So we already did a post on it yesterday but most people should be getting the game today so it's time for a real impressions post about Medal of Honor: Allied Assault like we did for RTCW. It should be available in stores around the U.S. now, for an estimated $49.99. Is the single player as good as the demo, or does it suck? Is it really short (we've heard reports of 6 hours total)? Multiplayer better than the original demo? Be sure to let us know. Also feel free to mention where you bought the game at if people are having problems finding it.

Keep your head down and your morale high as you storm the beaches of Normandy to defeat the dreaded Nazi scourge. Electronic Arts today announced that Medal of Honor Allied Assault has shipped for the PC.
Set during the most trying years of the war, 1942-1944, Medal of Honor Allied Assault gives players a sense of the courage it took to survive the landings at Normandy and drive into the teeth of the Third Reich. Players will assume the role of Lt. Mike Powell, member of the famed 1st Ranger Battalion, as he travels from the battlegrounds of North Africa, to Omaha Beach, and finally, thrusting into the heart of Nazi Germany itself.

Tomorrow is the day that Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is showing up on shelves according to the folks at EA. Havent gotten a chance to head out there and grab a copy myself but we've had a couple of people send in comfirmations that they've seen it a day early. You can check out the single player demo here, and multiplayer demo here.

The game will be available in stores on January 22, 2002. Medal of Honor Allied Assault for the PC features over 30 levels of fully realized 3-D worlds in which the player must accomplish specific objectives and goals in order to succeed and advance.  Medal of Honor Allied Assault carries an ESRB rating of "T" for Teen and a MSRP of US$49.99.

Any bets on retailers jacking the price up way beyond the MSRP like they did with Wolf?

Looks like one U.S. publisher is finally following the lead of publishers in Europe by introducing a smaller game box. EA will be putting Medal of Honor: Allied Assault in a box sized at 5.25 inches wide, 7.5 inches high and 1 inch deep. Not quite the DVD packaging used in Europe, but a good start.

The official Medal of Honor: Allied Assault site has been updated, listing the minimum and recommended system requirements for the game. Just a few more days until Allied Assault storms into retail outlets.

Fileplanet is hosting an anti-cheat fix for the multiplayer demo of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. It's a 930kb download which you can also grab from Fileshack. This patch is only needed if you run a server. Thanks HomeLAN Federation.

Another new movie from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault has posted on on the game's official site. There is a 1.4 and 4.2mb Quicktime version of the movie, which shows the player shooting from a tank.

There is a pretty extensive interview with Ritual level designer Benson Russell up at Gamespy. Benson was working at 2015 until November, and so the interview focuses on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. There are questions about why he left 2015, what people can expect from the full version of the game, research that they did on the title, the movie Saving Private Ryan being a resource for the game, why blood is absent from the game, if there were any features in the game that were a bitch to add, if it was more difficult to work on a WW2 game or the SiN expansion Wages of SiN, some playing tips for the MoH demo and more.

GameSpy: I may as well tackle this early: there's a petition floating around -- a "give us blood" petition from game fans. Can you try and explain what this "blood" issue is about?

Benson Russell: EA's goal for the game was to get a teen rating. The game needed to reach as broad an audience as possible, and that meant not putting blood in the game.
Personally speaking, at first I was a bit miffed by it because I wanted to see some 'tasteful' blood effects (meaning no over-the-top Quake3 style gibs), but after all the animations were added to the characters, I really didn't miss it. The characters still behave and respond depending upon what location of the body they get hit in a realistic fashion. Plus there is a dust spray effect that happens as it would in real life. The overall effect is convincing enough for me that I don't miss the blood. 2015 has some very talented animators that did an awesome job. [...]

If you were looking for some cheats for that Medal of Honor single player demo, you can find them on Cheat Happens. The usual god mode/all weapons/noclip/etc stuff. Getting the cheats to work includes setting such variables like "thereisnomonkey" to 1.

The Allied Assault.com forums have a post by one of the 2015 programmers, about the co-op mod that was released yesterday. Just a warning letting everyone know the mod breaks AI quite badly, since the game wasn't designed for it.

Medal of Honor Bunker is hosting a co-op mod for the single player Medal of Honor demo, which allows the demo level to be played online. It's a 35mb download. Saw that on HomeLAN Fed.

Computer Gaming World and Fileplanet did the hump hump thing and so Fileplanet is now offering the single player Medal of Honor demo for download again. The download is still 175mb, so if you already got the leaked version there doesn't seem to be a reason to download this. However if you hadn't tried the demo yet, this is your chance. For those who haven't played the demo before, it contains one single player map from the game, Nebelwerfer Hunt. The full game should be out around the 22nd of this month.

Update: A Fileshack mirror of the demo is now available again, courtesy of Speakeasy.

As we wait for the full version of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to be released, more movies become available online. The latest are at PC.IGN, where they have posted two Quicktime movies showing some more multiplayer action. They also have a few brief descriptions from several of the multiplayer levels included with the game.

As has been the tradition a demo that was packaged along with a magazine CD made it out on to the net and was distributed through websites. We've done this a few times with demos through a few different publishers over the years, however it looks like EA is not one of those publishers. By request of EA:

I'm the EA Product Manager for MOHAA and although we're happy to have your support in getting our Single Player Demo out to PC gamers, we have an exclusive distribution agreement with Computer Gaming World and it's European equivalents.   So I have to ask you to remove your links or posting of this file until January 8th.

Generally the thinking has been from my discussions with publishers in the past is that the websites and magazines arent really in competition, and they just kind of turned the other way when this stuff happens. However things change. Out of respect for EA's wishes I kindly request that nobody post any further links to the demo here. It will be re-released in just a few days, and hopefully in a smaller package.

Well a few of the bandwidth endowed folks have downloaded the Medal of Honor demo already and been playing around with it this new years day. Maarten and I both played through it and I know he seemed to enjoy it. Here's a separate thread to give props or poops to the demo.

Oh yeah, I thought it was great. Absolutely wonderful job on the environment. I fired up the game and went straight to medium skill. Seemed like a good choice for a first timer with FPS experience. The sounds and music and team members were all executed beautifully. I cant recall the last time I've had a single player demo really excite me this much about a game. Here's one of those mini thumbnail rampages just because.

[ more screenshots of MoH]

So what did you think?

As a little New Year's Day surprise, here is the single player demo for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (180mb) which was leaked yesterday. Mirrors are up at Tiscali Games, BonusWeb, 3D Gamers as well as Blues News, where Frans has repackaged the demo to be a smaller 150mb download (as the original zip includes DirectX8 - some people say the demo fails to install for them without the DirectX files though). This demo will allow you to play the Nebelwerfer Hunt level. The full game is due out by the end of this month.

If your thirst for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault screenshots has not yet been quenched, there are more on Computer and Video Games. 2015's WW2 FPS will be in stores by the end of January.

I see on HLF that Amazon is offering the single player demo of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. It's $4.99 though, and not offered as a digital download but it will ship to you. There are no details at all listed at Amazon, though we can assume this is the same demo which should be on the February disk of Computer Gaming World.

This website has a preview of what they claim is all of the multiplayer maps to be featured in Medal of Honor in the full game scheduled for release next month. The text is in Dutch, but the screenshots are in the language of love.

Fileplanet is now hosting the new objective based map for the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault demo, The Hunt. It's a 6.2mb download and will require you to wait in line unless you have a personal server.

update Steve: I've added a mirror for the additional level at Fileshack courtesy of Speakeasy

Another Christmas present is up at the 3D Realms website, where they have released the theme song featured in the 2001 E3 video of Duke Nukem Forever.

GameSpy Daily has posted some screenshots of the new map that's being released for the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault demo. Should be out today.