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Description

In Medal of Honor: Frontline, you play as Lt. Jimmy Patterson, a member of a special forces team.

As a soldier during WW2, you must complete various missions and objectives. You will take part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, seize the Nijmegen Bridge, infiltrate a weapons facility, sabotage a German U-Boat and more.

You will have access to historically accurate weapons and equipment, such as pistols, rifles, and explosives.

Parts of the game will have you working alongside other soldiers, which adds to the overall experience. Some missions require you to use stealth, where you must pose as a Nazi and show identification without giving yourself away.

Alternate Titles

  • "MOHF" -- Informal Title
  • "Medal of Honor: En Première Ligne " -- French Title

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The Press Says

GameZone Nov 27, 2002 9.2 out of 10 92
Game Informer Magazine Dec, 2002 8.75 out of 10 88
4Players.de Dec 14, 2002 87 out of 100 87
Jeuxvideo.com Dec 05, 2002 17 out of 20 85
GameSpot Nov 14, 2002 8.5 out of 10 85
GameSpy Nov 19, 2002 82 out of 100 82
GamePro Nov 11, 2002 4 out of 5 80
Game Critics Jul 03, 2002 8 out of 10 80
IGN Nov 05, 2002 7.9 out of 10 79
Thunderbolt Games May 18, 2003 7 out of 10 70

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Trivia

During the second mission of chapter two, "Storm in the Port", you are on a German U-Boat and have to steal any information you can and sabotage the boat. However, the level contains a bonus objective that is not told to you by the game. You can find a German Enigma Machine, and by pressing the action button can take the machine's codes and complete the bonus objective, and earn a medal for the action.

The German Enigma coding machine was not fictitious. It was in fact real. The Enigma was an encryption and cipher machine that the Germans used most famously in WWII. The system of encryption for the Enigma was extremely complex, and only through operator error, procedural error, or captured codebooks (a.k.a cipher) could the Allies decipher the messages. As a result, the Enigma's codebooks and secrets were extremely well-guarded. The simple fact that you can walk up to the machine and steal the codebook is questionable in the game, though such a feat certainly would have been awarded.

There is also the matter of historical accuracy. During WWII, only 15 cipher books had been captured, and the Americans and Canadians had one each. The rest were performed by the British. As well, the Naval Enigma cipher was actually captured by a British boarding crew on the U-110, not a single American soldier.

Besides the historical background, the little objective is also a reference to the WWII movie U-571. The plot of the movie details an American naval crew attempting to capture the Naval Enigma cipher aboard the U-Boat U-571. This movie is also just as historically inaccurate as the game, which suggests, perhaps, that it was even the basis for which the objective was based on.

Another funny reference is that in the cheat menu, the typewriter you enter in cheats on is actually the Enigma itself.


This entry was contributed by Kartanym Bronze Star Contributing Member (9970) and JPaterson Bronze Star Contributing Member (9170)
 

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