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As soon as I fired up the game I got a lot of chat requests asking how it is. It’s funny really… it shows that people are very interested in the newest member of the Metal of Honor series, but are not sure about it after reading some online reviews. For they are a very mixed bag and now I know why! 

I pre-purchased a couple month ago because I had the money in paypal and I always enjoyed the MoH series. If you ask me, now that I beat MoH, if I recommend buying it… I am torn. I want to love this game and I will most likely come back and play it for a while… but $59.99 for a not quite 4 hour single player game experience is just not enough! I just did the math and that comes out to an entertainment value of 26 cents a minute. That reminds me of the old times when they ripped you off on long distance calls. So do I feel riped off about buying the game…. again… very mixed emotions. Because the 4 hours of single player have been so enjoyable, heartpounding, “can’t wait to play more to see how the story continues”. It has been by FAR one of the most enjoyable game stories I played in a long while! I guess it does hail back to the Metal of Honor roots in that respect. It sucked me in completely and when a friend messaged me after I played for 30 minutes and asked how the game is I said “Amazing”.

You start caring for the people you play and the end rips your heart out, similar to how the movie “Black Hawk Down” makes you feel. You know the ugly truth, you know what is going to come but you start caring for these people and want them to walk away (most of them do). So the story sucked me completely in… but 4 hours… come on?! I feel similar to how I felt right at the end of “The Lord of the Rings” episode one. I so want to keep going, see how the story continues, but at least in LOTR I knew that it is only 1/3 of the story and there is more to come. I want more of MoH, I want to keep going. I want to feel more of the recoil of the excellent weapons models and hear the M60 roar with the best weapon sound in a long time.

Yes, there is Multiplayer and boy does it look pretty! And yes the great weapons models are found here too. But there is something about it I can’t quite put my finger on it. For one you die a lot… and I mean A LOT. Very often you won’t know why, from where or what you could have done different. It seems a bit like Lemming Central, you spawn, push forward and crack… you gone before you saw anyone. Pretty effects a good Muliplayer experience not makes! It is noticeable that two different teams worked on Multiplayer and Single Player. Why you wouldn’t include such things as lean that works in Single player but not Multi is a mystery to me, maybe you would have even less of a chance in Multiplayer… who knows. What I do know that if you give me a choice between MoH Multiplayer and  Battlefield Bad Company 2 it is NOT a contest and Battlefield wins hands down. So if you have Battlefield and buy MoH for the Multiplayer aspect I’d say save your money for something else this fall!

Maybe I will update this more as I keep playing different aspects of the game, but I wanted to make sure you all knew my feelings about MoH. I like it BUT it is  WAYYYYY to short! Shame on you DICE and shame on you EA, you had something great but made it feel cheap (or way too expensive)! I wonder how long they will get away with it, because even console kiddies have to feel a little riped off!