Metal of Honor

Loving this game.

Best graphics on an XBOX 360 game ever.

Sniper rifle and Hellfire missle missions make up a large portion of the game.

The helicopter missions are especially fantastic.


Haven't messed with online play but can't put the game down.

 

That was my attitude too.

I took my nephew to Game Stop to get Black Ops only to find it wasn't out yet. I was worried it would feel like a Battlfield/COD take off (even though Medal is older than them) but have been very impressed with this game.

 

I never finish them either but i can't stop buying the new ones. I was about half way thru Reach when i picked it up. I'll get back to Reach, Red Dead Redemption and COD world at war....someday.

Where this game pulls ahead of COD and Battlefield is in the sniper missions and the helicopter missions IMO. It's not the run of the mill zoom in and kill from far away. In the first sniper mission your on a mountain with a spotter helping you find your targets on the far side of the mountain. You have to switch from nightvision to infrared and back and forth to comb thru the mountain to find the enemies. The helicopter isn't the same ole grab a turret and fire at the enemies as you pass by but a pilot based run with different missles to choose from. You have to work with the other helicopter to take out the enemies. Found this much more fun than the flying missions in Halo Reach. The scenery, camera angles and graphics really add to the experience. Nothing exactly groundbreaking but updated and done well enough to make the game really enjoyable.

One complaint though is the sound (voice) you can hear everything the enemy says from a mile away and every shot and explosion but when your platoon leader gives you intructions you can barely make out what he says even when no fighting is going on. Found this same problem in most of the first person shooters lately. Just went back to play the last campaign on day 1 with the sniper rifle from the mountain down to the camps in the valley and my leader (duce or is that me?) and headquarters are talking back and forth to me and to each other in this muffled too low a volume to hear voice To make it worse they go out of their way to add realism by hearing your commands echoed off your spotters radio as your leader is giving them to you so that on top of the turds in the mouth diction at low volume you've got to hear the hollow echo from a radio unit 40 yards away . It takes three or four missions to differentiate between another soldier complaining about the heavy enemy fire and a command to move up or fall back. After five missions i realized my character was "Adams". Would have been better to play the game understanding that the first time through. Same thing with Halo Reach. In the cut scenes the characters talk to you and each other to give the story narrative but for the life of me i have no idea what the storyline is (except that we fight the covenant).