Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (GOG)

World War II unfolds as a brisk, cinematic first-person shooter campaign built around sabotage, infiltration, and full-scale Allied offensives. You play Lt. Mike Powell, an OSS operative working with Army Rangers across occupied Europe, slipping through guarded facilities one mission and storming fortified positions the next. The tone sits squarely in the early-2000s war-movie tradition: earnest, explosive, and packed with dramatic set pieces rather than moral ambiguity. Normandy’s Omaha Beach landing remains the headline moment, throwing you into a chaotic assault that still carries considerable atmosphere.

Missions move between sneaking into Nazi installations, recovering intelligence, destroying artillery, rescuing prisoners, and fighting through towns, bunkers, forests, and airfields. Combat uses the familiar weaponry of the period—M1 Garands, Thompson submachine guns, sniper rifles, grenades, and mounted machine guns—with health packs, armor, and straightforward objective markers keeping the action moving. Enemy soldiers can be dangerous in open ground, especially when machine-gun nests and grenades force you to use cover, though the older AI and checkpoint design reveal the game’s age. The included Spearhead expansion shifts focus to an airborne soldier and follows major late-war operations, beginning with a parachute drop around D-Day before moving through the Battle of the Bulge and the push toward Berlin.

What makes Allied Assault memorable is its commitment to varied, authored missions instead of endless arena firefights. Allied troops often fight alongside you, scripted battles sell the scale of the invasion, and Michael Giacchino’s orchestral score gives even simple objectives the feeling of a classic war film. Its controls and visuals are unmistakably old-school, with linear levels, collectible medkits, and occasional rough difficulty spikes, but that directness is part of the appeal. Fans of the original Call of Duty, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and cinematic WWII shooters find a foundational genre favorite here, while newcomers should arrive ready for a focused campaign that values atmosphere and memorable scenarios over modern conveniences.