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Medal of Honor Review
Picture the scene: You're creeping through an Afghan wadi, covering your squad mates' approach with suppressive fire on an enemy machine gun encampment. Dust is being kicked up by running and bullets, and the piecing glare of the red-hot sun is so bright it makes looking far into the horizon impossible. You're a long way from home, soldier, and the emotional toll must surely be immense. As you zero your sights on another distant bogey you gently squeeze the trigger before being greeted by a big ol' headshot notification icon popping up at the bottom of the screen. This is war.Medal of Hono(u)r enters the crowded shooter market with lofty ambitions: it wants to realistically present the current conflict raging in Afghanistan, and in doing so it has become the most controversial game of 2010. But developer Danger Close's contentious desires are often hindered by Medal of Honor having to concurrently act as a video game, and it's in this back-and-forth between tone and game that the whole product suffers its biggest blow.What you need to understand about the new Medal of Honor, you see, is that many of its core events play out like its contemporaries.
Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor deserves respect. It single-handedly launched the WWII-shooter craze 11 years ago, hooked PC gamers with Allied Assault, invigorated console shooters with Frontline, and then, tumbled into irrelevance. Trading Nazis for the Taliban, and trenches for modern battlegrounds is more than an attempt at a sequel—it is a complete reboot of the series, and a chance for redemption. But, effort alone does not warrant praise in our hobby. The single-player campaign begins with a nondescript mission in Afghanistan, sans a purpose or background story. What follows is a calamitous chain, or rather, circle of events, in which the SEALs are aided by the Rangers, the Rangers are saved by gunships, and the gunships are then helped by the SEALs. Danger Close wanted to avoid political storylines in order to focus on the heroics and sacrifices of the servicemen depicted. It's a noble cause, but ultimately pointless if the depictions are hollow shells. There's zero attachment to any character in Medal of Honor. Rabbit's lucky rabbit's foot and Dusty's beard carry the brunt of characterization. Mother, Preacher, Voodoo, and Deuce have cool codenames, and that's it.
Medal of Honor Review
In the crowded first-person shooter market, it's important for a game to carve out a niche--do something better than or different from its competitors. Medal of Honor tries to do just that by representing a real conflict that is really happening in a real country between two real opposing forces. From the chatter among the soldiers and the authentic weapons to the environmental continuity, there are many elements that enliven the campaign with an invigorating sense of realism. Unfortunately, this energy is diminished somewhat by a bunch of video game-y elements, like invisible walls, invincible allies, and an incongruous icon that pops up whenever you get a headshot. The campaign finds a reasonable balance between realism and escapism, where it manages to provide a fairly engrossing experience despite its flaws. The online multiplayer offers many thrills of its own, and the adherence to realism makes for battlefields where the only thing between you and a swift death is your gun and your reflexes. Both the single-player and multiplayer components provide some robust entertainment, and though flaws and limitations keep it from being all it can be, Medal of Honor still distinguishes itself on the field of first-person battle.
Medal of Honor Review
There was a specific point in Medal of Honor where my hopes for the game were at their highest. Tasked with a special operations group in the Shahikot mountains - a real place that saw some of the most savage fighting of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the American ground war in the country in 2002 - we have orders to eradicate several Taliban positions. As I make my way through the wreckage of a small outpost destroyed by our AC-130 support, the smoke clears and I see the sun rising over the ridgeline, filling the sky with red and blue light. This was one of those moments we have in good singleplayer campaigns - moments where your disbelief is suspended and you're in that experience. About two minutes later, I was cursing Medal of Honor as I desperately tried to figure out exactly which 10-square-foot area I needed to enter to start the next mandatory scripted sequence. While you'll encounter both of these types of moments in Medal of Honor, the latter eventually overwhelmed the former. While the PC version seems generally free of the stability issues found in the console releases, level design that tends more toward turkey shoot than firefight, and a story and characters that stumble in their attempts at relevance and pathos find Medal of Honor walking into a quagmire it never really escapes from.
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Major game publishers still seem unwilling to fully tackle the events, interpretations, and consequences of America's most recent set of military conflicts, but while EA bowed to mounting pressure and removed the word "Taliban" from Medal of Honor's multiplayer suite, the terminology remains an integral part of the campaign, which bears a more realistic tone than most other modern shooters. Unlike the ill-defined locations and allegiances in some other genre entries, Medal of Honor's intense firefights take place in Afghani cities you've likely heard of, and indeed, your battle is waged against the clearly-indicated Taliban. With that in mind, I hoped the game would cash in that bold opportunity to bring some gravitas to the situation, and make players examine the controversial post-9/11 war from conflicting perspectives -- or hell, even feel uncomfortable shooting Taliban soldiers. But aside from some heartfelt (but ultimately peripheral) notes about the game's dedication to our country's fallen soldiers, Medal of Honor rarely rises above the "ooh-rah, kill the 'bad guys'" approach seen in most other modern military campaigns. It's a missed opportunity, no doubt, but not one that will kill or even derail the experience for many shooter fans.
Medal of Honor (Preview)
I didn't like the Medal of Hono(u)r beta - but that's okay, according to DICE, as it was intended to be an actual beta. Not these fancy 'betas as marketing gimmicks' that are commonplace nowadays (although it was used as a marketing gimmick) but an actual, honest-to-goodness beta with warts and all, such as serious problems that needed fixing â?? like the way it kept crashing my PS3, for instance â?? and really dodgy balancing.So, it's been a few months and the game's due out in a couple of weeks. What's changed? Loads of stuff, actually. Some of the most noticeable changes include the overhauled HUD, the recoil of the weapons and the killstreaks, which are now far harder to obtain. That might not sound like much in an industry obsessed with making up 'revolutionary' new features to plonk on the back of boxes, but take the game for a spin online and it's clear that these tweaks have had a massive impact.That being said, my only opportunity to test out the multiplayer component of the game â?? this is the bit being made by DICE with the Frostbite engine, as opposed to Danger Close's single-player campaign â?? was over the course of an afternoon a few weeks ago.
Medal of Honor (Preview)
Development duties for the multiplayer component of Medal of Honor have been given to DICE, the studio behind Battlefield: Bad Company 2. With the success of that game's squad-based multiplayer offering, it's easy to see why. Making a dent in the military first-person shooter market--a market where the all-conquering Call of Duty franchise looms large--is no mean feat. If anyone is up to the task, it might be Stockholm-based, EA-owned DICE. Medal of Honor's multiplayer action has been built with a tweaked version of DICE's Frostbite engine--the engine that powered Bad Company 2. Much of that tweaking has been done since the multiplayer modes were offered up for testing in beta form back in June and July. The early beta gave more time for feedback and fixes, according to Patrick Liu, the game's multiplayer producer. "We didn't really have time to do that in Battlefield: Bad Company 2," he says. Feedback from the beta has given rise to "thousands of fixes," says Liu, ranging from a boost to the recoil of weapons to more consistent hit detection. Support actions earned with kill streaks have been balanced, making them harder to achieve than in the beta.
Medal Of Honor (Preview)
When I finally get to play Medal of Honor's single-player for myself (starting with a Ranger mission in the middle of the campaign called "Belly of the Beast"), the first thing I see is a bunch of soldiers looking out at a group of Chinook helicopters heading to Afghanistan. This stands out because it's actually a modern day version of the opening scene from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (which itself cribbed from the opening of Saving Private Ryan), in which the player is aboard a boat and looks out over the horizon to see all the other landing craft bearing their way to the beaches of Normandy. This modernization of D-Day continues onward, with lots of soldier banter and, when they step out of Chinooks, they get pounded by RPGs and assault-rifle fire the same way the Germans pounded the boats with machine guns. After the same initial shock of in-your-face combat, you (as Ranger Dante Adams) have to rally with the rest of your squad across a chaotic battlefield. It's not just the situation of "guys in transports getting smacked and then dealing with hostiles" that's the same in Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor (Preview)
Ryan Scott, Executive Editor: You saw EA's Medal of Honor reboot recently. How's it looking? MoH has kinda been overshadowed by Call of Duty for a while now. Will Tuttle, Editor in Chief: That's a bit of an understatement, as the success of Activision's CoD must sting EA, the company that created the genre I like to call "wicked intense first-person war shooters" with the original Medal of Honor. I mean, it's not that the last entry, Medal of Honor: Airborne, was an awful game; it just wasn't very good when compared to the other shooters on the market. Most of the blame for the drop in quality from the early MoH games (people tend to forget how awesome the first couple were) to the recent entries falls squarely on the shoulders of the former EA executive regime. They thought it made more sense to churn out a new game every 12 or 18 months than to give the development team a breather and allow them to focus on making something more than "just another shooter." Thankfully, EA abandoned that thinking recently, and this is one of the franchises that's benefitted immensely. Ryan Scott: It sure seems like they're going for a grittier look and feel this time out.
Medal of Honor (Preview)
If that bearded hobo bloke - the Tier 1 Operator EA is using in its marketing for upcoming Afghanistan shoot fest Medal of Honor - represents the scalpel, the US Army Ranger represents the sledgehammer. They are the ground pounders, the overwhelming force - what you would expect to see from big military. It is the Army Rangers that executive producer Greg Goodrich is here at EA's spring showcase to demo.The demo is taken from a Ranger level set in March 2002. It begins with a cinematic - the Leave a Message trailer EA put out last week to debut the "tough as nails" US military force. Go on. Have a gander. It's pretty good.The Rangers engage the enemy in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, but get pinned down by an enemy DShK heavy machine gun. A fire team of six Rangers then volunteers to head into a village to find the machine gun and destroy it. You are one of these rangers, and this is where we pick up the action.The first thing you notice is how authentic the environment looks. The Shah-i-Kot Valley is a vast place. Dusty mountain passes lead the Rangers along a meandering path through the rugged, harsh terrain. The Rangers bark echoing orders at each other. During quieter moments you can hear the wind whistling through the valley.
Medal of Honor First Look (Preview)
No-one really knows the precise recipe that guarantees a successful first person shooter. However, one new theory, based on literally minutes of painstaking consideration by yours truly, suggests that the following ingredients may be helpful: a three word title, under the format "X of Y"; a hideously competitive multiplayer mode; a near-contemporary Western military theme; and, most important of all, at least one character with a beard.EA's new Medal of Honor has already nailed this last element, even though the game won't be out for months yet. The front cover boasts a hard-as-nails-but-still-quite-cool-looking chap, replete with a massive trampy beard and a whopping great machine gun. He's also sporting sunglasses AND a baseball cap, the latter worn backwards in the manner of an early '90s rap artist. It's a terrifying combination: he looks like some form of CIA hiphop busker, a man who could kill you in 48 different ways if you refuse to buy his last Big Issue.Thankfully, this isn't all that MoH also has going for it. If we return to my hastily-assembled checklist, it's clear that EA LA is scoring high on all fronts: the title is a natural fit, obviously, while the multiplayer side of things is being handled by Battlefield developer DICE.
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