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Medal of Honor – Sniper Rules and Quad Buggies

Medal of Honor is the new first person shooter from developers Danger Close and DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, taking the player to the battlefields of Afghanistan and putting him in the dessert combat boots of a variety of characters that engage the Taliban after the events of September 11, 2001.

Apparently every major first person shooter from the Call of Duty and Medal of Honor series need to have a vehicle section disguised as something else.

Modern Warfare 2 pulled off a sequence based around snowmobiles that felt pretty epic on the first play through, with its quick pace, tree dodging, the need to take out enemy vehicles and the final jump to rescue.

Medal of Honor aims to surprise the player by putting him on a quad and making him drive through the Afghan countryside as he tracks enemy forces, gathers intelligence and then plans a course of action for taking the fight to the Taliban.

The problem is that the sequence lacks excitement and that the quads feel wholly unnecessary and discordant when compared to mission that the Tier 1 Operators need to complete.

Sure your partner Dusty will tell you about when the enemy is near sections and about the need to go silent at some points to avoid detection but the quads are just a sort of bus replacement with a long range sniper rifle attached to the front.

The sniper action is very well done in Medal of Honor, especially when it involves moving targets and the view is partially obscured.

And, for a game which aims to be close to the conflict it depicts in terms of hardware and background if not in terms of politics, the quads are completely out of place.

The characters you play seem to be pretty concerned with blending into the population of the areas they are operating in, as seen in their face covering beards and their fashion choices and such a vehicle would only make them easy to spot as foreigners and get targeted.

It would have been better to stick to the Toyota pickups form the first missions for transportation and look to innovate rather than imitate in terms of shock sections.


Video game drops Taliban label amid protests



(Credit : Softsailor.com)

The makers of a new video game based in Afghanistan said Friday they have removed the option for players to call themselves members of the Taliban when pretending to shoot at U.S. troops.
Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Calif., said it has dropped the Taliban label from a version of its "Medal of Honor" video game after families of troops complained it was offensive.
Military bases across the U.S. had banned the sale of the game in reaction to those family protests.
Past versions of the game have been set in World War II, allowing players to act as either members of Allied forces or Nazi troops.
The latest version, scheduled to be released on Oct. 12, is set in modern-day Afghanistan, where some 150,000 U.S. and NATO troops are fighting the Taliban.
The game's story line is told through a small group of characters known as "Tier 1" operators, elite fighters who take their orders directly from the president and defense secretary.
As is common in many video games, players can switch sides to play the bad guy.
Electronic Arts said the art and graphics for the game would remain the same, including realistic depictions of fire fights between U.S. Special Operations forces and Afghan insurgents.
Spokesman Jeff Brown said the only difference will be seen in the version of the game that allows multiple players. When opting to play as part of the anti-U.S. force, the player will select "OPFOR" — a military term for opposing force — instead of "Taliban."
Brown said it was the Taliban label that seemed to upset consumers most.

Source : Google News

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