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10-12-2010, 11:09 PM
Medal of Honor suffers ratings casualties in debut; Electronic Arts shares down 6% (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/10/medal-of-honor-suffers-ratings-casualties-in-debut-electronic-arts-shares-down-6-percent.html)
Medal of Honor, Electronic Arts' attempt to reboot its 11-year-old war game franchise, is getting a lukewarm reception from critics on its first day out, driving shares of the Redwood City, Calif., game company down nearly 6% on Tuesday.
The title, the 14th in the series, scored 74 points on a maximum 100-point scale, according to Metacritic, which aggregates reviews from multiple websites. The score is considered mediocre compared with 94 for Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released last year, and EA's Battlefield Bad Company 2, which scored 88 points when it debuted in March.
One particularly scathing review from IGN concluded, "With serious stability and performance issues on console, level design that tends more toward turkey shoot than firefight, and a story and characters that stumble in their attempts at relevance and pathos, Medal of Honor walks into a quagmire it never really escapes from."
EA's shares fell $1.05, or 6%, to $16.61 on Tuesday, recovering 10 cents to $16.71 in after-hours trading.
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Been playing for a few hours and it is not as solid a war game as COD. It’s jerky, the maps are too simple, and it just does not play as well. I am a huge fan of the MOH franchise back with Spearhead... but this new release is just not cutting the cake. Oh well. I’ll pawn this off with some other games to pick up some classics and enjoy COD Special Ops in Nov.
Medal of Honor, Electronic Arts' attempt to reboot its 11-year-old war game franchise, is getting a lukewarm reception from critics on its first day out, driving shares of the Redwood City, Calif., game company down nearly 6% on Tuesday.
The title, the 14th in the series, scored 74 points on a maximum 100-point scale, according to Metacritic, which aggregates reviews from multiple websites. The score is considered mediocre compared with 94 for Activision Blizzard's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, released last year, and EA's Battlefield Bad Company 2, which scored 88 points when it debuted in March.
One particularly scathing review from IGN concluded, "With serious stability and performance issues on console, level design that tends more toward turkey shoot than firefight, and a story and characters that stumble in their attempts at relevance and pathos, Medal of Honor walks into a quagmire it never really escapes from."
EA's shares fell $1.05, or 6%, to $16.61 on Tuesday, recovering 10 cents to $16.71 in after-hours trading.
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Been playing for a few hours and it is not as solid a war game as COD. It’s jerky, the maps are too simple, and it just does not play as well. I am a huge fan of the MOH franchise back with Spearhead... but this new release is just not cutting the cake. Oh well. I’ll pawn this off with some other games to pick up some classics and enjoy COD Special Ops in Nov.