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| MEDAL OF HONOR: VANGUARD |
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| FAQ/Walkthrough for PlayStation 2 - Written by Patt3rson |
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| Final version, since May 5 2007 – Copyright Patt3rson |
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| patt3rson(at)gmail(dot)com – www.gamechoice.nl |
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| ENGLISH VERSION |
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= C O N T E N T S =
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\ 1 / INTRODUCTION /
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1A – Copyright Notice
1B – Additions
1C – Preparations
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\ 2 / GAME /
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2A – Story
2B – Characters
2C - Controls
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\ 3 / WALKTHROUGH /
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3A - Off-Target
3B - Der Bunker
3C - Behind Enemy Lines
3D - Scavengers
3E - Requiem
3F - A Shallow Grave
3G – Haunted
3H – Predators
3I - Endgame
3J - The Crucible
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\ 4 / CONCLUSION /
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4A – Final Word
4B - Credits
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= 1 = I N T R O D U C T I O N =
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\ A / COPYRIGHT NOTICE /
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\ B / ADDITIONS /
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I translated this document from my Dutch walkthrough after that one was
complete. Everything you see is new and the FAQ will not be updated anymore
unless the Dutch FAQ is also updated.
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\ C / PREPARATIONS /
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This document is a translation of my other Dutch walkthrough. While
translating I did not play the game anymore, so it is possible that some
translations (Especially names for items, locations, etcetera!) are not
entirely correct. Read the tips below before you start the game and use this
walkthrough. These remarks contain valuable information about using this FAQ
or the game.
In every campaign, consisting of multiple levels, you can earn medals. You
earn them per level, but they are only awarded and shown to you at the end of
a campaign. When you look at your service record you can see which medals
you’ve earned for the part of the game that you completed. Here is also shown
how you can earn those medals, so you know how to get the ones that are still
missing. If there are multiple medals of the same type it means you can earn
those in each level, so you can also see for which level in the series for the
campaign you didn’t collect yet.
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= 2 = G A M E =
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\ A / STORY /
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Medal Of Honor: Vanguard takes you along on some of the adventures of the 82nd
airborne division of the American army, the All Americans. This division is
known as a legendary group of soldiers that were of great importance during
the Second World War. They still exist and have been deployed to Vietnam and
Iraq afterwards, among other places.
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[KEEGAN]
The main character and the person you play as. You’ll eventually be promoted
to sergeant of your team.
[MAGNUSON]
Sergeant Magnuson was your team’s leader, but after a while he gets shot by a
sniper and you’re the one that takes his place.
[MCCOLLUM]
A soldier with quite a nice rank, but with little importance in the game. He’s
waiting for you at the end of one of the missions.
[CHALMERS]
An honorable mentioning for soldier Chalmers, who dies first while you’re
trying your best to take out a dangerous tank.
[SLAUSON]
At the end of the game, two soldiers are talking about how nice it is to see
the American reinforcements coming in, Slauson is one of them.
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Below are all the buttons for the PlayStation 2 controller. It’s possible that
not all buttons have a function by default in the game! These are the default
settings, it’s a possibility that they can be adjusted to your own liking!
Check the manual or the menus to find out how.
ARROWS:
Up - Zoom in
Down - Zoom out
Left - NOT USED
Right - NOT USED
SYMBOLS:
Triangle - Jump/stand
Cross - Interact/reload
Square - Crouch/prone
Circle - Switch weapons
SHOULDER:
L1 - Iron sight
L2 - Spring
R1 - Use weapon
R2 - Select grenade
STICKS:
L3 - Sprint
Left Analog - Move character
R3 - Melee attack
Right Analog - Move crosshair
FUNCTION:
Start - Pause menu
Select - NOT USED
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= 3 = W A L K T H R O U G H =
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\ A / OFF-TARGET /
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After a pretty rough flight you’ll be hanging on a parachute in the air. You
can steer and use X to move more diagonally instead of just down in a straight
line. Check out the rocks to the left below you, you can see a smoke signal
there where you have to try and land. Take out a probable enemy and pick up a
Weapon Upgrade from between the stacks of crates. Move along the rocks to the
building in the north. You need to climb the stairs and you can already shoot
some enemies through the window halfway up, but make sure you won’t take a lot
of damage. At the top of the stairs is a door leading inside, look inside
carefully and shoot whoever you see. Go down the stairs and clear the building
from enemies to complete the first goal. Then you’re told to regroup with Sgt.
Magnuson, he’s standing inside the other room north of where you’re standing
now. When you get to him you’ll be told to enter the town, to do this you can
go through the door on the left and up the hill while taking down two guys on
their own balconies a little to the left. In the northern direction is a gate
guarded by an MG42, first take out the two opponents in the arch itself and
then the one behind the MG42 when he’s reloading. When the opponents here are
down you’ll have accomplished another objective and a door to the right will
open.
Take out the two men on this floor and head up the stairs in the back left, at
the top is another guy you have to shoot or smash down. Past the next door is
a shooter behind an MG42, take care of him and return outside the way you also
got here. Wait for the door opposite the one you come out of to be kicked in
and then head inside. Just walk up the stairs, into the next room and then
back outside to end up at the other side of the barricades. You’ll have to
fight your way up here, but enemies will keep showing up. So take out the most
dangerous enemies that are closest to you, then use the opportunity to advance
upwards. Climb the stairs and move upwards a little bit more. You will
complete the objective to get up the stairs and when the enemies are taken
care of you’ll get the objective to enter a building. The entrance of this
building is a head and to the right. Go inside, shoot down the opponents and
head up the stairs. Once up there you have to defend the building, so get to
one of the vacant windows and shoot at the many enemies beneath you on the
square. If you keep this up long enough you’ll complete the final objective
and the mission along with it.
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Stay inside for just a little while, it’s a bit too dangerous outside to be
playing a hero. Shoot through the windows, especially at the opponents on the
balcony at the house on the left and the ones behind the crates on the ground
to the right. When they are take out you can descend and head up the stairs to
the balcony where the enemies were. Enter the building and stay on this floor,
ahead is another enemy in front of the door you can use to go outside again.
Take him out and carefully look outside to the left, on the balcony you shoot
another enemy and another one around the corner on the left of the street.
Take cover at the location where you reach a checkpoint, because new enemies
will appear. Take them out and head right into the alley, there are two more
you need to kill before you can go into the building on the left and pick up a
Weapon Upgrade from the counter. At least shoot the enemies behind the
machineguns through the door in this room and also look a little to the right
and up to see a couple of men, about four, behind the windows and kill them.
With those enemies out of the way you can step outside a little and look for
any remaining opponents, when they are defeated you’ll have accomplished the
objective to clear the square. Follow your team and especially the leader, he
will kick in a door so that you can continue. Head inside with your teammates,
go up, through the entire building and eventually outside again. Descend using
the ramps and take cover where your team does that as well. Fight your way
along the coast and hide behind the crates, ahead you need to go up along some
ramps again. Watch the windows above you carefully while you do this and shoot
whoever appears in it. Up there, head into the northern building and make your
way to the top floor. There’s a door leading outside there, where there are a
lot of enemies between the crates. Shoot them down one by one and advance away
from the building while taking cover along the left wall. There are two
openings in it, use them to look towards the bunkers and shoot whoever you
see, especially the enemies behind the MG42 machine guns.
Eventually you’ll have to advance, do that through the left opening and hide
behind the most left crates at the top of the hill. From here, take your time
to shoot everyone you see, on top of the bunkers and inside the trench. When
you continue, be sure to take out the two enemies operating the MG42 inside
the bunker you’re walking past. Remove all red dots from your radar around the
trench and you’ll complete an objective. Walk towards the bunker entrance in
the southwest and hold X at the red object to place the explosive. Take some
distance and when the door explodes you can shoot three enemies that will
appear around it. When those enemies are defeated and you walk inside, enemies
will pop up from all directions. So retreat a little towards the opening of
the door and take out whoever you can hit from there. Move a little further
every now and then and use your radar to see where the enemies are and take
them out. Also check out both rooms to the side if you see red dots over
there. As soon as they’re all gone your objective is completed, but now you
have to take out the middle gun by placing an explosive on it. Then run
outside and listen to your team leader.
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After a rough landing you’ll be right in between the enemy. Take cover next to
the downed little airplane and use your radar to see where the enemies are and
take them out accordingly. Work your way up the hill while taking cover behind
walls and other obstacles. Make use of L1 to zoom in and take out enemies more
accurately. Move towards the indicated location at the top of the hill to
complete your objective, there are two Germans here you need to take out
before you go through the door in the house to the left. Ahead is a closed
door, place an explosive and take some distance before it explodes. Shoot down
the man outside and hide behind the building diagonally to the right so that
you can fire to the north from cover. Take out the enemies behind the truck
and then hide behind it yourself, look a little to the left and you can see an
MG42 in the middle window of the building ahead. Make a circling move to the
left towards it and take out the guy behind it from up close, also the other
two that will take his place.
Clear the house and take out any remaining enemies still outside and walk
inside the house to the indicated location to complete your goal. Enter the
next house in the northwest and up the stairs to the next floor. Take out an
enemy, walk to the other side and descend using the busted stairs. Shoot
whoever you can see outside and make a half circle to the right and outside, a
window will open and there’s another enemy behind a wall below it. When the
coast is clear you can move through the open fence and climb over the truck.
Place an explosive on the gate and head through it after it has been blown
open. Take cover behind the obstacles and work your way to the left, shoot all
the enemies and watch out for the ones appearing in the buildings up higher.
When you move past the building on the left, more enemies will come from that
direction, mow them down and also take out the enemies in the window on the
higher floor. Enter this building, head up the stairs, across this floor and
down on the other side again.
Look out for the MG42 in the church window, you can move along the left and
approach it so you can take out all the enemies inside from close range. As
soon as that’s done, head more to the right and enter the church through the
gate. More enemies will appear, when they’re gone you can move up the stairs
near the entrance, at the other side of the barricade, to reach Sgt. Magnuson.
The church is immediately stormed by an entire army of Germans, so take place
behind an empty MG42 and give them hell. Point your attention towards the
enemies on your side, these are the most dangerous for yourself. Take some
distance if you take enough damage and continue mowing down Germans after
that, as soon as you complete the objective you can finish off the remaining
enemies before you leave the MG42. Sgt. Magnuson is hanging above some rubble
on his parachute, stand on top of it and look up, you can then press X to cut
down the sergeant. Follow him and move through the door he opens, then descend
the stairs and when you open the door automatically you’ll be knocked out by a
German on the other side of it.
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Take cover behind the wall to be able to take out the enemies in front and
around the house safely. If you manage to do this, walk past the house and
follow the rest of your team, ahead is a bridge where you’ll run in to some
friendly troops. Cross the bridge, past the person placing an explosive and to
the person waving at you. The bridge will be automatically blown up. A
teammate will kick in a door next to the well, follow him through some
buildings to end up in a field. Take care of the opposition and head up the
hill to the left to another downed airplane, behind it is the first part of
the bazooka you need to pick up. More opponents will show up from the west,
take cover and finish them off before you head that way yourself. Cross the
entire field, take out some more enemies and help a teammate down who’s stuck
in a tree with his parachute.
Ahead a tree is blocking your path, crawl underneath it and take out two more
enemies behind another tree to the left. Move to the downed plane indicated on
your radar and get rid of all the enemies in this area before you pick up the
second and also the last part of the bazooka. Put it away and take out the
enemies between you and the next indicated location. Eventually an armored car
will show up near the bridge, take cover and destroy it with a well aimed shot
of your bazooka. With this car out of the way you’re able to advance, maybe
with some more enemies on your route. At the bridge is a blockade, behind it
two enemies will appear. Take them out and wait for a teammate to blow up the
barricade, then walk underneath the bridge to finish the mission after it gets
blown up.
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To the left is a building full of Germans. Take cover behind the wall and
concentrate on taking out the man behind the MG42 and all the other enemies
that replace him afterwards. When that is taken care of, take out the rest and
especially pay attention to the windows in the roof and the door. As soon as
the coast is clear you can go in here and out on the other side again. The
stables to the left will open up, take out two men inside there and then head
inside yourself. Head through another open door into a barn, there’s another
ally on a parachute in here so help him down. Leave the building through the
door next to him and shoot the enemies on the right at the log and the little
bridge. When they are defeated, head over to the bridge and crawl to the other
side of it after going prone. Follow the route to another, larger bridge which
is still being occupied by Germans. Zoom in with L1 to take out the men behind
the MG42 machine guns with more accuracy, then you can grab an MG42 yourself
on your level and mow down everyone that comes to storm the bridge.
When new opponents appear behind the MG42 machine guns in the tower, first
take them out before you continue firing. If all goes well you can also stand
on the side of the bridge and shoot down the enemies that will come up to the
bridge in advance. After a while you’ll be notified of a completed objective,
after which you have to take down the barricade. To the right of the MG42 a
crate has landed with a bazooka inside it, pick it up and blow up the
barricade in the middle of the bridge with it. Run across the bridge with your
team and when you’re almost on the other side you can take your time to bring
down the remaining enemies. Move towards the north and a new location will
appear on your radar. Follow the route to the barn with the two red doors and
head inside through the open door. When you exit on the other side you’ll end
up in a yard, multiple enemies are there who will all be replaced with even
more enemies. Take cover and take them out one by one systematically.
Approach the entrance of the castle bit by bit and shoot whoever you can see
inside from the opening of the door before you head inside yourself. Run
straight to get to the front door, it will get blown up by a tank. Quickly
grab your bazooka and use it to fire at the tank, you can find more ammunition
left of the hole in the wall. After taking out the tank you have to take care
of the remaining enemies, as soon as you get a new objective you have to head
back inside and go up a floor. After the first stairs, head left into the
room, where a second tank will blow up the wall. Here you can also find enough
ammunition for your bazooka to be able to finish off the tank and the other
enemies around it. When that is taken care of, leave the room and cross over
to the other side of the building. Two more tanks will appear here, one on the
north side and one in the east. There are more rockets around for you to pick
up, use them to destroy the two tanks. When hat is done, the Germans will
retreat and the mission is accomplished.
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You’ll be dropped out of another airplane and you can see a windmill tower
with green smoke coming out of it, among other things. Try to land inside it
by moving around and pulling the parachute a little. If you manage to land
here you can pick up the Weapon Upgrade, which will give your rifle a scope
with zoom capabilities. Descend down through the mill to get outside again,
then take out the opponents at the windows and the door. Carefully move inside
the building and take out some remaining enemies downstairs and on the next
floor. When the house is cleared, a colleague will kick in the back door for
you, head outside there and storm the hill. Look for cover and take out the
MG42 machine guns in the roof window and in the mill ahead and to the right.
When those are taken care of you can shoot the other enemies, after which your
team will open up the barn doors. Head inside and you can see a trench to your
right, more Germans are inside it. Shoot them and head through the trench
towards the mill. Work your way up, with multiple enemies on your route.
At the top is a canon you have to take out, so place an explosive and head
back down again. New enemies are inside the trench now, take them out to get
back into the barn. Blow open the doors on the other side of it and advance
through the stables while multiple batches of enemies appear. In the big part
of the barn you have to move around the room clockwise, towards the stairs in
the northwestern corner. Go up here and a new batch of soldier will appear on
this floor. Work your way counter-clockwise towards the other side and head
into the room to the side, shoot a couple of soldiers from the opening of the
door and then blow open the other door at the other side of the room. Collect
the important documents spread out over the table ahead and return to the big
room. An American who speaks German will lure the enemies inside, so take your
position to be able to shoot all the enemies that come inside through the open
front door. When they are all taken care of and your team heads outside,
descend and follow them to regroup at the other soldiers.
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Run across the street and head through the opening in the wall ahead to the
left. Take cover behind the tractor located ahead and try to shoot down the
men behind the MG42 machine guns. When things calm down a bit, make a circling
movement along the left. Shoot whoever you can see and clear the entire area
to complete the objective and then enter the house from this side. A counter
attack will follow from the Germans, so get behind an MG42 and mow down as
many as you can. When they get to close you’ll be forced to leave the MG42 and
bring yourself to safety, so that you can take out the enemies from cover one
by one. End the counter attack by removing all the red doors from your radar
and you’ll complete that objective. More Germans will come from the other side
and spread out through the house. So take cover inside and work your way along
the enemies to the new indicated location on your radar. They’re located next
to doors or holes in the wall, so be careful when you move further through the
house. After completing this goal you can go up the ladder inside the room you
complete it in. Run through the opening and out of the building and crouch
down behind the wall. Move along it to the left and shoot the men behind the
MG42 and on the roof through the opening. A second person will take place
behind the MG42, take him out as well and then move past it to the right.
There’s a door there you need to blow up, so do that and take out the guy
behind the MG42 in the little window to be able to also blow up the door next
to him. Take out another enemy in a shooting window, walk past it and go to
the left. Get rid of all the enemies in this firing chamber and pick up all
the items here, including a Weapon Upgrade. Then head up the other stairs to
get to the roof of the bunker, where three more enemies need to be taken out
before you can place an explosive on the canon. As soon as it blows up, look
in the direction of the bridge and help the MG42 gunner with taking out the
opponents on that bridge. When things are a little more quiet, descend the way
you came up here and head left at the bottom of the stairs. There’s a door you
need to blow up, after which you can actually go onto the bridge. Carefully
move across it bit by bit and take out the opponents before you travel too
far. At the end is another MG42, evade it by climbing over the wall along the
bridge using some debris on the left. Then continue towards the little booth,
where there’s also an enemy inside. Take him out and shoot the guy behind the
MG42 through the window. Also get rid of other enemies around this square and
the bunker. As soon as you do, climb the roof to the second canon, then blow
it up to wrap up this mission.
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You’ll end up in a heavy gunfight right away, where the square you’re on is
fired upon from many sides. Look on your radar to see where most of the
enemies are and then take cover to avoid their fire. Quickly take out the all
ready present enemies, because new ones will show up, also on other sides.
Switch cover when that’s the case and make sure the MG42 machine guns aren’t
used. When the entire attack wave is defeated you have to regroup at the other
soldiers, after which they will move on and new enemies appear. A small gate
will open, go through it and shoot they guy behind the MG42 when he’s
reloading, then rest inside and around the building before you pass through
it. Head out the other side, take out someone and head left and inside right
away. After the Tiger tank shows up, which will be destroyed right away, a
door will open so that you can go outside. Walk past your own troops and
continue towards the indicated location. When you look around the corner to
the right towards the north you can see a lot of enemies on the street and
inside the buildings around the brick factory.
Look for cover and take them out one by one, when they’re all defeated a
teammate will blow open the door next to the stacks of bricks. Head inside,
take care of some enemies and eventually move up. There are a couple of
opponents behind the windows across the street, take them out before you try
to take down the two walls with explosives like you’re asked to. After blowing
up the second wall more enemies will appear in the building past it, shoot
them and descend to the left to move along that building. Head around the
corner to the right, but watch out for a man in the window above and a couple
of them on the street. If you go around the corner to the left there are some
enemies behind the sandbags, shoot them and move past them towards the canon.
Two more enemies are hiding behind crates there, get rid of them and then blow
up the canon. A teammate will make short work of the barricade so that you can
continue. As soon as you do you will discover the tank right in front of you.
Quickly run straight and head into the building to the right and ahead
following some teammates and head up the stairs right away to find a bazooka.
There’s not a lot of ammunition for it, this is spread out over the entire
area, so make all the shots count. Shoot a rocket into the tank and jump off
of the building to the north side. Walk into the next one and go right
immediately to go up the stairs. Pick up another rocket up here, this is also
destined to be fired at the tank. Again, jump from the building on the north
side towards your team and walk along with them through the next building. On
the other side you have to go out again, to walk around the area counter-
clockwise. Switch to your normal weapon for a while to help your team taking
out enemies, eventually head through the small gate and up some rubble to the
higher floor of another building. There’s more ammunition for your bazooka in
the room next to the street, use it to take out the tank directly. You’ll be
told to regroup, so head back to the indicated location to find a fallen
soldier there but also the end of the mission.
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You’ll be thrown out of another airplane again and you can determine where to
land with your parachute. Do that at the green smoke below you to the left and
then look behind you for a Weapon Upgrade, which enables your rifle to zoom in
more. Use this to take out the MG42 gunners in the tower in the northeast from
cover, also the replacements when they show up. Move towards the tower where
the gunners were in and you can advance to the left. Stay close to your team
though, they will only advance when the coast is relatively clear. So take
cover and use your radar to see where the direct opponents are. Take care of
them and find new cover after walking along with your team. Whatever you do,
don’t get too close to the tank, there are mines around it that will kill you
for sure. Eventually you’ll beat enough enemies to reach the tank wall, which
completes that objective. Continue a bit and take cover behind the rock to
your left, take out all the enemies behind and around the MG42.
Go straight until you get to the next MG42 in a wooden building, take out the
gunner and descend into the trench with your team. To the right is the first
canon you have to blow up, so place and explosive there and head the other
way. In the ruins ahead is the second MG42 nest you need to clear, after which
you complete that goal and a armored car will show up and gets taken out by an
allied plane, which crashes right after that. A lot of enemies will appear on
the west side, look for cover there and shoot whoever you see. New enemies
will keep appearing, but after a while they will move to the north. So fire in
that direction when that happens and just keep killing Germans from cover.
Eventually your enemies will start to run right through the ruins to get to
the east, shoot whoever aims at you and then follow the rest to also take them
down and complete an objective. Follow your team to the west, when the
entrance to the trench is mentioned the location of this will also appear on
your radar.
Enter it, follow the route and take out multiple enemies on your route towards
the bunker. Make sure you stay out of sight of the MG42 inside the bunker and
first take out the enemies that come outside, then try to take on the MG42
gunner and his replacements. First check the area to the right of the bunker,
get rid of all the enemies and place an explosive on the canon. Then you can
do the same to the door in the bunker so you can get inside. Follow the
obvious route through the bunker, but watch out for new batches of enemies
appearing in the back parts. You’ll come to another door you have to blow up,
so do that and shoot an enemy on the higher edge of the trench right away.
Around the corner to the left is another canon with multiple enemies around
it, take them out and place an explosive on the canon. When you try to
continue, a Tiger tank will show up, but it will get stuck in the trench. As
soon as the tank has fired, run up to it and stand underneath it, ignore the
Germans in the alcove on the left in front of the tank, and place an explosive
on the bottom of the tank quickly. Then continue running ahead and take cover
next to the base on the left side of the small bridge.
Your team will join you again, use cover to first take out the two guys on the
bridge above you and then work your way up to the bunker after clearing the
MG42 in the window. When you walk along the bunker to the left a door will
open, take out two guys and look inside through this door. First kill the
gunner in the window, before placing an explosive on the door and continue
through the bunker. There are multiple enemies inside, clear the entire bunker
and a colleague will kick in a door at the end so that you can go outside
again. Stay in the opening of the door and mow down the Germans who probably
haven’t even noticed you yet. Work your way ahead and clear the area to the
left, blow up the canon by placing an explosive on it. Continue to the east,
ahead is another branch to the left where there are mortar teams on both
sides. Shoot them and follow the main route again, to the right is another
incline with more soldiers and further to the left is some kind of shelter.
When everyone is taken out, blow up the crates blocking your way and then keep
on walking until you finish the mission.
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Follow your teammates straight ahead and walk into the factory. Enemies will
appear on the walkways above you, shoot them down and also take care of the
sniper in the tower ahead and to the left outside. Crawl underneath the
obstacle, walk into the next room and climb the stairs to a higher floor. Kill
the enemy in the first room and walk through it. To the right is a room with
weaponry where you can find useful stuff, get it and walk into the next big
room where you were on the bottom floor a moment ago. Make your way through it
clockwise and take out the enemies that show up along the way, most of them
will come out of the door at the end. Outside is a Tiger tank, so switch to
the bazooka placed in the corner next to the door and use it to take out the
tank. Extra ammunition is outside on the balcony, where you also need to blow
open the door after the tank is destroyed. Head inside the factory and hide
behind the plate, look around it to see and take out about four enemies next
to each other behind the sandbags and pillars. Move through this room counter-
clockwise and go up the stairs on the left you get to pretty quickly, in the
building up there are two Germans you need to take out before you can use the
MG42 to mow down more enemies in the distance. When the coast is clear you can
go back down again, moving counter-clockwise through the room again and down a
little ahead.
About three enemies are hiding here on the bottom floor, shoot them and go
back up again in the southwestern corner and then move north again. Make your
way through the crates and enemies and especially watch the crew behind the
MG42 against the back wall. Work your way over there, but if you haven’t
destroyed the tank yet you can go into a room on the left for another rocket,
before heading right and across the walkway to continue. When you reach the
MG42 at the end you can go outside through a hole in the northwest corner of
the building. Hide behind the wall to the left and shoot at the opponents
around the canon. When they are taken care of you can approach the canon, but
first look left around the corner and up a little to see and take out another
opponent. Blow up the canon with an explosive and then do the same to the door
in the east. Take out three guys outside and head right into the tunnel. Shoot
your way to the intersection, where there also a couple of beds, and clear the
area. First take the route to the left, at the end you can find a Weapon
Upgrade behind the crate. Return to the intersection and take the other route,
follow it while taking down enemies until you get to an MG42.
It’s tempting to use it right now, but this will get you hit too much by enemy
fire, so stay away from it. Throw some grenades over it and carefully look
around the corner every now and then to shoot enemies one by one. Keep doing
this until the room is completely empty and you complete the objective, then
you can place an explosive on the blockade. When that’s out of the way head
over to the exit in the southeast, where you regroup with your team again. Run
after them and upstairs, head through the northern door there for another cut
scene. You’ll be told about a lot of snipers in the next room. You need to
complete the route through it and every time you see red dots you have to get
some cover and track and kill the snipers. Run straight to fall down in the
corner, then turn around and walk to the other corner where you can go over a
ramp. Continue to follow the route and duck inside a tunnel ahead. At the
first opening you can shoot whoever is present, then crawl into the next
tunnel. When you get out of it, check the perimeter for snipers, when they’re
taken care of you can continue. A large part of the route you will have to
complete underground.
Every time you get to an opening you can look for the shooters and take them
out when you see them. If not, then continue, hoping you can see them from a
different position. On your way you will also encounter groups of enemies
around MG42 machine guns in dug out bunkers. Usually you’ll approach them from
the side or back, but watch out for those so you don’t end up moving towards
them from the front and get blown apart. The snipers that are not in the
building but on the roof can also be annoying. When you et close to the other
side of the area, a door will open and some Germans will come running through
it. Take cover behind a pillar or another obstacle and take them out. If there
are still red dots on your radar, you have to actively search for those
opponents and take care of them. You can only move through the door the last
bunch of enemies came through and blow up the next one after completing that
objective. Go through it and after taking out two men on the walkway you can
take your position next to the door opening on the right. There are a lot of
enemies inside, lean into the opening to finish them off one by one. When the
coast is clear you can go into the room and head through the door in the back
left to get to some stairs around the corner. Climb the stairs and watch out
when you get to the corner, you’ll be fired upon from three different
directions.
Clear out the opening opposite the stairs and go through it, shoot down the
rest of the enemies firing from the other opening on your left right away. The
third opening contains an MG42, but instead of attacking it head on you can go
straight from here and walk a short section through the room where are the
snipers were and where you came from. Look to the left, get rid of the boards
and take down the MG42 gunner and his colleagues. Cross to the other room past
the MG42 and blow up the door around the corner. Wait for the MG42 gunner
behind it to reload and the mow him down. The hole in front of you is where
you came from, so jump diagonally to the right to the other side of the wall.
As soon as your team gets here as well you can continue, but stay close to the
door opening. Enemies are located all around and they’re firing at you pretty
heavily. Try to find cover and first take out the enemies to the right from
the door. Watch out for the one soldier up higher on the floor behind you.
Take him out as well and use the stairs to try to get to his position. If
there are still enemies you can mow them down, after which you have a nice
location to also fire upon the rest down below. Make sure all the red dots are
removed from your radar to complete the objective, which will make you go up
to the top floor automatically.
A large counter attack from the Germans will follow, so find cover right away
and point your attention to the north. From this top floor you can hit the
enemies pretty well, but after a while a tank will show up as well. Then
you’ll have to go down and look for rockets for your bazooka next to crates in
the west, north and east. Return to the higher floor with these rockets and
take out the tank and any other remaining enemies approaching from the north.
Then the entire situation will move to the west. First only infantry will
arrive, then an extra tank. So make sure you collect more ammunition for your
bazooka from below, it has been replenished at the three familiar locations.
Also strike down the attack from this side and blow up the tank, then the
entire situation will repeat itself in the east. Collect some more rockets,
blow up the tank and shoot down all the men. Then things will really get out
of hand. Enemy troops will enter the building, so you’re only relatively safe
on the top floor. The problem is that a fourth tank will arrive from the
north, so you’ll have to collect more ammunition below. So clear an area
around the spot where you can get rockets from up here and then jump down to
get it. Take out the last tank and defeat the remaining enemies on your radar
to complete the mission and also the game.
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Not that I was expecting a recently announced Medal Of Honor to be very good,
certainly not with Airborne coming up, but Vanguard still disappoints me a
lot. The old quality level of the series is nowhere to be found, both in
gameplay and appearance. Lets hope Medal Of Honor will have more to offer on
the next generation of consoles.
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\ B / CREDITS /
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Maybe they made the right decision to leave the old generation of consoles
behind with Vanguard, but I expected more from a title that appears at the end
of the generation’s life cycle.
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