MoH European Assault is a rather strange game. It came around the same time as Call of Duty 2 and around a time where WW2 shooters were dime a dozen. While I did enjoy my time with the game, I can't help but find this game to be a weird amalgamation of CoD and previous MoH games like Allied Assault. You have the scripted roller coaster feel of the former but also the objective system of looking around and doing random taks like sabatoging various weapons, calling in air strikes, destorying tanks, killing officers and rescuing prisoners, but the thing with all this is that all of this stuff is entirely optional, and while the game having a live system might encourage you to do these side tasks, I feel like it generally isn't worth the risk a lot of the time, sure I played the game on the lowest difficulty setting but at the same time, you get bombared with so many enemies and the game using hitscan weapons and no way to reliably avoid damage just makes me rather play on that setting since I can take more damage and have more revives and medkits, it's an interesting system but it's execution feels more like busywork that could potentially have you run out of lives early on. The squad system is also pretty pointless since the game has you feel like a one man army like previous MoH games and the AI for your squad is pretty dumb, they really aren't worth babysitting. A positive of this game is that at the very least, you do not get a game over if they get killed which is a very good thing.
With all that said, I do enjoy the game as far as being a typical WW2 "realistic" fps campaign is concerned. The guns feel decent enough, the damage animations feel adequate for the job, and the actual missions do have that epic feel that these games give you of slowly chipping away at enemy odds. As far as these kinds of campaigns are concerned, I prefer this over CoD3 and United Offensive and many of the Battlefield campaigns that got made.
European Assault is a typical WW2 fps but it's does it's job decently enough.
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