Medal of Honor Beta: It's Been Done Before

Medal of Honor Beta, if this is what the final product is going to be, gamers are going to be dissapointed. It looks and feels like Call of Duty 4/Modern Warfare 2. The game is coming out right after Call of Duty Black Ops, gamers are going to spending their money elsewhere. EA should have picked a different era to transition MOH too, how about the Civil War? Goozernation wants to know, what's going to make gamers buy this game?

[bgrundman]

Seems like a reskined BF BC2 to me.

[nickjkl]

thats what im like but everyone else say it looks like mw2 but im not seeing it

[Darkstorn]

It PLAYS like MW2. It's a bit more team based and strategically minded, however.

[Blacktric]

It may "seem" like it from outside but it's not. It's a completely new "multiplayer game" from DICE. It feels like they added experimental things to the game which they didn't choose to use for Bad Company 2. And they work really good if you ask me. I can't say day 1 yet but as soon as I see something about the storyline I might buy the game when it comes out.

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

What experimental things have they added to the beta? I've been playing the beta for some time now, and I have to say, it has not grown on me.

[Blaze929]

the problem this game will face is the fact that different development teams are handling the game. DICE with the multiplayer was a bit of a mistake choice if you ask me. All they do and know how to do is battlefield. So while playing the multiplayer beta, that's the only vibe I got from it - like I was playing a prettier Bad Company game or something. and I'm not a fan of bad company. They even use the same engine for the MP which is different from the SP engine being used.

so as it stands right now the single player is the only thing that will make me possibly get this game. MoH has always delivered authentic experiences and the trailer for the story mode looks like it will be interesting emotionally and from a narrative point of view:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Greywulf]

MOH will be no different, its a shooter. Of Course its going to do well.

[jambabie69]

care to explain that? why is it that the number one selling shooter on ps3 is cod? so how the fuck is it that it's "the 360 fans", seems to me BOTH groups play it/buy it. when moh sells well for the ps3 then what bullshit will you spew then?

shit excuse me, i am responding to greywulf i should know better by now.

[HolyOrangeCows]

If they can fix things like the death lag, I'll think about getting it. The beta is fun, they just need to fix it on a technical level.

[TROLL EATER]

who cares. halo reach will be where peoples money will be spent on.

[NYPunkster]

"gamers are going to spending their money elsewhere"

Really? Am I? Gee thanks for telling me where I'm going to spend my dough.

[kube00]

Yea for me it was COD 4 all over again...

[Cole119]

MoH isn't even half as good as CoD 4.

[JimmyJames70]

I got a beta code for this and still haven't redeemed it yet. That says a lot right there.

[roblef]

Damn straight.

[JsonHenry]

I played the beta on the PC a while back and thought it was garbage.

[iFLOWLIKEWATER]

amn, he's going to wait for Goozex? Damn...

[mikepmcc]

goozex ftw!

[jagstatboy]

having a beta for this may actually hurt sales of this game.

[BeaArthur]

I agree, I was really excited about it in the days leading up to it but after trying it I'll just stick with BFBC2 or maybe Black Ops as long as it's not the piece of crap that MW2 was.

[gmrfm]

People should also remember that it is a Beta and not a demo.

[BeaArthur]

True, but it comes out in less than 3 months, it's not going to go through a major overhaul.

[BuIIetproofish_]

Its out in 3 months and finished before that. Don't pull that "its a beta" shit. The game is essentially finished.

[gmrfm]

I will actually, because it is a beta. I guarantee that the game you are playing now will be a tigher, better balanced, almost bug-free final product when its released. How? Well the purpose of a beta is to find bugs and test the server loads etc. It really depends on what the developer wants to achieve with the beta.

Who knows, the Beta build could actually be months behind the build the developers are currently working on. They did exactly that with Halo: Reach, so it wouldn't suprise me much if it was the same situation here.

But if people want to judge an unfinished product having only played a BETA, go right ahead. Ignorance is bliss I suppose. But 2 months can make a hell of a difference to a game. Any dev or journo can tell you that.

[TheColbertinator]

Yeah that's the FPS genre for you.Nothing innovative or unique since 2003 apart from Mirrors Edge.

[blodulv]

Seriously, this needs to be done.

North vs. South online modes would create some interesting situations though.... could get pretty intense.

[Sidewinder-]

I could get into that.

Though people would only moan about the guns being slow to fire and reload.

[HeroXIV]

Medal of Honour may or may not be a sucess. But EA are clever. How many games are you buying this year, or have bought this year, that were published by EA? For me, it's 3 or 4 (excluding DLC). Wish Dead Space 2 was this year but oh well!

[Paradise Lost]

I hate when devs focus mainly on multiplayer. What about the single player godammit.

[blodulv]

Sadly this has become the dinosaur age for meaningful single player campaigns when it comes to the FPS genre.

It's become basically just a training ground for hopping online.

Fortunately, I think RAGE will fill this void.

[Dellis]

This is a dumb article, if COD/MW is selling it is

YOU NEED TO COPY WHAT THEY DO

[Yardie]

kinda like how MoH was selling, and Cod copied what they did

[Yardie]

I put this game with some of my favorite FPSs Cod 2, 1943, bad company (1), MoH frontline.

[dizzleK]

i saw some sp campaign footage and it made me yawn. i've played this shit before, many times. same generic desert, same generic middle eastern enemies, same generic ac-130 gun cam, same generic "extreme!" explosions and scenarios. same generic guns. modern warfare has been done to death and this is the final nail in the coffin. save the $ and pick up another copy of cod4 for $15.

[Yomiro]

I played the mission mode keeps me coming back the sound is amazing, feels like real warfare.

[N4BmpS]

I guess beta means nothing anymore, apparently it's the game. Whatever, I'm pretty sure that's why they do beta testing to get the positives and negatives.

[noobsRus]

xbox360 controller support on the pc beta is fucked up.

plus the game will randomly crash to the desktop also...when i try to type it i cant type and it freezes me in chatbox mode except u cant exit..u gotta quit the game.

other than that it's alright, no strafing while sprinting sucks though...only reason why they wont let u is trying to be diff from cod lol....dude call of duty got it's goddamn influence from moh.

[noobsRus]

The gunplay in this game i can atleast say feels better than bad company 2.

[Colonel-Killzone]

I think this is a garbage version of both BFBC2 and also Cod MW2. They still have a couple months to fix the issues though and prove me wrong.

[acere]

shit keep freezing... let m knw when the beta updates again .... got say, the way they make the first prson view
is great

[HDgamer]

I see he finally got his 360 version of the demo

[Senden]

Tbh the same could be said for almost every fps game set in the modern era.. been there, done that, seen it all before. However I quite like moh beta.. it takes the bc2 engine and molds it into the fast paced adrenaline rush of mw2. I hated team assault but mission for me was very enjoyable and i'd buy moh over a treyarch cod game anyday.

[HungPHAT]

I played it at E3 and it's BC2 in close quarters and that's about it ! I'm getting it cause I love BC2 and it feels like COD4 fused with BC2 in my opinion

[Saryk]

The MOH beta is fun, I like the game. Not going to say it is revolutionary. Haven’t had any problems with it on my PC. There are similarities between BF2BC2 and MW2, I would say it is a shooter that bridges both games into one. But judging the game on two multiplayer maps would be unwise, not matter which side of the fence you are on.

[dkgshiz]

The gun combat was boring and it just felt so old. I personally think EA should just can this game and redo it from another era of time. When I first heard about this game I was a little interested. Now that I know its just another COD game with a hint of BBC2. I'm not even going to rent it. This whole FPS generation is really starting to take its toll with me. I'm just getting sick of rehashed games with no effort of being original. This is why Twisted Metal will be a very good fresh breath of air. Ive been dying to play a good combat car game for ages. Twisted Metal Black was the last good car combat game. That was in 2001 so its way over due. KZ3 will probably be the last FPS game I play for a long while. I mean their are shooters that I find to be fun but its getting really old.

[BuIIetproofish_]

Reach is it for FPS for me, so much customization to keep the game fresh. I'm going to find more genres to play. Twisted Metal looks nice.

[BuIIetproofish_]

Its an unfinished knockoff, no thanks.

[mac4u10]

Wow its funny how people judge a game from playing a BETA!!

[Cole119]

For God's sake... IT'S NOT A BETA! No game has a beta two months before it goes gold. All of these "betas" are simply multiplayer demos with some glitches sprinkled in (in MoH's case, many glitches sprinkled in).

[Grimhammer00]

I recall reading about MOH Beta...this beta is from the 2009 build. It's not even using the current texture assets.

I've been playing it off and on since it was available for PS3.

-Cod MW2ish
-death animations and death lag suck. (Dev's said that this has already been corrected. But they are not fixing the Beta as it would require a substantial update. Basically its not worth their time.
-The Beta is really just to create hype (which it really doesn't do very well)
-I suspect they are looking at the netcode....how it affects lag and what not.
their internal team of playtesters take care of the weapon balancing.

I think its too early to make any assumptions.
But, with COD going subscription pay-to-play whether its black-ops or the next COD....I'm leaning towards MOH for my military fix.

But OMG!!!! Fix the crappy looking Grenades!!!! LOL

[Garnett]

This build from 2009? Why are we playing it? If you release a beta, its supposed to be of the current version, so that WE can find the many bugs and report them to you, and you can fix them for the final game. This is not a 2009 beta, but the real multiplayer version of the game, with more/less bugs.

If this really is from 2009, then DICE and EA both are stupid.

[Spenok]

Somehow i doubt this is what the final product will be. Seeing as how they only give you 3 classes, and 3 weapons on 1 lvl.

[Sidewinder-]

HAVE THIS GAME NO HONOUR?!?!?!