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GI Show 130: Medal of Honor Warfighter, Day One Patches, Intern Spotlight

This week we use the disappointing new Medal of Honor game as a jumping off point to discuss the industry's increasing reliance on day one patches. Also, meet our new interns!

In the first segment, host Matt Helgeson is joined by Matt Bertz (who reviewed Medal of Honor: Warfighter), Matt Miller, and PC editor Adam Biessener for a wide-ranging discussion on the use and misuse of day one patching for games. Love it or hate it, it's a reality now and moving forward, but some companies seem to take a better approach to it than others. We also break down why -- patch or no patch -- Warfighter misses the mark in many important ways.

In the second segment, Matt introduces you to our new crop of Game Informer interns: Odell Harmon, Jordan LaPorte, and Mike Mahardy. These guys have already been posting tons of news and opinion on the site, and in this podcast you can get to know them a little better.

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  • The 5 rating made me do a double take. I can't wait to see the test chamber for this, as well as some other reviews for it.
  • intro is funk-a-delic.

  • Campaign is great ....multiplayer gameplay is nice...the menus need to done over and the graphics are just horrible...literally looks like a PS2 or XBOX game on consoles. PC looks ok
  • Time to Meet the Interns. *Plays TF2 theme*

  • Helgeson, either you talk really quietly, or you microphone is always quieter than everyone else's.
  • This game is a cross between Battle Field and Call Of Duty. The game itself isn't so bad, they just needed a bigger patch that should've dealt with the still existing " VOIP chat and spawning outside the map problems "!

  • I played through some of the campaign on MOH and so far I'm enjoying it. The double scope option is great! I love the pop out cover system and the movement isn't too clumsy. Though REEKING of COD, I had a blast doing the timed airplane mission in the beginning. The graphics are decent although something about the lighting is funky. Some areas look fantastic, others just washed out. Whatever.

    Multiplayer, on the other hand, is dumbed down. As far as I know, popout and double scope action is disabled and the graphics in multi look like Counterstrike (No offense to CS). That's with 14GB of discs, texture packs and what have you installed.

    The menus look like some diagnostic linux system with no instructions on how to navigate them, how to get the launch screen, etc. This is my biggest gripe with the game so far. Crappy crappy menus. I would go as far as to say they are the antithesis of Halo Reach or Call of Duty's menus. Not intuitive at all.

    I'm going to stick it out with this one, but I think after I'll be trading this game towards Crysis 3.
  • Yeah I thought the lack of review copies raised a red flag on Medal of Honor, and honestly didn't like what I've played so far.

  • Bertz btw you mentioned in your review that you liked the double scope mechanic. That was in Modern Warfare 3, nothing new there
  • what's annoying is that people knock COD for releasing every year but the truth is that each COD game is really really good
  • I like these interns, you should keep 'em around.

  • Oh, okay. Haven't heard from Jordan yet, but I've seen O'dell and Mike on the Extra Life livestream, as well as former intern Jack Gardner/Frontier.
  • Alot of the issues that are in this game have been in CoD and BF3 for a very long time. This doesn't really deserve such a low score. Me personally I was thrilled with how warfighter turned out. BF3 and cod have been getting away with so many things for so long its ridiculous
  • It's not great..

  • Not COD?.. Not BF?.. Not Halo?... 5.0

    BF3 had a lot of issues when it released, but still scored high... COD is nowhere near the greatest looking game, artistically or technically (also releases with a bunch of glitches). MOH has flaws, but it seems like someone wanted revenge for RE6 receiving low scores from other sites. If you go into a game from a negative standpoint, it has little chance to shine.

    Sure, everyone has their own opinion, but the bias for big name games is becoming a little sickening.

    All games should be held to the same standard. Then again, this is the internet... Oh well.
  • Mod
    Welcome new people!!! :) Alright on to the subject that seems to be burned into everyones mind. I really have enjoyed warfighters campaign. Just as much as the last moh. I have no idea whose idea the multiplayer menus were but (and this is only my opinion) they're horrible to navigate. Its not undoable, but it really needs to be stream-lined. So, while i personally would have given it a higher score, i understand how it could have scored low for someone else.
  • I really, really, really didn't like Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The graphics were good but aren't all games knowadays offering advanced graphics ? I mean it goes past graphics for me, I think the gameplay, storyline, and the amount of dialogue in the game makes or breaks a game for me. And to be quite frank, MoH : Warfighter did not deliver.

  • Hi new interns!

  • I never really expect Medal of Honor games to be good but I think that stems from the fact that I never played the earlier ones. I do hope it gains momentum again since the first one was helped out by Spielberg.

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