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Medal of Honor: Frontline for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: Frontline for the PlayStation 2 is a wartime shooter in which you operate behind enemy lines as Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson. The campaign begins with the Normandy landings and then takes you further through occupied Europe. Your assignment ultimately concerns the HO-IX, an experimental German aircraft. Along the way, you perform military tasks ranging from eliminating a position to freeing a prisoner.
You see through Patterson's eyes, use various wartime weapons and seek cover when enemies open fire. Missions also demand more than aiming. Sometimes you must sabotage an installation or carefully search a building. In an infiltration assignment, you use a disguise and forged papers to gain entry. The campaign thus alternates combat, searching and carrying out a specific objective within a guarded environment.
You play the original Frontline on the PlayStation 2 alone. Levels follow a fixed sequence and connect large wartime scenes with smaller assignments behind the front. Soldiers, sounds and environmental events indicate where danger comes from and what your next task is. When you replay a mission, route knowledge helps with choosing a weapon and a safe position. The emphasis is on Patterson's journey and completing his assignments.
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: Frontline 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: Frontline
Medal of Honor: Frontline was released in 2002 and was the series' first entry for the PlayStation 2. EA Los Angeles developed it and Electronic Arts published it. Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson returned as the protagonist. The makers combined familiar Second World War operations with a fictional covert assignment involving the experimental HO-IX aircraft, giving his journey a storyline of its own.
The team worked with outside advisers on the historical presentation. Captain Dale Dye, who had also been involved with previous Medal of Honor games, provided military guidance. Smithsonian expert Russ Lee was also consulted about the HO-IX. That preparation supported the weapons, locations and actions encountered by the player. The campaign remains a constructed adventure: historical events provide the background for Patterson's own infiltrations and confrontations.
Michael Giacchino composed the orchestral music, which shaped the presentation alongside voices and combat sounds. GameCube and Xbox editions followed later in 2002 with additions including local multiplayer. The original PlayStation 2 version concentrates entirely on the solo campaign. That distinction matters if you know the game from another console. Within the PS2 series, Frontline was followed by Rising Sun and European Assault, each choosing different theatres and forms of support and shared play.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun shares the Second World War, first-person perspective and structure around military objectives. You follow Joseph Griffin in the Pacific and can cooperate locally with two players. Frontline tells Patterson's journey through Europe and keeps the original PlayStation 2 campaign to one player carrying out all assignments themselves.
Medal of Honor: European Assault also uses wartime missions across different fronts, but lets William Holt give simple orders to computer-controlled soldiers. Its areas provide more room to search for additional objectives. Frontline guides Patterson through a more fixed sequence of situations, alternating large confrontations, sabotage and smaller infiltration assignments.
Call of Duty: Finest Hour also offers a cinematic Second World War shooting campaign. It switches between different Russian, British and American soldiers and their battles. Frontline keeps Jimmy Patterson as a consistent protagonist and connects his military action to a covert assignment, keeping the separate locations part of the same personal journey.
Black shares taking cover and completing objectives in first person. It uses modern weapons and covert operations, with considerable attention to explosions and destructible environmental elements. Frontline gives that broad shooting foundation a historical setting and interrupts combat with tasks such as entering in disguise and sabotaging military installations.
Killzone also combines military gunfights with a story campaign, but places it in a science-fiction war against the Helghast. The struggle on Vekta uses different weapons and opponents. Frontline builds its campaign around the Second World War and Patterson's covert work, with familiar operations providing the background for the route through occupied Europe.
