Medal of Honor came out last week and I've made my way through the campaign. It took me just over 4 hours (4.2 on Steam) so those wanting value for money in a single player game look elsewhere. I haven't tried tier 1 mode yet.
Straight up I will say that MoH is not a bad game at all, in fact I kinda liked it. Drawing from recent CoD games but also doing a few things different enough so it's not a complete rip off. MoH doesn't have you going from one country to the next in the space of 5 minutes like the modern warfare games. What it does is lets you see the battle from a few different perspectives and the way those perspectives link together is at times impressively done.
The major missing piece in MoH for me are that the last minute polish. I had probably a dozen game glitches that really let you know this is a game. Examples include: Friendly AI running through a truck, AI through a closed door, MG gun firing without a gunner, ATV driver getting stuck, cutscene getting stuck, Invisible walls. It's easy for me to overlook a few issues (hey I played the stalker games) but when you have around 10 issues in 4 hours in a extremely tightly scripted movie like experience it has a telling detrimental effect on the experience for me.
Multiplayer has been OK so far, too many chokepoints. Defenders can get ridiculuos kill death ratios. It's improved a little bit over the beta but the ragdolls still suck. Early days but I doubt I'll be spending more than 20 hours online with it.
In summary MoH is alright, but I really think 6 months more development time would have helped it compete with the CoD series, instead it will likely be overshadowed by Black Ops.
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I'm still playing Halo 2, not sure how far I have to go but I'm thankful the gameplay hasn't gotten worse. Cortana just told me that coming up soon is a "Library" like that seen in the original Halo. And if you played the first you know it was the point the game copied the same room layout dozens of times (with flood). Not looking forward to it. I don't think I'd say Halo 2 as a bad game, again the action can be pretty fun sometimes - but it has to be because the rest is in my opinion very mediocre.
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Fallout New Vegas comes out today (currently downloading on Steam) and it could be another good timesink like Fallout 3. Graphically it is starting to look aged but I can live through that (I'm playing Halo 2). Will be interesting to see if the main story quest is actually good this time but even still side quests make the game.
Just noticed Gamespot still have the GFW Live box art for Fallout New Vegas which is no longer correct given that New Vegas is a Steam game now.
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No Mercy in L4D2 is great, some good spots for the new infected but mostly it just changes the rules. Spitting and incapping 2 survivors at the elevator crescendo (the infamous corner camp spot) is something quite special. My other favourite spots include a charger instant kill out the elevator in the finale or off the open rooftops or into the car up the stairs in NM1. Now that I think of it, I haven't seen somebody charge anyone into the exploding gas station yet. Something to try.