Medal of Honor

Graphically it looks great (SP), had to turn V-sync on to reduce screen
tearing, everything maxed out (1Gb GTX460). Not that there's a lot of
options to max mind you.

People have commented in forums that the guns sound weak, I noticed in the
end credits that the were recorded on a rifle range. Maybe someone who's
fired some of the guns in the real world could comment on the authenticity?
I thought they sounded quiet compared to other shooters, except for the G3A3
which thumps very nicely.

The game itself is very short, according to Steam I have 5 hours in SP,
which includes about a half hour mucking around on tier 1 mode. In that time
I finished the campaign on hard. The maps suffer from invisible wall
syndrome and the tiny rock stops rough tough burly Mr Navy Seal walking
forward. Normally in the middle of a fire fight, which frequently = death as
you struggle to get free.

Lots of areas have parts where your team members crouch walk through, not so
for your character, you have to go prone to proceed, happens
within a minute of taking control of your character in the first mission.
Also there's lots of "buddy boosts" an AI team member will either jump up a
wall then you get lifted up, or they boost you first, then they jump up.
Just left me thinking "Why can't I just jump up like every bugger else? Who
thought this was a cool game mechanic, the idiot".

There are some interesting changes of pace, like defending an airfield
calling in Close Air Support of various types, but it's over just as you
start having fun. Same with a sequence where you're the gunner in an Apache
(which has such an odd POV that left me thinking I was in a giant helo vs
the Lilliput branch of the Taliban).

Ran into a couple of random bugs where missions wouldn't progress as the NPC
wouldn't perform their next action, or oddly you're ordered to remain in
cover, yet you must move forward to allow the mission to proceed.

It's a nice ride, but too short and still has decades old invisible wall
syndrome due to poor map design.

MP is the same as it was in Beta, so is like marmite for some people. I'm giving it a
try for now to see I can get into it more, but I get bored of MP modes after
a while. Haven't played MW2 since July according to Steam.

Feel free to express your different opinions

I've been a big fan of the MoH series since the very first. They were always good to look at without any major flaws in game play. Then came along the latest, oh dear. The review is for the single player game only.
I'll get the good stuff out of the way first. I play on a pc with twin Nvidia 9600's, so not the most powerful of beasts, but still have no problems pushing everything visually to its limit. Pretty much the same as I do with CoD MW2. It looks pretty similar to MW2 but as other reviewers have mentioned, the engine works far better for the desert countryside than for buildings. The sound seems far more realistic than MW2 with much better placement in 5.1.
I found the missions far more enjoyable than MW2. They seemed to offer far more variety and sense of involvement in a military campaign. This was pretty well delivered in the most part. Calling in various air-strikes and the likes was very well done.
Now for the downs.......................

Short! My god, I completed it on "Normal" in about five hours, and I'm rubbish at this sort of thing. When the end credits came rolling up the screen I thought I'd pressed the wrong button somewhere. I actually went back to the start of that mission part to check. No, that really was the end. I wrote a review on MW2 a little while ago and complained about the linearity and forced use of "trigger" points. MoH has taken this to the extreme! There are huge landscapes in view, with maybe 1% of it navigable. I'm sure there were a few occasions when a blade of grass prevented my forward progress. You must move where the game designers want you to. A few examples, possibly not in order:

You drive your quad bike to a village where you attaché strobe lights to the top of three trucks. I must have parked mine about one foot to the left of where I was supposed to. I followed my comrade off to the village to sit like a lemon for nearly ten minutes waiting for something to happen. Nothing. So I ran all over the map, well not quite all over as those blades of grass and glass panels seemed to prevent me, until I got back to where I'd parked up. I stepped to the side and all of a sudden, the rest of the squad squawk something on the radio, and I'm told to get a move on.

Once in the same village you are required to navigate through the streets to each truck. There's a point where you need to creep around a narrow street with a small building on your right. I decided this small building offered me excellent cover, why wouldn't I? I creep in and kill the poor unfortunate in there and proceed out of the other door and continue. Seconds later I'm dead with a bullet in my back. Hmmm.........must keep my eyes open. I do the same again. Same result. The third time I decide to forget ahead of me and just look to the left to see where my killer is. Enter stage left, what appeared to be the same man I'd now killed three times, from the building I'd just cleared! The fourth attempt, I learned! Instead of going out of the front door, I crept back out of the one I'd entered and followed the path I was supposed to. How surprised I was when, the man I'd now shot for the fourth time, came running out of the door I'd just exited!

The vehicles you've marked appear later when you are required to mark them with a laser to identify them for an airstrike. Don't bother trying to "laser" the first two trucks! You can only "laser" the third! Check out YouTube for some frustration on this one.

The last one worth mentioning is when you destroy a series for anti-aircraft emplacements. We seemed to successfully remove all enemies prior to moving on. Well actually, too successfully! In my foolish and eager want to kill the enemy, I'd decided to "snipe" the crew of one of the emplacements. Why not? Unfortunately, without the gun being manned when my team reached it, they wouldn't call in a ground strike to destroy it! They just sat there at the "trigger" point.

It's a real shame that the game was "hamstrung" by such sloppy level design. These are the sort s of issues that cropped up in nearly all games of this genre in the past, however, things should have moved on and for them to still be present is unacceptable. If it can be done with games such as Crysis, why not MoH or CoD MW?

I'm off to try multiplayer now............

After all the hype, the preordering, the final delivery.....
...oh dear.
The SP story never really gave me the feeling that it was going anywhere. Not all of us FPS people want to play online, we want a good storyline and gameplay. Remember half-life and how long that took to complete? I finished this in about 5-6 hours and felt cheated when the end credits came up.
Come on game developers, we are not all screaming and swearing 13 year olds wanting to assert our masculinity online, give us good long stories and the chance to mod the SP like the old days.
Overall, very disappointed.