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| Medal of Honor AKA Call of Halo: Modern Battlefield. |
I got to play it at E3, though its multiplayer then was fairly limited -- mostly a level of tight corridors and uninspired tactical gameplay. This time, though, games of eight-on-eight were being run on PCs for the entirety of the show, allowing for us to get a bit of a better look at what we have to look forward to.
And in those few rounds that I played, I was able to confirm two things that I had been thinking about for a while: that consoles are far superior to PCs, and that Medal of Honor is a game that I've been playing for years.
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But I don't think my take on the game's overall vibe was biased at all. I loved Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's multiplayer, and I enjoyed Battlefield: Bad Company 2's for a while. But they both have something in common, something that they share with Medal of Honor -- and that's that they are all essentially the same game.
Medal of Honor has a very lovely feel to it, with strong level design and good customizable weapons. But that feel is just a replica of something we've all played time and time again: the modern military shooter. And I haven't been able to name one thing that it brings to the table that improves the genre in any real way.
So, yeah, it is a game I will probably play (on console) for a while. And yeah, it is going to move a lot of discs, but there really isn't anything to it (that I can tell) that sets it apart from the other games out right now. Maybe the single player narrative will be its saving grace.
I guess we'll find out in October.
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