Medal of Honour For all the pre-release controversy surrounding Medal of Honour, EA's contemporary world shooter is surprisingly understated. The controversy that players would be able to "recreate the acts of the Taliban" was, like most other videogame controversies, founded on rumour and speculation. Served up by credulous politicians and …
The cynic in me says the Taliban was just a 'flare' to raise some interest in this 'flagging' franchise..
See what I done there.
No word on what Anti-Copy Protection EA has put in place or how many times you will have to re-install your OS to get it to run!
Don't think I'll bother
would be much better still. much better gfx and usually more people. i just get annoyed that dice always produce almost great games (bad company 2) but they are usually ruined somehow. i still prefer them to MW etc as they are often much more team based.
does anyone really play the single player games? dice just create multiplayer really, anything else is just a bonus
MOH airborne was a little under five hours to complete on all levels, and the only replay ability was to earn your five secret landings or to unlock the really hard to find weapon. Which if you don't mind dying you can do on first play through. So if this is six hours then you are not really telling me it is a leap on from MOH airborne.
Worryingly is the fact you mention multiplayer is not done by the same team as their single player?
I was looking forward to this, hoping it would stack up. Oh well. A least I have modern warfare to play for a slick and polished FPS and more single player plot than you can shake a big pointy sharp object with explosives at once end.
"She was neither English or Scottish - she was BRITISH!"
When this article first appeared the quote beneath the first image was as per the title of my previous post, claiming the hostage victim was English and clearly alluding to the death of Linda Norgrove, and the article was then silently corrected.
Miss Norgrove was Scottish (born in the Scottish Highlands) and was also British. There, how's that for you - happy?
Like with previous Medal of Honor games (Allied Assault, Spearhead, etc) for the PC
1. Can we set up a dedicated server running on our own hardware or rented hardware that players can join ?
2. Can the players create their own custom maps ?
3. Can the players mod the game (like freeze tag, etc) ?
After the farce with Modern Warefare and the absolute crappy IWNet for P2P multiplayer game play (which has put me off buying anymore Activision/Infinity Ward games) I am hoping that all the questions for Medal of Honor is yes.
If not then EA Games needs to have a good think about the PC gamers.
After all it was the custom map makers and modders that made the orginal MoH series one of the best FPS games in years even when Activision tried to copy it with their first Call of Duty series.
Just thought I'd point out that a large portion of the original staff of Infinity Ward (creators of the Call of Duty franchise) came from 2015, inc, who were responsible for making MoH:AA.
So you may continue your CoD-hate all you like, but remember, those that made MoHAA, made CoD... =P
Cracking review.
I wasn't aware that the single player and multi player were done by separate teams - makes sense now cos you can go prone and slide in single player but not in multi player :(
Also your gripe with spawning next to players under fire is also correct - another gripe is spawning MILES away from where the action is or spawning in the same predictable place under gun fire.
Single player not as good as BFBC2, multiplayer better than BFBC2.
Immensely enjoyable with a few friends - but it's only filling in until COD Black Ops is released.
Paris cos I'm sure she's fired a few guns..
The people who make black ops made "world at war" which was crap, it's not the same team who did a dececnt job MW2. I agree with you about MoH being more fun than BBC2 though in multiplayer, it's superbly intense and a lot less campable. Shame about no prone in MP though.
No point in bothering with the single player though to be honest, no one buys these games to play offline - that's just something you do when EA servers are down :)
One advantage this game has over MW2 apart from the superior maps and textures is the lack of 'finding new host' stoppages! At least EA had the sense to run their own servers. I am just glad to have a decent game to play after the disappointment that was Halo: Reach multiplayer....
I, for one, thought it was kind of cool in COD to take part in the Normandy invasion.
I think, however; there's a huge opportunity being lost. Korea may be America's forgotten war, but even Korea may have had a video game ascribed to it (MASH)
However; where are the FPS games for WWI? And, no, I don't mean WWI flying games (something entirely different.)
A well placed and timed grenade always livens things up...
But what I really want to know is, why on earth did they make one game authored by 2 devs with 2 different engines and 2 different styles of play? Isn't that really 2 games?
Also, the last thing I want is another MW2 clone - considering it's a clone itself, aren't we nearing the point of diminishing returns for mediocre 6 hour long shooters with totally lame plots?
P.S to those asking about PC specific stuff - I'd like to know too, but the review was for the Xbox version - it says on the green thingy.
P.P.S: Thumb me up if you think Maverick should have died instead of Goose
ive read some many reveiews putting this game down but i still went ahead a purchased it and glad i did.. its better than modern warfare in terms of the online play imho and closer to battlefield 2. i dont buy these games for the single player experience as online is the place to be. i love the new maps not too small but not too big.
BUY IT!!
p.s cant wait for cod: spec ops!!
p.p.s those with a pc buy a console and see what your missing.. i never thought id enjoy games on anything else but a pc but how wrong was i
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