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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633152852
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: True-to-life encounters test your strategies and reflexes on the battlefield
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Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2007-03-26
Studio: Electronic Arts
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True-to-life encounters test your strategies and reflexes on the battlefield
Choose to run and gun in order to storm the Axis defenses, or use your sniper rifle to carefully pick off foes from behind cover
Your allies provide the tactical info you need to survive in an explosive and ever-changing war zone -- so listen up, soldier!
High-Fidelity Visuals - Engage the enemy on the most visually stunning Medal of Honor battlefields to date.
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Medal of Honor Vanguard lets you return to the days of the Second World War, for more of its pioneering first-person shooter action. Join the ranks of the elite 82nd Airborne Division as Corporal Frank Keegan. You'll guide him through some of WWII's deadliest operations -- dropping behind enemy lines, sometimes right on top of entrenched Axis positions. Work with America's first paratroopers on heroic missions, from Operation Husky in Sicily to Operation Varsity inside Nazi Germany. Medal of Honor Vanguard makes you the driving force in the struggle to liberate Europe.
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Summary: Behind the Front Lines of the WWII European Assault
Comment: MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGUARD is the first "Medal of Honor" game I have played. I decided to play the game after one of my high school sophomore students recommended I check it out when one of our vocabulary words was "vanguard". The game is your basic first-person shooter. It's set during WWII and you play paratrooper Frank Keegan, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division who is later transferred to the 17th Airborne Division. There are four different campaigns to work through with at least two different missions in each of the campaigns. Basically, each campaign begins with your division being dropped at the front of are just behind enemy lines. You have to fight your way through the enemy and meet all of the objectives of each mission before you are allowed to move on.
The game is fairly easy to play and is entertaining a even a little educational; i.e. at the beginning of each campaign there is an educational vignette with "Frank" talking about the things that have been going on. These short spots are very short, but the are quite accurate in their historical detail and give students with short attention spans (like the one I had who thought of this game when we learned the definition for "vanguard") a nice nugget of history that is easy to digest. I also liked that MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGAURD can be played as a multiplayer game. There really aren't many very good action/shooter games that two people can play together. I've been told other "Medal of Honor" games have this feature, but other than the HALO games and the STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT games, this is the first game that I've come across that two people can play and is also quite fun.
Despite the positives, there are some big negatives. To begin with, there are the visuals. Some of the visuals are quite nice, but there are parts of the game that everything is completely dark. I understand when it's dark when the soldiers are in a dark room, are fighting at night, looking through a barn, or crawling through trenches. However, there are other times where the visuals of the game are very dark and there really is no reason they should be. Another drawback of the game is that there are very few save points. If you are fighting through a difficult mission (such as the last half in the game) it can take about forty minutes to make your way through some parts without getting killed. During gameplay there are various checkpoints where your progress on a mission is saved, but these checkpoints are only good while playing the game. If you have to quit in the middle of a mission, you loose all your progress on that mission. The other complaint I have about the game are the clips in between missions that keep playing over and over again in between checkpoints. There's no way to skip these clips and every time you get killed and have to start a checkpoint over you have to watch the same scenario over and over and over.
Overall, a slightly better than average first person shooter game that's a lot of fun to play, either alone or with another person.
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Summary: GOOD GAME IN THE MEDAL OF HONOR SERIES.
Comment: I REALLY ENJOYED THIS GAME. IT'S ONE OF THE BETTER IN THE SERIES. DID NOT CARE THAT MUCH FOR EUROPEAN ASSAULT. GOOD GRAPHICS, GOOD REPLAY VALUE. I JUST FOUND THE GAME WAS TOO SHORT. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE LEVELS. GOOD GAME OVERALL WITHOUT SEEING BLOOD AND GORE IN OTHER GAMES OF THIS KIND. WWII GAMES I HAVE THE MOST FUN PLAYING.
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Summary: Underrated MOH Game
Comment: I own and have recently played all four Medal of Honor games for the PS2, including this one. Unlike most reviewers here, or online reviews in general, I believe Vanguard is tied for first place in the series. I would give it an equal rating to European Assault and rank it ahead of Frontline and Rising Sun, in that order.
With Vanguard, as with European Assault, you can raise your weapon and aim through your sights, which makes a big difference for accuracy. You also have the ability to sprint for short periods of time, which helps quite a bit in the later levels. The game isn't terribly long, with only four separate levels, but each level is fairly lengthy. The graphics aren't very polished on the first level, but after that they improve quite a bit. There are a couple of opening scenes in the last two levels that feature some of the best graphics in the whole series. You jump out of a plane and can look all around you and see parachutes and planes everywhere. These graphics are definitely a step up from the first two games in the series.
I wonder if some of the negative reviewers bothered to play past the first level, which is admittedly pretty poor. If you base your impression of Vanguard on the first level, it would probably only be worth one or two stars, but if you persevere, I believe you'll have a satisfying MOH experience. While much less polished looking than Call of Duty: Big Red One or Call of Duty 3 for the PS2, Vanguard is still one of the better WWII shooters for the PS2. If this exact game had been introduced in 2001 in place of MOH: Frontline it would also have gotten rave reviews.
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Summary: Tons o' fun while it lasts!
Comment: Having owned MOH: European Assault, and deciding it was a mixed bag, I was a bit reluctant to buy this game. Having read the reviews on this site as well as other internet reviews, I finally decided it would be worth it for a casual gameplayer like me.
It was definitely worth the buy. This game gives you a much bigger adrenaline rush than European Assault, with much more close-combat infantry fighting along with one very fun sniper level near the end which is probably the most challenging level of the game. While I thought that Euro Assault was too a bit too free-roaming and didn't have enough checkpoints, this new game not only has a perfectly-linear objective setup (just like Frontline), but also has user-friendly save points at the end of every major skirmish. On Euro Assault I became incredibly frustrated with that blasted "Medkit" and "Revive" system (as well as the boneheaded squadron members that you had to control); but on this game, EA made the wise decision to cut the crap and make a simpler game with bursts of energy that will give you a massive adrenaline rush.
There are a few shortcomings--for example, the game can be beaten in only about three-and-a-half hours on the easiest level, and there only about a dozen short missions in the entire game. The guns are all the same as in the previous game (except they look better, which is always a plus), so don't expect any innovations in fighting techniques.
Don't get me wrong, though. This is a much better game than the horribly-flawed European Assault, and the speed and joyful simplicity of the gameplay makes this one of the most entertaining games I've played in a while. I just wish it was longer.
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Summary: You will have to be focused.
Comment: This game which likely will be the last MOH for PS2 tests your endurance. Unlike the predecessors there are very long missions with much fighting to get to a checkpoint. As with most games although it auto-saves, if you can not complete a mission(turn of the console), you will start from the beginning of the mission. The action is as good as the others. No need for hand to hand combat as you have plenty of room. Limited weapons option however. Worthy of the MOH legacy.
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