G4:In EA's multi-brand attempt to keep up with the franchise juggernaut known as Call of Duty, the publisher has cued up a new installment of Medal of Honor. Like the previous installment, Medal of Honor: Warfighter attempts to be an appreciation letter to the real life special operatives who help preserve freedom. Yet how does that translate in the context of a poorly designed campaign narrative and a mediocre multiplayer mode.
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.
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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.
Halo ce
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo 4
Halo5
Before i liked halo
007 goldeneye
Doom 2
Crysis 3
Cod WAW
MOH
Killzone 2
Turok 2
Medal of Honor
Time Splitters
007 Agent Under Fire
Bulletstorm
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.
Duke Nukem was a side scroller on Dos
@robition Duke Nukem wasn't a FPS 'til the 3rd one, Duke Nukem 3D
Great concept(Nectar) and fun but a bit of an iffy execution and didn't live up to its promise. I finished it at launch. Shame they didn't quite get it right.
The video game industry is one based on the backs of its scholarly properties. Like movies and books, it’s a space that draws vigorously on strong sequels and innovative new thoughts. Notwithstanding, not all sequels surpass the enormity of their forerunners, and a chosen few of them check the start of the end for their →
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
Black Flag was the redeemer after 3. ACIV is my favorite of the series. Unity was bad, Syndicate is actually pretty good. So they are up and down. As for Dead Space, I thought the original was like Uncharted series. The first one was a great story and a little rough, but #2 was incredible through and through. Uncharted 3 is awesome, unfortunately DS3 was indeed a terrible terrible game. Warfighter was a good game, but aren't we all burned out on shooters???
That's right Assassin's Creed series had awesome games till AC Black Flag, AC III was terrible
I disagree on AC Black Flag. Black Flag was a good PIRATE game but a very mediocre AC.
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.
Ouch looks like we wont see a sequel for a long time.Good thing less COD clones for reviewers to play :)
Disappointed this game is getting poor reviews. Seems to be 5 or 6 out of 10 on average.
When EA held back review copies, I had my suspicions it had something to hide and the way the game is now scoring confirms that.
it almost feels like a conspiracy..
I am not a fan of the game at all, but there seem to be enough gamers out there saying the game is good, not amazing, but good that all these average scores seem a little fishy.
while on the other hand you have MW3 which was like the worst MW/cod game so far and most gamers I know don't rate it yet it got the usual 9/10's and 10/10's.
you just can't take reviews serious these days.
This was expected
Huge day one patch
EA asking reviewers not to release reviews until the end of the week
Little too no hype.
The list goes on and on.
I have a gameplay question for anyone playing it. Did the different Breach option have any effect on the the gameplay? I figured you know a crowbar would be good for sneaking missions while explosives were for rooms full of people? Yet I tried several options on the same doors and it always ended up being the same in the end....