Medal of Honor Infiltrator is a fun mission-based shoot-'em-up that's similar in style to old-school arcade games like Commando and Frontline.
Medal
of Honor is a highly successful first-person shooter franchise that
started out on the PlayStation and eventually made its way onto a
variety of platforms, including the PC, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and
Xbox. Unfortunately, in 2002, while set-top consoles received an
excellent one-two punch in the
form of Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Medal of Honor Frontline, the
Game Boy Advance got an ugly, subpar remake of Medal of Honor
Underground--a game that was originally released for the PlayStation two
years earlier. This year, Electronic Arts is back with another Medal of
Honor game for the GBA, called Medal of Honor Infiltrator. Thankfully,
the first-person graphics have been done away with in favor of a
top-down viewpoint,
and now the game's been fashioned into a fun mission-based shoot-'em-up that's similar in style to old-school arcade games like Commando and Frontline.
and now the game's been fashioned into a fun mission-based shoot-'em-up that's similar in style to old-school arcade games like Commando and Frontline.
The top-down graphics and gameplay are reminiscent of classic games like Commando and Frontline.
In
its 15 total levels, Infiltrator brings together a variety of different
play styles that should be familiar to anyone who's played their fair
share of 8- and 16-bit games. Most levels are presented with an
overheard viewpoint that has you looking down on a large portion of the
surrounding area. These stages share a great deal
in common with such classics as Commando, Ikari Warriors, and
Frontline. You use the directional pad to walk around in the
environment, which is typically a large jungle or village. Enemy
soldiers appear at varying intervals, and you need to use your
character's machine guns and grenades to eliminate them. Your weapons
shoot toward the direction you're facing, but you can hold down the R
button to lock your aim in one direction while you walk in another.
Interactivity with the environment comes into play fairly often. You can
hide behind houses and other buildings to stop enemy bullets, and there
are a number of structures that you can actually go inside of. Small houses
and tents give you the opportunities to switch weapons or replenish
your health, while larger buildings are often entire sublevels unto
themselves. If you come across a stationary gun or a tank sitting in a
level, you can put these weapons to use against the enemy. The
stationary gun has unlimited ammo, but you can't pick it up and take it
with you. The tank, on the other hand, can be driven through a level.
Additionally, it can be used to run over enemy soldiers, and its cannon
can be used to destroy enemy artillery and buildings. Each level has a
number of mission objectives assigned to it, such as locating documents
or destroying ammunition depots. To complete a level, you need to accomplish these goals.
You can take control of tripod-mounted guns and tanks.
Medal
of Honor Infiltrator offers 15 missions, which you can play from
beginning to end in the campaign mode or tackle one at a time in the
quick start mode. Most players will end up playing through the campaign
mode a few times in order to collect all of the gold and silver medals
that are earned by clearing away the enemies in a level and by
satisfying all of the secondary
mission objectives. By collecting medals, you can unlock a harder
version of the campaign mode, as well as a survival mode where the goal
is to see how many soldiers you can kill before you run out of health.
The setting for the survival mode is a village that features a number of
different neighborhoods to fight in.
Medal
of Honor: Infiltrator borrows heavily from the classic games it's
inspired by and, at the same time, captures most of the things that give
the franchise its identity. The typical overhead shoot-'em-up doesn't
have much to offer except the sheer thrill of killing one enemy after
another. Netherock has taken that simple design
and has updated it for today's player by adding depth through the
inclusion of stealth elements, tricky AI, first-person
crosshair-shooting sections, and a varied assortment of mission
objectives. The end result is a fun handheld game that should please
anyone who's looking for an action game with teeth.
Processor= 1.4GHz
RAM= 256MB
Graphics= 64MB
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