Last week saw the early (and totally unsurprising) reveal of Medal of Honor 2 - officially titled Medal of Honor: Warfighter - and Electronic Arts quickly offered an official spin on the announcement with some Medal of Honor: Warfighter artwork.
We knew a sequel was in development for quite a while, with EA talking up plans to alternate annualized releases between the rebooted Medal of Honor franchise and DICE’s Battlefield games, and Battlefield 3 even came with a tease in its retail packaging. The full unveiling of Warfighter comes March 7th during GDC in San Francisco (we’ll be there!) where Danger Close Games and DICE are holding a special event but we do have a few more details about what the game will not include.
Since before the game was officially announced, we’ve wondered what EA and Danger Close would attempt to do with Medal of Honor: Warfighter. With the latest Call of Duty games still controlling the lion’s share of the FPS online crowd – and another game on the way – what would Medal of Honor 2 do to differentiate from those games as well as EA’s own Battlefield 3, a game whose fans are clamoring for more content.
Part of what the new MoH will offer could be a variety of new co-op modes as reported yesterday but we’ll have to wait another week to be sure. What we do know from OXM‘s reveal of the game is that it won’t feature any missions related to the Osama Bin Laden takedown which earned the world’s attention last year, when Navy SEALs successfully invaded his Pakistan hideout. Producer Greg Goodrich explains why:
“That’s not our story to tell… That’s ‘family business’ to [the Tier 1 Operators]. It’s been an interesting exercise learning what’s okay and what’s not okay [to portray in the game].”
A selling point for Medal of Honor was its sense of realism and how it follows Tier 1 operators of a Navy SEAL squad, thanks to what the developer learned by consulting members of the United States military. Unfortunately, it’s story ended up not being that memorable and like Battlefield 3 didn’t earn the best critical response. So, if the focus continues on the multiplayer front, we truly need something unique and innovative from Danger Close Games here, since they’re handling both the campaign and multiplayer features in-house this time around without the help of DICE.
We can at least be happy that Danger Close Games and EA won’t be using bin Laden as a marketing stunt to sell the game and instead, it’ll have to work on its own gameplay merits and original story.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter releases in October, likely for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and potentially, the Wii U.
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Source: OXM
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They probably learned their lesson after the Taliban controversy from the previous game.
Whatever…you don’t see the germans whining about all those WW2
True story. I didn’t see the big deal.
I meant to say that you don’t see the germans or countries involved in WW2 complaining about WW2 era games
Sorry about the double post(my finger slipped)
Yeah. This is getting annoying. Medal of Honor is the only game that seems to be getting scrutinized for it, when Call of Duty went for the same thing in the beginning. Plus, this site has issues with getting the story straight on how good the campaign was. One post “not memorable” while another “emotional and awesome”. Not trying to start any fanboy bs, but to be honest, it just looks like they are doing the same thing they did with battlefield. In the beginning, hyped it up, then bashed the hell out of it just because a Call of duty game was around the corner. Seriously, to review things like this, we need people who don’t play the games, but rather watch the campaign as a movie. (Sort of like YouTube commentation, but more like a movie plot, rather than a gaming experience.) Because clearly everyone here just likes arcade and fast paced, which Medal of Honor had some as well, but seeing as there was a CoD game around, nope, no one would have any of it.
I’m buying this game purely for the single player campaign. Medal of Honor 2010 had a great campaign and with the Frostbite 2.0 engine, it’ll be awesomer.
Totally agree. We’re some of the few that apparently thought this campaign was amazing. I loved the 2010 campaign. So much better than the garbage campaign that was Black Ops (not being a fanboy, just stating an opinion… Plots to kill the president, sleeper cells, Reznov -same character model, just like Price?- really?). I just hope that it does continue off the other campaign like, right after, as compared to Modern warfare where there’s 5 years between 1 and 2, and then 3 is the next day.
Modern Warfare dosen’t skip years it goes week to week. Treyarch’s are the one’s that jump ahead 2-3 years. MOH’s campaign was good, it was really familiar (Personally I prefer MW’s campaigns over the new MOH). I also thought the Black Ops campaign was good as well. But not as great as the MW campaigns.
From Modern Warfare 1 to Modern Warfare 2? Yes, there is a jump of 5 years. Soap goes from a soldier under Captain Price, to being a captain himself. It even says 5 years in the beginning statements of the game.
Oh, my bad I thought you meant the campaign.
The campaign of the first MoH actually did have a tease for a sequel in the ending credits if you go and look back at it.
Didn’t notice I’ll have to check that.
This is where some conspiracist says “because he is not dead.”
Bur he’s not…