Polygon: Medal of Honor Warfighter is developer Danger Close’s second try at rebooting EA’s venerable but moribund military franchise.
Alongside death, taxes and terrible Adam Sandler movies, video game sequels are just another crushing inevitability of life. Sequels and franchises are the lifeblood of the industry, so you can bet any halfway successful game will be aiming towards at least five more follow-ups and spin-offs in pursuit of more delicious money.
Yet even major franchises tend to run themselves into the ground eventually, where they can either reboot themselves and come back stronger than ever (think the new Tomb Raider games) or stay buried in the past.
This new Top 5 video series is starting with a bang, and quite possibly some teabagging, as I run through my favorite first-person shooters.
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Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 4
Halo5
Before i liked halo
007 goldeneye
Doom 2
Crysis 3
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MOH
Old school would be Wolfenstein, Doom, Hexen, Duke Nukem, and Rise of the Triad.
More recently Half-Life 2, BioShock (original), Wolfenstein the new order, Timesplitters 2, Medal of Honour.
Some personal favourites Singularity, Resistance series, Killzone Series, Bulletstorm, Dishonored.
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Assassin's Creed series was ruined after Black Flag, Ubisoft made it annually game. I played Dead Space 1 and 2; were awesome but Dead Space 3 failed to make gosip. As MOH Warfighter was good game
I preferred Revelations over Brotherhood. AC Brotherhood had such a boring story while AC Revelations tied everything up very well for Ezio and Altair, if I was going to pick a game where it all started going downhill for me it would be AC 3 but despite that AC 1,2, Brotherhood, Revelations, 4, Rogue and Syndicate are all good games.
Lost Planet as far as I remember went like dead space with the third game (round based type play) it just felt like it was just a map clearing game with multiple horde survival. Call Of duty went and died long ago. Ghosts didn't help its cause but now we have three development houses it's going from bad to worse. GTA to me anyway was saved with five to me the driving up until then was awful. Mario and sonics died along time ago to in my eyes.
Great review reading it felt like I was playing the game unfortunately.
Bad A.I. (Check)
Boring Gameplay (Check)
Poor map design (Check)
4.5/10 seems gracious to me.
Good to know, I won't be buying this; personally, I am sick of FPS games excluding the BF series.
I'll pick it up for $5 next year.
My positives and negatives:
Campaign
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+ Some cut-scenes look really good.
+ Decent ending.
+ Peek and lean is fun.
+ Choosing your breaching tool is a nice touch.
+ Driving missions are quite fun.
+ Some characters are interesting, but only slightly.
- Forgettable story.
- Typical bland shooter missions.
- Mini freezes during game and cut-scenes.
- Audio and visual bugs.
- Only six hours long.
Multiplayer
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+ Tons of weapon customization.
+ Weapons handle well.
+ Lots of soldiers and classes to choose from.
+ Lots of community features and options.
- Basic, uninteresting maps.
- Poor map design. Get used to choke points and camping.
- Menus take some getting used to.
- Audio and visual bugs. Similar to the campaign.
- Boring, basic first-person shooter gameplay.
- Not a large selection of modes to choose from.
Rent? Buy? Stay away?
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I think it's worth a rent, but then again I'm a bit biased because I'm such a fan of first-person shooters. It's really only worth renting if you played the one before this or if you're bored and need something to do. There is a two day multiplayer trial if you don't have an online pass, so it's a nice thing to have if you decide to rent the game. Don't expect too much is really all I can say.