Manon Batiste
| Medal of Honor: Underground | |
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| Developer(s) |
DreamWorks Interactive Rebellion Developments (GBA) |
| Publisher(s) |
Electronic Arts Game Boy Advance
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| Producer(s) | Scott J. Langteau |
| Designer(s) | Lynn Henson |
| Programmer(s) | Adrian Jones |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino |
| Series | Medal of Honor |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Game Boy Advance |
| Release |
PlayStation Game Boy Advance |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
| Review scores | ||
|---|---|---|
| Publication | Score | |
| GBA | PS | |
| AllGame | N/A |    |
| Edge | N/A | 7/10 |
| EGM | N/A | 5.67/10 |
| Game Informer | N/A | 9/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | |
| Game Revolution | N/A | B |
| GameSpot | 5.5/10 | 7.6/10 |
| IGN | N/A | 9/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 2.3/5 | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | |
| Maxim | N/A | 8/10 |
| Aggregate score | ||
| Metacritic | 46/100 | 86/100 |
Medal of Honor: Underground is a video game that is a partial prequel to the World War II hit Medal of Honor. It was initially released for the PlayStation video game console on October 23, 2000. In 2002, the game was re-released in Europe as part of the compilation Medal of Honor / Medal of Honor: Underground. It later was re-released a second time on the North American PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable as a 474 MB file for $5.99 on June 11, 2009. It was developed by DreamWorks Interactive and was published by Electronic Arts. Prima released a strategy guide for the game in 2000 featuring the same cover art as the original PlayStation release.
After completing the game, the player can play a non-canon bonus level, named "Panzerknacker Unleashed", in which the player plays as Lt. Jimmy Patterson, who has been sent to a castle after the Allied Forces received a distress signal from there. Many strange enemies are fought at the castle, including dancing dogs which are armed with machine guns and drive half-tracks, knights carrying battle axes, Zombie soldiers, robotic soldiers and several large nutcrackers, called . The objective of all of the three missions available in this level is to build your own Panzerknacker, who assists you in the final mission.
Patrick Klepek (noted video game reviewer from Kotaku and Giant Bomb) explained in Gaming Age how "Gamers who played Medal of Honor will remember Manon Batiste, part of the French Resistance, who was an enormous help toward Lt. Patterson's efforts. Set in the era of World War II, the year is 1940 and the German armies have overrun Manon's town. Attempting to survive with her brother and the few people still around in her town, Manon's best companion, her brother, is tragically killed during a routine raid to retrieve weapon supplies. Manon then sets out to meet up with her brother's contacts in order to fight against the Nazis. It will take all her strength and perseverance in order to move up the ranks in the OSS so that she can head back home and help in the liberation of her nation." According to GamePro, Manon is a "young member of the French Resistance introduced as Jimmy Patterson's 'control' in the original Medal of Honor. Set prior to the start of the original Medal of Honor game, Underground follows Manon's journey from a naive member of one of France's first resistance movements to that of a seasoned veteran recruited by the OSS, going on covert missions in occupied Europe and Africa, including the destruction of a Tobruk supply base, destruction of coastal guns in Crete, stealing important documents from Heinrich Himmler's castle, rescuing prisoners of war from Monte Cassino and the sabotage of a V-1 flying bomb factory. Manon ultimately becomes a key figure in the Allied invasion at Normandy and returns to Paris to assist in its liberation from German occupation.
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