games website "Medal of Honor: Soldier" Detailed review: Contend COD? It's not ready yet

I. Personal mood

In the sinister world of gaming, there are many enemies of destiny, from small games and their makers to the entire game industry. From "Super Mario" and "Sonic" to "King of Fighters" and "Street Fighter", from Sulfuric Face and Hideki Kamiya squabbling to eternal enemies EA (Electronic Arts) and Activision (Activision) exchanged insults.

Back in 1999, when EA released the first World War FPS Medal of Honor on the playstation platform, the entire gaming world was heated, and EA dominated the world War II FPS genre for many years, until the Call of Duty series appeared.

The core team of 2015 studio members who made Medal of Honor: Return to Normandy left EA for Activision, redesigning many parts of the original game that didn't work, or didn't feel realistic enough, and the result was the birth of Call of Duty.

This move is like a butterfly effect, although it did not make too much waves at the beginning, but then on the entire FPS game industry caused a profound impact, since then "Medal of Honor" series like a fading old man gradually embarked on the old and unstable road, and the rising "Call of Duty" series has become the uncrowned king of the FPS field.

Because the original group of EA "defectors" was called Infinity Ward! EA did not give up this once golden sign, from the 2007 Medal of Honor: In the five years since the Medal of Honor Airborne, EA has launched two legitimate sequels to Medal of Honor, although Medal of Honor 2010 has achieved reasonably good results, but EA is not satisfied with this, so Medal of Honor: Soldier "with the 2010 residual strength of the comeback, that what" soldier "can re-establish the" Medal of Honor "of the golden signboard, let us wait and see.

Slag rotten painting for light spray

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the nation's highest and most difficult award, created by an act of Congress in 1862, and awarded to servicemen who have "risked their lives in battle and demonstrated bravery beyond duty."

The individual who receives the Medal of Honor must have demonstrated bravery, self-sacrifice, and fearlessness, demonstrated courage and fearlessness that are clearly superior to those of his companions (this is also very appropriate for the theme of the game, lone hero and teamwork), the award of the medal must have demonstrated convincing evidence of service, and the recommendation must be considered on the basis of outstanding merit.

The Medal of Honor can only be given by the president himself.

Ii. Introduction to the game

Medal of Honor: Warrior, the sequel to the 2010 reboot of the series, will be built by DICE's Frost 2.0 engine, and unlike its predecessor, Danger Close will take over full development of the game, including the multiplayer mode that DICE was responsible for developing in the previous games in the series.

The story, written by a US Tier 1 unit fighter, is based on real-life counter-terrorism battles today, such as rescuing hostages from the ABU Sayyaf group in Basilan, Philippines, and battling them in their "private town" near the Somali coast.

With Tier 1 troops at your command to defeat terrorist groups across the globe, Medal of Honor: Warrior is the only game to take players through real events. (Friendly tips, 360 version of the game iso a total of 16G, of which single-player mode 8G, multiplayer mode about 6.5G, HD package 1.5G, estimated PC version is not too bad. The story of the console version is in English, and the PC version comes with its own official Chinese)

One of the loving kids in our group drew it

Three. Game screen

We know that movies will attract fans with short trailers and large, flashy posters. New books and music albums also rely on elaborate cover packaging to attract unfamiliar readers. Similarly, when most players choose a game, the performance of the game screen is definitely the first threshold for players to play the game, which is also the reason why manufacturers launch a product to hype the picture.

In fact, the quality of the screen also represents the quality of the game to a large extent. Medal of Honor: Warrior uses the legendary Frost 2 engine, and the picture effect performance is naturally not too bad.

The game's main screen menu options are very common, unlike the last save screen used in some recent games as a menu background introduced into the game (see Max Payne 3, The Archetype 2, Dark Descent 2) is not very bright.

After entering the game, it is a big scene of diving - blasting - RPG fighting - escape (a COD4 opening instant feeling, the only difference is that "warriors" only two people instead of a squad), the opening game for us to show Frost 2 excellent water effects, grand blasting scenes, a lot of dark light processing and dynamic shadow effects.

Exquisite object modeling and scene mapping, the graphics alone must be far beyond the Call of Duty series. The character modeling and gun modeling in the game use parallax mapping, displacement mapping, gloss mapping and highlight mapping to create more complex and fine model materials, and the gun looks full of texture in the hand.

After the cinematic opening script (to tease, this opening can feel EA itself is to show a tense and exciting opening to catch the player's eye, but due to their lack of skills and players are used to eating the Call of Duty this Manchu and Chinese dinner, so for this opening there is only a comparison of domestic films and Hollywood blockbuster......) A piece of high-quality CG perfectly illustrates the engine's handling of the character's facial expressions, the fine modeling of surrounding objects and the texture of clothing.

Then it is the same training level, and the training game officially begins. The beach landing war under the sun, Frost 2 dead family like the tragic white style is displayed incisively and vividly here. Leaving aside the overall picture style, excellent water reflection effect, smoke particle effects, dynamic light source changes, and Frost 2's unique "destruction" system, we will not only increase the damage effect on the macro, such as the collapse of the entire building; There will also be some damage focused on some small objects, such as guns to the low wall of the floor by floor small damage.

In general, the optimized HDR technology and dynamic blur improve the post-processing effect and increase the coherence and realism of the picture. A large number of scenes in the game form light contrast due to brightness, which greatly enhances the sense of presence in the real battlefield environment in the game.

Due to the war game without a large number of explosion scenes, explosion particles, air wave vibration, wind and sand explosion, blood splash and other effects are very realistic, the object burning fire and smoke, under the sunlight at a certain point to the surrounding state of natural diffusion, showing a distinct level, very realistic.

In the game, a large number of landscapes such as deserts, rainforests, heavy rain, fog, snow fields and so on use a large number of dynamic volume light, cube lighting effect, to add excellent image details to the game and add a global lighting effect. Visually very textured, the production team spared no effort to show us a variety of beautiful scenery.

The most critical point is that the host version optimization is very good, and there is no frame drop phenomenon in the big scene, which is strongly praised.

4. Game music/sound effects

As the most important combat sound in the shooting game, the game performance is also quite good. All are real gun records, such as the sound of bullets being loaded, the sound of iron barrels being hit, and even the sound of gravel peeling off the wall are so real, especially when the player controls the machine gun in the helicopter, the impact of the bullet hitting the enemy plane is very real.

Cutscene CG mixed with intermittent sad violin music, is the difficulty suggesting that the game will be a sad story?

Five. Game operation

Operational highlights are not big, students who have played other FPS will certainly get started quickly, squatting, lying, running, jumping, melee, throwing a lot of machine aim is also to join in the fun. One of the highlights of the current discovery is that you can choose different ways to break the door, although there are only feet and axes for the time being, but according to the unlocked options below, there should be a variety of ways, and different ways should also have different effects, I hope you don't forget to try when playing.

Game style and system

Medal of Honor: Warrior's production team seems to want to make the game into a modern warfare genre that tries to challenge the nature of Call of Duty movies, but EA has always depicted a beautiful hanging garden but not filled with full content. The pattern of a first-class blockbuster is actually the effect of a third-rate movie.

Just to say that the plot planning, movie cutscenes and game pacing are still comparable to the Call of Duty series. However, the single-player mode can still see that the production team is sincere, and the multiplayer game "Medal of Honor: Soldier" will be in a more awkward situation, playing a large scene is certainly not better than their own Battlefield 3, playing small-scale confrontation is not as good as "Call of Duty".

Although the game is not officially released, the multiplayer mode is temporarily unavailable, but you can refer to the "Medal of Honor 2010" multiplayer mode is currently sad the global online number, "warrior" multiplayer battle prospects are not optimistic!

Vii. Conclusion

"Call of Duty: Black Ops 2" release day is also gradually approaching, in the face of the end of the two major game giants of the two major FPS masterpiece of the gay love confrontation, we can enjoy what kind of feast? Please let us clean the hard drive, prepare the orange and steam account, and let us look forward to the November that brings us countless blood and touching every year.

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