Easily the best Medal of Honor on the PS2 by a country mile, but also a little over half as long as European Assault. My time hack at the end of the game (right before credits rolled) was 3:38:11, whereas it took about a good 6 hours and 20 minutes to clear the previous game.

The regenerating health lessens the frustrations with the health packs (both scavaging for them in earlier titles or accidentally using them on your teammates in European Assault) and the short level length keeps the game moving at a chipper pace from start to finish. The last two levels are 30-45 minutes long each, but everything else is maybe 10-15 minutes, tops.

I remember the game getting dumped on for its graphics, but it looks rather nice for a PS2 game and the framerate is significantly better than earlier titles in the series. Anymore, both Rising Sun and Frontline are unplayable piles of choppy shit whereas EA and Vanguard both run pretty respectably while looking fairly solid. Granted, it's a generation behind what people were enjoying with Airborne at the time, but if you keep your expectations in check, you won't be disappointed by how it looks.

Really regret letting Frontline and Rising Sun keep me from enjoying both EA and Vanguard sooner. They're roughly on par with Big Red One and Call of Duty 3, and that is not bad company to be in.

I have had all 4 of those between the Gamecube and Wii(Vanguard) and they're all decent. You're right about that one, unfairly crapped on entirely and is more fluid like European Assault. I never liked Rising Sun outside of Pearl Harbor, at least that's the game opening. Frontline was a personal favorite for a long time but I have no desire to go back to any of them anymore.

I got Allied Assault package off GoG.com last year for $2.50 and that's plenty. I would pick up Airborne again for PC (had it on PS3.)


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> I got Allied Assault package off GoG.com last year for $2.50 and that's plenty.
> I would pick up Airborne again for PC (had it on PS3.)
>

I loved AA at the time, sure...the multiplayer in particular was incredible at the time and was a nice counterbalance between Day of Defeat and Battlefield 1942, but the campaign has aged terribly. Spearhead is actually quite good still, but Breakthrough is fairly ho-hum outside of some neat presentation elements. I wonder if the multiplayer communities for any of those are still active at all.

Still need to play thorugh Airborne, but I'm going to do Pacific Assault first. Finally getting caught up on my MoH backlog :D