Reviewing Every Medal of Honor Game

Well, almost every game...

Considering the shift between WW2 and Modern Military, I'm surprised Medal of Honor never explored the Vietnam era or the Korean War because I felt like the both setting would fit Medal of Honor really well.

Yup. As a millennial, my grandfather served in the navy during WWII. Was originally going to be a pilot for the navy air force but when the two divisions separated, they assigned him photographer for a carrier due to him being a gopher for a photo company as a teen. Got his own room due to needing a dark room, everyone treated him well because they wanted pics to send back home, and we inherited hundreds of photos he took then and his teenage years in the thirties.

Frontline was iconic for me, the D-Day mission was as close as you could get to a recreation of Saving Private Ryan. But there is one thing that makes it the best and that's the soundtrack. It was composed by Michael Giacchino and anyone who's seen any of his films he's done the music for will know how hard his work slaps. The theme of Arnhem gives me chills to this day.

The ending sequence to 2010 MoH where you’re forced to watch your friend slowly die is absolutely gut wrenching, first video game ending to ever make me that emotional

MOH Frontline’s soundtrack composed by Michael Giacchino is hands down one of the most emotional and beautiful pieces of music in gaming I’ve ever heard

For the record, you can reload a Garand whenever you want. There is a button on the left side of the receiver that releases the enbloc clip when you pull the bolt back and allows you to insert a new full one.

Medal of Honor Rising Sun was definitively the moment I became addicted to video games. I played MOH Underground and was enthralled, working my way thru the catacombs, etc. But playing Rising Sun on christmas morning and fending off the attack of pearl harbor and being thrown into the entirely previously unseen environments of the pacific was addicting. For me, the cinematics and immersion and interaction of the game at that time was literally mind-numbing and fully real to me. Love this video you’ve made!

It's crazy looking at Rising Sun today. Back then, it felt like insane graphics. Good times playing that masterpiece with my dad.

The music in MOH games is something that will always hit the hardest. I swear man, hearing the Arnhem Knights theme to this day always makes me teary eyed. If you finished that mission on hardest difficulty, you are eligible for veteran discount

When you spoke about our generation being the last to talk to grand parents that served in WW2 I remembered my grandfather. He was a teacher in the German city of Aachen and would be called to arms pretty late in war. He was sent to the Eastern front and survived the Soviet PoW camps as one of very few. But one should differenciate between the terror of a real war and the great fun those early parts of the game series were. Fun fact: A friend of mine even played through the second game while serving in the German Bunderwehr. 😁

Michael Giacchino's score for Frontline is still one of my favourite video game scores of all time. Arnhem, Operation Market Garden, and Escaping Gotha are simply astounding pieces of orchestral music.

Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Medal of Honor Spearhead are engrained in my blood. playing those games when I was about 9 years old or so was so breathtaking. Then it went to MoH Breakthrough, CoD1, and then CoD:UO and then to CoD2. Wow I miss those days so much!

Something else that is absolutely awesome about Rising Son is that the entire campaign is playable in split screen co op which as far as im aware was the only time in the series that this happened. My brother and I played rising religiously and i also loved that the multiplayer had different AI levels for each character you threw into your matches. really underrated game i feel

My dad was totally down for these military shooters in their earliest days (Allied Assault, the first Call of Duty) around the turn of the century and yeah, definitely Battlefield 1942. It looks like the talent left to form Infinity Ward and Electronic Arts could never catch up again. I think people really forget how real WWII fatigue was around the time that COD4 came out.

Vanguard was the first game in the series that I played and was the first FPS game (not counting Battlefront 2) that I ever played. Still holds a special place in my heart despite all its flaws. That game was the catalyst for my love of history so for that I'll always be grateful for it.

About Heroes and Heroes 2; these games were absolute conquering the handheld FPS multiplayer scene when they came out. I remember playing Heroes 2 multiplayer for years online, with tens of thousands of people playing. It had a massive competitive scene as well. Absolutely mindblowing if I think back about it. The single player campaign were deliberately cut short because the multiplayer aspect offered much more. After Heroes 2 I dont think any handheld device has had such a solid FPS game that was so popular online. The steam deck has the potential to bring this back, but the problem is that you are going up against people that have massive advantages over you with mouse and keyboard.

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault hits me with so much nostalgia, its main theme always brings a tear to my eye. I can almost 100 percent root my love for history back to that game, got me interested in learning about world war 2, which naturally spread to everything else.

Frontline's first mission was an insane experience back in the day.

I absolutley loved Spearhead as kid. Band of Brothers came out in 2001, and being able to play a paratrooper was a dream come true.