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Don’t jump without a leg
Rescue a one-legged paratrooper whose parachute did not open.
Bearded warriors
We spend most of our time in the shoes of the Preacher,
trying to quit a dangerous profession and save a marriage bursting at the seams. Possibly
the authors tried to make the shooter more humane, to show the drama of the defender
fatherland and its moral doubts, but all the suffering of the Preacher ends
banalities like “Who, if not me?”
► Under heavy fire during the assault on the refuge of Somali pirates. Sometimes surprising visuals are one of Warfighter’s rare virtues. But EA DICE could work wonders with this engine, and Danger Close just turned out well in places.
The campaign flies before your eyes in five hours, and the light
moments in it can be counted on one hand: a secret mission by car in Dubai,
which ends with a trip on the oncoming lane of the autobahn during sandy
storms, a couple of episodes with control of an unmanned robot and missions in a drowning place on
eyes of the city Isabella.
Not enough for a “popcorn” action movie, especially since
exciting episodes are interspersed not only with shooting, but also with extremely strange ones
“director’s discoveries.” For example, in a mission about freeing a hostage you will have to
watch the video for a long time, then crawl a few meters on your stomach, do
a single shot and another three minutes of CG video to watch. Where’s the game?
► During the crazy boat chase in the story, someone might get seasick. The camera shakes and skids a lot when turning!
But for some reason there are a lot of patriotic speeches with a military style
serious faces. As if the game was made for the coolest American
patriots who are served by praising the United States and criticizing the Arab world
the only balm for the soul. The dialogue is so inspiring
speeches that one gets the feeling that the developers of the “Medal of Honor” script
agreed with experts from Langley.
► There are a lot of Arab terrorists in the game even without respawn. They are poorly armed, shoot crookedly, and don’t care about hygiene. But in the role of the enemy of “peacekeeping America” they are much more appropriate than the evil Russians in the waters of the Hudson.
Don’t jump without a leg
Rescue a one-legged paratrooper whose parachute did not open.
Not a year without special forces
Two years ago, Danger Close studio donated a second one
life of the Medal of Honor series, relaunching it in a modern setting, and
then this dish was to the taste only of those who were really tired of Call
of Duty. The second part, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, went
further – it borrowed the Frostbite 2 graphics engine from Battlefield
3, left the cast of the characters from the year before last “Medal” and acquired a script
about the fight against Arab terrorism, which will be dragged through by a detachment of elite
special forces through Yemen, Dubai, Somalia, Pakistan and Sarajevo.
The connection with the previous Medal of Honor has not gone away:
our memorable Voodoo warriors, the Preacher and Mother never hung their rifles on the wall,
and the bearded operative Dusty, who lost his leg in the last part, became a military man
group consultant. However, towards the end this super soldier (the prototype for him
served as a famous bearded mercenary nicknamed Cowboy, he will still return to the battlefield and set the heat there.
► We remember the Voodoo operative for his familiar “bro” address. They say that before joining the special forces he was a Rastafarian. Judging by his unregulated appearance, it is difficult to say anything for sure.
The plot is inspired by real combat operations, but only one
the mission is based on actual events – capture of the captain
ships by Somali pirates and the subsequent destruction of filibusters. In the rest
In some cases, the player will have to guess the nature of the source himself. So,
for example, clearing the headquarters of a weapons baron and a mufti rolled into one is very
similar to a similar incident with Osama bin Laden, but the developers, of course,
they will never admit it.
Call of Duty took over not only the story of fighting
Muslim terrorism – the gameplay of Warfighter is like two peas in a pod
for the latest games in the series, only on the engine from Battlefield 3. Destructibility, however,
there is no trace of it, and externally the game is noticeably behind – Danger Close failed
wisely use the technology they inherited, and large-scale scenes are not
wondered. There are very few of them, and the production leaves much to be desired, so
the newfangled engine is, in fact, not used at all.
► The sentries in the Warfighter story campaign are not particularly sensitive. This one, for example, from the starting mission, guards an unnecessary area and will never turn around, even if you jump or do push-ups seventy times behind him!
Action films from Activision mixed pathos, absurdity and chases
almost in ideal proportions, and this forced the players not to look away
stare at the screen. But there is clearly pathos in the magical formula of Medal of Honor: Warfighter
it was too much, the absurdity was not enough, and due to a glitch in the recipe, the production as a whole did not
wants to work correctly – local propaganda of almighty America
presented with a sour expression and without the slightest hint of imagination. Just melancholy
takes an advertisement for “Steel” cigarettes with the leader of nations on the cover; “cranberry” –
at least it’s fun.
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Online
Warfighter has a multiplayer mode
better. In fact, this is a separate story, a kind of game within a game. Alexey Makarenkov
once aptly dubbed Medal of Honor multiplayer “re-Contra with elements
sub-Battlefield.” The sequel, released two years later, is basically not much
changed.
► The Preacher is one of the saddest and most pensive protagonists in the history of war shooters. Anticipating the future of the game?
There are six different classes to choose from: sniper,
attack aircraft, demolition man, machine gunner, special forces and gunner. Everyone has their own chip:
for example, a heat sensor that highlights enemies behind obstacles. Each class
is useful in some way and uses his characteristic weapons and grenades. As you dial
experience gives you access to bonus class options – of course, with
better quality weapons.
Network modes are not original (which is not
them bad). Let us only mention the “Combat Mission”, which develops the idea
the popular Rush mode from Battlefield. One of the teams needs to blow up
bomb three objects, the second – interfere. Any of the three objects can be attacked
or defend at any time. But. this was already in the past Medal of Honor, but
is there anything new?
The only multiplayer debutant is “Hot Spot”.
A mining location is randomly determined on the map, and one team
must defend this area for a certain time, and the other –
destroy the defenders and mine the facility. The winner is determined based on the results
five rounds.
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The authors were in such a hurry to deliver the project on time and overtake the main one
competitor, who forgot to save Warfighter from a whole bunch of problems: in
PC versions lose textures, characters sometimes pass through walls, for many
players in the same places the picture freezes, and because of
Connected to the online service Punkbuster, there are frequent disconnections with the server. On
On consoles the situation is better, the version there was licked more carefully, but
bug reports no, no, and they will flash on the network.
Pleased
Upset
- stealth mission while driving a car;
- the presence of Russia in the list of countries participating in the multiplayer;
- shootouts with Wahhabis in pitch darkness.
- a banal story about evil Arabs;
- a lot of bugs;
- propaganda nature of the game.
Interface and controls
“achievement” of the editors
Don’t jump without a leg
Rescue a one-legged paratrooper whose parachute did not open.
The game Medal of Honor: Warfighter is not just a shooting gallery, but a whole guide to the sights and beauties of the unknown Middle East and third world countries. Mountains in Karachi? Easily. Pakistani forest near Chitral? Walk, breathe the air, kill unpleasant people. Soviet ice skating rink in Sarajevo? Here are the tickets for the visit, and don’t worry about the blood on the walls, we’ll clean everything up ourselves later! And Isabella in the Philippines, going under the water before our eyes, sometimes reminds us of past exploits in the sinking city of BioShock.
From the very first frames it is clear where the script is leading and to whom it prophesies what. Which of the heroes will be sacrificed, who will return from retirement, who will accomplish an exemplary feat. The conflict between the Preacher and his own wife Lena is of some interest, but this storyline will soon be strangled with cold hands, letting the audience understand that “be patient, wife, to fight or help a soldier is the duty of every American!” We don’t believe in drama!
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Despite the rush (or maybe because of it), Warfighter came out at the wrong time and found itself between a rock and a hard place – the role of the first is played by the upcoming Black Ops 2, and the second serves as a reinforced concrete springboard in the form of Battlefield 3. The project with There is simply nowhere to go with the trivial single player mode and typical multiplayer.
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