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| Developer(s) | EA Games (GC) 2015, Inc. (Xbox) DreamWorks Interactive (PS2) |
| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Release | May 30, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
Medal of Honor: Frontline is the first installment of Electronic Arts' popular Medal of Honor series for the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube video game systems. In this game you play the role of Lt. Jimmy Patterson, a pilot of the 101st Airborne Division, who is working for the OSS, as he campaigns his way across Europe to Nazi Germany itself. The main story is Lt. Patterson's attempt to capture the Horten Ho 229 bomber. The HO IX, as it is called, was the first application of a flying wing design, combined with a jet engine.
Missions
1) D-DAY - the first level begins with the ominous crawl:
"And when he gets to Heaven, To St. Peter he will tell, One more soldier reporting sir, I've served my time in hell."
From there, the player is thrown into the midst of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It begins with the player's Higgins Boat being blown from the water, and moves onto the bloodied beachfront. He must rescue fellow soldiers and supplies, cross a minefield, and perform a little 'constructive rearrangement' of a NAZI-held mountainside. From there, the action moves into one of the concrete bunkers overlooking the beach. The player must fight his way through the enemy armed and mark the gun deck for Allied bombing before retreating. Outside, the captain tells him that his Division is moving on, but command is assigning him a special mission.
2) Storm In The Port - The special mission turns out to be an assault on the NAZI shipyards at Lorient, France. The player is airdropped into Saint Matthieu, where he must sneak onto a U-Boat docked for supplies. First, he must join some fellow paratroopers as they fight among the ruins of the city (including a recreation of the climax of Saving Private Ryan). Once he has ridden the sub into Lorient, the player must then infiltrate the yard and destroy all of the subs docked and under repair, as well as destroy the yard's fuel station. However, along the way, he has an encounter with a German Commander named Sturmgeist, who would prove to be more than a little important before this tale is done....
3) Needle In A Haystack - A distress call comes into the OSS: one of their undercover agents is urgently requesting extraction, claiming to have important information. Unfortunately, he was captured, and is being held at a NAZI manorhouse. The player must take advantage of the undergoing Operation: Market Garden, and parachute into Holland to extract the informant. The mission begins in the grassy countryside, and the player must fight his way through among the infamous Dutch windmills that adorn the landscape. The scene then shifts to the adjacent town. The player must sabotage the enemy's motorpool and sneak into the pub, Golden Lion. An informant there smuggles him into the manorhouse, where a furious gunbattle ensues as the player struggles to get Gerritt, the informant, out alive. Ultimately, he is successful, and Gerritt discloses to the OSS that Germany is working on a revolutionary new type of fighter plane that could turn the tide of the war.
4) Several Bridges Too Far - The player is (of course) the agent Command has deemed skilled enough to put a stop to Sturmgeist's plot. The good news is, the OSS arranges for him to meet an informant who can get him close to Sturmgeist. The bad news is, the informant is in the middle of Arnhem, a city right on the frontlines of Market Garden (as chronicled in the film "A Bridge Too Far", which the level recreates). He must fight his way across the titular Nijmegen Bridge, fight through the relatively calm suburbs of Arnhem, and hook up with a brigade of British paratroopers stuck in the war-torn heart of the city. Through infantry, tanks, and the dreaded Panzershrek, the player makes his way to a local customshouse, and the end of the mission.
5) Rolling Thunder - The story picks up again in Emmerich, a German city near the border, close to Dusseldorf. Since the location of the facility is heavily classified, he must sneak into the local train station and board Sturmgeist's personal train, and ride it out of the city to the production base. From there, the action shifts to an all out assault on Sturmgeist's private ranks, including his "escort" trains. However, Sturmgeist manages to escape by decoupling the engine from the rest of the train, which he then rides out on. The bulk of the train comes to a rest near the industrial town of Friedrichroda. The player must battle through the trainyards, as the enemy throws an all out blitzkrieg to stop him. e makes it to the HP-9 production facility, located in a disused mine shaft adjacent to the town of Gotha.
6) The Horten's Nest - The player manages to sneak into the production plant via the ventilation system, fighting through bleak concrete corridors and destroying whatever sensitive German construction materials he can get his hands on. The player gets the opportunity to ride a mine cart out of the facility, and onto the runway proper. Through forests, fields, trenches, and bunkers, the player finally gets to his goal: the brand new HO-9 fighter. After taking care of Sturmgeist, the player hops into the HO-9 and rides it out of the facility as Allied bombing reduces the complex to rubble.
Allied weapons
- M1911A1 Colt Pistol
- Webley Silenced Pistol
- M1 Garand Rifle
- Springfield 1903 rifle (Sniper)
- M1A1 Thompson submachine gun
- M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle
- Bazooka
- Shotgun
- Mark II Fragmentation Hand grenade
German weapons
- Walther P38 Pistol
- Gewehr 43 Sniper Rifle
- MP40 Submachine Gun
- Sturmgewehr 44 Assault Rifle
- MG42 Mounted Machine Gun
- Panzerschreck
- Model 24 grenade (Stielhandgranate)
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