Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

Story

Lt. Mike Powell, the protagonist, is an experienced US Army Ranger and later an agent of the Office of Strategic Services. Powell and a group of Rangers are in Arzew, Algeria, fighting on the North African front. The squad fights its way into the town, but all but Powell are killed in an ambush. Powell penetrates further into an Axis North African base, where he rescues S.A.S. agent Major Grillo and recovers his equipment. The Major and Lt. Powell split up, with Grillo securing transportation while Powell commits acts of sabotage in a motor pool. He then reunites with Grillo, who has commandeered a jeep with a machine gun mounted on it. The two then drive to a German airfield, where they successfully destroy the Stuka dive bombers that have landed there. While Grillo distracts the German troops, Powell sneaks into a bunker, cuts radio contact with the Axis forces and fights his way to a lighthouse on the coast to signal the Allied fleet to begin the invasion of Africa. He then flees with Grillo in a jeep. After the Allied success in Africa, Powell and Grillo are sent to German-occupied Norway to infiltrate the city of Trondheim, where a Kriegsmarine submarine is fitted with a prototype Naxos radar detector. Grillo makes it into the base first, but is killed by German guards when he opens the entrance gate for Powell. Powell fights his way into the base, disguises himself as a German soldier and infiltrates the loading bay. He first goes into the laboratory, where he destroys the Naxos prototype. Powell then gains access to a submarine that is to be equipped with the prototype, blows it up and escapes into the air shafts. He then escapes into the air shafts and fights his way out of the base, where he is picked up by an Allied group. Thanks to Powell's efforts, the German U-boat threat is neutralized and the way is clear for the Allied invasion of Europe. Powell is sent to Omaha Beach under Captain Ramsay, where he and his fellow Rangers storm the bunkers and secure the beach despite heavy losses. He is then sent to the area beyond the beaches to help various American units that are being harassed by smoke throwers. Powell is then ordered to go behind enemy lines and gather intelligence on German troop movements. After rescuing stranded British pilot Joe Baylor, Powell meets French resistance fighter Manon Batiste (the main character of Medal of Honor: Underground). She sends him out to carry out various acts of sabotage against the German war effort. He raids a mansion serving as a command post and secures important enemy documents, including the plans for the new King Tiger tank. With Manon's help, Powell then escapes from the mansion. Powell's next mission is to capture a King Tiger tank and use it to secure an important bridge in the city of Brest. After navigating his way through the sniper-infested ruins, he encounters the American tank crew selected for this mission. Powell and the tank crew capture the King Tiger and fight their way through the countryside with it. Once in Brest, Powell provides cover for the King Tiger to protect the bridge until reinforcements arrive to secure it. Powell's final mission sends him to Fort Schmerzen, a German mustard gas production facility previously raided by Lt. James Patterson but since reopened, ostensibly as a POW camp but possibly used for mustard gas production. Powell is parachuted into the woods, where he destroys some Flak 88s threatening Allied aircraft. He then infiltrates a weapons depot and destroys a stockpile of StG 44 assault rifles. He then destroys a German communications post, cutting off communications from Fort Schmerzen. Powell hijacks a freight train and reaches Schmerzen together with a group of US Rangers. Once in Schmerzen, Powell and his fellow Rangers storm the fort and free all the prisoners of war. Powell then fights his way into the lower levels of Schmerzen, where he discovers that the fort's mustard gas production facilities are still in operation. He plants explosives at the gas plants and escapes just before Fort Schmerzen is destroyed.