Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Gamespot posted an article about the PC version of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, a game that will be released for the PS2 in October:

Playing as Lt. Mike Powell,
      you\'ll be tasked with doing your part to stop the Nazi war machine
      by infiltrating enemy camps, sabotaging war factories, rescuing
      POWs, and even taking part in real-world offensives like the
      invasion of Normandy and Operation Market Garden, which were
      popularized by Saving Private Ryan and A Bridge Too Far,
      respectively.

(...)Even though Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was only recently
      announced, it\'s been in development for quite some time, and the
      build of the game we saw while at Electronic Arts was already
      several months old. Regardless, the game\'s level and
      environments are some of the most detailed and believable we\'ve
      seen in any game - even in their current incomplete state. The
      most impressive of these areas was easily Omaha Beach, the
      landing point for the Allies\' invasion of Normandy, France.
      Although the level was unpopulated by enemies, it was
      geometry-complete, meaning that all the terrain and level design
      was finished, which gave us a clear picture as to how the final
      product would shape up. After being dropped off onto the beach
      by landing craft, you and a group of other soldiers will have to pick
      your way across the obstacle-strewn sand while coming under
      heavy fire from fortified German gun emplacements. Scripted
      sequences will depict others in your group getting mowed down
      by machine guns, artillery fire will decimate the beachhead, and
      choking smoke will linger in the air as you attempt to seek shelter
      against the face of the bluff. You\'ll have to use bangalore
      torpedoes to clear barbed wire and then make your way through
      the trenches up the cliffs in order to destroy the bunkers that are
      cutting down your fellow troops on the beach.

(...)But
      enemies won\'t be limited to the human variety, either, as you\'ll
      also have to take down Stuka dive bombers, Tiger tanks, and
      halftracks. One mission will even require you to infiltrate a
      German staging area and sabotage a salvo of V2 rockets before
      they\'re fired over the English Channel onto London. You\'ll also be
      able to hitch a ride on most vehicles you come across, even if
      they\'re being driven by enemy soldiers, and they include
      halftracks, motorcycles with sidecars, tanks, jeeps, trucks, and
      even a Mercedes or two. And naturally, you\'ll have a veritable
      arsenal of authentic American and German weapons at your
      disposal - weapons like the M1 Carbine, the Thompson
      submachine gun, the Panzerschreck, and a Mauser KAR 98K -
      over 24 weapons in all.

(...)Even in Allied Assault\'s early
 state, the levels and character models look astounding. As we
 mentioned earlier, there are nearly 20 different types of foot
 soldiers you\'ll encounter, and each of these is modeled and
 textured uniquely. Adding even more contrast among the enemy
 models is the game\'s ability to visually display that enemy\'s
 primary and secondary weapon on its 3D model. In fact, each
 character model is so detailed that you\'ll easily be able to discern
 the enemy\'s facial expressions, and even their individual fingers,
 from a distance. Ironically, the most impressive aspect of Allied
 Assault isn\'t the character models, the many weapons, or the
 expansive environments. It\'s the game\'s vegetation. That\'s right,
 never before has shrubbery looked so good in 3D. The
 screenshots in our gallery don\'t do this aspect of the game any
 justice, but we were certainly amazed by the level of detail
 possessed by the game\'s trees, alone. What\'s so impressive
 about a simple tree? One of the levels had a courtyard with a
 number of trees scattered about the open area. When we walked
 up to the tree, we found that it literally had hundreds of branches
 and that many more leaves, all of which were modeled in 3D - the
 whole scene looked like a technology demonstration. Naturally,
 these great graphics carry over to other areas of the game like
 the vivid cobblestone textures, the snow that sparkles underneath
 a light source, the sky that reveals a tapestry of stars behind its
 moving clouds, and the light mist of a gray morning. Even the sun
 is visually different from other games. Staring at the bright globe
 will temporarily blind you in a brilliant whiteout effect. There\'s no
 gratuitous use of lens flare.

(...)Sound will also play a very important
 role in the game. The designers
 want to capture the essence of war,
 so 3D sound technology will be
 taken full advantage of in order to
 make effects like a bullet whizzing
 by your head seem as realistic as
 possible. Even when the action
 immediately around you seems to
 cool off, you\'ll still be able to discern
 the deep rumbles of artillery and explosives in the distance. And
 like in the first two Medal of Honor games, the soundtrack in
 Allied Assault is receiving a significant amount of attention, and
 the game will undoubtedly feature dynamic music and an
 orchestral score.

Click here to read the rest of the article.

The game sounds really good IMO, even when i usually don\'t like FPS. I think that it\'s the WWII\'s atmosphere of the game, more realistic than the usual futuristic scenario of other FPS, and the variety of the gameplay. The game also supports on-line gaming in the PC version, but there\'re not announcements yet about this feature in the PS2 version.
Here are some screens( click here to see more of them):

Looks cool... Can`t wait to kick the asses of my fellow-countrymen

This is coming to the PS2 also?

Originally posted by sven
This is coming to the PS2 also?

Of course.
As i\'ve said above it\'s gonna be released in October/2001 for the PS2.

WOW!! look at the graphics!

That looks better than q3 (look at the trees, bushes and textures!)

this game will be another AAA title in ps2\'s list!

WoW Saving Private Ryan is my favourite movie. I\'d love to be able to play that rushing Omaha Beach scenario.

Of Course I can always imagine what those men saw. Trying to imagine how they felt is something that a man like myself will never know. I hope they don\'t skimp on the realism (Violence) and it gets a M18+ rating.

PS- Sven...love that sig bro. LoL

Drooooool!

This game will rock. But i dunno if ps2 can do that !

Is that the pc version ?

Crippler: Yeah, it\'s the PC version. The PS2 version won\'t have that high resolution graphics.

It looks great BTW! Perhaps I\'ll have to buy it for PC too.

Yep, it\'s the PC version, but after viewing some of the real-time graphics of Silent Hill 2 and others and an October release date, i really doubt that it would differ much from this.
Don\'t judge it for what actual games look like cos we\'ll see a huge technical improvement after the developers begin to really use the PS2\'s VUs/FPU and the streaming textures.  

The first Medal Of Honor for the PSX was cool IMO and I hate console FPS\' usually
Looks good....

looks good but why on earth are the germans soldiers carrying american M1 rifles?  sheesh

mm

Imagine playing the multiplayer where one team is the germans and another is the allies and you have to rush the beach kinda like Saving Private Ryan.

That would be very cool indeed.

*drool

I mean... Medal of Honour is one of the best games on Playstation!

I\'m REALLY waiting forward to this PS2-version... I mean... when you\'re able to shoot nazi\'s and all...

only game I\'d like to see even more would be Return to Castle Wolfenstein ( for PS2! ) but it isn\'t coming to PS2 I think...

well, this here will satisfy my nazi-shooting-needs...

Originally posted by mm
looks good but why on earth are the germans soldiers carrying american M1 rifles?  sheesh

mm

They look like German mausers

Mausers rocks, my grandfather had a mauser and a luger..
(he was not a natzi. just to inform you)

/FASTson


EDIT: I was wrong, those are americans weapons! Btw those soldiers in the armored car looks like Luftwaffe troops.. Perhaps they captured some americans and took there weapons.. Hmm...