History Videogame / MedalOfHonor

* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor1999'': The original game produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg released for the original UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}. The game is an action-packed UsefulNotes/WorldWarII spy-thriller with gameplay similar to the videogame adaptation of ''007: [=GoldenEye=]''.

* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard'' (2007): The last game released for the UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 2}} and the first released on the Wii. The game is a back-to-basics installment more in line with ''Rising Sun'' and is set from the point of view of a soldier from the American Airborne fighting from Sicily to Germany.

** Averted starting with ''Pacific Assault'', though ''Airborne's'' pistol and two weapons slots plus grenades still meant that the character could carry a 20-lb rocket launcher (with 14 rounds!), a 18lb [[CoolGuns BAR]], and ''48 hand grenades''.

* ''Medal of Honor: Infiltrator'': A GBA exclusive with a from-the-top view with emphasis on both fast-paced action and stealth.

* AncientTomb: The second level of ''Underground'', which is set in the Parisian catacombs. Appropriately enough, said level is titled "Among the Dead".

* AssistCharacter: Plenty in ''Underground''.
** Right in the first level, your heroine, Manon, is tasked to rendezvous with your brother, Jacques, who can expertly take down Milice officers for you. Unfortunately Jacques dies rather quickly at the end of the level, in an inescapable cutscene.
** Another level have you liberating [=POWs=] in the Alps, where you're assisted by an American Captain who takes plenty of names with a pistol.
** LaResistance officers backs you up in the last few levels, on MenOfSherwood levels -- perfectly capable of taking down several Germans without your help.

* {{Bookends}}: The main campaign in ''Underground'' begins and ends in occupied France.

* CloseRangeCombatant: Knights from ''Underground'' are heavily armoured and run towards the player to hit them with their swords or axes.

* EvilKnockoff: The mass produced Panzerknackers in ''Underground''.

* MeleeATrois: A level in ''Underground'' set in Germany-occupied Crete have your character, Manon, going undercover, while the area is simultaneously besieged by local privateers. The Germans and privateers will constantly be shooting at each other, but you're free to ditch your cover, draw a gun and become the third party in a three-way shootout.

* OffscreenTeleportation: Not within the game itself, but ''Underground'' has a nifty EasterEgg (called the "Ghost Milice" by fans) in the Catacombes de Paris where one of the mooks runs off and disappears into thin air the moment he appears. Shooting at him won't produce any results besides wasting bullets, and there's no trace of the mook despite being in an alcove with nowhere he could've run to ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQagxIT7-P8 seen here]]). It's not a glitch, but a reference to the French Catacombs being haunted in real life.

** ''Underground'':
*** The second stage have Manon being sent to Germany-occupied Film/{{Casablanca}} to rendezvous with the allies.
*** There's another level set in the Greek Isles of [[Film/TheGunsOfNavarone Navarone]], where you'll need to destroy some huge guns deployed by the Germans.
*** The secret mission where you fight andromorphic canines ('''!!!''') titled "[[Film/WhereEaglesDare Where Beagles Dare]]". Said movie was one of it's creator Steven Spielberg's all-time favorite war films.

** Gestapo thugs shows up in the Paris catacombs in the second level of ''Underground'', but that's their sole appearance in the entire game. There are also German spies in the two Casablanca levels (mooks in white wearing a red fez), Norwegian buccaneers in another and German archeologists in Greece.
** The second game had literal KnightsInShiningArmor in another level and nowhere else.

!!Note! Entries for ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor1999'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault Allied Assault]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline Frontline]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun Rising Sun]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorPacificAssault Pacific Assault]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard Vanguard]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne Airborne]]'' now go on that game's own page. This series contains examples of:

* ''Medal of Honor: Underground'' (2000): A MissionPackSequel set in German-occupied France from the point of view of a female spy of the French resistance named Manon Batiste.[[note]]Based on OSS member Hélène Deschamps Adams, who herself served as a consultant and appeared to brief Manon in the final level.[[/note]]

!!Note! Entries for ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault Allied Assault]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline Frontline]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun Rising Sun]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorPacificAssault Pacific Assault]]'', ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorVanguard Vanguard]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne Airborne]]'' now go on that game's own page. This series contains examples of:

* ''Medal of Honor'' (1999): The original game produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg released for the original UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}. The game is an action-packed UsefulNotes/WorldWarII spy-thriller with gameplay similar to the videogame adaptation of ''007: [=GoldenEye=]''.

** ''Airborne'' has missions in Sicily and Italy.

*** There's another level set in the Greek Isles of [[VideoGame/MedalOfHonor Navarone]], where you'll need to destroy some huge guns deployed by the Germans.

** The manor house level in ''Frontline'' has an EvilChef who appears to do a [[Series/TheMuppetShow Swedish Chef]] impression.
** Frontline and Allied Assault also recreated the Normandy landing from ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''. Reviews picked up on this and treated it as evidence of this being the game of the film, and is undoubtedly the TropeCodifier for WWII games.
** The first level of the subsequent mission in Frontline continues the ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' theme by more or less recreating the final battle from the movie.
** Another shout out to Spielberg was the minecart level in Frontline, an obvious nod to the scene from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
** Rising Sun has a mission titled "Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai".
** Allied Assault's second mission has both ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' and ''Film/DasBoot'' references. Also, crate [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk 9906753]] appears in the tutorial level.

* MeleeATrois: A level in ''Underground'' set in Germany-occupied Norway have your character, Manon, going undercover, while the area is simultaneously besieged by Norwegian buccaneers. The Germans and buccaneers will constantly be shooting at each other, but you're free to ditch your cover, draw a gun and become the third party in a three-way shootout.

* StockSubtitle: ''Heroes''.

* ''Medal of Honor: Underground'': A MissionPackSequel set in German-occupied France from the point of view of a female spy of the French resistance named Manon Batiste.[[note]]Based on OSS member Hélène Deschamps Adams, who herself served as a consultant and appeared to brief Manon in the final level.[[/note]]

** Right in the first level, your heroine, Manon, is tasked to rendezvous with your brother, Jean, who can expertly take down Milice officers for you. Unfortunately Jean dies rather quickly at the end of the level, in an inescapable cutscene.

* ActionGirl: Manon in ''Underground''.

* ''Medal of Honor'' (1999): The original game produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg released for the original UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}. The game is an action-packed ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarII'' spy-thriller with gameplay similar to the videogame adaptation of ''007: [=GoldenEye=]''.

* ''Medal of Honor'' (1999): The original game produced by ''Creator/StevenSpielberg'' released for the original UsefulNotes/{{Playstation}}. The game is an action-packed ''UsefulNotes/WorldWarII'' spy-thriller with gameplay similar to the videogame adaptation of ''007: [=GoldenEye=]''.

** Officers in the PS1 games can see through your disguise if you get too close.

* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline'' (2002): A console exclusive and the first game released for sixth generation consoles with emphasis on being part of combined assaults and cinematic battles while also being a spy-thriller.

* ''Medal of Honor: European Assault'' (2005): A console exclusive with more arcade-y, open-ended gameplay and limited squad commands. The game features various fronts of the war and ends with the Battle of the Bulge.
* ''Medal of Honor: Heroes'' and ''Heroes 2'' (2006, 2008): Originally meant to be a portable spin-off series, the success of the first game led to its sequel also releasing on the Wii. The games are more action-packed, condensed and less realistic in comparison to the rest of the series.

* UniversalAmmunition: Played straight in most of the early games, where picking up a Karabiner 98k rifle meant more rounds for your M1 Garand. The series dropped it when they started copying '' Call Of Duty''[='=]s modus operandi.

** Averted in ''Rising Sun'' and ''Airborne'' to some degree.