Medal of Honor is shaping up to look rather good by its own right, too, with a campaign that takes you through the wilderness of Afghanistan on a deadly mission behind enemy lines, and multiplayer created by Battlefield veterans DICE. Most excitingly, the Limited Edition also includes beta access to the forthcoming Battlefield 3 game. Take on the role of Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson - star of both the original Medal of Honor, and the classic Medal of Honor Frontline - in an untold chapter. Besides the MP-7, you'll also be picking up two powerful shotgun weapons with customised slugs. Apparently, it's like a cross between a pistol and a rifle - sounds useful. You'll be getting an MP-7, for example, which is a weapon used by real-world Tier 1 operators, and which has a high rate of fire but can punch through body armour. You can play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Meanwhile, all versions of the Limited Edition come with downloadable weapons and camouflage items. Games similar to Medal of Honor: Frontline on RAWG Video game.
Set in World War II, the fourth game in the series is also one of the best, getting rave reviews when it was released back in 2002.
But in truth, your money's probably better spent on Criterion's Black for a quality slice of retro FPS that still holds up in the here and now.Medal of Honor, EA's FPS reboot that takes the storied shooter series to modern-day Afghanistan, is the latest big budget release to get a Limited Edition ? and it sounds like a real cracker.Īccording to Eurogamer, if you're picking up the PS3 version, you can expect to find that that it included Medal of Honor Frontline, remastered for HD televisions. If Xbox 360 owners would like to get involved in the nostalgia, a trip to eBay should get you the original Xbox version for a few quid and it is one of the titles supported via backwards-compatibility. Still, as a reminder of just how far the genre has progressed in the last eight years, it's an interesting addition to the package and the PS3 Medal of Honor limited edition costs no more than the 360 version, so it's not as if gamers are being asked to pay over the odds. In many ways it sullies some of the warm and fuzzy nostalgic feelings long-term players will have about the original game, because by today's standards it's not really a great deal of fun to play. In all then, as platform-exclusive content goes we've seen better, and while it sounds like a really cool bonus extra to have in a limited edition, the reality is somewhat sobering - the game hasn't aged well and the developers haven't made a great deal of effort to make its transition onto a high-definition console in any way graceful. However, there's an absolutely mammoth level of screen-tear here which further mars the look of the game and the frame-rate varies dramatically. While we never hit anything like a sustained 60FPS, with a fair wind we can get reach the mid-50s. There's no doubt that performance is higher in terms of raw frame-rate.
Calling it a "remaster" is somewhat disingenuous because while the PS3 may be outputting a 720p resolution, there doesn't appear to be much in the way of a visual upgrade aside from the benefits of rendering in progressive scan (something the Xbox and GameCube versions of the original did anyway). There's no way to say this gently: Frontline simply doesn't translate well to the PlayStation 3. Secondly, the fact that it's a bundled in as a bonus extra rather than a standalone product suggests it may not have had the budget to compete with the quality of the Sony remixes. The games targeted for remastering thus far have hailed from later on in the PS2's lifecycle it's fair to say that Frontline dates from an era where developers were still uncertain as to the capabilities of the powerful but somewhat unique Sony hardware. However, the Medal of Honor: Frontline port is noteworthy for several reasons - not least of which is the age of the original game itself. Our emulated HD renderings of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus also hint at great things to come.
The God of War Collection shows that original PS2 artwork can scale up nicely to 720p resolution, while the forthcoming Sly Cooper pack even includes support for stereoscopic 3D. The lack of hardware backwards-compatibility in anything other than the launch PlayStation 3 has seen Sony pick and choose the best of its back catalogue to be "remixed" in high definition and the results thus far have been impressive.
Digital Foundry's Face-Off coverage of the new Medal of Honor should be complete for tomorrow, but in the meantime the chance to check out the HD remastering of the 2002 classic Medal of Honor: Frontline - bundled in free with the PS3 limited edition - proved irresistible.