The only thing that I didn't like about the original was that it was too short. This game is longer, but the levels aren't nearly as fun as they used to be. They no longer have some of the best weapons either, such as the M1A1 Carbine. The graphics are about the same as the original though. Another thing I loved about the original was that you never felt like you were fighting the war all by yourself, as you always went into battle with lots of allies. In Call of Duty: Finest Hour, you rarely find yourself fighting alongside more than five other troops (except in the first mission). My biggest complaint about this game is the AI. In Medal of Honor: Frontline, the enemy troops will kick a thrown grenade back at you or sprint for cover. In Finest Hour, the enemy troops just go prone and cover their heads, even when the grenade lands only a few inches away from them. There was one time where I threw a grenade through a window of a house with an enemy soldier standing at the front door. He had the right idea, as this time he actually tried to find cover. He decided that the house was the best protection from a grenade, so he ran inside and met his doom. Right idea, wrong time. As for the missions themselves, they are all devided up into sections: The Russian campaign, the British campaign, and the American campaign. The Russian campaign, being the first, is the easiest. However, this campaign is made up largely of tank battles, which are very frustrating and not really much fun. Your tank is difficult to control and the missions are the same thing every time. You just drive around in your tank, mowing down endless waves of infantry with a machine gun and destroying enemy tanks with two good hits from your big gun. It is also very difficult to spot anti-tank units hiding in bombed out buildings. I often found myself scanning every building for up to three minutes searching for an elusive tank killer sitting in a window, taking pot shots at me every few seconds. The British campaign, which is definitely my favorate one, has interesting mission objectives as you play as a member as a British special forces team, but it's only a few missions long. The American campaign is the final set of missions. Most of these missions have you following a bunch of tanks around a city, so they can blow up some important buildings. Fuuuuun... Then you go down into the sewers and root out the rest of the enemy hideouts. All of the environments in the American campaign are also very dull. The sky is gray, the buildings are gray, the enemys uniforms are gray... The last mission isn't nearly passable as an amazing finish either. You trudgh across a VERY long bridge, take out lots of MG42 nests along the way. Then you go to the top of a tower, get on a AA gun and shoot down some Stukas. The end. I found myself shouting "Thats it?!" when the credits started rolling. There isn't really any reason to play through the game again once you beat it. As for multiplayer... there is XBOX Live and system link, but no split screen. For those of you who have XBOX Live, have fun. If not, you might as well just rent the game. You can finish it in a few days. If you want a lasting WWII FPS, get the original for PC. That one has free online play anyway.
The only thing that I didn't like about the original was that it was too short. This game is longer, but the levels aren't nearly as fun as they used to be. They no longer have some of the best weapons either, such as the M1A1 Carbine. The graphics are about the same as the original though. Another thing I loved about the original was that you never felt like you were fighting the war all by yourself, as you always went into battle with lots of allies. In Call of Duty: Finest Hour, you rarely find yourself fighting alongside more than five other troops (except in the first mission). My biggest complaint about this game is the AI. In Medal of Honor: Frontline, the enemy troops will kick a thrown grenade back at you or sprint for cover. In Finest Hour, the enemy troops just go prone and cover their heads, even when the grenade lands only a few inches away from them. There was one time where I threw a grenade through a window of a house with an enemy soldier standing at the front door. He had the right idea, as this time he actually tried to find cover. He decided that the house was the best protection from a grenade, so he ran inside and met his doom. Right idea, wrong time. As for the missions themselves, they are all devided up into sections: The Russian campaign, the British campaign, and the American campaign. The Russian campaign, being the first, is the easiest. However, this campaign is made up largely of tank battles, which are very frustrating and not really much fun. Your tank is difficult to control and the missions are the same thing every time. You just drive around in your tank, mowing down endless waves of infantry with a machine gun and destroying enemy tanks with two good hits from your big gun. It is also very difficult to spot anti-tank units hiding in bombed out buildings. I often found myself scanning every building for up to three minutes searching for an elusive tank killer sitting in a window, taking pot shots at me every few seconds. The British campaign, which is definitely my favorate one, has interesting mission objectives as you play as a member as a British special forces team, but it's only a few missions long. The American campaign is the final set of missions. Most of these missions have you following a bunch of tanks around a city, so they can blow up some important buildings. Fuuuuun... Then you go down into the sewers and root out the rest of the enemy hideouts. All of the environments in the American campaign are also very dull. The sky is gray, the buildings are gray, the enemys uniforms are gray... The last mission isn't nearly passable as an amazing finish either. You trudgh across a VERY long bridge, take out lots of MG42 nests along the way. Then you go to the top of a tower, get on a AA gun and shoot down some Stukas. The end. I found myself shouting "Thats it?! " when the credits started rolling. There isn't really any reason to play through the game again once you beat it. As for multiplayer... there is XBOX Live and system link, but no split screen. For those of you who have XBOX Live, have fun. If not, you might as well just rent the game. You can finish it in a few days. If you want a lasting WWII FPS, get the original for PC. That one has free online play anyway.