By Sam Coles:
Medal of Honor! Now there is a title that has
dropped off the radar over the years as Call of Duty has consumed its soul.
Back in 2010 they rebooted the series and set it in the modern day instead of
it being in World War II and a lot of people were not impressed with it and I
don’t know why. I thought the campaign was tense, dark and gritty with a good
multiplayer which was developed by DICE.
The campaign takes place during the war in Afghanistan
and you’re trying to find a prisoner who has some vital information about the
enemy who then find out the name about the enemy who are the Taliban. They’re
described as this secret entity who live in the mountain tops where they use
sneaky guerrilla tactics which they do. The game is the standard story with the
modern war genre but it’s the relationship between the unit you’re with throughout
as you’re a first time recruit in the Tier 1 unit and then you prove yourself
as you sacrifice yourself to save everyone.
Gameplay is radically different in the singleplayer
and multiplayer as they were made by two different studios. The singleplayer
feels slower paced as you’re slogging your way through frost laden mountains to
the harsh and dry deserts where the enemy hides behind the dust. There are some
massive open battles but you’ll mostly be fixing things behind the scenes as
you’re a Tier 1 operator. Multiplayer is extremely fast paced as to be expected
with the Battlefield devs the gameplay and controls are very familiar if you’ve
played Battlefield Bad Company 2.
Multiplayer is your standard fair where you have
capture the flag, domination and team deathmatch it has that DICE feel with
loud screams and great sound design. The multiplayer was fun but it did lack
content as you could only unlock a handful of guns compared to the battlefield
series and I think that DICE were focusing on their Battlefield 3 project more
during that period.
The presentation is great with good looking
environments especially during the later stages where you’re going through the
mountains. The singleplayer campaign is extremely graphic with blood flying
everywhere and heads exploding if you head shot enemies with shotguns and high
powered sniper rifles. Sound design like the other games in the series is great
with distant crackles of gunfire to the loud thump of explosions.
The only problem I have with this game is that the
visual ques are really bad in terms of telling when you’re about the die and
you won’t know until your character hits the ground.
Medal of Honor (2010) is a decent action game did it
deserve the all the negativity it got? No, but it’s not a ground breaking game
however it’s fun and functional. If you haven’t played it give it a go it’s
super cheap these days I think I found it for £1 in my local CEX so you have
excuse!
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