Medal of Honor Pacific Assault: Director's Edition

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Survive Pearl Harbor and engage in the Pacific Theatre of Operations from 1941-1944
• Use your natural instincts and a variety of authentic weapons, to stop the Japanese war machine in its tracks
• Conclude with the climatic battle at Tarawa
• Engage in gripping, realistic and historically authentic WWII action
• Director's Edition includes the full game, a WWII propaganda poster gallery, up historical facts and stats, plus dozens of exclusive DVD features

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002LWW0I
• Item Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,064 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

In Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, you're in the boots of young Marine Private Tommy Conlin. Help him survive the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor, and prove his courage by fighting to overcome the Japanese threat in the Pacific. This enhanced DVD contains special bonus content, for the real Medal Of Honor fan. Special DVD bonus content includes exclusive in-game weapon -- a light machine available only in the Director's Edition Also includes WWII Timeline Presentation, interviews with real WWII veterans of the Pacific Theater, a showcase of the famous USMC Silent Drill Platoon, behind-the-scenes development footage and a mini-documentary about WWII propaganda, The Thought War

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad. Not bad at all., March 12, 2006

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LetsReason "Robert" (Martinsville, VA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor Pacific Assault: Director's Edition (CD-ROM)

I feel for those people who have taken the time to write a review that merely exposes their ignorance of the game. Clearly the game is intended to give you a taste of what it was like to be in World War II in the Pacific. I think that for us older gamers and those younger ones that have the ability to use their own imagination, this game is actually very nice.

The point to remember is that while you may want complete and utter control over the situation, these guys did not have it. Also, don't forget that these guys in the game did not have a "Quick Save" to help them out. I find the AI and environment rather appropriate for what I've read and appreciate their willingness to force players to deal with the same frustrations real combat veterans may have felt. Sometimes you are simply stuck in a difficult situation or environment and have to make due. Often times, people surviving was not about their super skills but simply luck. Realizing that and making it through some of these levels is what brings the game home for me.

All those "blast everything with unlimited ammo and unlimited life" players should choose their standard Halo 2 and move on. You want to deal with a smidgen of the real challenges and frustration a real war veteran may have dealt with...play this game. Be patient, stay focused and enjoy the embience from the safety of your computer screen and this game will return rewards.

Robert

44 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A step down, not up, May 23, 2005

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Chris (Alameda, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor Pacific Assault: Director's Edition (CD-ROM)

I'm probably one of the few people who has everything needed to run this game well, a 3GHz Athlon 64, 2Gb of fast RAM, GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 and a fast SATA drive on a good Chaintech motherboard. So I did get the intended game experience, no lag, no choppy graphics.

First, when you start the game, you have to endure a few adverts, every time. If the are selling me adverts then they should cut the price. I gave up on this game for a while, after launching into the action you get killed and are forced back to the training level. Very clever guys, very movie like, and totally unnecessary and a real pain in the rear end. I've been playing FPS games since Wolfenstein 3D and I don't need anyone to force me to define a key to crouch or jump or move left and right.

Now, the game play. The Pearle Harbor scene is just a waste of space, sorry but I'm not actually interested in saving random injured guys, I came here to blow away the bad guys. Was this some sort of attempt to make the game more inclusive for people who don't want to blow away bad guys? Well, they aren't going to like 95% of the game then are they.

Up to now this series has been fairly realistic, you got armed like the guys in that theatre. So were there really any American Marines raiding with five shot bolt action rifles? In the whole series the use of heavy weapons has been a distraction, just a way of adding some action I suppose, but it fits about as well as having to fight your way to your aircraft in MS Flight Simulator. The simulation of foot soldiers is almost hand animation standard, the simulation of aircraft is probably ten years out of date. Shooting from vehicles sucks too, not even a formula one car turns as sharply as they do.

Control of the rest of the squad is inadequate, much of the time I want them to stay down and back but regardless of what I say they run on ahead and start a battle I'm not ready for. And then there are no clear criteria for victory. In the scene where you rescued a crashed pilot I tried some strategies that had me killing loads of bad guys and yet there I was being bayonetted. When I completed it successfully it didn't seem like we killed half as many bad guys.

Then there's the long load time, and more especially long reload times. If I quick save with f5 then restore within the same scene with f9 it should just take a second or so to put me back where I was, instead it seems to reload everything. There's probably time to load 100Mb of data in the time it takes. As a software engineers with 22 years experience I'd say someone has become really sloppy at EA Games.

The lasting dissatisfaction is weapon effects, when my sights are square on and I pull the trigger the guy should fall and yet sometimes it's taking a couple of shots with the sniper rifle when I can see that I'm aiming for a high chest shot at under a hundred yards. At other times I can shoot someone with a pistol from a moving boat. Then I'm using an anti tank gun and it's not hitting even close to point of aim at 25 yards but it's still getting the job done. Later again I'm shooting down Zeros with a BAR... an almost impossible task in the real world, and yet I can shoot down two in a couple of minutes.

On the up side the sounds are wonderful, I shoot WWII era weapons outdoors and the sounds they user are pretty realistic, the music also isn't offensively intrusive though I did turn it off after a couple of hours.

The graphics weren't much payback for the high end resources needed. No better than in games two or three years old. Certainly nowhere near the visual pleasure that "Serious Sam: The Second Encounter" was two years ago. Serious Sam makes vastly better use of the music too.

There's lots I don't like about this game, the gameplay is nothing like as much of a pleasure as Quake 2. Mostly you are confined to narrow corridors dressed up with objects you can't cross, but there's never really much scenary in scope, move far and you are out of the level. I'll finish this game because I started it, but I won't buy another EA game until I hear good third party reviews.

For me, for now, EA has lost the plot.

33 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A truthful review of this game - scripted and outdated!, November 16, 2004

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SBJ400 "SBJ400" (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor Pacific Assault: Director's Edition (CD-ROM)

First of all ignore the idiots that reviewed this game just because THEY NEEDED IT SOOOO BAD and gave it 5 stars just because they wanted Pacific Assault to get high ratings...such immature little weenies!!!!

MOH, when first released, really rocked the gaming world. But after the release of Call Of Duty, we can see how pathetic the MOH franchise now is.

I was loyal and loved MOH. I thought COD was just a simplistic rip off. I was wrong. COD really is a much better game, the weapons and graphics are more realistic, the sounds, the environments. Everything.

Pacific Assault is nothing more than MOD in the Pacific! Instead of Germans, you fight the Japanese. Duh!
It is not realistic, the graphics are dated, the missions are lame and you get level load after level load interrupting your game play!!!


Have you ever seen a rat in a maze? That is what it feels like playing this game! You have narrow paths they force you to follow! You don't have half the freedom that COD offers! As soon as a large confrontation is about to happen...the game does an AUTOSAVE. If that is not a predictable, dead give away I don't know what is. You get frantic and confusing objectives thrown at you, enemies thrown at you by the dozens. This game seemed more like Serious Sam than it did MOH.

You start off storming a beach and just as you are getting into the battle, you are knocked out!You wake up years earlier in boot camp and learn how to use the game. Then you are at Pearl Harbor just as it gets attacked. You spend time running through a ship saving men from the fire...wow...whoopeee! You get topside and have to shoot down Zero's as they attack. After all this garbage, you finally get to the jungle and have some fun. But not really.

The levels are so scripted and predictable that you don't have any choice but to hit the enemy head on every time. I think the most annoying thing is that a simple bush or log trips you up!!! Moving around and getting around obstacles can be a real pain in the rear in this game!!!

The weapons are really terrible! Very inaccurate. Also very weak. An enemy can be 5 feet from me and it takes 10 shots from a BAR rifle to kill the guy! Realistically, it would take 1 or 2. In COD it takes one or two. The sound effects of the guns are soft, dull and unfulfilling.

What did I like about this game?
Just 2 things -
1 - You have to call a medic over to get health. No stumbling over health packs...nice touch! Nice until they felt like compromising this strategy in some battle by dumping health packs on the ground and in fox holes in the middle of the game.

2 - You can trade up your weapons. They typically start you with a pistol and a rifle/machine gun. I drop the rifle and grab a machine gun as soon as I can. Now I can have 2 machine guns! Very handy. Or I can carry a sniper rifle and a machine gun! An awesome combo!


The graphics are ok. Nothing phenomenal. COD still kicks butt there too. The enemy AI is the same. Nothing new. They charge at you aggressively and sometimes it seems like they are flanking you but then they just disappear, never to return! Geeee, thanks a lot, how exciting!

You do get to play in a squad, which is a very welcome addition to this franchise. However, in many cases when your in a tight/narrow jungle path, your team mates just keep getting in the way. Oh and they NEVER die! NEVER!!!! Don't worry about protecting them. Just kill until the enemy is gone. Your teammates will miraculously survive every time unless the game is scripted to cause a death(which happens a few times). Even with this benefit, the levels get redundant! Go here, get attacked. go here, get attacked. The storyline seems like an after thought or even nonexistant.

Let me say that MOD:Allied Assault and the Spearhead Expansion pack were both really fun and I feel I got my money's worth. The Breakthrough Expansion pack was just a snack to tide us over until Pacific Assault was done.

Pacific Assault is now finished and it is NOT WORTH the purchase.

As always, my advice is, wait...WAIT...save your money, download and play the demo when available and then wait until this game is on sale after X-Mas. If you download the demo, play it and really enjoy it...then play it again on a harder setting and see if you still want to buy the game. If so, then go for it. You can either be patient and listen to a guy that is only trying to SAVE you your MONEY...or just fork over your money and be disappointed later.