Even though the latest entry in the Medal of Honor series, Warfighter, didn’t receive glowing reviews, one thing that we can all agree on is that it continued the series’ trend of outstanding soundtracks. Today, let’s revisit an earlier Medal of Honor title so you can see what I mean.
The track below is titled “Dogs of War” and is the main theme for EA’s Medal of Honor: European Assault, released in 2005 for PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "You’re probably wondering “why am I reading a review of a random first person shooter from 2005?”. Well two reasons dear reader, for one I am currently working through my backlog of games and this just so happens what I chose to play this week and secondly, I wanted to take a look at what would be seen as a ‘standard’ military FPS before the great game-changer that was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare hit the scene. "
The recent news is that EA is done with Medal of Honor. The game is no longer in its yearly rotation. This means it could be shelved indefinitely. What went wrong with the series? Is there anything EA could do to fix it? If EA does start making more MoH games should they go back to the WW2 theme or try another war?
trying to be like call of duty. yeah, cod sells, so what? be original and make your games like you used to! REMEMBER MEDAL OF HONOR FRONTLINE? YEAH...
They CODified it, MOH was the OG back in the day, Frontlines was a standout title.
CoD is what MoH was supposed to be. Infinity Ward(not as a company then) were coders for EA. They made a CoD demo for EA as a new direction for MoH. EA refused the idea and wanted to keep making cookies. CoD is now huge and EA is desperately trying to get back into that genre. One of the dumbest decisions ever in gaming.
I would LOVE to see WW2 to be a plot point again, im really tired of modern combat, i want to kill Nazis again.
MoH Frontlines was awesome, i still play it from time to time, the D-Day mission is perhaps my favorite mission in any shooter.
A shame this series will die, it died with Honor (I dont consider the modern combat games MoH material)
WW2 FPS aren't mainstream anymore unless we get another saving private ryan kind of movie which i doubt.
That damm spielberg he should be making another WW2 movie or a game (Instead of that lame boomblox).
There are still plenty of WW2 shooters being released on PC, just not for the casual(Console) crowd who WANT CoD every year.
They tried to grab the COD money and stopped trying to make great games.
Now we are in the same situation as we were a few years back with the FPS market over saturated with modern shooters rather then WW2 and most of them are pathetic attempts to cash in on COD's money making success.
Give it to the guys at Respawn who made the first MOH. Copy COD and give it dedicated servers...end of story.
Pacific assault was mine. Rising sun actually got slightly better and then the quality went back down again after that.
Airborne was good too but had a lot of bugs.
I too enjoyed Airbone and I would've preferred it if they developed the formula rather than jump into the modern era which led to the series' ultimate demise.
The World War II shooter has been almost extinct for more than 5 years. Can it make a comeback anytime soon?
Also a great way to remember the veterens of World War II. Over 600 WWII vets die every day.
Yeah i always liked WW2 games :)
My fav WW2 games:
Call of Duty 2
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Day of Defeat: Source
Battlefield 1942(old good times :))
Then we got Modern shoot games:
Battlefield 2 and 3
Call of Duty 4, MW2 and 3.
Counter Strike games
Future fps games:
Crysis(only first game, nuke, such as good game, multiplayer is great)
Battlefield 2142(i loved it)
I don´t know. Maybe we see soon more future FPS games and then we going to have WW2 games.
I never said mw3 is great.
MW - Something new, changed fps gaming alot. Great maps.(I LOVED Chernobyl)
MW2 - it improved some things, gave more stuff, but overpowered killsteaks, commando perk and glitches ruined it.
MW3 - terrible maps, terrible lighting... everything...
Anyone seen this?
Why Modern War FPS Games All Look the Same
Click here: http://cdn-www.cracked.com/...
Most different modern fps games are Battlefield 2, STALKER and Counter-Strike, but Call of Duty, Battlefield and Medal of Honor, its all same to me.
So, we basically have have three time periods for shooters:
Modern day/near future
Future science fiction
World War II
Nothing else.
You're basically grouping "past, present, future" into tropes, but we also have everything in between (alternative past = bioshock, cyberpunk future = dues ex, military tech future = ghost recon, post-apocalyptic future = fallout, wild-west future = borderlands, space opera = halo, spanning multiple timelines = black ops... and the list goes)
I have always dreamed of such a shooter. Here is one attempt at one. Coming in 2013 I believe or later. Although its mostly MP type of shooter with Massive battlefield gameplay, but it sounds awesome. Perhaps it can inspire the other developers.
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Ah yes, Mount and Blade mods. I am a frequent player of Napoleanic Wars. In the 1stReddit. How about you?
I don't think such a shooter would be very fun to play if it were kept realistic. How would it go? Fire your relatively inaccurate weapon once, get stuck in 30 second reload animation, repeat?
I think you're assuming all the gameplay would be focused on the shooting part, and yes true it it supposed to be a first person shooter, but try to maybe think of it like an uncharted game, where the platforming forms only a part of the overall experience.
If the 30 secs reloading in between shots fired could be somehow crafted into a fun part of the gameplay via a reloading mini game then why not?
I truly believe that in the hands of the right dev team anything can be made into a fun experience if done right.
Red Dead Redemption was a ton of fun, so I don't see why that couldn't be translated into a First Person Shooter. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood wasn't all that bad either, but there are other developers that could do a far better job with that time period.
Sure! It would force players to strategize and work together as a team. I think it could be fun, unique and challenging if done right. Maybe even educational.
have fun spending a minute to reload that musket after every shot
huh, last time I checked COD had a WW2 game, several I believe. They didn't just start with modern warfare.
Oh yes, definitely. I've missed them because they've been gone for too long. However, in light of the situation, Sniper Elite: V2 GOTY is coming out in March.
