Medal of Honor Allied Assault Spearhead Expansion Pack

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $20.00

Features:

• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Genre: Action/Adventure
• Mission: Plunge deep into the heart of battle in this hair-raising action game
• Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/XP

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	X3D TECHNOLOGIES X3D Gaming System (Windows)

Customer Reviews:

Save your money [Posted on 2004-09-15]
This game has more problems than I care to discuss. I have been a moderate game player for years, and never have I had more lock-ups, crashes and poor game play than I have had with this game. And, EA's site is a joke.

Buy a program from another company that actually works, and you don't have to screw around with just to start the program!

Definitely not MEDAL OF HONOR quality! [Posted on 2005-01-18]
SPEARHEAD has virtually none of the game play quality which abounded in the original MEDAL OF HONOR. The movement of the characters is very choppy, even after you cut down on detail in the "Options" menu. This is the case even on the fastest computers (just look at the other reviews).

The historical quality of this game is the only thing it has going for it. I have never seen the movie THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE, but after playing this game, I would now like to. Also, I did not know that the paratroopers that landed in France before D-Day were coming in under heavy fire. I always figured they just went in quietly and for the most part, unnoticed. (Now, I feel stupid for having thought that.) So, the game does tend to open one's eyes to the horrors of war and what those men went through.

Actually, the primary problem I have with this game is that it's too difficult. Now, before anyone dismisses me for a wimp, let me just say that I love difficult and challenging games. But there are levels of difficulty in most games (this particular one included). Usually, it's "Easy," "Medium," and "Hard" - or something along those lines. My point is, if they wanted a super-hard game to show the player how tough war is, then they very easily could have provided those difficulties on the harder levels. For me, this game has no re-playability on even the easy level, much less the more difficult ones.

The difficulty of this game is not to be compared to other popular first-person-shooters like the Jedi series, GHOST RECON, the HALF-LIFE series, or even MEDAL OF HONOR: ALLIED ASSAULT. Those games and many others like them present certain difficulties, but after the player moves past the difficult part, there's time to catch one's breath a bit. In SPEARHEAD, it's constant action with no time or opportunity to stop and enjoy the game. I realize this is war. But it's also a game. In fact, it's a game first. And these two must be carefully balanced in order for the game to be a quality product.

This game is not a quality product.

a little disappointed..... [Posted on 2005-01-26]
I'm a big fan of Medal of Honour: Allied Assault and its predecessor Medal of Honour (for the PS). Both games were very well done and I really enjoyed storming Omaha Beach, driving the King Tiger Tank, sabotaging the deadly u-boat and destroying the V2 Rocket Plant. Both were great games. So when I saw Medal of Honour: Spearhead, I thought that it would be just as good. Well, I half to say I was a little disappointed. The game has by far the best opening. Its starts out with you as Sgt. Jack Barnes; paratrooper with the 101st. You and a squad are awaiting to be dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day. As you slowly drift down, enemy flak explodes around you, many of your planes are shot down, triple A tracers fly up from the ground, fellow paratroopers are all around you, and if you watch carefully you can even see one free falling with-out a parachute. When you land, you crash through the roof of a barn full of German soldiers. Fallowing this, you'll be whisked away on 9 levels from Normandy to Berlin, where you'll sabotage German artillery, bridges, and you even get to drive a Soviet T34 tank. Here are some of the new tweaks Spearhead adds to the game: you can now lean side to side (helps to peak around corners), you can control the 7.62 mm machine gun on the Soviet tank, you can operate all sorts of artillery, there are a new weapons, there's 12 new multiplayer maps and a new multiplayer "tug of war" and trees now snap into as you bound away at them with the heavy machine guns. What I didn't like about the game is that the expansion was way to short and made the German soldiers dumber and easier to kill. In Allied Assault, it would take about three rifle shots (in the torso) to take down an opposing soldier. In most of Spearhead, its only a one shot kill. Also the Germans tend to stand around a lot, unaware of your presence even if your raging a battle around them. There are also a number of graphical and sound glitches that kind-of take away from the game. For in stance, when you shoot the Lee Enfield and the Gewehr 43 rifles, there is no sound. You'll here the bullet hit what ever it is you shoot at, but there is no "bang" as you push the fire button. I also noticed this problem with the Soviet tank cannon and some of the artillery. I don't know if this is a bug in the game or what, but it didn't happen in MOH:AA. Graphically, Spearhead is the same as Allied Assault, and the sounds are just as good. What I really liked were the Poems that were read after the completion of each mission. Over all Spearhead offers a fun after noon of fighting, but isn't worth $30. I'm just glade I found the game on a $10 sales rack, other wise I would have felt a little ripped.

If I had brought it when it first came out..... [Posted on 2005-03-08]
I would be mad but since I picked it up cheap i'm ok with it.

Nice try I guess the gameplay is as good as ever and some of the single player missions (the British commando missions) are great fun. But come on 9 new single player missions? Does anyone else feel robbed?

The game really falls flat in multiplayer though it is almost identical to Allied assault. There is not even any of the cool weaponry from the single player missions. There is also another thing while there have been mods made of the existing maps no one has sat down and bothered to write new maps (at least none that I have ever seen). This is true for both allied assault and spearhead. So over all the game feels flat and the only trick to being good in the multiplayer is to know where all the hiding places are. Once you have the experience and know where the hiding places are you can blast the poor newbies like fish in a barrel.

OK, There is still some good fun in it [Posted on 2005-04-04]
Well, I'm sure that pretty much all Medal of Honor fans would find some fun in the levels. Some of the levels were very fun while some were downright irritating. It is only ten bucks and I think that for ten bucks it is a good buy, but I definitely wouldn't buy it if it was like $35. I do like some of the new guns quite a bit, and the models are more fun to shoot. There definitely was some fun parts.
PROs Improved AI, Better Graphics, Fun Guns, Interesting levels, Currently Cheap
CONs Requires a lot of video power, some irritating as heck sniper levels, boring half track level, short, couple of confusing levels, and too short
Good, but for the same price Breakthrough is a better buy

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