Treyarch supports Medal of Honor team

By Fred Dutton Published 23 September, 2010

Taliban ruckus was “unfair”.

Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has declared its support for EA's Medal of Honor team following controversy over its decision to let gamers play as the Taliban.

In an interview with MCV, Treyarch's studio head Mark Lamia said the flak that EA caught was "unfair".

"We cover the Cold War era and there are definitely some controversial topics in there. But I look at it as creating a piece of entertainment and we are strong advocates of creative freedom.

"Our story weaves itself around all kinds of controversial historical periods," he continued, "but there have been many books and movies that do that, so to single out games in that way seems unfair."

UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox called for Medal of Honor to be banned in August, saying, "I am disgusted and angry. It's hard to believe any citizen of our country would wish to buy such a thoroughly un-British game. I would urge retailers to show their support for our armed forces and ban this tasteless product."

Medal of Honor arrives on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 15th October, with Call of Duty: Black Ops creeping out of the shadows on 9th November.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • sfp_noodle #1 2 years ago

    Unlikely supporters right there! Also, why is EG publishing new stories so late into the night today?...

  • ro-kurorai #2 2 years ago

    Those comments of MoH being un-British are free marketing for EA, so all those media coverage, despite being negative in nature, actually benefits the game's success ^^

    Still, it's nice to read that Treyarch understand the significance of creative freedom in games.
    Actually EA want to do the soldiers justice and honor them with this game, and well, somebody has to play the bad guys -_-

    @sfp
    why late, it's just 9pm in the UK ;)
    Edited by ro-kurorai at 23/09/10 @ 21:03

  • Shikasama #3 2 years ago

    Thats right ro. EA are doing it to honour all of those soldiers in Afghanistan.

    Must have taken them ages to get all of those british troops in.

    God bless em.

  • Fab4 #4 2 years ago

    "Unlikely supporters right there! Also, why is EG publishing new stories so late into the night today?... "

    Facebook is down. They are probably doing all of tomorrow's work tonight so they can skive off tomorrow ;)

  • randompanda #5 2 years ago

    Treyarch: "Seriously guys, our game's controversial too!"

  • riceNpea #6 2 years ago

    such timely support. just when i'd forgotten all about it.

    they just wish the thought of it first. no such thing as bad publicity, as the old saying goes..

  • hiddenranbir #7 2 years ago

    Keeping good relations so when Activision rip them off they have a place to go.

  • Xardan #8 2 years ago

    Very very well said by that man.

  • ukimpact2010 #9 2 years ago

    socom been doing this for longer , and to say the military shouldnt use or buy the game wasnt it from the military these type of warfare games exist . it based on the type of war in this case the afgan war on drugs and terror .
    so
    i will be buying the game i stand with EA games

  • Bremenacht #10 2 years ago

    You get to shutdown libraries, increase VAT and put cats in bins.

  • Harmonica #11 2 years ago

    Should be read as 'uh oh, that other game is getting all the headlines, better get our name in the news any way possible'.

  • xenoss #12 2 years ago

    "Un-British"...

    and here I was thinking that sort of close minded, idiotic thinking is exclusive to Americans.