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Saving Private Ryan

posted 18 years ago by tclevenger15
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Did anyone see the similarity between the D-Day landing in MOH, and the D-Day in the movie Saving Private Ryan? When they are in in the boats, they say and do the same thing as in the movie, like when the man directing the boat yells out the seconds until landing. Also, the boat is hit and flipped over as in the movie. Even more similarities are blowing up the barbed wire, and the Captain yelling for cover when another private crosses no-mans land. I thought I was watching the game.

[–] yfitz2001 18 years ago

Well yeah, i mean, its D-Day. The Pilots of the higgins boats are supposed to call out teh seconds left. And they blew up the wires at the see walls, not because they were copying Saving Private Ryan, but because thats what they had to do in real life. The rangers needed an exit, so they blew the wires to get off the beach. But yeah it did remind me of it. But thats because its the same historic battle. PS- the higgins boat in saving private ryan never flipped like it did in the came. Just a little FYI.
Ive seen that movie so many times lol

[–] el_siphono 18 years ago

I found in a level (don't remember which one) something that looks a lot like the bridge in Saving Private Ryan (the one they were defending in the end of the movie)... there a church who was destroyed and there a machine gun on top of it (i think it's the church where Jackson was killed, because he have a guy with him who have a machine gun and was shooting the enemy in the streets below before the tank shoot them) and there the little coffee house where Upham didn't get to on time to deliver ammo to Henderson and another guy. Maybe I can find a picture or something.

I will play the game again to tell in which level I found that (I just don't remember the title of the mission)

[–] m1rock 18 years ago

well one similarity taken from Saving Private Ryan is, when you land on the beach and you come across the medic that is working away on a injured soldier, and then a german bullet its the injured man right in the head, that is taken strait from that film.

[–] yfitz2001 18 years ago

Its strait from real life dude, im sure that happend on many occasions in that war

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[–] K-Browne09 18 years ago

Don't forget the vomiting

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[–] Mr_125 18 years ago

You must remember, Spielberg created the original Medal of Honor. Maybe EA was just paying homage to the film. Yes. The set up was exactly as it was in the movie, except for going into the network of bunkers.
If you want resemblance, you'll laugh so hard at Medal of Honor Allied Assault. There's a mission where you must destroy an AA gun, and guess where it's located-- where T4 Medic Wade was shot by the MG. That big 'bill-board' thing.
And in the mission where you come across a ruined church in the game, (this is still Allied Assault), a building in the city is the exact one where Upham fails to save Mellish. The stairs, the single pillar...

"If you see something, shoot it; if it screams in German, shoot it again."

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[–] sjfosella 18 years ago

Found this out a while ago. If you have "Medal of Honor Allied Assault" on the PC, there is a special noclip cheat that allows you to fly through walls. On Operation Overlord (D-Day)you have to clear out the bunkers. If you enable this cheat and fly outside of the giant bunker, you can walk through the network of bunkers behind the stone buildings. The artillery guns have explosive charge markings on them which indicates you have to dynamight them. This was really what happened on D-Day and pictured in "Saving Private Ryan". This was probaly an extension to the mission which was cut for some reason. Try it out!

[–] sstefnnik 17 years ago

i heard steven spielberg helped make it

[–] scottwolfenden-1 15 years ago

i heard the same, it was a little side prject for him and his dreamworks compI, could be wrong tho

[–] Cinemaholic14 14 years ago

Yes. NO ONE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT "NO ORIGINALTY"! STEVEN SPEILBURG CREATED THIS GAME AND DIRECTED SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (obviously).

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