Medal of Honor:Underground
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| Medal of Honor: Underground | |
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| Developer(s) | DreamWorks Interactive Rebellion |
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| Publisher(s) | EA Games Destination Software |
| Release date(s) | October 27, 2000 (PS) November 25, 2002 (GBA) |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen (T) ELSPA: 15+ |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Game Boy Advance |
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Medal of Honor: Underground is the prequel to the World War II hit Medal of Honor. In Underground, the player takes the role of Manon Batiste (Based on Helene Deschamps Adams), a French woman who appeared in the first game as an advisor. The plot of the game begins before the original Medal of Honor, when Manon fights for the French Resistance before America entered the war. As the plot progresses, Manon is recruited to the OSS and takes on covert missions in occupied Europe and Africa. Missions include the sabotage of a V-1 flying bomb factory and rescuing prisoners of war. Levels include, occupied Greece, North Africa, Monte Cassino and Germany. The first and last levels are set in Paris, at the beginning and end of the Nazi occupation.
Medal of Honor: Underground was initially released for the PlayStation video game console on October 23, 2000. It was developed by DreamWorks Interactive (currently known as EA Los Angeles) and was published by Electronic Arts. The game is known as Medal of Honor: Resistance in France.[1][2]
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[edit] Development
Main character Manon Batiste is based on Hélène Deschamps Adams, a real life member of the OSS,[3] the forerunner of CIA.
Michael Giacchino explains that for "Manon, I wanted a theme that could convey one emotion at a particular moment, and then a completely different emotion the next without having to rely on two completely different themes. As a result, Manon's two main themes are very similar and yet very different. One version of the theme stays the course in a major tone, conveying a feel of great national purpose against the Nazi menace, and the secondary theme dips into a minor 6th chord which describes Manon's more intimate and emotional feelings as an individual and a woman who is pitted against the fascist war machine. Both of these themes are bookended with what liner notes author Paul Tonks has aptly named 'the resolve theme'. This theme was meant to represent the moments where Manon is called upon to steel her nerves and gather the courage to continue on with the fight....Manon travels to places that are not quite so militaristic as Jimmy Patterson. Her journey was a bit more 'scenic'."[4]
Producer Scott Langteau offers that "Underground had an entirely different feel than the original MOH, and yet the gameplay was entirely familiar. That's what we tried to do, anyway. In Underground, it was personal. The game's front end was gritty and less militarily organized; it was rustic and roughly hewn. The same can be said for the game. Manon used petrol bombs and also used her femininity to gain access to restricted areas. We used the freedom of telling her backstory- she was in the French Resistance, then joined the OSS-to give the game its own flair and widely varied missions that took us all over Europe: Greece, Italy, etc."[5]
[edit] Gameplay
After completing the game, the player can play a new bonus level, named "Panzerknacker Unleashed", in which the player plays as Lt. Jimmy Patterson, who has been sent to a castle after the Allied Forces received a distress signal from there. Many strange enemies are fought at the castle, including dogs which are armed with machine guns and drive half-tracks, knights carrying battle axes, rotten zombified soldiers and several large nutcrackers, called Panzerknacker. The objective of all of the three missions available in this level is to build your own Panzerknacker, who assists you in the final mission.[6]
[edit] Game Boy Advance version
Medal of Honor: Underground is also a Game Boy Advance game released on November 25, 2002. It is a first-person shooter based on the PlayStation version. The game was developed by Rebellion and published by Destination Software. Underground for the GBA features up to 4 players using the Game Boy link cable and lex levels.
[edit] Reception
GameSpot praises the gamemakers for taking "a character from the original game named Manon Batiste and [placing] her in the lead role so that her full story can be told. This setting is a welcome change, as Underground provides a meaningful historical context that's rare in most video games today."[7]
[edit] Weapons (PlayStation Version)
Pistols
Submachineguns
Rifles
- Scoped Gewehr 43
- M1 Garand (Multiplayer only)
Assault
Heavy weapons
- MG42
- Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun
- Panzerfaust
- Bazooka (Multiplayer only)
- Winchester model 1912 shotgun
Grenades
Other
- Big Joe Crossbow
- Camera
[edit] Trivia
- When the player goes to the War Room before a game has started and does not touch the controller for around thrity seconds, he or she will be shown a ironically humorous video encouraging vacationing in Paris. This only occurs in the Playstation version of the game.
- There is a "secret" level in which the player takes control of Lt. Patterson once again, who must fight through Colditz Castle. The castle was originally planned as a level in the first Medal of Honor, but was later scrapped.
- One of the contributors of this videogame is a former OSS spy and a member of the French resistance named Helene Deschamps-Adams.
- Before beginning the second level (the catacomb level) the player is informed that the Germans are using MP 3008 weapons. The mission takes place during 1942 tough the MP 3008 wasn´t produced until 1945 as an emergency measure when Germany was in the point of collapse.
[edit] External links
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