Medal of Honor: Vanguard is part of the whole Medal of Honor series. As you might be able to guess from the name, it's a shooter where you are in a war. In this particular version, you are fighting in World War II against the Germans. You are on one major mission to win the war and it is broken up into several missions. There aren't that many missions but they are all pretty long. There are 4 campaigns and each campaign has between 2-4 missions. At the start of every campaign, there is a short, historic video clip that is non-fictional. This clip is a bit like an intro into the beginning of the missions. There are also very short animated clips at the start of each mission.
Storyline: 7
The graphics are somewhat detailed but aren't great. They're not necessarily what you'd expect for a Wii game. There is lots of detail in some places but very little in others. For example, in most areas, there was lots of detail and you could see different textures. However, on characters, there would be very low detail and faces would have hardly any features. One major problem that I found with the game is that there are many dark screens. If you have a television that doesn't get to bright, this game might be hard for you to play. When I play it, I have to have the brightness set to full or else I wouldn't be able to see it. Other than that, the graphics are good.
Graphics: 7
The sound effects are pretty good and make sense for the game. When you fire your gun, you hear the shot and it's pretty realistic. When tanks shoot, you'll hear explosions and if bullets fly past you, you'll hear them whiz. Sometimes, the soldiers call things out - both the Germans and you. When the Germans talk, it's in German so that makes sense and is realistic. Sometimes, what they say can get really repetitive and annoying but not often. Where you stand can also affect what they say. For example, if you stand out in the opening, they'll tell you to get out of there or to get down. The sound effects really make it more realistic.
Sound: 9
The controls are almost perfect except for some problems with the nunchuk. To aim, you point at the screen with the Wii remote and the aiming is flawless except for one point. While you're playing, if anybody walks in between you and the screen, it will screw up your aiming and you'll have to take a few seconds to get your controls back to normal. To fire, you push the B button which makes it seem more like a real gun. As I stated earlier, there are some problems with the nunchuk. To reload, you must move the nunchuk to the right. However, most of the time when I do this, it spins my character around. This is because the controls to do that are to shake the nunchuk from the left to the right. This can be a bit inconvenient but it isn't required that you reload. When you run out of bullets, it will automatically reload.
Controls: 8
A nice feature about this game is that there is multiplayer. You can grab up to two of your friends and fight to the end. There are four different modes to choose from. You can pick the old-fashioned death match, capture the flag, king of the hill, and scavenger hunt. Scavenger hunt and capture the flag are almost exactly the same. You must find something, such as a flag, and bring it back to base. In king of the hill, you must look around your chosen area for a flag sticking out of the ground. When you stand next to it, you'll get points.
In multiplayer, you can choose how to end a game. You can set a maximum score and a maximum time. The first person to reach the score wins. If you have a maximum time, the person who has the most points by the time that the timer reaches zero wins. If you have more than two people playing, you can play with teams. I think that multiplayer is a nice part of this game and is fun to play with friends and siblings.
Multiplayer: 9
This game is quite short and I completed most missions without to much difficulty. On the last one, I had a lot of trouble and found it really hard to beat. When I had beaten all of them, I found myself wanting to keep replaying the missions. If you're one of the people who thinks that everything must be done in order for the game to be "beaten," then you can replay all of the missions with a goal. For each mission, medals are available. These medals can be gotten many different ways. For example, you might get a medal for completing a mission without dying, or for getting 30 head shots in a mission. Sometimes, these medals can be quite hard to get so this game should last you long enough.
Playtime/Replayability: 9
Overall, I'd say that this is a good game worth getting especially if you like historic first person shooters. I got it new from a store for 25 Canadian Dollars.
Gamervision's Jonathan Cooper writes, "Later this year, EA's rebooted Medal of Honor will compete against Activision's Call of Duty, bringing the two head-to-head for the first time in a few years. In the PS2 era, the two were nearly on an even level, and it wasn't until the current generation that Medal of Honor fell to Call of Duty, mostly thanks to Infinity Ward's dominance with Call of Duty 2 and the final nail in the coffin, Modern Warfare. For some time, it seemed as though it was going to be an easy win for Activision, and there was little reason to believe that the reboot would be able to top the $1 billion earner in CoD. However, recent happenings make this seem like more and more of a possibility, and there's historical evidence that EA may be ready to overtake Call of Duty in 2010, or at least take back some ground."
Call of what now? they must meant can Medal of honor dethrone Battlefield Bad company.
I don't think any game can dethrone CoD, I think the only thing that CAN dethrone CoD is CoD itself, and by that I mean Activision having new developers make future games, and as seen by other IPs, when it switches devs the series usually goes downhill. That's if I'm remembering right, that IW won't be making any more CoD games.
Also Delta, MoH and BF aren't competing with eachother supposedly, of course that came from the mouth of EA who happens to be publisher of both franchises
If it doesn't have bugs then yes.
If it is balanced then yes.
If the story makes sense and offers closure then yes.
Meh first it was Halo. Then Battlefield:BC2, and now MOH. To be completely honest with you i think COD killed it self. Heck i didn't even buy the game from my experience with it's mediocre single player and buggiest online component yet
EA's reboot of Medal of Honor arrives later this year. Does it have a hope of beating Activision's Call of Duty at it's own game? The imitator vs. the imitated… or is that the imitated vs. the imitator? Only one series walks out of here supreme!
well I think MoH has two things going for it.
One is that CoD is currently in a glitch mess from what I've heard.
Secondly MoH is based off real events and in that respect is based on the classic ww2 shooters, based off real battles/events.
The second is why I'm so excited, a war game that is based in reality that isn't ww2 but instead modern war I find very appealing.
I would love to see Medal of Honor make a nice comeback after all these years. I haven't played a MoH game since Underground on original PlayStation.
EA was the market leader in third party publishers for many many years, because they had no real competition they only released average games as people would buy them regardless. Activision then challenged EA, with Call of Duty to answer to Medal of Honour, EA released Rock band to counter Guitar Hero. Both company's are trying to one up each other, creating new franchises and vastly improving old ones...
I have to hand it to EA they have really been increasing quality recently, especially with games like dead space and mirrors edge, and I know there only published by EA but still its a vast improvement on what they used to offer.
We'll see EA fanboys vs Activision fanboys....
Let's hope that doesn't happen...
