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Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
It's amazing to think that just three years ago, WWII shooters were practically a novelty. It's safe the say the floodgates have burst open since then, and one of the games leading the charge was Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Released in January 2002, the game still enjoys a solid following today (in fact, as I'm writing this, there are more people playing MOH:AA online than either Battlefield Vietnam or UT 2004), so it's no surprise that for the last few years, EA has been hard at work on the official sequel, Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault. At EA's recent summer press event, we were treated to a full demo of a mission we hadn't seen before, giving us a good taste of what we might be able to expect from the title. Perhaps surprisingly, the level we were shown came from the game's final mission (although it ended partway through, so we didn't really get to see the end). The level started off in a tradition that should be familiar to Medal of Honor fans: with historical black-and-white footage showing soldiers moving through the Pacific documentary-like narration setting the stage. Action game or not, the Medal of Honor series has always had moments where it's paid respect to the soldiers that served, and the opening gives players a few moments to reflect on the sacrifices all the soldiers made. The level focused on the battle for Tarawa, which began on November 20, 1943, and is generally referred to as the D-Day of the Pacific Theater. You play U.S...