Before CoD: “Medal of Honor”, a personal retrospective PART II (MOHAA)

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, or MOHAA; the first game in the series to be developed for and released exclusively on the PC (and Mac computers, but who cares); the game I so shunned when I first got my youthful hands on it, the game I unwisely compared to Call of Duty, the game I found too boring to play through.

Allied Assault was developed by 2015, Inc, who also developed the Men of Valor games and members of which eventually founded Infinity Ward. It launched to universal acclaim, sitting at a comfortable 91.05% at Gamerankings and 91% on Metacritic. By 2006, it had sold over 30 million copies and it was the 9th best-selling videogame in the United States, between 2002 and 2006.

Before CoD: “Medal of Honor”, a personal retrospective PART I

The bloodiest war in History that engulfed the entirety of mankind; the Second World War, one of the most fascinating and terrifying moments in human history has been talked about, portrayed by and reenacted in every art-form at some point; video games have not been an exception. Though the original Call of Duty remains the quintessential War World 2 shooter, it was not the first series to approach and treat the Great War with such reverence. Infinity Ward, the makers of Call of Duty, did in fact start their careers with a game in another series about World War II: Medal of Honor.