Abysmal map design cripples the already uninspired objective-based modes, creating obstacles cutting off paths to a bomb site or a flag return point. This is equally true in the hollow multiplayer. All of this leaves Warfighter as uninteresting as it is disengaged, and none of its promises pay off. There’s a massive disconnect between the story Danger Close wants to to tell and the game it’s made, and both suffer because of each other. How can anyone empathize with a broken man who spends the next few hours plunging a hatchet into hearts, snapping necks, and generally slaughtering hundreds of other people? The narrative of Warfighter’s core revolves around the dissolution and rebuilding of an operator’s family, but the characters and in-game events compromise pathos. It’s hard to keep the dots connected, too, because the timeline follows no discernible order and features flashbacks within flashbacks. The primary objective is buried by disjointed jumps from one character or country to the next – as it has been in Battlefield and Call of Duty 5 as well. That is, Medal of Honor’s campaign wants to throw you into situations “ripped from the headlines” – and it’s devastating to whatever story Warfighter fails to tell. The bare-bones mission design of Warfighter is entirely in service of its mantra, not its players. If Medal of Honor extended the same level of respect to its players, Warfighter might have accomplished more than its numerous significant failures and lack of player agency has allowed.
It’s clear from the first cutscene all the way to the end credits that developer Danger Close has the utmost respect for the extraordinary skills and bravery of these soldiers. Warfighter strives for this by giving you a genuine impression of what it’s like to live as a Tier 1 operator, the elite operatives at the center of the modernized Medal of Honor series. Such appeals to a player’s humanity are bold but risky moves in a military shooter, where countless corpses of faceless terrorists pile up at your feet. Game Description Medal of Honor Warfighter wants you to consider the effects of violence on those responsible for it.
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