Medal of Honour going modern.

[Fez]

How original.


Electronic Arts officially announced the promised reboot of its Medal of Honor franchise today, revealing that the long-running shooter series is finally leaving World War II behind.
Instead, the new title--simply referred to as Medal of Honor--will take players to "war-torn Afghanistan," with Electronic Arts promising a "best-in-class single-player campaign" inspired by "real events" and crafted with the assistance of the US Special Operations Community's Tier 1 Operators unit "to create the most authentic modern war experience."

Medal of Honor will hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010, with EA Los Angeles handling the single-player and the Battlefield veterans at EA DICE on multiplayer.

"EA has always been an advocate for telling the soldiers' story. The new Medal of Honor follows that tradition. We felt it was important to tell the story of today's war and today's elite soldiers via today's most relevant medium--videogames," explained EALA general manager Sean Decker. "We are so proud to bring together two powerhouse development teams to make this game a reality; EA Los Angeles and EA DICE. Medal of Honor promises to be an unforgettable entry in the modern shooter genre."

Formed when Electronic Arts combined Medal of Honor series creator Dreamworks Interactive and Command & Conquer developer Westwood, EA Los Angeles has been largely responsible for the Medal of Honor series, with 2015, Inc. having crafted 2002's MoH: Allied Assault. Veterans of 2015 went on to form Infinity Ward, the studio responsible for popularizing the modern warfare setting with 2007's Call of Duty 4.

Provided alongside today's announcement was a brief teaser and some story details:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/61449

[Jordy]

EA already has Battlefield Bad Company 2? This medal of honour sounds a very similar idea to BF:BC2. I know they'll both have different developers but still, why would EA want to publish two identical games which will probably compete with each other to become "second" to Modern Warfare 2?

[dbgtz]

Well if they craft it right it could be epic. I'm not interested in BF:BC, but I might get this depending on the trailers etc. Although I do think it should be 2011 and maybe do a bf-moh switch yearly.

[Neil]

EA already has Battlefield Bad Company 2? This medal of honour sounds a very similar idea to BF:BC2. I know they'll both have different developers but still, why would EA want to publish two identical games which will probably compete with each other to become "second" to Modern Warfare 2?

The same reason EA have Need For Speed and Burnout games or any action/shooter game they release, to appeal to different audiences.

BFBC2 will largely focus on multiplayer, the story is there too obviously but BF has always been a multiplayer game first while Medal of Honour is more there for the single player experience, I'll probably get MoH over BFBC2 because I don't really like BF games and I don't care for the multiplayer stuff.

[Black_Apalachi]

I forgot about Medal of Honour :O. Underground was crap. Frontline was awesome. The other one that was on PS2 was crap. That's all I remember. It won't be good if they make a new one unless the controls are exactly the same as COD. COD will still be better though.

[PaulMacC]

I forgot about Medal of Honour :O. Underground was crap. Frontline was awesome. The other one that was on PS2 was crap. That's all I remember. It won't be good if they make a new one unless the controls are exactly the same as COD. COD will still be better though.
IW are people who left the MoH series because Activision restrained them too much. We'll see who does better when it comes.
It'll be like Old vs New.

[dbgtz]

do you mean EA restrained them too much?

[Jord]

I like metal of honour but I prefer it in the past :/ I bet its going to go from a 8/10

to a like 4/10..

[dbgtz]

I hate metal of honour, medal of honour is good though.