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Medal of Honor: European Assault for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: European Assault for PlayStation 2 is a first-person war shooter in which you play Lieutenant William Holt. As an American intelligence officer, you participate in operations in France, North Africa, the Soviet Union and Belgium. Main objectives guide the campaign, while additional tasks encourage you to investigate buildings and side routes. You continually assess where to begin and which enemy position to tackle first.
During the campaign, computer-controlled fellow soldiers support you. Simple commands send them to a position or call them back. Their presence changes how you read a battle, but you remain responsible for cover, ammunition and the route ahead. When aiming, you can peek around an obstacle to fire briefly. Medical supplies help keep both you and your squad on your feet.
The battlefields allow room for different approaches within a campaign of fixed objectives and scripted events. Completing extra objectives earns better ratings and provides a reason to replay a mission. The campaign is single-player. You can also play competitive local matches with up to four players on a split screen. Campaign teamwork therefore consists of your decisions and the computer-controlled squad's reactions. Advancing regularly requires pausing, assessing cover and choosing your next position. For three or four players, you need a PS2 Multitap.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Medal of Honor: European Assault for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Medal of Honor: European Assault
Electronic Arts brought Medal of Honor: European Assault to PlayStation 2 in 2005. With this console release, EA Los Angeles returned to battlefields in Europe and North Africa. Within the PlayStation 2 lineup, it followed Frontline and Rising Sun. William Holt gave the campaign its own protagonist, and his work for the Office of Strategic Services connected operations across different fronts.
Development sought to expand the familiar sequence of shooting missions with larger combat areas, secondary objectives and simple commands to a squad of fellow soldiers. That space remained bounded within each mission: you follow an assignment with a beginning and an end, while certain encounters happen at fixed moments. The new emphasis chiefly concerned how you approach an enemy position and which additional objectives you discover along the way.
In the final PlayStation 2 edition, those changes accompanied the series' characteristic music, military environments and narrative presentation. Multiplayer remained local and competitive for up to four players. Rising Sun's cooperative campaign did not return here. European Assault therefore demonstrates a specific development choice within the series: more attention to the actions of one player with a computer-controlled squad. Playing the PlayStation 2 installments alongside one another, you notice that choice especially in the use of cover and arrangement of battles.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: Frontline shares wartime weapons, military assignments and a campaign through occupied Europe. Jimmy Patterson follows a more fixed journey involving sabotage and infiltration. European Assault gives William Holt wider areas, additional objectives and simple orders for fellow soldiers. Choosing where to approach an enemy position therefore receives more room.
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun shares the Second World War, first-person action and a strongly scripted campaign. You fight in the Pacific and can cooperate locally with two players. European Assault moves you to other fronts and provides simple commands for computer-controlled fellow soldiers. Both have local competitive multiplayer, but campaign support takes a different form.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour also shows different Second World War fronts and lets you fight among other soldiers. It changes protagonist and nationality along the way. European Assault keeps William Holt as its consistent agent and makes the position of his computer-controlled group part of your decisions during combat and while investigating objectives.
Black shares the attention to cover and completing objectives between gunfights. Modern weapons and destructible objects give it a different approach to military action. European Assault uses the Second World War and squad orders, so alongside your own position you also consider where fellow soldiers stand and which route they follow.
Killzone also uses military gunfights and computer-controlled allies, but sets the conflict in a science-fiction war against the Helghast on Vekta. European Assault connects its battles to historical theatres and William Holt's OSS work. Simple squad orders and additional assignments give battlefield exploration a rhythm of its own.
