EA may have given up on Medal of Honor after Respawn's ambitious yet unsuccessful VR spinoff, but there's still a strong cohort of fans of the World War 2 shooter series that laid the groundwork for Call of Duty. Only last month, a developer going by Elber88 released a ground-up remake of the very first Medal of Honor—released on PlayStation in 1999—built in Unreal Engine 4 using original game logic and assets from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, meaning you can essentially play the series debut on PC for the very first time.
This, it turns out, has gone down very well with Medal of Honor fans. So well, in fact, that Elber decided to continue developing the remake a little further. Version 1.1 of Medal of Honor Retro Remake not only spruces up the initial release in several ways, but it also includes an extra level that was cut from the original game.
"I am glad to invite you to play the updated versions 1.1 of the remake, which to my surprise has become very popular not only among fans of the original MOH but also among ordinary players," Elber wrote on ModDB. "This inspired me to continue working in my free time and do it for the community."
Version 1.1 includes "many fixes and most of the wishes and improvements from players," though Elber doesn't go into specifics. However, Elber does provide some information on that extra level, which is set in the infamous Colditz Castle. According to the Medal of Honor wiki, this mission mostly exists in several screenshots and information in the games LEVEL.BIN files, which suggest it would have involved intelligence gathering and assassinating the castle commandant.
Elber acknowledges that the mission is based on "very limited information" and so he has understandably taken some creative license in building it. "The current implementation can be considered as my vision," he writes.
You can download the updated Medal of Honor: Retro Remake via ModDB. I played a little of the previously released version last month, and it seemed like a well-put together remake, although the absence of the original game's animations was something of a shame. Nonetheless, if you never played the pre-Allied Assault Medal of Honor games and would like to remedy that (partially) anyway, this is a decent way to do that.
