me to build levels when I got older in the Quake 3 Engine, & also wanted to be an architect as my college degree

What I remember most about MOH1 on the PS1 was the sound design. It was so atmospheric.

Medal of Honor European Assault was my favorite FPS game. I liked the difficulty, and as a little kid my GameCube controller was covered in sweat. The 2nd North Africa mission and final mission scared the hell out of me.

Allied Assault made me want to learn English. It was a Sunday morning and i had just rented that game . Opening sequence rolls in and i'm thrown at the beach with people screaming and shouting stuff and i got absolutely no clue on what i'm doing or what i'm supposed to be doing. It was so frustrating that even my father ( not an English speaker too ) tried to play it to no avail of course. i took it back the same evening and promised i would learn English and play that game through, which i did after a couple of years.

Funny how opinions can differentiate. I almost love everything that is brought up as a bad point here about MOHPA, haha. Especially the health system - as a child I loved to depend on and call out to Jimmy and even during my current replays, I still do. Definitely my favorite MOH game. Either way, great vid!

Medal of honor has always been a nostalgic series for me, it was one of the first games I got to play with my father, super confused about what all was happening but definitely is what got me hooked on gaming. Seeing the gameplay just reminded me of the weird nostalgia (especially the AA sequence in the beginning of the video, I want to say it was from rising sun?)

@chainsaw2046

Жыл бұрын

Oh gosh, I remember the wii version of heroes 2 as well, this whole video has been quite the throwback. Thanks for making it, didn't know it'd be this nostalgic