He said the punishments this week "send a clear message throughout our force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability". He alluded to the importance of honouring non-disclosure agreements that Seals sign. "We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy," Bonelli said. The deputy commander of naval special warfare command, Rear Admiral Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details. Those actions generally hinder a military member's career. They are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game called Medal of Honour: Warfighter.Įach of the seven received a letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months.
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MoH is certainly better for its shift from WW2 to modern warfare, but veterans who recall the salad days of the series may be expecting more.Seven members of the secretive Navy Seal Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior navy officials said.įour other Seals are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said. Like this year's Strictly/The X Factor tussle, clever scheduling ensures the two games won't be directly competing for chart position, which perhaps is just as well for EA.
If you're looking for a straight comparison with the next CoD (Black Ops) you'll have to wait another few weeks. That said, the action does feel very different to CoD's tighter, more frantic skirmishes – rewarding experience and teamwork over individual heroics – something DICE will hopefully nurture and build on once the servers start filling up. Featuring only eight maps, four multiplayer modes (Team Assault, Sector Control, Objective Raid and Combat Mission) and three classes (Rifleman, Special Ops or Sniper), MoH packs less variety than you might expect, even once you start unlocking weapon upgrades through levelling up. And then there's the multiplayer side with Battlefield 2 developer, DICE, delivering a beautifully balanced experience, despite once again being surprisingly slim on both innovation and scale. Despite this, and a few gameplay glitches that will surely be quickly patched, the short, nine-level, single-player campaign is still packed with blistering firefights. Combat generally feels great, thanks to a good supply of hefty weapons, although melee combat is decidedly limp. Enemies may be in plentiful supply but the AI tends to have them bobbing up and down rather than making the same intelligent use of cover as your squad members. You could also level some niggles at the gameplay. And, of course, the obligatory reliance on semi-darkness to ramp up difficulty and tension.
A plot that depicts various well-laid plans (some stealthy, some all-out chaos) turning to crap? Check. A variety of different characters to play, from navy Seals, to army rangers to the much-vaunted Tier 1 undercover operatives? Check. Even the convincing bilingual radio backchat can't conceal that we're in bog standard territory here, with most of the FPS cliches ready and willing for deployment. However, within minutes you can't help wondering "what's new?" and the answer is – not a lot. To its credit, MoH plays everything – even when laying down covering fire from an Apache gunship – for realism rather than Bond-like spectacle. MoH still starts with the USP of being the most current real-world setting of any FPS, and throwing you straight into the streets of Kabul does add a palpable tension to the opening level. That isn't going to happen now (although you can be sure a modder somewhere is working on it), so we can judge it purely on its merits as a game. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 had it with its brutal Moscow airport massacre level and Medal of Honor was set to top this with the possibility of being able to "be" the Taliban. T here's nothing like a bit of controversy to drum up interest in a shoot-em-up.
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