Product Description

Medal of Honor: Vanguard PS2 Be the first soldier behind enemy lines! Join the ranks of the elite 82nd Airborne Division as Corporal Frank Keegan in Medal of Honor Vanguard. From Operation Husky on the shores of Sicily to the Operation Varsity airdrop inside Nazi Germany, you'll jump behind enemy lines to fight the epic WWII battles that turned America's first paratroopers into heroes of WWII. Featuring spectacular graphics and all-out combat intensity, Medal of Honor Vanguard makes you the driving force in the struggle to liberate Europe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6919 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Published on: 2007-03
• Released on: 2007-03-26
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .55" h x 7.50" w x 5.72" l, .34 pounds

Features

• True-to-life encounters test your strategies and reflexes on the battlefield
• Choose to run and gun in order to storm the Axis defenses, or use your sniper rifle to carefully pick off foes from behind cover
• Your allies provide the tactical info you need to survive in an explosive and ever-changing war zone -- so listen up, soldier!
• High-Fidelity Visuals - Engage the enemy on the most visually stunning Medal of Honor battlefields to date.

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Be the first soldier behind enemy lines.

Join the ranks of the elite 82nd Airborne Division as Corporal Frank Keegan in Medal of Honor Vanguard. From Operation Husky on the shores of Sicily to the Operation Varsity airdrop inside Nazi Germany, you’ll jump behind enemy lines to fight the epic WWII battles that turned America’s first paratroopers into heroes of WWII. Featuring spectacular graphics and all-out combat intensity, Medal of Honor Vanguard makes you the driving force in the struggle to liberate Europe.

• Realistic WWII Combat—True-to-life encounters test your strategies and reflexes on the battlefield. Should you run and gun in order to storm the Axis defenses? Or should you use your sniper rifle to carefully pick off foes from behind cover? The course of the battle is in your hands.
• High-Fidelity Visuals—Engage the enemy on the most visually stunning Medal of Honor battlefields to date.
• Listen Up, Soldier—Dynamic AI dialog provides the tactical info you need to survive in an explosive and ever-changing war zone.

Customer Reviews

Good Appetizer
While it's true that this is not a great game, neither is it a bad game - It's an okay game. It's not as lengthy or innovative as previous Medal of Honor games have been, but It's only meant to hold you off until the main course of Airborne hits the stores. The lower price and fewer levels make that clear. If you are a MOH fan anything is better than nothing, and it's been a while between meals. In that regard Vangaurd serves it's purpose as a small taste of better things to come.

Underrated MOH Game
I own and have recently played all four Medal of Honor games for the PS2, including this one. Unlike most reviewers here, or online reviews in general, I believe Vanguard is tied for first place in the series. I would give it an equal rating to European Assault and rank it ahead of Frontline and Rising Sun, in that order.

With Vanguard, as with European Assault, you can raise your weapon and aim through your sights, which makes a big difference for accuracy. You also have the ability to sprint for short periods of time, which helps quite a bit in the later levels. The game isn't terribly long, with only four separate levels, but each level is fairly lengthy. The graphics aren't very polished on the first level, but after that they improve quite a bit. There are a couple of opening scenes in the last two levels that feature some of the best graphics in the whole series. You jump out of a plane and can look all around you and see parachutes and planes everywhere. These graphics are definitely a step up from the first two games in the series.

I wonder if some of the negative reviewers bothered to play past the first level, which is admittedly pretty poor. If you base your impression of Vanguard on the first level, it would probably only be worth one or two stars, but if you persevere, I believe you'll have a satisfying MOH experience. While much less polished looking than Call of Duty: Big Red One or Call of Duty 3 for the PS2, Vanguard is still one of the better WWII shooters for the PS2. If this exact game had been introduced in 2001 in place of MOH: Frontline it would also have gotten rave reviews.

They phoned it in...
FROM BUTTERCUP'S HUBBY: This game is very disappointing. I have bought all of the Medal of Honor games and each has been better than the last---until this one. They are just trying to extend the brand while they work on the PS3 and Xbox games. No new weapons, no new scenarios, not very challenging, very average. Rent it, don't buy it. There is a reason why this game is opening at $39 bucks when all of the others started at $49---it's Rocky V.