Medal Of Honor
Remember when Call Of Duty went modern and how everyone was like "AW, COOL, Call Of Duty's gone modern"? Well, EA realized noone likes shooting Nazis anymore, not with terrorists about. So they released Medal Of Honor.
Just The Facts
- Medal Of Honor is the latest instalment in the "Medal Of Honor" series. We're as shocked as you.
- Modernising has become the safety net for games these days. Correction, it's the SENSIBLE safety net. The other one involves zombies and makes no sense.
- Sometimes, modernising doesn't work. Case in point, this game could have been vastly improved by following the typical MOH way: "When in doubt, throw in the Third Reich!"
Call Of Du--oops, Medal Of Honor
Let's face it. This game was going to be criticised! It was bound to happen. Sort of like it was bound to happen when Michael Jackson turned himself into a walking nightmare! Two of the most successful games of this generation were Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Notice how they didn't even bother to call it "Call Of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2". It didn't even need it! Hell, they could have called it "Call Of Duty: Moderner Warfare (This time, it's got LAZERZ)" and you'd still buy it, even with its ridiculous title! Anyway, the point being, if you were a developer with a series that was in desperate need of a revival, and you saw COD4 selling like hotcakes, what would you do?
Who could resist these? They're so COOL!
EA took the "copycat" approach, taking a predominantly WW2 led series, and putting in fighter jets and the Taliban (because those fuckers need more media awareness). The result was average to disappointing. The campaign itself if doable within 3 - 4 hours and the characters are so bland, they might as well have just called them "Generic Leader 1" and "Cocky asshole 3". That's not to say the game isn't fun, it's just not $60 fun.
What would WE have done?
Time for a hypothetical scenario: EA have contacted Cracked.com and told them to write the story, list the characters and give details on which weapons should feature. Locations, vehicles, weather, it's all in our control. We do love our control. More than Darth Vadar loves gripping air.
"I am altering the game! Pray I don't alter it any further!"
Well, first things first, we wouldn't call it "Medal Of Honor". The game title needs to invoke a feeling of pride and emotion, so we'd call it "Michael Swaim vs The World". If you're asking why, you're no longer needed here. Leave. The main character would obviously be Michael Swaim, but he wouldn't be the playable character. Aha! Here's the twist. He'd be the military intelligence. We know, genius, right? Littered throughout "Medal Of Honor" are cutscenes featuring this dude:
So, we want to replace this guy with Swaim. We feel he'd bring some much needed humour to this game, considering how it's about war and all that.
Ta-da
Okay, so with that sorted. The rest is pretty simple. Rename Rabbit, Deuce and Dante as Sleepy, Dopey and Bashful, respectively, replace Afghanistan with The North Pole, change all the grenades into bananas and finish it all up with a flying sequence on board a tourist plane full of fat, wheezy texans, who're complaining about the lack of leg room and the inadequate seating size. Of course, we'd keep the guns as they are, since we have no quarrel with shooting people in videogames and we'd hate to take that away from everyone.
The campaign is longer than 4 hours, well, on any difficulty other than Easy. Also, no characters are blander than those in Modern Warfare, and just plain annoying in Bad Company. The characters in Medal of Honor felt more like real people, rather than ridiculous portrayals of Special Forces/Military Personnel. The game was A LOT more realistic than MW2, and yet maintained the kind of fun people look for in video games. Saying "it's a copycat game" is like saying that Monopoly is a copying Candyland. Sure, their both board games, but they're different in presentation, focus and the reason's they're fun. Don't trash a game doing what TONS of other games have been doing for years. Ever heard of Rogue Warrior? That game was set in modern times, and was a hundred times worse than Medal of Honor...
ReplyRealism isn't always needed. We play videogames to do stuff we can't do in real life. Sure, MOH was more realistic, but I played it on hard and it took me (personally) 3 and a half hours of gameplay (not including breaks and such). There are 3 chapters, two of which only feature two missions. MW2 may be ridiculous to the extreme (see my MW2 topic for my opinions, you'll see I'm not showing favouritism here) but it was more fun.
MOH to COD is like saint row to gta.
medal of honor is an amazing goddamn game, have you even played the live on it? and this isnt even funny, im wasting time because of you and because of my own iinadaequacies as a person; my goddamn mind is drying up and withering away: accelerated by lack of sleep, confusion, and this f*****g games live being intense and making me intensly focus on a screen for f*****g hours, because im a loser and all i do is play video games, nothing to improve my self and nothing constructive, i wish i wasnt so f*****g socially inept, but ill grow into myself and find who myself one day, when that day comes ill rejoice, and i will hopefully begin loving life
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesI've never been more confused by feedback. Was this positive? Was it negative? I'm so befuddled.
I never thought I'd ever see the lovechild of Billy Crystal and Woody Allen posting such a lost collection of words !
Oh.. and I liked the article. The new art you submitted for approval definately works better for me at least ;).
I agree ThumbTwiddler, the new art's much better.