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A truthful review of this game - scripted and outdated!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 32 / 37
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

First of all ignore the idiots that reviewed this game just because THEY NEEDED IT SOOOO BAD and gave it 5 stars just because they wanted Pacific Assault to get high ratings...such immature little weenies!!!!

MOH, when first released, really rocked the gaming world. But after the release of Call Of Duty, we can see how pathetic the MOH franchise now is.

I was loyal and loved MOH. I thought COD was just a simplistic rip off. I was wrong. COD really is a much better game, the weapons and graphics are more realistic, the sounds, the environments. Everything.

Pacific Assault is nothing more than MOD in the Pacific! Instead of Germans, you fight the Japanese. Duh!
It is not realistic, the graphics are dated, the missions are lame and you get level load after level load interrupting your game play!!!

Have you ever seen a rat in a maze? That is what it feels like playing this game! You have narrow paths they force you to follow! You don't have half the freedom that COD offers! As soon as a large confrontation is about to happen...the game does an AUTOSAVE. If that is not a predictable, dead give away I don't know what is. You get frantic and confusing objectives thrown at you, enemies thrown at you by the dozens. This game seemed more like Serious Sam than it did MOH.

You start off storming a beach and just as you are getting into the battle, you are knocked out!You wake up years earlier in boot camp and learn how to use the game. Then you are at Pearl Harbor just as it gets attacked. You spend time running through a ship saving men from the fire...wow...whoopeee! You get topside and have to shoot down Zero's as they attack. After all this garbage, you finally get to the jungle and have some fun. But not really.

The levels are so scripted and predictable that you don't have any choice but to hit the enemy head on every time. I think the most annoying thing is that a simple bush or log trips you up!!! Moving around and getting around obstacles can be a real pain in the rear in this game!!!

The weapons are really terrible! Very inaccurate. Also very weak. An enemy can be 5 feet from me and it takes 10 shots from a BAR rifle to kill the guy! Realistically, it would take 1 or 2. In COD it takes one or two. The sound effects of the guns are soft, dull and unfulfilling.

What did I like about this game?
Just 2 things -
1 - You have to call a medic over to get health. No stumbling over health packs...nice touch! Nice until they felt like compromising this strategy in some battle by dumping health packs on the ground and in fox holes in the middle of the game.

2 - You can trade up your weapons. They typically start you with a pistol and a rifle/machine gun. I drop the rifle and grab a machine gun as soon as I can. Now I can have 2 machine guns! Very handy. Or I can carry a sniper rifle and a machine gun! An awesome combo!

The graphics are ok. Nothing phenomenal. COD still kicks butt there too. The enemy AI is the same. Nothing new. They charge at you aggressively and sometimes it seems like they are flanking you but then they just disappear, never to return! Geeee, thanks a lot, how exciting!

You do get to play in a squad, which is a very welcome addition to this franchise. However, in many cases when your in a tight/narrow jungle path, your team mates just keep getting in the way. Oh and they NEVER die! NEVER!!!! Don't worry about protecting them. Just kill until the enemy is gone. Your teammates will miraculously survive every time unless the game is scripted to cause a death(which happens a few times). Even with this benefit, the levels get redundant! Go here, get attacked. go here, get attacked. The storyline seems like an after thought or even nonexistant.

Let me say that MOD:Allied Assault and the Spearhead Expansion pack were both really fun and I feel I got my money's worth. The Breakthrough Expansion pack was just a snack to tide us over until Pacific Assault was done.

Pacific Assault is now finished and it is NOT WORTH the purchase.

As always, my advice is, wait...WAIT...save your money, download and play the demo when available and then wait until this game is on sale after X-Mas. If you download the demo, play it and really enjoy it...then play it again on a harder setting and see if you still want to buy the game. If so, then go for it. You can either be patient and listen to a guy that is only trying to SAVE you your MONEY...or just fork over your money and be disappointed later.

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

It is a crying shame that the quality of this game is so poor. I have never written a review of a game before, but this game left me feeling ripped-off and you should know about it.

I purchased the original MOH:Allied Assault (at first-issue time) and the Spearhead and Breakthough Expansion packs. Those games, especially Allied Assault and Spearhead were excellent. Breakthrough is so-so. Even those games, as good as they were, still earned EA Games a lot of complaints due to their lack of support for some issues.

Then, I found out that the original developers of Medal of Honor were dissatisfied with the way EA Games was handling the publishing and quality-control. Those developers left EA Games and went with a different publisher to produce Call of Duty. Call of Duty is a GREAT game of the same flavor. This should tell you something about EA Games. It should also tell you that the original artists no longer have input to the development of the Medal of Honor series. So, who are the yo-yos that are producing Pacific Assault?

I didn't listen to my "inner-voice" and got MOH:Pacific Assault anyway. It "looked" good. Man did I step in it! MOH:PA is an absolute DOG! I have top-line, high performance computer equipment (3.2 Ghz P4, 1 Gig Ram, on an Asus P4c800-E Deluxe MoBo, and a Geforce 5700-Ultra Video Card on Win XP-Pro) and it ran SLOOOOW. The mouse lagged BIG time. I went online and found that the very first patch (and only patch at the time) for this game was just to address the input-lag problem. Mind you, it didn't "correct" it, it just made it less prominent... the problem is still there.

Now, you gotta ask yourself... why would EA Games ever release a product with such a prominent problem? This demonstrates a complete lack of customer-concern. However, even that patch didn't snap it up to the playability level that the older MOH games had.

On the plus side (what little there is of it), the game runs pretty good in Single-Player Mode where you just play against the computer. It's still a little laggy, even with the patch.

The minuses are enormous in my opinion. I buy a game because of its online multiplayer capability, because that's where the REAL FUN is... when you go online and play against/with other human players. But this game fails miserably in that department. The game is almost unplayable when online, and I have a cable connection at 3Mbits down and 256K up.

In MOH:Allied Assault, and Spearhead, I run my video at 1280x960 with the detail cranked up somewhere between the default and the Max. It all runs without any lag. Not with Pacific Assault though. Don't even THINK about running it at those settings. I was lucky to get it to run at 1024x768 without it crashing. Same computer system in both cases.

If your PC isn't the latest and greatest light-dimming speed demon, then you should forget about this game altogether.

EA Games has no excuse to justify the poor quality and lack of playability of Pacific Assault. This game qualifies as a rip-off of your money.

You can get much more enjoyment and playability over a longer term if you get Call of Duty instead.

Missed the mark

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Not the best of games. Mediocre. Doesn't compare to Call of Duty at all. A previous post called it a "lemon," which is pretty much the case. I can appreicate EA wanting to convey the sense of "How it was," but like the title says, they missed the mark. The weapons have very little stopping power. When in close quarter combat, the enemy uses an extraordinarily annoying banzi charge that cannot be avoided. Coupled with the weak weapons, jungle environment that offers very limited visibility and long reloads, and EA has produced a repetitive and dare I say irritating game.

That being said, the opening level was very cool - Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941. It was a lot of fun, but I found myself profoundly disappointed by later levels. It will be in the bargain bin soon enough.

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is just awful. Extremely long load times, and choppy game play even on the most powerful of PC's. The forced registration took almost 12 hours to complete because EA's servers were down, and I could not play online until I registered. The multiplayer levels are rich in textures, but poor in gameplay. Having been a HUGE fan of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Spearhead, I could not be more disappointed by the game. Call of Duty offers a much better multiplayer experience. I don't know what the folks at EA games were thinking, but they have a lemon on their hands with Pacific Assault. Its just a poorly designed game, and I don't think a patch will save this one from being $19.99 in a bargain bin in a few months.

WINDOWS ME OPERATING SYSTEM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

ALTHOUGH THE AD SHOWS THIS WILL WORK ON THE WINDOWS ME OPERATING SYSTEM IT WILL NOT WORK, I TRIED IT AND GOT A RUNTIME ERROR NOTICE AND CONTACTED EA GAMES, THEIR BULLETIN SHOWS IT WILL NOT OPERATE ON THIS SYSTEM. I HAVE TO RETURN MINE TO AMAZON.

Cannot locate the cd-rom?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I had high expectations for this game. I played the single player demo and the multiplayer demo - both worked fine on my nearly brand new system (P4-3Ghz - 1GB Ram, Radeon 9600XT 256MB, XP SP2). However, I installed my purchased copy, only to encounter some Firewall VBscript error at the end of installation, and then when attempting to play the game, it cannot find the installation CD1 disk. I attempted to install the game on my second PC and encountered the same error. So, I returned my copy to Amazon and requested an exchange for another copy since I suspected maybe the disk was damaged. I received my 2nd copy only 2 days later (great return process Amazon!), reinstalled the game, and again had the same error. I have a Lite-On LDW-851S DVD/CD-RW combo drive and updated the firmware per information I found on the EA site, but that didn't resolve anything. I haven't had any other compatibility problems with other games (ex UT2004) and this drive, or with the drive itself so it must be something with the game. I guess I'll have to go back to Call Of Duty for my WWII genre action gaming.

VERY DISAPPONTING

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I, like so many others who have learned to love the MOH series, could not be much less impressed with this new title. The gameplay is horrendous, the graphics are choppy & lacking detail, the expanded dialogue is a waste of mine (& yours too if you choose to play this game). I said that I would remain dedicated to this series, but have since followed all the others & have switched over to the Call of Duty series. I still prefer the gameplay & storyline of the first three MOH games, but it would now take a lot to convince me to return to future releases of the MOH series. Unfortunately, I expect that I am stuck with the Pacific Assault game, since no one should still wish to spend any amount of money after reading 99% of the reviews printed on this & other sites. Sorry MOH fans. They've ruined it for me!

SAVE YOUR TIME AND MONEY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As many of the other reviews here state this game is total garbage. The load times are ridiculous and the AI is pathetic. Your squad mates get in your way or sit their while the Japanese run by them and shoot you. In many places you are confined to this narrow path or river and can not deviate even a few feet off it to take cover behind a rock or tree. Almost all of the enemy soldiers require multiple shots to kill them and a head shot generally just knocks their helmet off. Frequent saves are required, since progress is very slow due to the terrible AI and pathetic playability.

This is the first game that I can remember buying and actually not finishing since it is such a piece of crap and not worth the time.

I really enjoyed the other games in the Medal of Honor line, but this game is so frustrating it's not even fun. EA should have spent more time on the actual game rather than the cute screen movies and cut-shots.

For the money EA wants for this garbage you could buy a real game like Half-life 2 and actually enjoy playing it.

cannot play, dont get it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought mohpa last week and installed it. it refused my video card, i went to microsoft.com and they said a good video card would be (...). I dont want to spend that for 1 game that i already spent (...) on, and i dont want to jeprodize my computer (its only 1 year old) and all other games for this. since i couldnt even play it id give it 0 stars but i cant. there is only one thing i can say DONT GET IT! its really not worth it.

read system requierments before you buy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the third MOA retail verrsion I have bought and my last. The first 2 would run on my OS (98) but this one will not, win 98 is not suported. I would give it to someone with XP but I,m going to light in on fire first then piss on it just the way E Games pissed on me.

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