Medal of Honor: Vanguard for Wii Reviews by Gamers

It's official. The WW2 franchise is dead, and Vanguard is the flag on the coffin.

Let's start with the most noticeable problem here: the graphics are in-your-face ugly. This game would have been barely acceptable as a PS2 launch title. Textures are bland and washed-out. Environments are muddy and empty. Jagged edges are more plentiful than German bullets and special effects are nearly absent. More often than not you'll have to wait for enemies to shoot at you first so you can spot them by their muzzle flash because it's impossible to discern one blob of indiscernible pixels from the next.

The controls barely work; quickly turning and getting the cursor where you need it to go requires mastering the game's monumental learning curve. Massive tweaking of the game's controls will earn better results, but only just barely. The motion-sensitive commands are also busted, since i often found myself crouching when i wanted to reload, jumping when i wanted to do a 180 turn, and other various frustrations.

Laughable AI is also rampant. Enemies prefer to sit down in one spot and occasionally pop out to send a few rounds your way until you manage to pick them off. A delay between your bullets hitting them and when they actually react makes for embarrassingly unrealistic combat. Bang! 1...2...3... ouch!

Maybe the biggest disappointment here is that the presentation is painfully derivative and cliched. If you've EVER played a WW2 game or watched a WW2 movie before, prepare to be bored to tears. How many times must we see the same bright-eyed country boys, hard-skinned sergeants, and gruff-but-caring generals? Originality has been scalped by a German sniper round, and the gaming community as a whole suffers.

Gameplay mechanics are also ripped and torn from other popular shooters like Call of Duty, but aren't faithfully executed in any competent fashion.

A once-great series has found itself at the bottom of the bargain bin. Let's try to remember that it's 2007, not 1999.

so much better then call of duty 3 (wii)
it has far more better movments the swinging you arm out to do a melee is terrific trowing frags is good to on call of duty 3 trowing the frag was hard to do I whould allways blow myself up another thing is you hold the "A" button then shift with the control stick left right etc... call of duty you had to rotate you arm and that was hard to do I felt like I had to get handcuffs of my arms medal of honor has allways made good game's that's why I am giving it a 9 it whould have got a ten if there wernt bugs and the grafix was'nt blah