Medal of Honor: Underground

aka: MOHU, Medal of Honor: Resistance
Moby ID: 4761
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The game is a prequel to Medal of Honor and it is set in the early stages of WWII. You play as Manon Batiste, who briefed the missions for you in the original Medal of Honor. She is a new member of a small band of French rebels who fight against the tyranny of the Germans.

There are 7 missions in total, featuring 12 different historical weapons. There are NPCs helping you out by cracking safes and driving. Not all enemies are on foot; expect to face tanks and bikes amongst other things. Enemy AI is responsive and sometimes surprising.

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Average score: 76% (based on 25 ratings)

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Average score: 3.4 out of 5 (based on 54 ratings with 4 reviews)

Medaling in Affairs

The Good
Just like the first game, makes decent (though not brilliant) use of graphics, sounds, Michael Giacchino's composition and physics. The introduction of tanks and halftracks makes for interesting variety and challenge. The variety in levels ranging from Paris to Morocco to Crete makes not only variety but also tells us something about the conflicts and Nazi activities at the time.

There are some good rewards for finishing your missions, once again the historical footage and explanations of the war and technology as well as very interesting behind-the-scenes material. And then the game has its very own parody-styled castle mission, which brings James Patterson back into action, but is also difficult to complete, with enemies having strange attack capabilities that the ones in the main gameplay don't have.

The Bad
There are so many historical inaccuracies in the game, including the late date of the Battle of Monte Cassino in June 1944. More inaccuracies are found in the weaponry being found in missions months before their production dates in real life. It seems like the game makers were glorifying the weapons rather than going for realism and using names, objects and places that took their fancy, suggesting that inadequate research went in the game's development. Other decisions made by the developers are really inconsistent, such as James Patterson being made Manon's partner a month after he joined the OSS and completed his first three missions, which messes up the plot.

Now the kinks in the gameplay. The multiplayer has the same faults as before. When it comes to weaponry, you often play the missions with three different weapons instead of four, talk about being under equipped. So many objectives now feel more like fetch quests than actual covert operations and the objective to hide the printing press is the most unimaginative one ever (why couldn't the Resistance do it themselves?). Once you get to the third level of the sixth mission, you have three dreaded rail-shooting segments that downgrade your targeting capabilities and accuracy. And to top it all off, you're hardly earning a medal after completing a mission, just souvenirs like a piece of V1 bomb, which defies the game's title.

The Bottom Line
It is evident that this game is a rushed and dished out prequel to Medal of Honor, which fails to provide the satisfaction from completing the objectives and accomplishing the missions. The fact that historical accuracy has dwindled gives the game a more tankbuster (not blockbuster) trend from a movie.

To this end, play this game just for kicks, but don't expect anything special. I can only recommend it to PlayStation and Medal of Honor collectors and not WW2 Enthusiasts. It's more fun to watch a satisfying WW2 movie like "The Guns of Navarone".

PlayStation · by Kayburt (30257) · 2021

Super!

The Good
The weapons and the missions. There are 24 missions in the game, and almost all of them are challenging and fun. They are highly diverse, and each develops the theme for that mission. The weapons are good too- from the "big joe" (an awful bow and arrow type contraption) to the Panzerfaust (a tank destroyer) the game is hours of fun.

The Bad
The ending was pathetic. What of the big climax? What of the celebrating in the streets? What of the replays of the best parts? The game itself was rather linear- if I did it and if my friend did it, we would have done the exact same thing. There is not much you can do to customize it. Also, you really don't get to know the characters. All in all though, it was a remarkable game.

The Bottom Line
BUY IT. IT'S THE SECOND BEST GAME I OWN.

PlayStation · by Joe Fry (4) · 2002

Medal of Dishonor

The Good
If there was anything likable about this port of the original game, either it doesn't show or I'm impartial to it. I guess the original graphics in the menus and cutscenes are present, downsized yet retain acceptable quality. And you've got the auto aiming feature, without which you wouldn't get very far (if you'd ever want to). And if you want to get this game over and done with, there is a password after every level.

The Bad
The first thing to get in your face is the heavily pixelated and chunky graphics with a flat ceiling for a sky. The constantly jerking rotation and six-frame weapon bobbing combined with the heavily tainted version of Michael Giacchino's composition and stock sound effects are the equivalent of 32 rounds of headaches. With graphics this bad, you're not going to find your objectives and items, let alone enemies in the distance. And it comes as no surprise that the extras and historical relevance are completely absent from the game.

So many mess ups in the gameplay, I'll only highlight the ones you need to know. A lot of space for the HUD is wasted on the bottom row, when both the compass and ammo indicators could fit on the top left and right just like in the original game. Also the compass is hard to read and doesn't clearly show how wounded you are. Weapons you have are a joke. Machine guns fire short bursts instead of a full magazine and explosive projectiles have the worst possible arcs in throwing.

The Bottom Line
There's so much wrong with this game that buying it is a big mistake. What a miserable experience this is going to be. If you want a Medal of Honor title to take with you, avoid this one at all costs and strive to get the "Medal of Honor: Infiltrator" title. It's unbelievable an FPS on the Game Boy Advance could be this bad when Doom and Duke Nukem were tonnes and heaps better as portable ports. This one was a blatant cash-grab which makes the SNES version of Wolfenstein 3D and Super Noah's Ark the better games to play.

Game Boy Advance · by Kayburt (30257) · 2021

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German index

On September 28, 2002, Medal of Honor: Underground was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS. For more information about what this means and to see a list of games sharing the same fate, take a look here: BPjS/BPjM indexed games.

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Game added by Goteki45.

PS Vita added by Charly2.0. PSP, PlayStation 3 added by Foxhack. Game Boy Advance added by Ace of Sevens.

Additional contributors: MAT, Jeanne, Xoleras, Patrick Bregger.

Game added August 14, 2001. Last modified March 14, 2024.