It’s a loud, tense and disorienting sequence, even though age has stripped away much of its sense of scale. Making it across the beach requires using the Czech hedgehogs for cover, however they’re an awkward shape-forcing you to jostle squadmates to avoid being pushed out into the gunfire. Its beach landing is harrowing not because of the scripted deaths of your comrades, but because it’s difficult to play. Someone is shouting at you, but you can’t hear them over the sound of your beating heart.Īllied Assault is arguably the better approach, because its design favours playable scenarios over fixed camera placement. You watch, helpless, as your comrades run and die. A stray bullet hits one of your squadmates and everybody takes cover. A more realistic-looking soldier empties his stomach over the floor. Three miles west of Omaha, and three years after Allied Assault. It’s not bad, but… well, as painful as it is to say given everything the series has become, Call of Duty did it better. And yet, going back, it’s not quite the standout sequence I remember. I, too, have fond memories of the best entry in EA’s Medal of Honor series, and particularly of the atmospheric beach landing sequence. Our reviewer, Steve Brown, praised its confident plot and outstanding level design, calling it “the best FPS we’ve seen since Half-Life”. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is one of the highest-scoring FPSes of PC Gamer’s history.
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