Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault

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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 236 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 33 out of 236
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  1. FrankB.
    May 29, 2005
    10
    super good love the gameplay everyone must buy it
  2. LucyM.
    Nov 5, 2004
    10
    Fabulous. This game is totally engaging and I would recommend it to any FPS fans!
  3. WannesdeB.
    Jan 20, 2005
    10
    Best game ever.
  4. DanielB.
    Nov 4, 2004
    10
    Pros: I'm halfway through the game and am having a killer time. The characters and environments are right up there with Half Life 2 and Doom. The AI seems cool and the new medic system is brilliant. This is the first medal of honor game with a real story and surprisingly, it's making a nice difference for me, the writing seems like a movie. Cons: Loading times suck, but unlike Pros: I'm halfway through the game and am having a killer time. The characters and environments are right up there with Half Life 2 and Doom. The AI seems cool and the new medic system is brilliant. This is the first medal of honor game with a real story and surprisingly, it's making a nice difference for me, the writing seems like a movie. Cons: Loading times suck, but unlike some other games, it's worth the waiting. Multiplayer performance wasn't great but I have only tried a few servers. Overall: I'd definitley say this is the best medal of honor game yet. I'm glad I got the directors edition, even though EA didn't give me a choice, it has lots of cool stuff. Back to playing.… Expand
  5. Lon
    Jan 12, 2005
    10
    Online rank system all players stats like in AAO.great!!!
  6. RonaldK.
    Nov 14, 2004
    10
    I don't know what some people look for in game or if they're into the rating one game against another, but I have had nothing but fun with this game. The fighting, movies and special effects are perfect fun. The music and weapons are just plain great. Feels like money well spent to me, so I don't see a reason not to give it a 10.
  7. JoshG.
    Nov 19, 2004
    10
    Easily the top Medal of Honor game yet. Unlike some I was disappointed with Doom 3, but thought Far Cry was the best fps to date. No more! Pacific Assault delivers from the very start and doesn't let up. Great visuals, story and sound. Just a lot of fun, period.
  8. BatmanMonkey
    Nov 4, 2004
    10
    wtf??? gamespot gave graphics 8...Greg Kasavin is really stupid...this game has amazing graphics...it deserved at least a 9...I dont care if ps2 has lower standards thats the same damn score they gave GTA San Andreas...that game has some sh**ty graphics.
  9. Falkowsk
    Mar 28, 2016
    10
    I love this game it has good characteristics to it and the game brings you right back into the1940s & WW2 and it's got good life like historical meaning to it,
    it's got the exact way that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and how the American Army fought back!! =)
  10. gold
    Jan 4, 2019
    10
    Для меня эта будет лучшей частью в серии по сюжетной составляющей. Класс.
    Итог:10/10
  11. jhonathanhellbourne
    Jun 20, 2009
    9
    This game is my first FPS game and I enjoyed it every way exept that even on the easy setting it was too hard like on makin atoll where I have to save a pilot or some body and the first screen your a** get shot, and tawara(?) island you have to go point A to point B again your face gets shot this time but other than that it's a great game the graphics were great back then the physicsThis game is my first FPS game and I enjoyed it every way exept that even on the easy setting it was too hard like on makin atoll where I have to save a pilot or some body and the first screen your a** get shot, and tawara(?) island you have to go point A to point B again your face gets shot this time but other than that it's a great game the graphics were great back then the physics engine kept glitching but that was because I skipped to install something. anyways this game is a worth have and is very fun… Expand
  12. ChrisK.
    Dec 16, 2004
    9
    With a highspeed video card (ATI Radion9800) this games graphics and the game play are the best yet from EA games.
  13. WilliamB.
    Nov 14, 2004
    9
    I've played the other wwii games on the PC and by far, this one has got it right. The arcade like call of duty just doesn't stand up to any part of Medal Of Honour. Loading times left something to be desired, so I'm removing one point for that. Otherwise, good show.
  14. Chimp
    Dec 26, 2004
    9
    Great graphics. Great singleplayer jungle fights. Great new medic system, and a good story too. Oh and the scenes are very good. The best part of everything is the multiplayer tho, especially Invasion. Its like DOD in the Pacific. Complaints? Too linear at times(sometimes its actually kinda freeform), easy difficulty isnt easy enough(for if you just want to zoom through the game and take Great graphics. Great singleplayer jungle fights. Great new medic system, and a good story too. Oh and the scenes are very good. The best part of everything is the multiplayer tho, especially Invasion. Its like DOD in the Pacific. Complaints? Too linear at times(sometimes its actually kinda freeform), easy difficulty isnt easy enough(for if you just want to zoom through the game and take it all in), and it can be buggy, like the way people can inexplicably be raised about 6 inches off the ground or occasional trees that arent connected to the ground. Besides that, an amazing game.… Expand
  15. lame77
    Nov 8, 2010
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game is set in the rather unworn Pacific Theater. Unfortunatley that is - along with some other minor things - the probably only Pro I was able to set against a lot of Cons.

    Other things I liked: The medics are a welcomingly different approach to actually have yourself starting to manage the pleas for help and/or decrease the number of suicidal charges during a level. Usually I put on a certain number of those with the reassuring fact in the back of my head that there will be a med pack somewhere after. In MoHPA it either won't or will be very seldom.
    The tense atmosphere in the last campaign, the taking of Tarawa.

    The longer list of things I hated:
    The Graphics are outdated even for a 2004 release. I know there's a huge debate going on between players of Call of Duty and MoH about which franchise is better. In terms of graphics I would like to take side for CoD. Even the first 2003 release of CoD looks more decent than MoH. On a plus side CoD will support custom screen resolution and ratio settings (though through horrible textfile support), while MoHPA can be played 1600x1200, 4:3 max which looks you are fighting the Imperial Army of Curiously Short and Fat Japanese Men. There are some 16:9 resolutions supported but these being way below 1600x1200 resolution leaves you - using a big 16:10 display - fighting the Imperial Army of Japan (8bit Divisions). The choice which atrocity bothers you less is at least yours.

    The team AI is horrible. I simply gave up at a certain point trying to make them do something helpful and started to take care of every single thing by myself. Though I am aware that this is what I'm supposed to do as a player, I've had other shooters where my team mates would follow scripts that would at least be helpful to some extend. Let me give two examples of why fighting with the badass marines of MoHPA and being out on a bicycle ride with a bunch of retarded chimpanzees is not of noticable difference: If an attacking Hiroshi Japanimoto takes cover behind a tree or a crate, he is henceforth regarded as 'dug in'. This will be heralded every 10 seconds, leaving you to decide which of the 'fortified' infantry positions really need attention and which can be resolved by let's say throwing a coconut, toothbrush, some cotton pads or stepping one pace left and then shoot.
    Another heavily utilized tactic is to avoid attacking enemies by turning one's back, standing still and taking one for the team/country/the little green man in the head with the bare back. I saw this dumbassery on at least two different situations and then I had to stop because my tears of anger were putting out my second keyboard. This not only binds useful medic resources, it also puts Uncle Sam in a very bad light for telling a bunch of looneys to be a well-trained special task force. From this point on I spent the rest of the game not only securing all 12 hour positions of our platoon, taking one pace at a time but saving the game after every damn taken coconut tree for whatever stupidity one of the guys might come up with next (Note: I did not see one of them juggling birthday cakes on a unicycle but was expecting that every minute)

    The person who designed the flying levels needs to be put in a special place if he ever comes to game designer's hell. To be frank: I am not a huge fan of those vehicle levels regardless what shooter I am playing but if I have to do it, please let me do it in a way that does not leave me loosing all hopes of humanity and with an urge to stomp a kitten to death. First of all: The Mouse controls the plane instead of the obvious and well-functioning WASDs, which are set to control the rudders. Something you don't need to use in the entire level. The mouse controls are inverted (pulling the mouse back, lets the plane dive while pushing it forward will make it climb) and the plane itself behaves like a flying a box of oranges that where shot out of an diarrheic elephant's behind. Only worse. Also I encountered this nice glitch at the end of the mission when I was supposed to fly back to base and did not immediately joined my two (did I mention useless?) wing men but flying one more yaw roll, only to find myself being automatically drowned to death after some erratic radio messages, asking what the heck I was doing there. I was not expecting to be able to radio that I follow moron squad to the next waypoint but am for reasons of questionable game mechanics suddenly some 40 miles behind them, but I was also not expecting to be forced to play this motherlode from the last save point again. Fortunately (see above) I was already saving every flight mile at that point, but others should be warned.

    The last level itself suffers from the same illness a lot of last levels do: They are too short and way too easy. I don't wanna spoil too much on it, but basically letting a battleship do all the work does not justify the build up all other Tarawa Missions do beforehand.    … Expand
  16. josincano
    Nov 26, 2012
    9
    Nunca habia tenido una sensacion de peligro y agobio en el campo de batalla como en este juego. La tensión que genera avanzar a cubierto entre la maleza sabiendo que a escasos metros puede esconderse un japo preparado para hundirte la bayoneta; caer herido y arrastraste tras una roca llamando desesperadamente al medico mientras escuchas a los japos cada vez mas cerca; saber que yaNunca habia tenido una sensacion de peligro y agobio en el campo de batalla como en este juego. La tensión que genera avanzar a cubierto entre la maleza sabiendo que a escasos metros puede esconderse un japo preparado para hundirte la bayoneta; caer herido y arrastraste tras una roca llamando desesperadamente al medico mientras escuchas a los japos cada vez mas cerca; saber que ya no le quedan mas botiquines al doctor y avanzar como si tu propia vida fuera la que estuviera en juego; estas son las sensaciones con las que te encontraras si juegas a este juegazo que a mi me marco hace ya bastante tiempo y que no he conseguido olvidar. Sensaciones, es un juego de sensaciones no de frios datos como horas de juego, numero de personajes en pantalla o cantidad de armas. Es cierto que tiene sus puntos oscuros: dificultad desmedida al final del juego, misiones menos acertadas (¿realmente era necesario pilotar el avion o abrirse paso por el barco en Pearl Harbor?) pero la sensacion de amenaza continua es incomparable con cualquier otro juego de guerra tipo arcade. Un clasico
    GRAFICOS:9 SONIDO:8 JUGABILIDAD:9 DURACION:8    … Expand
  17. gracjanski
    May 8, 2020
    9
    I am playing the GoG Version and have no technical problems so far on a win 7 system: it is working and I dont need to wait long for loading the game or a save point.
    The campaign is very interesting, because there is a lot of action and it shows the world war on the pacific side and not the boring western Europe side. The first mission on the beach and Pearl Harbor are perfect, but later    I am playing the GoG Version and have no technical problems so far on a win 7 system: it is working and I dont need to wait long for loading the game or a save point.
    The campaign is very interesting, because there is a lot of action and it shows the world war on the pacific side and not the boring western Europe side. The first mission on the beach and Pearl Harbor are perfect, but later the game is only good, because the AI is not good. Anyway the gameplay is good, I like the health regeneration system, where you can call the medic anytime, but you can call him only 4 times per sequence.

    Of course you need to know that the story is US propaganda and it lacks extremely important background information, for example that the attack on Pearl Harbor was known by the US government and they did nothing, because they wanted to sell a good reason to the people to join the war. In addition the reason of Japan to attack USA was not perfidiousness like Roosevelt told in his speech. Japan was cut off crucial resources by the blockade of US and they were forced to attack.

    There are other flaws also: The characters and the dialogues are boring. The game should show more background information about the war in my view.    … Expand
  18. chimiche1992
    Apr 12, 2016
    9
    un juego clasico, un buen jeugo que contiene la esencia de los verdaderos fps ambientados en la segunda guerra mundial, e sun juego que lo recomendare siempre, por su historia, por su nivel artisitico, y por su jugabilidad
  19. DonldTrump_45Th
    Jan 26, 2023
    9
    Hello, this is a default review because i'm forced to use 75 characters. I'll edit this review in the future talking about the game, don't worry ;)

    My final rate is: 9
  20. Panica3643D
    Jun 17, 2018
    8
    Засела в душу именно эта часть, так как оставила после себя много положительных воспоминаний.
  21. The_D4RknesS
    Feb 4, 2023
    8
    When the game is made by a great developer, you already notice the difference. fluid gameplay, great facial expression for (2004) engaging and immersive campaign mode. The only thing to complain about this game is the ragdoll physics which is horrible
  22. iddqd4
    Feb 12, 2018
    7
    Вполне стандартный продолжатель серии MEDAL OF HONOR.
  23. Genek13
    Nov 19, 2019
    7
    Game has a huge impact on the beginning but then it slows down.
    Worth to play at least once - a decent MoH game but not the best.
  24. RockerKR
    Nov 30, 2020
    7
    lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Decent FPS llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
  25. wadaltmon
    Feb 9, 2015
    6
    Severely mediocre. The core gameplay is there, and feels like a PC version of European Assault (a better game), but feels a bit more tactical due to being able to command your squad. However, this point becomes all but null due to the utterluly inept AI. Weapons are weak, sound is all overcompressed and sounds pretty sub-par. Game has no effective pacing, and drags some segments (like aSeverely mediocre. The core gameplay is there, and feels like a PC version of European Assault (a better game), but feels a bit more tactical due to being able to command your squad. However, this point becomes all but null due to the utterluly inept AI. Weapons are weak, sound is all overcompressed and sounds pretty sub-par. Game has no effective pacing, and drags some segments (like a part where you fight off literally more than 300 soldiers on a hill) and ends some abruptly. The graphics are alright for the time, with some especially good particle effects, shaders, and water. However, textures are fairly muddy and low-res. Like most Medal of Honor games, it has excellent music. Environments are all jungles and villages with no variety, but maps are big and can be fun and tense to explore and fight in. The worst thing about this game is the loading screens... even on a modern machine (8 core CPU, GTX 760) loading screens take several minutes. They happen every level and every time you die, and its absolutely infuriating.

    Overall, its not terrible, but its terribly mediocre. MoH is one of my favorite series, but this is definitely a weak entry.    … Expand
  26. Tomle1202
    May 22, 2022
    6
    Pacific Assault's jankiness severely undermines some generally fun experience.
  27. Kotofon
    Aug 13, 2020
    6
    Хуже последних двух уровней с высадкой на берег, только мамаша конченого уебана, который расставлял чек-поинты.
  28. Suprizer
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    My favorite medal of honor game for sure this was the one that i enjoyed the most among all the games i had as a kid (There wasn't much). I still remember finishing the game i teared up because the game was so hard for me i must have took at least a summer for me to finish. Pearl Harbor mission is still on point still perfect.

    Here comes the question can you play this game today ?    My favorite medal of honor game for sure this was the one that i enjoyed the most among all the games i had as a kid (There wasn't much). I still remember finishing the game i teared up because the game was so hard for me i must have took at least a summer for me to finish. Pearl Harbor mission is still on point still perfect.

    Here comes the question can you play this game today ? probbly not but could worth a shot.    … Expand
  29. IolL.
    Nov 7, 2004
    5
    It does not in any way live up to expectation... this is just more of the same. we've had shooters changing these last few months, and mohpa cannot hang in with farcry/halflife2.
  30. LandoHelpMe
    Mar 2, 2005
    5
    Average release at best. AI suspect. Certain parts of the game were very scripted where you have to cross a specific line before the enemy activates. Not outright a bad thing, but when you deduce where the enemy will be, you have the spot targeted, and then the enemy shows up and basically has a free shot...frustrating. Just an example. Savvy gamers mature. With a willingness to spend Average release at best. AI suspect. Certain parts of the game were very scripted where you have to cross a specific line before the enemy activates. Not outright a bad thing, but when you deduce where the enemy will be, you have the spot targeted, and then the enemy shows up and basically has a free shot...frustrating. Just an example. Savvy gamers mature. With a willingness to spend hundreds if not thousands of bucks per year on gaming relative spends (sometimes you upgrade your machine(s) to run the new games), I expect the richness of experience of single and multiplayer games to improve with time. Realism is a big part of that experience. It's clear that EA is not keeping up with their customer base. Honestly, I can tell you of at least 15 people who have pretty much permanently moved away from purchasing EA games on any platform. I for one have not reached that point, but there are other companies offering much better products...and they're making it a pretty easy decision going forward.… Expand
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#43 Best PC Game of 2004
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#24 Most Discussed PC Game of 2004
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#10 Most Shared PC Game of 2004

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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 43 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 43
  3. Negative: 0 out of 43
  1. IGN
    78
    If there had been more variation on mission type, enemy AI hadn't cheated, and the feel of the weapons had been more solid, the gameplay could have lived up the awesome presentation value that the rest of the package promised.
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  2. Adrenaline Vault
    90
    It's got frenzied action, a thoughtful storyline, and gameplay that will swallow you whole.
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  3. AceGamez
    80
    Perhaps it's because after countless other games, particularly Call of Duty, those once magnificent scenes of senseless destruction no longer have the impact they once did. Scripted sequences have perhaps gone as far as they can go with these games.
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