Medal of Honor: Vanguard
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| Developer(s) | EA Los Angeles, Budcat Creations |
| Publisher(s) | EA Games |
| Composer(s) | Michael Giacchino |
| Series | Medal of Honor |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 Wii |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
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| Publication | Score | |
| PS2 | Wii | |
| Eurogamer | 4/10 | |
| Game Informer | 6/10 | 4/10 |
| Game Revolution | C− | C− |
| GameSpot | 5.5/10 | 5.5/10 |
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| IGN | 7.2/10 | 7/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 6/10 | |
| PSM | 7/10 | |
| Aggregate score | ||
| Metacritic | 63/100 | 56/100 |
Medal of Honor: Vanguard is the tenth installment in the Medal of Honor series of World War II first-person shooters. It was developed by EA Los Angeles and released for the PlayStation 2 and Wii.
Players take on the role of Cpl/Sgt. Frank Keegan, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, and 17th Airborne Division fighting the Axis forces of Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy.
The first mission takes place in 1943 during Operation Husky. Keegan is in a C-47 aircraft somewhere off the coast of Sicily. when the airborne force he is assigned to is suddenly attacked by US Navy ships, believing the Allied planes to be German. Barely reaching the coast, the plane is ripped in half and Keegan and several other soldier are thrown out. He manages to deploy his parachute and make it to the ground, where he meets up with his squad leader, Sgt. John Magnuson. They fight through the small coastal town against moderate opposition from Italian forces. The next morning the paratroopers fend off an enemy counterattack before clearing the main square and the rest of the town. Once through the town, they make their way to a nearby coastal bunker which houses several large cannons that threaten any Allied ships that come near. They blow the bunker open with eplosives and shoot their way in, killing all of the German forces inside, before blowing up the cannons, finally safeguarding the Allied invasion force.
In the second mission, Keegan is part of a glider unit landed as part of Operation Neptune during the invasion of Normandy. The glider crashes hard during the landing and Keegan and the only other surviving soldier, Cpl. Garrett, move towards the rallying point, an old church near the edge of town, encountering large numbers of German troops along the way. Along the way they find two other members of their squad, Pfc. Pike and Pfc. Chalmers, who had parachuted into Normandy. Upon arriving, they find Sgt. Magnuson dangeling from the church rafters, having landed there during the drop. Keegan manages to cut him down just as the Germans launch a counter-attack on the now trapped soldiers. They manage to fight off the German assault, but as he is opening a door leading out of the church, Keegan is knocked out by a German hiding on the other side. Waking up a short time later, Keegan and his squad then proceed to blow up several key bridges across the Normandy landscape, crosses one of the many flooded swamplands dotting Normandy, cut down several paratroopers stranded in trees, and finally locate bazooka components which Keegan assmbles and uses to destroy a halftrack blocking their advance to the last bridge. As Keegan proceeds to plant charges on the final bridge, the explosives go off too early, killing some of Keegan's squadmates and leaving Keegan unconscious. Magnuson wakes him up next morning, but almost immediately gets shot in the head by a sniper. Keegan and his squad assault the house where the sniper was located and eliminate him. They then make their way to a large road bridge leading to a chateau where the Germans are headquartered. They fight their way across the bridge under heavy fire and through the chateau, only to discover it to be a trap and are quickly surrounded by four Tiger tanks that Keegan promptly eliminates. After the ambush, Keegan is promoted to the sergeant due to Magnuson's death.
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