Medal of Honor
From Medal of Honor
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| Developer(s) | DreamWorks Interactive |
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| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Release date(s) | November 11, 1999 (NA) |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Media | PlayStation CD |
Medal of Honor is the first title in the long-running Medal of Honor series of video games. It was released for the PlayStation in November 1999.
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[edit] Plot
In Medal of Honor, the player takes the role of Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson, who was recruited to the OSS. The game takes place during the near end of WW2, ( mid1944-mid1945). The goal of the game is to complete objectives, such as destroying enemy positions, and kill enemy German forces in the process.
- In the second mission, Patterson is sent to France again, now disguised as a Wehrmacht Captain. The goal is to destroy the German railgun Greta by hand.
- In the third mission, Patterson goes undercover again, onboard a Merchant Marine freighter named Wolfram, heading to Germany. Now disguised as a Kriegsmarine Officer, Jimmy has to infiltrate a U-boat facility and scuttle U-4901.
- The fourth mission takes place in Germany near the Siegfried Line, where Patterson must investigate activity within the German Mustard Gas facility named Schmerzen. In the PC sequel Medal of Honor: Allied Assault the player, Mike Powell, returns to it and destroys it again after it has been rebuilt.
- In the fifth mission, Patterson is sent to Norway to sabotage the Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan to prevent the Germans from producing deuterium oxide (a.k.a. Heavy Water) and making an atomic bomb.
- The sixth mission takes place in Austria, where the goal is to prevent the Germans from destroying the salt mine near the town of Altaussee and the stolen art located inside the mine.
- In the seventh and final mission, Patterson is sent to Germany for one last time to destroy a German V-2 rocket & destroy the whole rocket facility in the process.
The game is notable for Michael Giacchino's extensive cinematic musical score that reflects the mood of the action on screen.
[edit] Weapons
Pistols
- Colt M1911A1
- High Standard .22 Pistol Victor silenced pistol
- Walther P38
Submachine guns
Rifles
- M1 Garand
- Springfield 1903 sniper rifle
- Kar98k (enemies only)
Heavy weapons
- Browning Automatic Rifle
- Winchester model 1897 shotgun
- M1A1Bazooka
- Panzerschreck (enemies only)
- 50 cal. Heavy Machinegun ( Resembles the M2 Browning machine gun but strangely, It´s often encountered on enemy terroritory.)
Grenades
[edit] Trivia
- When the game is starting up and the trademark moon which makes up the "D" in Dreamworks is seen, the boy sitting and fishing from the moon throws away his fishing rod and dons army uniform, and shouts "Geronimo" and jumps off the moon, but his parachute gets caught on the bottom of the crescent.
- If the player goes to the War Room before starting a game and doesn't touch the controller for a few minutes, a movie will start translating some things that German guards say such as "Ihre papiere bitte: Your papers please", "Verzeihung, aber sie haben ihre grenade vergessen: Excuse me, but you forgot your grenade", "Der Amerikaner hat hunderkuchen in der tasche: The American has dog biscuits in his pocket," and "Rennt um euer leben, er hat 'ne Panzerfaust: Run for your lives, he has a bazooka" This movie is in fact the original trailer of the game.
- Medal of Honor is the only game in the series to feature a reloadable M1-Garand. As the Garand is very difficult to reload in combat if the clip is not empty, following games attach to real combat experience.
- Jimmy Patterson returns in Medal of Honor: Frontline and Medal of Honor Heroes, plus is the pilot who rescues Manon at the end of the Africa level, as well as appering in a secret level in Medal of Honor: Underground.
- When the game was still in production in 1998, the earlier version was meant to contain blood and gore, and if an enemy was killed with a bazooka or with a grenade, it could result in his torso exploding and a huge amount of blood being spilled. A sample of this early version can be seen by entering a password in the video game Small Soldiers, which was developed by the same team.
- Filipino national hero Jose Rizal is a playable character in the game's head-to-head mode. When he is killed, he says in Tagalog, "O Inang Bayan" (O My Motherland) or "Adios, Patria Adorada" (Farewell, My Adored Land).
- Capt. Dale Dye served as the game's military advisor, often submitting the production staff to the same kind of combat training that the cast of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers went through. He also objected to the first mission's original objective, wherein a three-star general (instead of the G3 officer) must be extracted. He is seen in an FMV on the credits, where he roll calls the staff by their "rank."
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