Has D.I.C.E. rolled snake eyes with the Medal Of Honor Multiplayer Beta?

A  few minutes into the Medal of Honor Beta you come to the conclusion this is far from the finished article,the maps are small ,your character teleports and dies more than a Star Trek TOS red shirt , a few hours of play later , you become aware this is nowhere near as polished as the Battlefield  Bad Company 2 Beta , just 2 maps of which I played for several months alone ,more than the corresponding full version of COD ,the Beta was that good.


D.I.C.E own this arena , COD and the rest do not come close to the beauty and balance , the ebb and flow of the Battlefield series, which has been arrived at  from carefully and sometimes painfully [for fans] evolving a game mechanic formula over half a decade from Codename Eagle through the Battlefield series.


At the moment the ebb and flow mechanics of the Battlefield series are not on show in the  Medal of Honor Beta  , in game  you are dead before you can get a bead on the map , happy campers waiting at your spawn points of which there are too few,  maps on the Beta at the moment are too small , you can spend the entire battle just getting hell fired or  wiped out by rocket launchers from an unseen enemy never moving beyond the SPAWN POINT,  little balance exists at present but this only a Beta .It should be easier on a slower console PS3/360 ,  on a super fast PC  the frame rate is sooo high I am not just getting 150 fps , but 150 deaths per second! Maybe this is realistic ! Seriously for the beautiful ebb and flow game mechanic that is the  D.I.C.E. calling card , more balancing is going to be required. 

cover those spawn points and the other team will spend their entire game time spawning and respawning

this is an extremely narrow corridor map again campers delight covering spawn points

I shouldn't worry though , this looks like early code released to the masses primarily to stress EA servers ,  perhaps  to counter all the N-E-G-A-T-I-V-E W-A-V-E-S the press and media have been throwing at the setting and to pre empt the  juggernaut  Black Ops launch campaign that is days away now.


I think we should take the Medal Of Honor Beta for what it is a server stress test with some tacked on game play , the major concern seems to be to get as many players in game , spawning and re spawning to see if the servers can handle it . Wow gamer you are now helping to develop games, but you won`t half feel dirty and used by the 300th death by hellfire from an unseen enemy ...and kind of like reality you will be pushed 2 inches back for every inch of ground you gain...

All is not lost you see in the end  I pre-ordered just to get the Battlefield 3 Beta invite

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Re: Medal Of Honour : in the UK get it from Zavvi , Game or shopto which has the best deal price wise Medal of Honour Ltd Edition for £34.85 for the PS3, XBOX 360 and pc  and there are always Amazon UK deals for Medal of Honor

and in the USA where it is still spelt   Medal of honor

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Medal of Honour Open Beta unlocks in 4 hours on Steam

On the 4th of  October there are now only 4 hours to go  for the 4 days of the Open Beta of Medal of Honour , or Honor depending on which end you crack your eggs . So are the planets aligning , is the 4 th planet Mars incidentally the God of War also in ascendant ? We will soon find out as the servers inevitably crash from the load of all the D.I.C.E fans piling into the game . See you on front lines , who needs Soap?  Get over to Steam now to preload whilst you work it will be ready when you get home.

console fans you need to preorder the game to get Beta Access , still no news as to when you  can not play the Taliban in the Medal Of Honour reboot. in the UK get it from Zavvi , Game or shopto which has the best deal price wise Medal of Honour Ltd Edition for £34.85 for the PS3, XBOX 360 and pc  and there are always Amazon UK deals for Medal of Honor

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Medal of Honor for £9.85 at Zavvi

Again for those who waited £9.85 from Zavvi  is worth it just for the D.I.C.E coded multiplayer , just to tide you over till Battlefield 3. The single player has less impact than Speed 2 


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EA Valantine's Day Massacre 50 % off Crysis 2 Battlefield 2 Medal of Honor Bulletstorm

How does EA do Valentine's day ? Well more in a Valentine's Day Massacre than the choccies and flowers style. For with 50 % off Origin downloads of almost all EAs FPS games , the only red decorating your EA Valentine experience will be the bits of gib and virtual slomo evisceration decorating your pc monitor in the likes of Bullet Storm , Battlefield , Crysis 2 and Medal of Honor .


The real bargain here is the classic Medal Of Honor Airborne . Which was the zenith of EA trying to do something different to the military fps , bringing to a sad end the open ended multi route gameplay that EA was imbuing the Medal of Honor Series with. You see time was when MOH was the Call of Duty of its generation. But like all FPS games , it was really just based on a linear series of tunnels mapped with scenery and interspersed with set pieces and cut scenes . Which sounds scarily like COD now doesn't it Treyarch and Infinity Ward ( whats left of you )?


Then EA got brave , and the last few WW2 set MOH games had open ended maps with open ended objectives ,and routes , not just a linear corridor fps game with set pieces , and this for me makes them far better than the later MOH and FPS games that are all aping COD which of course apes the original MOH formula! In Airborne the game environment is key , a town is a town , you chose your entry point , multiple battles are going on in multiple locations you chose how and which order to tackle them , this actually gives you a far better impression that you are in a real world situation than the lovingly textured and conceiled cookie cutter corridors of later linear FPS games like the latest Medal of Honor and Call of Duty.


So I urge you to check out Medal of Honor Airborne , it is there on origin for just £2 and then get back on EAs case to stop aping COD or Battlefield with MOH and take it back in the direction of a sandbox multiple route fps that Airborne is thus far the finest example of.

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Medal of Honor : Warfighter Limited Edition 25% off for £30

And Origin games too form part of the Green Man Gaming 25% off sale , the stand out being Medal of Honor : Warfighter Limited Edition which comes to £30 using the voucher code from the site..

oh and you get Battlefield 4 Beta guaranteed access by pre ordering .. remember how much fun the Battlefield 3 Beta was? Much more fun than the actual game as things turned out .. 

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