Last week saw the official unveiling of the sequel to 2010's Medal of Honor. Titled Medal of Honor: Warfighter, few details are available for the game outside of the fact it's being developed entirely by Danger Close Games this time around which we hope will translate into a less disjointed experience and hopefully, something new for the series and genre.

We also know that the story of Warfighter will again follow Tier 1 Operators on their engagements, and that its multiplayer modes will at the very least include some form of co-op play.

With the latest two Call of Duty titles still dominating the online play charts, another on the way, and others enjoying Battlefield 3, what is Medal of Honor: Warfighter setting out to accomplish? What will it have to make us want to stop playing the other games for it, and what will it offer that we can't already get from the substitutes?

Below are five key things we'd like to see Danger Close Games implement and improve upon for Medal of Honor: Warfighter to make the game worth our while.

Gamers love blowing things up. Everyone loves the destructible environmental objects and structures in Battlefield 3 so that's an absolute must-have for Medal of Honor: Warfighter as well. With Battlefield 3's Frostbite 2 engine being implemented by Danger Close Games for the Medal of Honor sequel, they should take full advantage of it and do even more with it.

Let's make some of the environments even more dynamic. Add Civilian NPCs and add weather effects - these things could allow for some interesting and unique objective-based multiplayer/co-op modes.

 

We've heard the news that there will be at least one co-op mode featured in Medal of Honor: Warfighter but we need more than that. Battlefield 3 featured a measly six co-op missions and Modern Warfare 3's co-op offerings were limited to small 2-player maps.

If Danger Close Games wants to offer something unique and worthwhile, let's drop the unnecessary limitations on this. Make the campaign full co-op and/or add new in-depth co-op modes which get more players involved, doing things we can't do in other co-op shooters like Syndicate and Gears of War 3.

Add objective based scenarios, horde modes, bots with lots of options and more! Let players play around and use these modes for practice - something Battlefield 3 was sorely lacking.

And please, splitscreen local-play with system link support. We'd like to be able to play 4-player on two TVs in the same room. Not everyone needs it but give us the options.

EA's Mass Effect 3 introduces multiplayer into that franchise for the first time but players can only play with two modifications on the weapons with its very limited menu. EA's Syndicate lets players unlock blueprints and research a limited amount of upgrades for weapons with no customization. EA's Battlefield 3 has four slots for weapon unlocks but is restricted by nonsensical limitations that prevent players from using things like a bipod and a straight pull bolt at the same time.

Medal of Honor has a chance to shine in this area as well by implementing something like the customization options found in the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier with their comprehensive Gunsmith mode. More options, no limits, no repetitive unlock system.

It would be nice if players could also customize their own soldier using authentic gear. Players love to be unique so let them build a soldier (within reason, of course) - something like in Halo: Reach but without all the color options.

Mass Effect 3 is our most anticipated game of the year and we can safely say that it's the same for many gamers out there. Do you think that's because fans are excited to shoot more Geth soldiers? Nope. It's because we want to have our own Commander Shepard finish the fight, save the universe and interact with our favorite characters we've bonded with over the years. We're excited to experience the end of Shepard's story.

Medal of Honor's story was forgettable but there's an opportunity to do more. Place more focus on characters and get players invested. Players don't necessarily have to be given options like in a Mass Effect-style RPG, but a little less linearity would go a long way, especially if players can invite friends for a co-op experience.

The Tier 1 operators are warriors. Let us feel that way.

Call of Duty and Halo: Reach offer great ways to easily rewatch gameplay videos of your own matches and even that of others. EA's Battlefield 3 however, despite creating an entire Battlelog system to support the game, can't do that at all.

Not only is the ability to capture in-game video becoming a common and highly desired feature of modern Triple-A shooters, but it offers free marketing for the developer and publisher since users will make and share countless videos across YouTube. Build this into Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

And please EA, don't host another user-made video competition if your own game doesn't even support that feature.

In essence, what we want from Medal of Honor: Warfighter is the same thing we want from Treyarch's new Call of Duty also coming this fall: something new and different.

With the Battlefield 3 community begging for more content, we were almost at a point where we wanted Medal of Honor 2 to come out as an expansion for that game, but with DICE and Danger Close Games - the devs behind Battlefield and MoH respectively - co-hosting an event next week for GDC, we can assume we'll get the full unveiling of Medal of Honor: Warfighter alongside some long-awaited news regarding Battlefield 3.

The listed ideas in the post are from the Game Rant staff and reader suggestions so if you have your own ideas (someone mentioned a map editor once), please share with us in the comment below and over Twitter!

Medal of Honor: Warfighter releases in October, likely for PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and potentially, the Wii U.

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