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Medal of Honor: Vanguard (PS2)
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3/5 |
A welcome addition to the series!
(February 22, 2008) |
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I always look forward to Medal of Honor releases, ever since I had the joy of playing the original game back in 1999.
The game play is classic medal of honor. The levels are split between 4 campaigns taking you from the D-day landings to Operation Market Garden.
The graphics have improved since European Assult, but I felt the gameplay hadn't improved at all. Don't get me wrong the levels are enjoyable, they are no where near as good as some of the levels seen in rival games such as call of duty, or Brothers in Arms.
Medal of Honor games used to lead the way in new ideas for WWII shooters, but this lacks effort even the sound track is taken from previous instalments, and the game is way too short and can easily be completed in a few hours.
Attention to detail is missing too. On medal of Honor Fronline, buildings use to be full of furnature and wall paper. In Vanguard every room in every house is bare! It is asthough the developers couldn't be bothered.
The multiplayer mode is not much better, definatly not as good as Rising Sun's multiplayer.
Although the game isn't the greatest Medal of Honor and doesn't contain many memerable moments, it is still worth a play for any fan.
I must admit i did enjoy it. |
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2/5 |
MOH has gone Call of Duty
(January 18, 2008) |
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It is sad to see Medal of Honour has turned into Call of Duty, I loved the previous games but this is just too easy.
No more headshot stats, no adrenaline, no keeping your platoon mates alive, no medikits just get shot then hide to recover and repeat and repeat.
More video now than game. |
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2/5 |
Has Medal Of Honor gone backwards?
(December 31, 2007) |
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Medal of Honor has been an interesting series with many ups and downs. It first outing on the PS2, Frontline, was in my opinion a faboulous game. It had a brilliant soundtrack, long levels and for a game created 5 years ago, reasonable graphics.
For me, ever since then each further installment has seemed to be a step backwards for EA. Rising Sun was ok, European assault was quite good, but none lived up to its prequal.
Then came Vanguard, and for me this was the worst of the lot. For starters, medal of honor has always, at the very least, delivered a powerful and fantastic musical score. Not any more. For Vanguard all they have done is stolen extracts of music from previous medal of honor games.
Although graphics are supposed to be extraordinary nowadays, the graphics in this game are significantly worse than european assault; a game created by the same people over 2 years ago!
The lifespan of this game is, at best, a matter of several hours.
To some up it seems to the casual eye that EA are no longer taking time and dedication, as they did for frontline, to create a great and lengthy game, but are more concerned with creating a mediocre, unoriginal and tiresome heap of rushed boredom. Clearly they are only concerned with making as much money as possible, as quickly as possible. |
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3/5 |
Good, but a devilishly annoying end level.
(November 19, 2007) |
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Essentially this Medal of Honour game is as good as any of the previous series. It could be said the graphics have improved very slightly and the games play matches that of similar titles. Almost all of the way through the games the difficulty is just about right, being an adequate challenge whilst at the same time not leading to frustration. However the final level throws this concept out of the window and instead offers a very, very long and annoying level. It takes approximately three hours of careful game play to reach what I can only assume is very close to the end of the level and possibly the game. At this point I had been killed a dozen times and re-spawned at some maddening point ensuring that I had to play through a portion of the level again. After three or more hours of this you are then confined to a shell of a house confronted with several tanks that seem inescapable. The best that I could manage after probably more than ten hours trying this level repeatedly was to destroy one tank.
I am no Johnny-come lately to gaming and especially this particular genre, but this game beat me. It is the first game of its type that I have not played to completion and for that reason I game the game only 3 stars where I would otherwise have given it 5. |
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5/5 |
Its really really good
(October 12, 2007) |
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I dont know what all of these wierdos are thinking but I would say its as good as if not better than the other games. |
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