Medal of Honor - Underground (USA)

Whether you’re playing Medal of Honor: Underground (USA) for the first time or revisiting this GBA classic on PLAYERETRO, these tips will help you conquer every mission and avoid common frustrating mistakes. Start by mastering the core mechanics: crouching (activated with the B button) is your most valuable tool for the game’s many stealth-focused early missions. Crouching reduces your visibility to enemy patrols, letting you sneak past sentries or line up silent headshots before they can call for reinforcements. This also saves precious ammunition, which is intentionally scarce in most early-game levels, so avoid open combat whenever the objective allows it. When choosing weapons, always carry the silenced pistol for stealth encounters and keep the MP40 submachine gun equipped for close-quarters fights: it has a high rate of fire and spawns with plenty of spare ammo from defeated enemies. Save your rocket launcher ammo exclusively for armored vehicles and fortified bunkers, it will one-shot these targets but is overkill (and wasteful) for regular infantry. For mission-specific strategy, in the opening French sabotage missions, always retreat to a safe distance after planting explosives before triggering them to avoid deadly splash damage. In the North African campaign, use your binoculars (opened with the Select button) to spot hidden snipers on cliff sides before they can take a shot at you, picking them off with your sniper rifle to avoid taking unnecessary damage. Look for hidden medkits in destroyed buildings and behind enemy supply crates: almost every level has at least two hidden medkits that can get you through tough boss fights if you’re low on health. Never rush through objectives: take time to clear all enemies in an area before moving forward, because patrols will often flank you if you leave enemies alive behind your position. For the final infiltration mission, use the enemy disguise you find early in the level to move past most checkpoints without tr