If I can offer everyone some advice, DO NOT bother with the new Medal of Honor game. It's reminiscent of Fallout 3 where the glitches and bad AI programming were enough to turn me off, but unlike FO3, I don't regret throwing the towel in on MOH.
First off, it may as well be called, "Call of Duty 4: Doodie Edition." You use basically all the same weapons, fight the same type of enemies, fight alongside the same type of NPCs, but in this game your NPC teammates seem to be from the Special Olympics wing of the army. They're good at pointing out enemies, but they are extremely self centered and won't care about where you are aiming. At least 3 times I hit one of them because they ran in the way of my sights as I was trying to take out the enemy. The game will warn you about friendly fire, but I was able to empty two magazines of my gun before one of them went down, so don't worry about killing them accidentally and failing your mission. Also, don't expect them to always be able to pick off enemies that are close. I understand NPCs not doing all the work for me, but I don't think it's unreasonable for me to expect them to pick off guys before they can run past them and run up to me to give me a big sloppy kiss before they ram 20 bullets down my throat.
The bad AI goes along quite well with the NUMEROUS glitches in this game. Clearly this game was not done when it went out and the programmers needed some more time to debug. On more than one occasion I saw one of my NPC teammates running in place unable to advance past what I can only perceive to be a very mean looking Afghanistan Sand Gnat. I proceeded on to find that same NPC moved to another location but still running in place. I had to shoot him so he'd get out of his running animation and move in place to trigger the next checkpoint.
The final straw came in the next mission where I was teamed up with the guy on the cover box who reminds me of
Opie from Sons of Anarchy but not as cool. Anyways it's a stealth mission where you are supposed to take follow a group of Taliban soldiers and pick off various numbers of them as they break off, thus making sure you don't alert the entire crew. The problem with this is that the game would glitch out and either they would not move in the group like they were supposed to (meaning if you killed one, 10 more would come out and turn your body into swiss cheese) or they would suddenly all smell the American Apple Pie on your breath and kill you in .4 of a second. On my last excursion, I was in cover with Opie waiting the group out, and Opie said that it was all clear. Before the word "clear" could come out of his mouth my player had turned into cooked hamburger, after which he then said, "Get down!"
These gameplay issues along with the rather uncomfortable and rather distasteful way they portray the war in Afghanistan lead me to recommend that you'd be better off just playing Call of Duty 4 (Hell even MW2) instead. I'll go so far as to say you'd have more fun playing the original Medal of Honor on the PlayStation. YMMV, but in my eyes, MOH is officially the first major disappointment of 2010. It used to be FFXIII, but at least FFXIII was a technically sound game. MOH is simply too buggy to recommend, and even if patches do resolve all the problems, I'm still not sure I could recommend it.
PS I didn't bother with the multiplayer, but all the reviewers seemed to agree it's just a crappier version of BC2's MP, which was a crappier version of MW2's MP..
I keep eyeballing a XBox360 arcade just to use one of my HD DVD standalone drives with for 1080p...
