In the combat boots of the Ranger, the rocks and dust of Afghanistan itself seemed to want to kill me, twatting mortar strikes and RPG fire into my landing point. Before, I was an extension of the nighttime scenery, silently killing in the dark. Halfway in, you get control of an Army Ranger – a more typical grunt. The first section of the game is in the secret shoes of Tier One operators, and feels resolutely retro in its approach: four men versus the world.

Their input was intended to give the game a sense of respect and understanding for the soldiers involved.īut damn, if I didn't get suckered in. It's a shooter made with the close involvement of real-life soldiers: special forces so classified that before the game was released, publishers EA could only show them off with their faces hidden and their voices masked. Medal of Honour is very strict about that kind of thing. Let's take a moment to salute our fallen brother. His extraordinary badassishness and mouse-wielding ability are in keeping with the highest traditions of videogame service and reflect great credit upon himself, and acceptable credit on Medal of Honour's developers. Sergeant SN1PERRx willingly gave his life, choosing to hurl himself into a room waving a shotgun after his teammates told him to hang back, because he was bored of staring at yet another brown rock. Facing their withering assault, Sergeant xSN1PERRx was able to identify and click on each of their heads in turn until they fell down and their bodies disappeared. While on duty dressed in the skin of both Tier One operators and Army Ranger, he was ambushed repeatedly by infinite streams of Taliban fighters.

Sergeant xSN1PERRx spent eight hours trudging around a geographically accurate but worryingly beige combat zone in southern Afghanistan.

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