Medal of Honor (PS1): Fact or Fiction? - Gaming Historian

[@beezer5623]

One of my most played games ever. When my parents weren't around I'd crank up the volume on my surround system. You can not say into words to describe how amazing the sounds and music are for this game. To me it is THEE best sound track ever for a video game.

[@goranzipy]

I still remember every level at the beginning. This took me way back when life was much much easier.

[@Tolman18]

The song at the end 10:23 will always be super nostalgic for me. Such an amazing sound track!

[@YomYestreen]

+Billy Disaster What song is this? It's beautiful.

[@JohnGallagherSJC]

+YomYestreen i want to say its Operation Market Garden. it's from Medal of Honor Frontline on PS2.

[@rasmussuominen7873]

+YomYestreen its the main theme of medal of honor frontline

[@beyris]

Yeah, it's called Operation Market Garden. My favourite piece from the soundtrack is Escaping Gotha.

[@nerdcouncil]

Waa...oooOOooo....oooo

[@serjtrollkian1748]

MoH started it all. The memories of sitting in the basement with my cousins and close friends gathered around watching my uncle play this on the Playstation 1. Just pure good times entertainment.

[@johnschultz239]

I loved medal of honor. it's sad to see what happened to this fantastic franchise

[@Dorelaxen]

Honestly, one of my favorite parts of this game was being able to pull out the B.A.R. and let that baby bark. Even the report was authentic. Brilliant game.

[@Espio]

The MoH games are the reason for call of duty existence

[@the101channel]

And thanks to EA for shitting all over the MoH series.

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

Yeah, in fact the best Medal of Honor game IMO, Allied Assault was developed by the company that the founders of Infinity Ward worked in prior and their work on the game influenced the decision to have CoD use the Quake III Team Arena engine. Shame they didn't take more of the talent. The original 2 CoD games actually aren't that bad but the series still had a rather negative effect in general on the industry. -_-

[@GiordanDiodato]

formuna101 essentially they replaced Medal of Honor with Battlefield. But at least those games are fun.

[@billstirini4368]

EspioTheTriforce no COD is the reason COD exists

[@flarpyz7613]

yes and you're a cancerous little CoD kid :)

[@PandamoniumBruu]

The year is 2020 and I'm still waiting for a remake for this game

[@condroid3000]

2023 now. You aren't waiting alone friend

[@DarivSis1]

It's on the way as well as Return to Castle Wolfenstein

[@PandamoniumBruu]

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[@DarivSis1]

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[@PandamoniumBruu]

@@DarivSis1 that's an Arma 3 mod lol

[@RippahRooJizah]

This video reminded me of how much I loved the rifle. And hearing those sound effects... mmm... nostalgic.

[@yahnibmartin4376]

your channel icon is creepy

[@nicolamolisani1495]

Dude, I find this video superbly done - very good quality work, all on levels. BRAVO!

[@EoCx1]

Your videos continue to impress. The production value alone is excellent, but your commentary and voice tie it all together. You're going places.

[@adankseasonads935]

I'm not sure if you'll eve read this, but I just wanted to tell you that I really appreciate the work that you put into these videos. They're always really well done, entertaining and enjoyable to watch. Thank you

[@RocketLawnchair]

As always sir, good to see you still around. I never got into the Medal of Honor series, but as a history buff, I dig finding out all the background behind what made this game. Kudos as always!

[@hitmanwolf]

...it brings a tear to my eyes to even think of the amount of work and dedication that was put in many of our childhood games... that our kids won't even bother to experience. but as a Parent now, i am proud of my son when he refused to let go of his Medal of Honor when i tried to gift him a Call of Duty game... at least a small spark of hope can be seem in the New Generation.

[@hitmanwolf]

Damn... that was one year ago, now he just rushes outside to play Pokémon Go with his friends. what a day to be alive... to think Nostalgia would make a comeback, too bad the same can't be said for WW2 games.

[@vito7428]

Lone Knight What COD though? If it's beyond Modern Warfare then your son made a great choice.

[@unnamed715]

4:38 That's one of the features that I felt needed improving imo. I mean it was cool how the enemies threw your grenades back at you, but one thing that really annoyed me is that it would reset the grenade's timer upon doing so. Making it virtually impossible to get multiple kills with a grenade. But I suppose I should let it slide, considering that the technology back then wasn't as advanced as it is today. And despite that one flaw, it was still an awesome game and it's replay value still holds up to this day!

[@gangswagster]

The graphics stand up rather well due to the art-style it has taken, at least in comparison with many games released at that time.

[@klungoo]

Welcome Back :) We missed you. I like the more educational feel of this video. Very nice work, I can tell you put a lot into it. Hearing the MOH music took me back to a sentimental time.

[@leandromoreno6467]

One of my favorite games on PlayStation...have great memories playing this as a kid. Great video!

[@enjoylife6374]

one of the most underrated game in PS1 history and FPS history as well. So much little mechanics that would become standard years later, and the atmosphere is spot on. Thanks for cool trivia around WW2!

[@resonantconsciousness9248]

loved this game played it on my ps1 with the proper Sony add on screen under my quilt cover! those were the days :-P

[@iClone316]

All of his videos give me this strange melancholic feeling. Great channel.

[@Baieros]

Great episode man!!! I love history mixed with games. Waiting for more!

[@markieman64]

The OSS always reminds me of Clint Eastwood's character in Where Eagles Dare, who was in the OSS. James Bond was written by Ian Fleming, who was a spy during the war. Interestingly, when he wrote it and up until a lot of the movies were made, MI6 wasn't officially revealed by the government.

[@Auke1993]

It's great seeing another video from you Norman.

[@senseihEnRY16]

i still wish that one day EA would give Medal of Honor a chance once again. But this time, let's get back to WWII.

[@TheModernPainter]

what's wrong with the first reboot?

[@senseihEnRY16]

nothing's wrong about it, in fact i love the first reboot. It's just that i really miss WWII fps. With Medal of Honor and Brothers in Arms gone MIA, and Call of Duty became...well Call of Duty. There is almost no chance for a new AAA WWII based fps title. Battalion 1944 is interesting but it's a multiplayer only game.

[@TheModernPainter]

+Henry Rahardja maybe gamers have lost interest in World War II. They like futuristic fps games now

[@shae1547]

+L.S.A Definitely not, most gamers want the next CoD and BF to be WW2 or Vietnam

[@TheModernPainter]

+Erwin Rommel Im sorry. I mean game developers have lost interest in WW2 or Vietnam

[@Darro85]

I remember playing the first one back in the day but the game that I loved in the series and is still one of my favourite FPS of all time is Medal of Honor: Frontline. I just loved playing the different missions in it and loved the locations you explored like the Dutch countryside and Arnhem.

[@UNBTFFAN]

I missed out on the PS1 era as I had an N64, however for the PS2 era MOH: Frontline was my WW2 shooter. Beautiful sound track and just plain fun!

[@losalfajoresok]

excellent episode man. The lessons of history were really good and well combined with the game review. Congratulations!

[@RockSchneider]

Keep it up man, your videos are great, good work on all the history, loved it.

[@VargasVault]

Great to see a new video.. as always, you shared your love for video games while also giving us a great history lesson.. thumbs up!!!

[@mtshaul86]

Excellent video! You really captured the experience of Medal of Honor! Plus I enjoyed the history lesson.

[@JoelElRican]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was what got me into FPS on PCs.

[@Keithustus]

Definitely not me having played Wolfenstein and Doom years and years before, but it was my first Medal of Honor game since I hated PS1 for its fugly graphics.

[@gillknuts7394]

Medal Of Honor are my favorite games!I grew up with them,because dad played them when I was just a child and so it was the first game I ever played.

[@Greco678]

please do not stop making videos, your quality is that of other people making videos that have 1 million plus subs and or views.

[@lieutenantyoshi5704]

I was introduced to this game shortly after it came out and was immediately hooked upon the body physics and weapons. This was the PS1's GoldenEye. I too purchased this game at Wal*Mart for $14 on a sale. Back then prices for video gams dropped quickly after a few weeks.

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

This game was everything to me and my introduction to Michael Giacchino. In fact, MOH Underground is my all time favorite FPS.

[@ChrisJ092]

Welcome back! Great video as always. :)

[@Hyntin]

My first experience with MoH was on the PC, with MoH: Allied Assault. In that case, it was the multiplayer that really shined. Enough so, that it still has servers running more than a decade later.

[@NoNameC68]

I remember watching my dad's friend play a WW2 FPS game years ago. I think it was the first or second Medal of Honor. I remember him shooting a guy perched on top of a tower and his body falling to the ground. That right there just blew my mind.

[@steven7834]

I had this game when i was 10 years old. I never could finish it. but now i see this video, i remember this game again so i'm gonna try to beat it this time, at 19 years old. Thanks :)

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

the OSS was based upon MI6 (British spies in this one) and the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in fact British agents helped train OSS agents. Medal of Honor was amazing to play and I read about the SOE and the OSS because of this game :)

[@brandonkahuna1251]

Medal of Honor Frontline is still one of my favorite games. It was such a great game.

[@Bobman-ml5qf]

Man Saving Private Ryan, fucking gets me every time. Even the music.

[@hestar]

Damn I loved this game! Loved going over to my cousins house on the weekends and playing this,FF7 and Twisted metal 2 all weekend as a kid!

[@wildgoosespeeder]

Anyone forgot he moved? He did promise us this episode in August and here we are. Good job!

[@ButtSkin666]

really great video, not enough people appreciate this series anymore

[@Yodamite]

The MOH: Frontline score is amazing!

[@aci16]

Medal of honor, frontline, was the first gamecube game I ever owned. It will always have a special place.

[@marvolomethod]

i remember playin FRONTLINE on gamecube, still one of my fave games, i used to play it every rememberance day

[@Fedebag21]

Countless hours playing this game!! This is one of my "take me back in time game" sort of speaking. Excellent

[@r4microds]

Allied Assult was the first game I ever played on my 1998 desktop pc which featured the nVidia Rivia TnT2 M64 Pro graphics card with 32mb of video memory. MoH AA was espically designed to run on that graphics card. That was my first and last gaming pc ever. Even recently the game ran great on crappy highschool computers and a LAN game was one awesome way to end the year. :)

[@Mortenhendriksen]

MOH WAS good games i can remember this game and up until today i still think back to it with good memories

[@CaptainRonRico]

You are bringing back my childhood!

[@Axedroid]

WOOT! A new video! Thx Gaming Historian!

[@InputArchive]

There is a popular mod for Battlefield 1942 called 'Battlefield 1918', which is basically battlefield but with World War 1 settings, vehicles, weapons and more. I also remember seeing on 'Unseen64' a cancelled World War 1 FPS for Xbox 360 and PS3. It was said to be around 70% complete and had some screen-shots with it. Unfortunatly I can't remember the name of it now :/

[@DantesLink]

Great episode, as always!!!

[@RowdyRodimus]

My Grandfather was a member of the OSS during WWII. I never got to ask him about his time since he died in 1974, 2 years before I was born. I do know why he joined. He was scheduled to fly out to Pearl Harbor 2 days after it was attacked and lost his best friend on it. He bugged his CO about it after the creation of the OSS until he gave him the OK just to shut him up lol. We got his military records and I've never seen so many things redacted on any (means they marked them as classified)

[@BreMue]

Wow this was an awesome video! Did not know this game basically started it all and cool to have the real life history lesson too :)

[@MrJust86]

great episode man i had no idea the first medal of honour had so much history behind it gonna halfta check it out sometime

[@AngeloGi]

I loved it. The weapon leveling up was amazing.

[@Sneakytoke]

Mixing two of my favorite things History and video games, I especially like to learn about WW2 so that was alos a bonus great video I hope to find more like this on this channel.

[@benbmusic88]

I loved that game back in the day.. I should replay it, I still have a PSX copy of it. That end lvl in underground with aliens creeped me out when I was younger lol

[@Adam-qv2bd]

@GamingHistorian - If you're really interested in the OSS. Look up Mitchell Werbell the 3rd. He's got such a colorful history. Not too many people have heard of him. But I think if you like that part of history, then you'll love reading about this guy.

[@Ikelae]

Yay! A fellow WWII history indulger! I am very glad I found your channel recently! I would love to chat history with you someday sir, especially on that era! =) P.S. I squeaked with happiness with the mention of the Italian Frogmen! That is a topic rarely touched upon! Thanks for being awesome and providing top notch content!

[@LUCKO2022]

Garet Rooks World War II was a interesting war. I followed it quite a bit. Even the lead up to it from the end of the first world war with Hitler's rise to power is interesting. It almost seems surreal that a nobody like Adolf Hitler could ever rise to such heights. It's almost like a scripted movie.

[@Bruiz54]

Thanks for the new video. You rock!

[@auritone]

Really love that the great sound design and music was highlighted here as it was (and still is) quite excellent.

[@ShamanEffect]

While I never owned the original, I did own Medal of Honor Underground and I thought it was awesome especially for the time. The production quality still impresses me in that game. I had a lot of good memories with it.

[@Itwasme007]

This video is very informative about Metal of Honor,I played the game countless times during this era of gaming. After this game second best is Metal of Honor Frontlines PS2

[@globrain]

@ 4:20 My acting coach, W. Morgan Sheppard! I would recognize that voice anywhere...

[@LockheartEnterprise]

Yay you're back!

[@prezsama7592]

one of my fav FPS games of all time

[@alkapowportstar7808]

the round grenade you showed was actually an impact detonating grenade designed by oss.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

War games are really fun,especially when playing with friends.Completing a mission with your friends is so satisfying,indeed.

[@SRNF]

Such a great video maker, if only you made videos on a regular basis you would defiantly have had a couple hundred thousand subs by now.

[@animejunky2003]

really lovely episode

[@Quutsipop]

Oh those psx loading screens.. so many enjoyable memories.

[@Martin_L478]

I thought he was going to talk about the history behind some of the missions too; the V1 buzz bomb and V2 rocket, the railgun, the Stuka dive bomber, etc. All of that was real during the war.

[@puts1421]

I had this game on the Xbox original. I have spent hours on this game. The music is fantastic.

[@tighe143]

loved those games! I used to play that game all the time!!

[@RC-nj1by]

4:47 ffs....worse than a storm trooper

[@KadinNation]

You should have a history channel on KZbin your good keep it up

[@CamsEyeView]

i think this is my favorite episode because of the awesome music from the game :)

[@verbatimrecorder13]

Used to love and still love that game, even thou the graphics are... well not the greatest, the music and playabilitiy of this game makes it a one of the greatest games of all time for me. Thank You The Gaming Historian :)

[@hondadc20]

One of my all time favorites

[@krull1981]

I remember seeing the advert for this in a magazine back in the day, it had a German soldier pointing a gun at the camera and 5 crosshairs. Four crosshairs that weren't over the soldier said "You Die" and the centre one over the soldier said "You Live". Very simple ad but pretty much summed up what to expect from the game. It was in a similar less is more vein to the bath full of blood Resident Evil advert

[@reemCGR]

great video keep up the AWESOME work :)

[@LightHatake]

Hurray New Video!! =]

[@nerdcouncil]

"I couldn't afford a memory card, so I'd just play it over again..." Now that's love.

[@louisdellalucca8969]

Christopher Lee was also a member of the OSS. In fact, when filming his death scene in Return of the King Extended Edition, he told Peter Jackson that screaming while being stabbed in the back wouldn't happen.

[@Monsteretrope]

One of my favorite games growing up :P

[@photonarbiter]

The medal of honor theme song makes me tear up.

[@benbmusic88]

Amazing historical review!

[@captainthrall]

Medal of honor was a phenomenal game! The historically accurate nature of the game made it much more interesting to me. More than any other game, it fully immersed players with magnificent sounds, scenery, and attention to detail.

[@LifeofWubba]

Brings me back

[@makedaevilmage]

Never would have thought there was so much history and though in the Medal of Honor series :)

[@Theakker3B]

Okay, this has to be maybe my favorite game of all time right next to Super Mario World. I mean, I think I have played this game more than any other game in the world. I love it to death. However, I am also a WWII historian, which is whole other thing. You can't say "A really good history lesson" about this game. Dude, it's a videogame. 90% of it is fictional. The only things that bare resemblance to actual history is the fact that it's in WWII and you're fighting Germans, or Nazis. There was never a railway gun named 'Greta'. There was never a Fort Schmerzen or Colonel Muller. And the events that were real such as the Rjukan Hydro Plant sabotage and Merker's Salt Mines of stolen art were never perpetrated by the OSS. And the Nordhausen Mittelwerk facility only manufactured V1 and V2 weapons, not launch them. And the facility was never attacked by commandos, it was bombed by the allies. So yeah, I love Medal of Honor, but it is no history lesson.

[@ChocoDrake]

Michael Akkerman I think what Norm is trying to say is the game is a good history lesson in the modernization of the first-person shooter and WWII games in general. This is the game that started the chain of franchises such as Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms, and Company of Heroes.

[@gungdegungde3601]

The rail gun is real but it isnt a rail gun its a mortar called the V3 so your wrong dude (hehehe i watch discovery channel😆)

[@Theakker3B]

Well congratulations because you're the one who is wrong. The V3 was not a mortar and it was nothing like a railway gun. The V3 was a prototype artillery piece where multiple charges were placed in the barrel to increase projectile velocity. And the Germans did have multiple railway guns (Gustav, Dora, Leopold, just to name a few) but never one named Greta. And who gives a shit if you watch the discovery channel?

[@gungdegungde3601]

Hey bro my english is not very good ok ps idk what altilerry is😕 im not an english guy

[@gungdegungde3601]

Your comment make me laugh(good coment) (no offense) (i resspect your comment)

[@lalanandaFRY]

sorry for nitpicking but OSS was created quite some time after the 'James Bond'-type spies from the SIS. And we are talking about almost 30 years difference. So I doubt you can say that OSS was before James Bond. Of course none of these were known or publicized to the public *obviously*, I mean both the OSS and the SIS.

[@Ooshgaar]

I dont want to sound too much like I'm tugging my own todger here. But I played Medal of Honor that much, that I managed to complete it on hard using only the Pistol and grenades. (except when the game made you use the MG42 or the sniper)

[@vito7428]

Congrats.Damn the early 2000's was a good time.No cellphones.No internet.Just challenging yourselves in games.Used to do that on many WW2 shooters?

[@mtdewramen]

Regardless of my personal feelings about politics of wars long past, and moder military first person shooters, this video was well done and was almost mirror opinions anywhere from the memory card problems of the PS1, to the impressive game play with awesome soundtrack.

[@LifeofWubba]

I begged my parents for this game. I loved it to pieces.