Here's how each version - PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 - stacks to one another, backed up as ever by an expansive comparison gallery. In that respect, it's a shame that gameplay and polish didn't receive as the same lavish attention as the visuals, because Medal of Honor: Warfighter can look quite superb on all three formats. A launch-day patch was issued by EA in an attempt to fix some of the most common issues encountered by the development team, but despite this 'quick fix' option being deployed in an attempt to bring the game up to release standard, there are still a number of issues which frequently come to light clearly Warfighter still needs more work to really feel like a finished product. However, the excellent visual work carried out by Danger Close for this sequel is marred by questionable design choices and significantly buggy gameplay, in which many parts of the experience simply feel unfinished or partially broken. Of course, many of these sequences are scripted, but the result is a title that feels a lot more organic and lifelike than the first Medal of Honor, and for obvious reasons has much in common with Battlefield 3. Dynamic lighting breathes life into the war-torn landscapes, while the inclusion of destructible environments adds an extra level of spectacle to the proceedings - flash floods cause buildings to be torn from their foundations, and walls collapse and shatter during heavy bombardment.

The change in the underlying technology utilised for Medal of Honor: Warfighter has dramatic consequences for the look and feel of the game too. Now the campaign and multiplayer offerings are cut from the same cloth, using the Frostbite 2 engine to fuse these two elements together into a more unified package, sharing the same core gameplay mechanics.

In some ways, this makes Warfighter a more coherent offering than its predecessor, which saw its multiplayer component crafted in Sweden by BF3 creators DICE. For Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the firm's previous work with Unreal Engine 3 has been jettisoned in favour of a wholesale switch to EA's in-house Frostbite 2 - the same technology that powers the spectacular visuals of Battlefield 3.

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