You’d think that EA would be doing its best to separate Medal of Honor from the pack in a very crowded first-person shooter market. The team at EA Los Angeles is, indeed, working to make the game stand out, but the experience is not likely to be the most innovative shooter you’ve ever played. Executive producer Greg Goodrich explained that the intent is to build a highly polished game:
What we’re focusing on is making a great first-person shooter. [If we don’t] put out [a game] that revolutionize[s] the genre, so be it, but we’re showing up to do a great game -- a great experience that fans will love.
He went on to express his belief that Medal of Honor will innovate in the way it tells its story, and by including the experiences of a Tier 1 operator, the game is already doing something no other shooter has done. In addition, as seen in the debut teaser trailer, your enemies will employ “unexpected” and unconventional tactics. “But at the end of the day,” Goodrich told me, “it’s all about making a great shooter, and not necessarily pushing the genre forward.”
That said, the developers are certainly aware of the competition and that the stakes are high, and they’re aiming for the top. “Nowadays, especially in the shooter genre, if you show up to the table, you have to show up with quality -- you have to show up with a product that’s meant to be at the forefront of this genre,” said Goodrich. “Because if you show up with a product that’s not of quality, you might as well just not show up -- there’s no point.”
For the lowdown on Medal of Honor’s single-player campaign, check out my full preview, which is going up at 9:20 AM EST.
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6:00 AM on 03.11.2010
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I want a realistic, solid, balanced, glitch free, war shooter.
So far Bad Company 2 has set the bar higher than anything else I've played. (MAG is up there too but BC2 is my current addiction) Give me something similar, but even better and i'll be happy.
Are you saying you don't like half life 2?
"MAG is up there too"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
"I want a realistic, solid, balanced, glitch free, war shooter. "
"MAG is up there too"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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I don't see how that is funny?
Realistic? - check.
Solid? - Check
Balanced - Check (very well balanced between 3 differing factions and many weapons, good job Zipper!)
Glitch free - check.
Nope, I don't see how that can be funny....
Are you just another Xboxer trying to badmouth MAG because your console can't handle it, and your community isn't mature enough for it?
Or are you just another CoD fanboy hating on it because it's not CoD?
It's like if they put the gravity gun into the Counter Strike mod, that would be terrible.
the Fu$@ you say? Frame rate issues??? I've played mag quite a bit. Never had the slightest frame rate issue. If it's unplayable that's weird I just played last night. What's your psn.......or should I say gamertag. Your a liar and a troll:) GTFO:)
Tomasz, I think your PS3 might be broken. Check the front, does it have a "PS" sign on it, or a big green "X" and likely a red "O".
MAG has no frame rate issues and no glitches. I'm saying that from someone who is Veteran 1 (prestiged, for those of you that only speak CoD) and rank 30 odd on top of that.
It's not perfect, don't get me wrong, but it's not far off.
What are these glitches you speak of? Because they recently patched the few minor, completely non-gamebreaking gltiches, such as repairing gates through walls and the over accurate LMG's. But still those are hardly the whole knifing someone from 10 feet away and running around at lightning speed with a care package in your hand, or perhaps the whole unlimited care packages, One man Army glitch, or maybe the Javelin suicide glitch....
As i say there are some far more played and sold games than MAG with far more gamebreaking glitches.
Maybe i'm just lucky and in nearly 100 hours of MAG I've not come across one of these glitches you speak of, or this framerate issue you're talking about.
Sure the graphics aren't solid as other FPS' but that's what you sacrifice for
256 players. MAG is a great team experience and from all the war shooters I've tried it actually feels more authentic to war gameplay due to it's cooperative nature than any other game out there.
If you like Bad Company 2 or just most army war games (and you have a PS3) there's no reason you shouldn't be playing MAG. All this from someone who hates army shooters but I fucking love MAG.
Concentrate on the experience and story. His attitude gives me even more optimism on this game coming out good.
One direction I'd like to see pursued is a FPS thet stresses different story type rather the typical 'band of brother' or 'buddy' storyline, but also avoids the 'nemisis' or 'I hate these dudes' cliche. There has got to be somesort of subtle middle ground that somehow makes a meaningful narrative arise out of this gameplay we're been kicking around for years.