There's nothing quite like blowing up Nazi gun emplacements. You'll notice each soldier checking the chute and pack of the person in front of him, and then the squad takes turns sounding off their 'OKs.' A few seconds later, the red light is replaced with a green one, and the soldiers aboard the C-47 dive out of a perfectly good airplane for the short parachute ride down to French soil. As you approach your jump window, a red bulb above the lone door on the C-47 will flicker on, and one of the airplane's crew chiefs will signal your squad to rise. You'll start Spearhead aboard a C-47 Gooney as part of a squad of airborne infantry. Though, instead of landing on the beach, you'll be inserted into France from 3,000 feet. Much like Allied Assault, Spearhead opens with an in-game cutscene that is depicted from your perspective. Instead, your character is a Sergeant Jack Barnes, a US Army Ranger who's sent into Normandy the night before the infamous D-Day invasion. Interestingly, you won't play the role of Lt. In fact, you'll find yourself in a pitched battle immediately upon firing up Spearhead. You'll parachute into France on the night before D-Day. We recently had the chance to play an early build of Spearhead, and it's clear that this forthcoming expansion pack is striving to offer the same level of excitement and fevered combat that its predecessor did earlier this year. The game was superbly executed, thanks to its gorgeous graphics, amazing sound effects, and gameplay inspired by the likes of Saving Private Ryan. Mike Powel, an OSS agent tasked with infiltrating Nazi positions in North Africa and Europe, extracting vital military secrets, and wreaking mass havoc on the Axis powers in general. For those who haven't had the pleasure, the original Medal of Honor: Allied Assault put you in the shoes of one Lt. Like most expansion packs, Spearhead will make a number of additions to Allied Assault's original gameplay, not the least of which are new multiplayer maps, a new multiplayer mode, several new weapons, and a whole new mini single-player campaign that will have you fighting Germans on their own doorstep.

After an initial back and forth between titles like 'Team Assault' and 'Reload,' Electronic Arts and developer EALA finally settled on Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Spearhead. While development on the recently announced expansion pack to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is still a few months away from completion, Electronic Arts did manage to complete one aspect of the game's production not too long ago: deciding on a name.

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