has at least one premier shooting franchise on the shelves in time for Christmas every year.

Unambitiously pursues five years of first-person shooter trends rather than buck them, but there's still fun and function to be found here, along with a steady stream of killer set-pieces.

A healthy; solid; eight-hour shooter; Some killer set-pieces; First-person cover works brilliantly

Generic; Rivals do multiplayer better

You can tell it's the fall can you? Golden, dry leaves everywhere, it's getting colder by the minute and we're getting more and more rain by the day. Of course, the market being flooded by numerous first-person shooters is yet another unmistaken sign.

Moments of fun are sporadic; pretty engaging multiplayer mode that certainly feels way better than in the previous MoH game

Buggy; damn-near terminally dull story; linear campaign; gameplay has nothing to draw you in

Another year. Poorer vintage

Gunplay is perfectly adequate; Decent multiplayer contingent

Short; buggy and unimaginative campaign; Incoherent and unsympathetic plotline; Let's not get started on the politics

Having just beaten the campaign and only play a small amount of the multiplayer, I say that this game is definitely worth buying.

For better or worse, the massive success of the Call of Duty franchise has spawned a seemingly limitless number of inspirations, copycats, derivatives, and flagrant plagiarists. The mixture of explosions, booming rock, quick-cutting, and nonsensical military jargon is difficult for some gamers (and...

Good visuals; Solid multiplayer

Derivative - you've seen this before; and in better games; Weak campaign; Multiplayer mode's unlock code will keep its playerbase small

Medal of Honor: Warfighter feels like it is trying too hard to get a slice of the lucrative CoD pie, but the package never quite manages to get up to snuff. It is average in almost every department, and if you choose to play without the day one patch and graphics install it devolves into a buggy...

Jingoistic modern-day first-person shooters love quotes from icons of American history, or at least their loading screens seem to enjoy them. So I couldn't help but use a JFK classic to summarize Medal of Honor: Warfighter as an experience: "Change is the law of life.

Warfighter clearly takes inspiration from other releases in its genre; Unlike some of the me-too efforts that have followed a similar path, the gameplay here can be pretty fun at times; Shooting mechanics are familiar and precise.

The plot isn't the only thing that jumps around a lot, though. Gameplay style also varies to a surprising degree, and I was somewhat startled by the realization that many of my favorite scenes were those that feel the least like they belong in an FPS title.

A successful first-person shooter must cover three things at the very least. First, solid gameplay basics to give the game a strong core. Second, some originality to set it apart from the other first-person shooters out there, since comparisons will obviously be made.