@mcbeef said:
Medal of Honor Underground/ Allied Assault and its expansions would be epic with updated graphics but the same great atmosphere/music and gameplay.
I would play Medal of Honor again if it had the story of "Johnny Got His Gun".
...Joe Bonham, a young soldier serving in [A NEAR FUTURE] WorldWar , awakens in a hospital bed after being caught in the blast of an exploding artillery shell. He gradually realizes that he has broken his back, lost his arms, legs, and all of his face (including his eyes, ears, teeth, and tongue), but that his mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body. (For this game we make it most of his face he still has one blurry eye and can hear someone form one ear.)
Joe attempts suicide by suffocation, but finds that he had been given a tracheotomy which he can neither remove nor control. At first Joe wishes to die, but later decides that he desires to be placed in a glass box and toured around the country in order to show others the true horrors of war. Joe successfully communicates these desires with military officials by banging his head on his pillow in Morse code. However, he realizes that neither desire will be granted, and it is implied that he will live the rest of his natural life in his condition.
As Joe drifts between reality and fantasy, he remembers his old life with his family, wife, kids and reflects upon the myths and realities of war.
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The first 45 minutes of the game play out like a normal CoD style shooter. This sets the stage of what is happening, who they enemies are, some brutality of war and all of it is somewhat bombastic. Then you realize that what you just played was a memory that's why it was some simplified and bombastic like a video game...it wasn't real...it was a memory. The game then switches between memories and being awake in the the hospital. Because you re-live parts of your duty the game is still 50% shooter, but after the first sequences the warfare is more realistic each and every time, that is the ramp up of difficulty as the mission go on. Some of the military memories are just being with your buddies too, and because these are all dreams you family, kids, wife and friends shows up sometimes in odd places. Twenty-five percent of the game is like Heavy Rain where you are with your family, your girlfriend just living your life before - shopping, dressing, playing with your child, spending time with your wife. But again these are memories/dreams so the enemy for the games creep around the edges of some memories - think Jacobs Ladder. Another twenty-five percent is trying to make yourself understood at the hospital overhearing conversations among the people and watching them hazily from one eye, but the problem is nobody realizes he is awake because at first he cannot move his head.
I don't want a happy ending. I don't want science to help him. The dream world is his only uneasy comfort and being awake is his hell.
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