![]() ![]() Unfortunately, more often than not the narrative takes second fiddle to a bevy of odd design choices and weird scripting bugs that not only take you out of the game’s story but actually cripple the game completely. While I am sure that Danger Close was aiming for something a little more high brow than what they ultimately delivered when their narrative is on, it is really on. Players will be part of a four man group that is given special tasks, most of which require the elimination of the population of Afghanistan. Medal of Honor’s campaign narrative is at its best an interactive action movie stereotype. Without spoiling the storyline it is suffice to say that despite all the claims to be aiming for a realistic battlefield experience, you have probably played this campaign before and you have probably played a much better executed version of it as well. Tier 1 operatives are the deniable ops, elite soldiers that handle a lot of the military’s dirty work and thus you can get an idea of what is in store for the narrative of the single player campaign. This new Medal of Honor focuses on a two day span of time in the Afghan mountains bordering Pakistan and a lot has been made of Danger Close’s close work with real life Tier 1 operatives to help enhance the realism factor. Gone are the historical battles of World War II against Nazi and Japanese soldiers and in their place the very real battlefield of Afghanistan with the Taliban as the opposing force. And give the series a new identity they did. Enter Danger Close, the special development team put together out of EA Los Angeles with the express mission of giving Medal of Honor a new identity. The series had no direction and publisher Electronic Arts realized that if they did not reboot the franchise that they were going to waste a huge asset in their arsenal. Since the rise of Call of Duty, Medal of Honor has been relegated to an also ran and the once gargantuan franchise has spent the last few years wandering aimlessly trying to recapture even a fraction of its former audience. At least until the development team moved on to create the current king of the industry, Call of Duty. For a time the series was synonymous with how a World War II FPS should be developed. ![]() Medal of Honor is one of the most storied first person shooter series (FPS) in the history of games. ![]()
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