The thing about game “reboots” if that they omit everything in their name that would distinct it somehow. Try searching for Medal of Honor and odds are you get plenty of Allied Assault results when you were actually looking for the 2010 edition.
So who is excited about MoH? Probably not as many people EA would want. Why? Because there is absolutely nothing original about it. The modern warfare era ended in 2007 when the last excellent game shipped under the name Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Ever since, the devs were serving us the same mashed potato every 4-6 months. The same M16, the same Colt, the same grenades, UAVs, airstrikes, w/e.
The multiplayer will be based on the Frostbite engine which is the heart of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, while the singleplayer will be Unreal Engine 3 material. That is just confusing to me. What financial decision could justify separate engines for a game, because I’m sure no developer in their right mind would make its live harder for no reason. Also I didn’t keep up with BC2 updates, but I’m pretty sure there were no new maps introduced for the game, just stock ones were made available in other gametypes and that tallied up to 10 maps total, which is very slim. Now I imagine that will be the same with MoH, you get the one map in the beta that everyone will be bored with and won’t play in retail for weeks and 3 others which will also get boring very fast.
The advantage that MoH might have is the possibility of more gametypes and that it’s mainly infantry based.
Teamwork is a must, we all know that. But when your team consists of a bunch of twats who believe that they are the reincarnations of Vasily Zaytsev and all they need is a sniper rifle to win the match, then you would like the option to be able to complete objectives lone hero style, like you were able to do in CoD games and CS. There’s nothing more depressing then you click on “Deploy on the front” and you spawn behind a bunch of snipers camping 5 meters from the base. You would like to shout their heads off, but then you’re the douche bag for telling them they are doing something wrong.
I have no idea what these cunts enjoy in an objective based gametype. If you are one of these fuckers, please consider playing some random deathmatch or team deathmatch were your presence matters fuck all, because you are destroying the game for those who would like to progress further than the first objective. This will result in your targets to quit playing the game and you will have nothing left to shoot at, because the other team will also consist of fucking campers who also won’t move an inch from behind cover. Then you will also quit and blame the devs or EA that they made a shit game that you payed good money for.
The open beta went live on Oct 4th, had some connectivity issues but it looks like they managed to sort things out. Nice game, works fine, but I still don’t see what the big hook is that people are supposed to get mad about and rush out to buy it. Truth be told, I’m not sure why I pre-ordered it back in June. I must be a beta addict. Damn you EA!