• ID = PS0514
• STYLE = First-Person Shooter
• DEV. = DreamWorks Interactive
• PUB. = Electronic Arts
• R-DATE = May-30-2002
• ESRB = T / For Teen
• PLAYERS = 1 player
• LIST PRICE = $49.99
  

Medal of Honor: Frontline marks the debut of the Medal of Honor franchise on the PlayStation2. In Frontline, you go behind enemy lines as Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson. Your missions include the D-day assault on Omaha Beach, tracking your Nazi nemesis aboard a speeding armored train, the epic battle for control of the Nijmegen Bridge, a strategic choke point in the Allied drive into the heart of Nazi Germany, and a top-secret, high-risk mission to steal the Ho IX flying wing. The Ho IX is an experimental Nazi jetfighter so powerful it could turn the tide of World War II.

There are 20 levels of gameplay spread across six major missions, all based on real World War II events and all adding up to one complete and uninterrupted story line. Fully realized and highly-detailed 3-D environments include six times the number of nonplayer character animations as in the original Medal of Honor. The game includes detailed German, British, and American troops, as well as Dutch civilians, all with full facial expressions and lip synch. More than 20 authentic WWII weapons include the Colt .45, Springfield sniper rifle, Panzerschreck rocket launcher, MG42 mounted machine gun, and the Browning automatic rifle. Enemy vehicles include panzer and tiger tanks, trucks, motorcycles with sidecars, and armored railway scout cars. There are also player-driven motorized railcars, trains, and mine carts.

An improved enemy AI requires you to consistently vary your attack strategy as the situation dictates. Go it alone to accomplish your mission with the utmost stealth or work as part of a highly trained military unit to wreak havoc on the enemy. The game offers intense noncombat scenarios as well, such as a disguised, weaponless infiltration of an officer's pub brimming with Gestapo to make contact with a Dutch Resistance operative. Medal of Honor: Frontline includes more than 70 minutes of original orchestral music from composer Michael Giacchino, and the game as a whole features eight times more audio than the original Medal of Honor.

Description 2:
The Nazi invasion is in full swing, and you’re the Lieutenant who’s going to put a stop to it. Step into the shoes of Lt. Jimmy Patterson once again, sweeping across Europe to rescue the innocent and destroy the opposition. The 15 assignments range from saving captured OSS operatives from a Nazi-held Dutch manor house to dismantling a German naval base. Of course, all of the action takes place in detailed 3D; featuring some of the more amazing graphics you’ll ever lay eyes on. Your job is a little too tough for any one man to pull off on his own, so you’ll have a loyal group of soldiers and a slew of weaponry including the Liberator Pistol, Panzerschreck, MG42, and B.A.R. all of which will come to your aid in the heat of battle. Divided into five main missions, the gameplay is extensive and meticulously constructed, resulting in an experience that trumps earlier series installments.

• 15 assignments.
• Five missions.
• Awesome weaponry.
• 3D graphics.
• Single-player action.

Amazon.co.uk
Medal of Honor: Frontline returns to its console roots with the first outing on the PS2 for Lt. Jimmy Patterson. This time the setting is June 6, 1944--D-day and beyond--and the game begins with you storming the beachhead at Normandy. Frontline definitely lives up to its name, and from the outset the action is intense. As you rush up the shingle while comrades fall beside you and artillery rings in your ears, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were on the set of Saving Private Ryan. Players of the PC incarnation will recognize this mission from Allied Assault, but here is where the similarities end. Frontline is a new game with new objectives and levels designed perfectly for the console.

If you survive D-day, you enter the real meat of the game--Operation Market Garden (Arnhem). From scuttling a U-boat to clearing checkpoints in the town itself, the missions are brilliantly designed. The true playability of the Medal of Honor series is how immersive it is: the narrative, graphics, and sound all combine to create one of the most gripping first-person shooters in any format. The backgrounds are beautifully detailed, but the sound really sets the game apart. The control system is also intuitive, with the option to customize your controller or choose one of the two default options: MOH sharpshooter (two-analog-stick control) or the original controls used in the PS One's Medal of Honor.

Only two criticisms can be leveled at the game. First, the artificial intelligence errs on the stupid side, with enemies standing around watching comrades get shot, and although this changes with the difficulty level, it never responds in a particularly human way. Second, you can only save at the end of a mission (always a feature of console conversions), so it's quite frustrating to be unceremoniously dumped right back at the beginning after battling your way through a level. But hey, this is war, after all, and these are small niggles against a genuinely phenomenal game. Sign up now: the Allies need you. --Kristen Bowditch.

Amazon.com Preview
The Medal of Honor games for the PlayStation are widely considered two of the best games for that system because of their great graphics and intense gameplay. EA is now moving the series to the PlayStation2 with Medal of Honor: Frontline, an all-new action game that stars everyone's favorite soldier, Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson. Set between the third and fourth missions from the first game, Frontline promises to deliver all of the powerful action that made the first two games instant classics.

In Frontline, the player-controlled Patterson must use the confusion created by the Operation Market Garden offensive to infiltrate the German frontline and steal the Ho IX flying wing, an experimental Nazi weapon. Needless to say, if the Germans are able to unleash this weapon, it won't be pretty for the Allies. The game unfolds across five missions and 15 levels that will see you destroying a German naval base, rescuing a captured OSS operative, and disarming the undercarriage of Nijmegen Bridge, which was the centerpiece of the film A Bridge Too Far. Along the way you'll be assisted by AI-controlled squad mates and will take care of business with more than 20 weapons, including the Liberator, Panzerschreck, MG42, and B.A.R., and special weapons like a disguise kit, which you'll use to sneak into a Dutch manor house to save the captured OSS operative.

Because the game will be published for the powerful PlayStation2, expect some great visual effects. Each of the characters will consist of 2,400 polygons and will feature articulate and wide-ranging motions and perfect lip-synching. And because the game is fully 3-D, it will make full use of the PlayStation2's advanced lighting and architectural capabilities.

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