Medal of Honor: Vanguard

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Unique Wii controllers and Wii specific controls for more innovative combat controls
• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MUSG4U
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 6.1 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 26, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,098 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #54 in Video Games > Wii > Action
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Be the first soldier behind enemy lines.

Join the ranks of the elite 82nd Airborne Division as Corporal Frank Keegan in Medal of Honor Vanguard. From Operation Husky on the shores of Sicily to the Operation Varsity airdrop inside Nazi Germany, you’ll jump behind enemy lines to fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into heroes of WWII. Featuring spectacular graphics and all-out combat intensity, Medal of Honor Vanguard makes you the driving force in the struggle to liberate Europe.

FEATURES

• Realistic WWII Combat—True-to-life encounters test your strategies and reflexes on the battlefield. Should you run and gun in order to storm the Axis defenses? Or should you use your sniper rifle to carefully pick off foes from behind cover? The course of the battle is in your hands.
• High-Fidelity Visuals—Engage the enemy on the most visually stunning Medal of Honor battlefields to date.
• Listen Up, Soldier—Dynamic AI dialog provides the tactical info you need to survive in an explosive and ever-changing war zone.
• Combat-Ready Controls—Airdrop, shoot, and throw grenades with an innovative control scheme that makes full use of the Wii’s unique controllers.

Product Description

Medal of Honor: Vanguard Wii

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun but a little easy, March 29, 2007

By 

R. Hook (Alstonville, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor: Vanguard (Video Game)

Basically you just run around Italy and France shooting Nazi's with your airborne sqaud. To progress further in the game you have to accomplish certain tasks such as clearing a building thats full of enemies. Setting up bombs etc. The AI is pretty predictable and the enemies shoot from their defensive positions and just wait for you to kill them. It would be nice if they took the offensive sometimes.

The Wii remote and Nunchuk are fully utilized for this game and it took me a few hours to get used it. To look around you use the Wii remote (pointed at the screen) and tilt it in the direction you want to see, there are crosshairs on the screen that help you aim your rifle. To walk you use the joystick on the nunchuk. To me now its almost as good as using a keyboard and mouse on a PC. You also use actions with the Nunchuk to reload your rifle (shake it to the right) and you swing back the Wii remote to launch a nade. So im pretty happy with the controls.

The graphics are pretty poor but thats to be expected for the Wii. Sometimes when the battle heats up i can notice some dropped frames. It seems that this game is pushing the Wii beyond its graphical limits. Another thing is that the game is really dark, i have to push the brightness on my TV up to near maximum so i can see what going on.

The sound quality is pretty good, it gives the game great atmosphere when planes are flying overhead being hit by cannons. A couple of times i thought there were planes flying over my house!

There is a split screen multiplayer function for four people but i have not tried it yet, everyone will need their own Wii remote and Nunchuk though. Internet multiplayer is non-existent and this is why ive only given this game 3 stars. I think it could be a killer game for the Wii if it had this function.

So its one of the better Wii games available at the moment and i enjoy it a lot. Please give Wii owners online multiplayer and it would be perfect!!

35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun but disapointingly average, April 17, 2007

By 

Pikminfan "bobsworld3" (Rossburg, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor: Vanguard (Video Game)

"Medal of Honor Vanguard" is a perfect example of a sub-par game rushed to market in order to cash in on the unexpected success of the Nintendo Wii. It's another sad entry into the disappointing string of garbage making its way to the Wii from lazy and uninspired developers.

If I'm not mistaken, MOH:Vanguard is a "Wii-ified" version of big brother "Medal of Honor: Airborne" for PS3 and Xbox 360. What that essentially translates into-is uninspired graphics and tacked on motion control regardless of the fact that the Wii is capable of far better.

One of Vanguard's (and Airborne's) most talked about new features is that at the beginning of missions, players are now dropped from planes into hostile territories via parachute and that depending where a player maneuvers themselves to land-each battle can be a different experience each time you play. Well, I'm sure someone thought this idea looked good on paper but it really doesn't work here. Parachuting only happens a grand total of three times that I can remember in the whole game then its back to the same MOH business as usual you've already played a trillion times. And controlling the parachute itself-attempting to position yourself even remotely where you want to land-is a complete joke.

I've been a big fan of the MOH series since "Frontline" and felt that I needed to give this latest entry a try despite the universally bad reviews its received. Considering Vanguard's many flaws I still have to admit I was able to have a bit of fun with the game. It's very hard after several entries in the series plus the five hundred or so other WWII shooters out there not to walk away with a "been there done that" attitude and believe me, Vanguard does nothing to change that opinion. There's nothing whatsoever out of the ordinary here. But let's face it-even at their most elementary, these types of games are just plain fun and the Wii controller is so completely well suited to first person shooters I may never want to play with dual analog sticks again.

Though I still had fairly enjoyable time blasting my way through the somewhat brief battle, I absolutely cannot recommend MOH:Vanguard as a purchase. To pay $50 for this game is completely insane. You will kick yourself an hour or two after you've removed the shrink wrap-trust me. This is a rental only, or perhaps a bargain bin score three months from now. Nothing more. Oh, and one last thing to note-this game gets extremely difficult near the end. The last two levels border on maniacal frustration and the sniper section of the last level is the stuff shattered controllers are made of. MOH:Vanguard is a decent shooter all in all, but far below expectations for the once impressive MOH franchise.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars medal of honor Vanguard, March 27, 2009

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Steve Ehling - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Medal of Honor: Vanguard (Video Game)

Really enjoyed the game, since i am not a big gamer it was easy to learn, fun and a bargain price. I am sure the real gamers will find the graphic fair at best and the game easy to beat but for a first timer it was worth every penny