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In fact, graphically, European Assault's opening scenes are a treat with rich, glowing explosions punctuating St Nazaire's shadowy docks and dazzling tracers filling the skies. The detailed environments - in this case harbour warehouses, crates and gun emplacements - look more solid and realistic than before. Plus, it's immediately clear that the game has developed visually. With more enemies on screen than ever before, it is fast and furious stuff. The alarm is raised as your ship approaches the docks and all hell breaks loose - sirens sound, German planes are scrambled and you come under heavy fire. In European Assault, the attack takes place under the cover of darkness, and, as we've come to expect from Medal of Honor, the action is frantic from the off. Unable to defeat the ship at sea, Allied Command decided to prevent the Germans from using the Tirpitz in battle by steering a ship loaded with explosives into the harbour, thus taking out the docks. In real life, St Nazaire was an important target for the Allies because it was the only port big enough for the near-indestructible German battleship Tirpitz. It's an absolutely cracking in-game set piece and it's definitely up there with the D-Day mission in Medal of Honor: Frontline. In the opening level, for example, our man Holt joins up with British forces attacking the occupied French port of St Nazaire. So it all sounds similar, but when it comes to playing the game, what we've seen has been encouraging and it looks like a genuine improvement has been made.

MEDAL OF HONOR EUROPAN ASSAULT SERIES

Each locale hosts three missions, with Holt moving from place to place on the trail of secret Nazi atomic technology, and playing a key role in a series of conflicts and operations taken from real history, such as Stalingrad and the Battle of the Bulge.

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