The game opens with a quick drive-around the base, getting a tour of the place and meeting up with some of the locals. In Pacific Assault, you play as Tommy Conlin, a fresh marine who’s just been stationed at Pearl Harbor. That’s how pissed we were.īut enough small talk, lets get on with this review… Christ, we dropped atomic bombs on them in retaliation. We were attacked when we had our backs turned and fought not for moral reasons or because it was the right thing, we fought for revenge. In fact, (as far as my memory goes back) this is one of the first games to feature the Pacific Theater and I’m not really sure why. Pacific Assault is quite ironically (the irony here is that it isn’t ironic at all) set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Now, I suppose I should be more specific, because at this point, everyone and their mother (oh man, such a crappy line, “everyone and their mother”) has played a first-person shooter set during World War II. It’s more of the same game, but it’s bigger and feels more involving because strides were made not to reduce the linearity of the game but to hide the linearity of the game.įor those unfamiliar with the background of this game, Pacific Assault is a first-person shooter in World War II. Of course, if you like all the other Medal of Honor games (like I do), there’s a lot to love with this one. You might have read that Pacific Assault is different than the other games, but even with a few tweaks, it is still all about triggered events and you are still a one-man-army. The Medal of Honor franchise has always been known for its scripted, linear action, so if you don’t like that, stop reading, you aren’t going to like Pacific Assault, because in that sense this game is just the same as all previous versions. But while it does do a number of things right, when it does get something wrong, it gets it really, really wrong. Pacific Assault is definitely better than its console counterpart, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, and it does a lot of things well. Pacific Assault is certainly an interesting game, no doubt about it. This either means that Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault (Pacific Assault from here on out) is a very challenging game to review or that the nasty cold/sinus infection that I have is reducing my already limited attention span to new, all-time low, making it hard to focus on writing. This is the third time I’ve tried to write this review. Pacific Assault is definitely better than its console counterpart." "This is the third time I’ve tried to write this review. Medal of Honor Pacific Assault (PC) review
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