Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

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In Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, the first PC installment of the famous Playstation game series, you assume the role of Sgt. Mike Powell, a member of the 1st Ranger Batallion. You have been recruited by the OSS (some sort of secret service) and need to battle through over 20 levels based on historical campaigns during WW2.

Missions include the landing at Normandy (D-Day), assaulting the town Arzew, a rendez-vous with the french Resistance outside the village of St. Lo, and even taking the famous bridge at the German town Remagen. You will need to rescue agents, plant explosives, assault desert camps with your team and of course kill every Nazi that comes into your gunsight.

There are plenty of weapons available, including the MP40, some sniper and assault rifles, hand grenades and explosive charges.

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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is a 3D shooter set in World War II.

D-Day, Mission Overlord, the invasion of the Normandy by Allied troops on June 6th 1944: one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare has long remained abstract to computer game players, who moved icons on the maps of tactical war games at best. In the wake of the popular Spielberg movie Saving Private Ryan, Electronic Arts moves your viewpoint from the merciful bird's-eye view right down into the action. This not only means witnessing the carnage at Omaha Beach; it means surviving it. And the gruesome advance is only one small part of six extensive missions at the height of the Second World War.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is the first PC offshoot of Electronic Arts' highly successful Playstation series of 3D shooters, Medal of Honor. Playing Lieutenant Powell, you fight the German Wehrmacht in Algeria, Norway, France and Germany. The missions are balanced between "guns blazing" and "James Bond", with the occasional surprise: you get to drive a tank, for example, plus the license to blast entire (deserted) villages to rubble.