Medal Of Honor Review

[colddeck64]

So I am new to posting in the forums here, but have followed them for a few years now. I have always enjoyed just sitting back and reading in the forums and getting a few good laughs here and there. But after this week I feel like I need to spread some knowledge about a new game on the market that I'm sure a lot of you will want to pick up.

Medal Of Honor
This is not the game electronic arts should have released.
I was one of the gamers who pre-ordered months in advance and even hyped it up to my friends. EA didn't "re-create" the genre. They added a second rate shooter.
I played every aspect of this game, campaign start to finish, all modes of multiplayer, even their boring tier 1 time trial.

This is my opinion of each aspect.
1- Campaign
We buy these games for the epic story, and for the characters that they introduce. I found the campaign to be extremely dry, with very little story to tell. Just shooting. Thats it. Over and over. Nothing new, but it was a whole 5 hours long......
So the campaign as boring as it was, was fast dull and repetitive. But at least the graphics were crisp and clean. But these days all games are. When was the last time I saw a game with grainy box pixels? Not off to a good start!
4 out of 10.
2- Multi-player
This is what I was most excited for. As a bc2 vet, I assumed the multi-player was in the best hands with DICE designing everything. I felt that their version of multi-player in battlefield is fun, exciting, with great options. However, playing MOH online was none of this. The system is full of bugs. Getting kicked out of 9 out of 10 matches played. And only once keeping my 4 player squad intact to play together. 1 time out 46 matches. Thats a poor average. I expected BC rush improved not destroyed. 1 match actually lasted 27 seconds. What a waste.......
2 out of 10.
3- Tier 1
This is the most blatant copy of Call of Duty that I have seen yet. Everything about it was was stolen from Infinity Ward. No creativity what so ever. It's all about time trials... Who cares really....
1 out of 10

So If you are reading this I hope my breakdown of game helps you if you were considering this as an option. Take my advice there are better shooters out there. Save your money or at least buy it used, you can find mine already traded in at Gamestop. Such a shame. I really wanted this game to be great, instead just below average. I'm sure there will be people who really enjoy all of what this game had to offer, just not me. I've played both modern warfare games, I don't need a cheap knock-off at 65 bucks.

Take a pass everyone, or just rent it. You'll be done in 5 hours!

 

[MattRooney06]

Quite a nice reveiw

More reveiws need to be short and to the point, nice to see there are no massive blocks of text, although the campeign could have had a bit more explenation

certainly changed my oppinion of this game thanks

-Matthew

 

[colddeck64]

Sorry Matthew, There isn't too much campaign to talk about. Run and shoot everything with a turbin. They had a very disfunctional map where you pilot an apache attack helicopter but they tell you to shoot behind the rock. REALLY THE ROCKS!!!!!!! This is an afgan mountain everything is a rock!!!!! They bring in airstrikes but it will take 3 tries just to understand how to do any of it. It really is nothing new at all. No originality what so ever. ANd I have been playing and loving every installment that they brought out. except for frontline, but no one liked it anyways....

 

[Mr.Petey]

Fantastic. Medal of Honor sullies it's good name by providing a mere 5 hour campaign? I loathe the way how the FPS has de-evolved into prioritising multiplayer, hoping that'll extend the playability of the entire game.

Ramp up the difficulty perhaps? That's only pandering for time really and it's adding nothing new to the experience overall.

Good review though, laying the facts straight out on the mat for all to see. If EA didn't want mediocre reviews as they're complaining about, they should have spent more time on the game developing a superior single player campaign which the franchise was originally known for.

Regardless of what EA have said, reviews may not dictate sales but ignoring them isn't advised really, as the hype generated from rave reviews will certainly help how fast the product gets shifted from the shelves

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

The moment this game was announced my shitty-o-meter was going off the charts.

It's set in afghanistan for the sole purpose of copying the controversy that modern warfare 2 caused with it's "No russian" level. and they don't even have the balls to call the taliban "the taliban" how is gaming ever going to get away from it's childeren's toy status like this?

Also don't think that people have finally decided to venture out and play other, better games with actual, proper stories when this game bombs, they're just saving their money to lap up call of duty 11,983 or whatever the fuck it is now like the good little doggies they are.

 

[zombiesinc]

Eh, I really enjoyed Battlefield Bad Company 2, so if it's anything similar to that, I hope to find at least some level of enjoyment out of it. But I dislike how multiplayer focused FPS games have become. I ordered this game some time ago, and it's in the mail... so I guess I'll see for myself soon enough.

At this point I'm looking forward to Black Ops. At least it'll have co-op zombie killing fun.

 

[freedomweasel]

There is no way the rush mode lasted 27seconds. There are 5 different objectives to capture, each takes time, and each is spaced out, with the map locked out until the current objective is complete.

Overall I liked it more than either MW 1 or 2. I liked the campaign a *lot* more than BC2s campaign, and find the multiplayer in BC2 and MOH to be about even.

Is it a perfect game? Absolutely not, but I still think it's plenty of fun.

Quite a nice reveiw

More reveiws need to be short and to the point, nice to see there are no massive blocks of text, although the campeign could have had a bit more explenation

certainly changed my oppinion of this game thanks

-Matthew

While the campaign is short, and relatively easy, I found the overall feel to be quite good. It had some really memorable moments, and some nice sequences. If you're just getting it for the campaign you'll be disappointed in the replay value, but I find the multiplayer to be really fun.

 

[Krion_Vark]

I am not defending a game I have not played yet just pointing out how your thinking can be perceived as flawed.

This is my opinion of each aspect.
1- Campaign
I found the campaign to be extremely dry, with very little story to tell. Just shooting. Thats it. Over and over.

So is CoD. Gears of War. Halo.

2- Multi-player
This is what I was most excited for. As a bc2 vet, I assumed the multi-player was in the best hands with DICE designing everything. I felt that their version of multi-player in battlefield is fun, exciting, with great options. However, playing MOH online was none of this. The system is full of bugs. Getting kicked out of 9 out of 10 matches played. And only once keeping my 4 player squad intact to play together. 1 time out 46 matches. Thats a poor average. I expected BC rush improved not destroyed. 1 match actually lasted 27 seconds. What a waste.......
2 out of 10.

So crappy servers you say bring down your multiplayer experience? Like you said that was the part you were looking forward to the most and its also what A LOT of people were looking forward to. Do you really think that the servers could take that stress considering how I am guessing EA didn't put too much on the Multiplayer servers.

3- Tier 1
This is the most blatant copy of Call of Duty that I have seen yet. Everything about it was was stolen from Infinity Ward. No creativity what so ever. It's all about time trials... Who cares really....
1 out of 10

So Time Trials are now a thing that is only CoD? I am pretty sure that Time Trials were originated in RACING games not Shooters. Unless you are talking about speed runs and even that was not originated by Infinity Ward.

 

[Netrigan]

I am not defending a game I have not played yet just pointing out how your thinking can be perceived as flawed.

This is my opinion of each aspect.
1- Campaign
I found the campaign to be extremely dry, with very little story to tell. Just shooting. Thats it. Over and over.

So is CoD. Gears of War. Halo.

Depends on whether or not you have a clearly defined objective. I thought CoD 4 was very good at this, while some of the WWII missions from the series featured a bit too much of the run over here and do X, then run over there and do Y, then come back here and do some more X, and... we won, let's move to the next area. There were a few times in Call Of Duty 3 where I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to be doing and just wandered around until I worked it out, which is positively lethal for a game series like Call Of Duty.

So, if he's saying the objectives aren't terribly clear and it's just a bunch of running around and shooting people without knowing what you're supposed to be accomplishing, then I think that's a legitimate criticism. There are certain games that can get away with that, but not a military shooter.

 

[colddeck64]

Well guys, I dont know what to tell you. If you want to defend a game you have not paid for played and been disappointed by. Be my guest. It's my opinion of the game that I am sharing here, trying to curb expectations. yes their version of rush is 2 objections only per map. it takes 3 min to load for the 27 second match. yes their are objectives in campaign. "go here go there shoot everything" Call of duty has overall plot lines like chasing down the russian guy. Gears had a definite overall plot. Never played Halo, but out of the shooters you have mentioned all of them have a few main characters that were developed. They were characters you cared about a lil. These units I didnt care for. They didn't matter at all.

So if you are fast to tell me that I have no clue what I'm talking about, then fine. Go play all the aspects of this game then come on back to this thread and tell the world how fulfilled you are. I'm not satisfied. These days I feel like developers are getting away with poor efforts. And I'm just stating my opinion. Do with it as you will.

 

[Wow they sure are generous with the usernames]

doesnt your character get a beard if you do enough multiplayer though?

 

[Geekosaurus]

I've not played the game, but this is the general impression I get from what I've heard of the game. Also, I'm not gonna lie; I only came on here to LOL at your username.

 

[CCountZero]

I'm inclined to agree with him.

I'll also add that I personally felt the mouse control to be a little sluggish.

The settings in the campaign were pretty nice, but as with all other FPS' these days, it was extremely short, taking me a mere four hours twenty minutes to complete on Hard.

Personally, I also feel that the weapon selection leaves a bit to be desired, but giving that this is an actual ongoing war we're depicting, it does make sense to keep the fireworks to what you'd actually find down there.

Does have to be said that many Tier 1 operators, as the SEALs we see depicted in the Campaign, have the freedom of a much wider selection of equipment and I personally find it odd that all of them would use variations of the M4 system when they could be using HK416s or others.



Overall, not worth my 50?, and I'm normally very generous when buying games.

 

[colddeck64]

I don't trust this review. He have only been on the site for one day. I smelly something fishy.

Well like I said I haven't posted anything before, but first found the forum about 2 years ago. Up until now I have not had anything to say.......

 

[freedomweasel]

Each class unlocks ONE weapon each. ONE EACH.

Well we disagree on the campaign, thats fine, but each class does in fact unlock 2 new weapons each. (per side) Rifleman unlocks the LMG and second AR, for example.

 

[freedomweasel]

Each class unlocks ONE weapon each. ONE EACH.

Well we disagree on the campaign, thats fine, but each class does in fact unlock 2 new weapons each. (per side) Rifleman unlocks the LMG and second AR, for example.

Oh my mistake. Each class unlocks 2 weapons? Oh wow. I retract my previous statement. This game is incredibly deep. You unlock a whole 2 weapons per class. The variety is overwhelming in MOH!

If you're going to rag on a game at least get the facts right. And as a side note, not everyone wants unlockable weapons and level up skill trees.