Despite Electronic Arts bowing to the minority and "removing" the Taliban from Medal of Honor, military base stores still plan to boycott the war-themed shooter on the grounds that it would still be disrespectful to sell the thing.
The US military officially stated that it wouldn't stock the game in its stores out of "respect to those touched by the ongoing, real-life events presented as a game." One wonders if it the military had previously allowed the past two Modern Warfare games which, let's face it, were exactly the same but just carefully chose its names and locations.
Game stores at military bases had yanked the game after the ludicrous Taliban controversy arose. Apparently, renaming the Taliban to the pussified "Opposing Force" isn't good enough. We'll see if EA now responds by renaming Afghanistan to Eternia and the US Military to the Power Rangers.
Military stores continue to oppose MOH, force it out of stores even after Taliban removal [VG247]
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I actually liked BC2, and I agree with you, this looks CTRL+C, CTRL+V, but this game feels crappier.
Isn't... Isn't COD's faction (OpFor) the same? (OpFor = OPposing FORce)
But nobody bitches.
This is what happens when you promise something controversial and don't deliver. The customers you attract with it are turned off, and the ones you pissed off beforehand are still pissed off.
No matter how good or bad the move actually was.
Also, contrary to others opinions I like the multiplayer, it's pretty fun and feels like a nice mix of battlefield and cod4, which is only a great thing in my opinion
MoH is more like Modern Shitfare.
You've got the "CoD is GoD" crew saying it's shit, because it's not CoD.
(bitch please)
You've got the hardcore Battlefield crew saying it's shit because it's not battlefield, some because it's too similar to Battlefield.
(durp)
You've got the "it's just CoD" crew saying it's shit because it is like CoD.
(durp durp the best selling, yet most generic game of all time has other games in the same genre that are similar? Really? Nevar!)
I want CoD (the core gameplay is fantastic, but the overlaying bullshit destroys all enjoyment of the game), but without the broken perks and stupid spiralling killstreaks. I want a CoD where you don't spawn in front of the enemy and you're not just doing laps of a tiny little map shooting people in the back. I LOVED Bad Company 1 & 2, but would really like a smaller, faster, more close and personal version of BC2 (although I do love the long range warfare of BC - OPTIONS!)
So is this game for me?
Oh well, I bought it and will enjoy it as I'm shooting 1s and 0s and other 1s and 0s and can tell what's real and not.
Oh and everyone who says it sucks because it's like BFBC2 make me smile and that is the most hours I have logged in an online FPS this year, twice as much as CoD.
If someone played more then half an hour with BC2 then can't even compare the two gameplay wise.
My problem after the open beta with the game still is, that it feels too stiff. The weapon handling, movement, and these kind of things are way to sloppy after BC2 for me :(
yeah, way to go smartass
Please stop being afraid of what you don't understand and use logic. If you can't even see why a game about real-world events isn't a travesty, then I truly can't believe how the US's military can be the strongest military force in the world and yet be so lacking in common sense.
OK... 'America's Army' is an official US Army recruiting tool. Pretty f-ing hypocritical.
Instant buy if the do that!
Even if the name of the Taliban is changed in the game its not going to stop kids from going into the on base stores and doing what the bases fear they would: Asking mommy if that's where daddy is.
In my opinion the damage was done when it came out that there would be playable Taliban. The people who know the game for having Taliban in it, and have written it off because of that, aren't going to hooked back in. "Opposing Force" or not, no ones going to see them as any thing but Taliban and the game will be in Afghanistan no matter what they'd do to change it.
Do they have squads like in BF:BC2?
Pain. Deal with it. Play some vidya games and enjoy the filth. I refuse to grieve for more than a week. After that I just remember friends and family that've died and think of good times shared. F**K depression. Hard.
I'm gonna chill with the people boycotting this game for and hour. After that I'll walk in and buy the damn game. Then run like hell to my car yelling, "WHOO! I'M GONNA PLAY THE SH!T OUT OF THIS GAME!"
Hypocrisy, it's fun to fight fire with fire.
I suppose it doesn't really matter. The dumbass Govt's definition of terrorist probably already includes me.
XD
-the 188th 'Power' Rangers...awesome. :)
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