Saturday, March 26, 2016

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault for free!


Let's see, what interesting things were going on in 2004....

The summer Olympics...
We got our first look at Barack Obama...
Ronald Reagan died...
The TV show Friends ended...

And Medal of Honor was still considered a viable gaming franchise.

EA's ongoing "On the House" promotion has been offering up free games of varying quality for a few years now and the latest offering, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, is one of the more compelling freebies.

It's a World War 2 shooter that set the standard for all the others that came after it.  After 12 years it's held up surprisingly well especially if you turn up all the eye candy.  I've seen recent releases from Steam's Greenlight program that looked far worse and didn't play as well.

A word of warning, however.  This game doesn't always have clear objectives which is similar to games like Rainbow 6.  That means at times it seems like you're feeling your way around.in the dark.  That's not bad game design it's on purpose.  You get just enough instruction to function but there's not much hand holding.  Just like the real experience you have to pay attention and use your wits instead of just mindlessly shooting at anything that moves if you want to succeed.

It's worth checking out and you can't beat the price!  Check out the video below to get a feel for it.

Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault is available now on Origin.


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