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News by Tom Bramwell

2 December, 2009

EA has officially announced the new Medal of Honor game for release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.

Simply called "Medal of Honor", the game is set in present-day Afghanistan and focuses on Tier 1 Operators - super army soldiers, in other words - who get involved in situations all around the world.

"The development team has been working closely with Tier 1 Operators from the US Special Operations Community since the earliest stages of development to create the most authentic modern war experience," EA said in a press release.

While EALA works to create a "best-in-class" single-player campaign, EA DICE will work on multiplayer.

"When we first set out to reinvent Medal of Honor, we wanted to stay true to its roots of authenticity and respect for the soldier but bring it into today's war. The Tier 1 Operator is the most disciplined, deliberate and prepared warrior on the battlefield. He is a living, breathing, precision instrument of war," said Greg Goodrich, executive producer.

"We are honoured to have the rare opportunity to work closely with these men to create a game that shares their experience."

'EA announces new Medal of Honor' Screenshot 1

The packshot (see left for the Xbox 360 version) shows a bearded, sunglasses-wearing Tier 1 Operator clutching a rifle. The colour scheme - white shifting to black - suggests EA is aiming for a similar shades-of-grey approach to its great rival, Call of Duty, which "went modern" just over two years ago.

The fact EA is targeting Medal of Honor for 2010 suggests that EA isn't leaving things to chance, mind you - following the release of Modern Warfare 2 last month, 2010 is an off year for Infinity Ward.

EA Games' vice president Nick Earl made headlines last month when his internal comments about the project leaked. He said it looked "simply stunning" in a mail to staff.

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matrim83
02/12/09 @ 17:04
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Very interested. Esp if Dice are handling the MP.
jonbwfc
02/12/09 @ 17:05
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"Medal of Honour: Up To Date Combat".

Oh EA, you were doing so well....
Xerx3s
02/12/09 @ 17:05
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Interested to see if DICE can make a better MP experience in this field than IW. The new BF certainly looks nice.
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02/12/09 @ 17:06
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Does anyone else feel dirty with this shameless me too warfare? Still I suppose COD was the one to start it :)

Beats paying for MW2 I suppose, count me in.
mashk
02/12/09 @ 17:12
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Kinda ironic, seeing as how COD spawned from Medal of Honor. Look where it is now, and where Infinity Ward are.
rhinoxious
02/12/09 @ 17:13
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With just a bit more freedom on how to approach objectives (a la MOH: airborne), and BF style multiplayer, this could end up being very different from MW2's blend of hollywood set piece, coridor shooting, and arcadey multiplayer.
Mogs
02/12/09 @ 17:14
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The cynicism behind this is depressing.
MattyD
02/12/09 @ 17:17
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I know what 'Tier 1' means but I'm probably in the minority there. Perhaps you could do some research and explain it to folks in terms they'd understand instead of just regurgitating press releases?

Also: meh.
feistycheese
02/12/09 @ 17:19
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What the hell is a tier 1 operator? Sounds like the guy I usually get when I ring my bills company to complain about something.

Plus, if they're such a bunch of secretive, super soldiers, why are they spending their time helping to develop a game. Surely covertly kicking the poop out of real terrorists pays better and is more of a rewarding experience?

Sounds like it will be another piece of over-produced, over the top, hollywood style American bullshit. If it really is as 'authentic' as they say, I will personally sign up, get posted to some cold, shitty war zone, and spend the next 6 months sitting in a wet poncho covered hole thinking 'those tier 1 operators had it easy!'

I dont mind modern military FPS's, but when they state it as 'authentic' because some American jock who couldn't walk more than 2 miles with a bergen on his back helped make it, it really gets me annoyed.

rant over/
Stu
02/12/09 @ 17:21
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Great bit of design on the pack. Will the game live up to it?
MrParker
02/12/09 @ 17:22
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I'm interested if there's any degree of realism to it. I don't expect much, but they can at least try. They could get one over MW2 by putting some gun recoil in. DICE multiplayer sounds interesting.
Spanky
02/12/09 @ 17:24
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Looks more like Medal of Honor: Al Qaeda. Baseball cap and a gun... srs bzn
shamblemonkee
02/12/09 @ 17:26
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Tier 1 from what i can tell with a brief google, is a gay name for Special Forces. Possibly of this sort.

airport level all over again...?
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Gazza_UK
02/12/09 @ 17:27
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The final nail in the World War 2 coffin.... until CoD: WaW2 of course :P
Tiiti
02/12/09 @ 17:27
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terrible packshot - bad decision to have the guy facing away from you
sneetch
02/12/09 @ 17:27
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@bad09
Does anyone else feel dirty with this shameless me too warfare?

There's the thing, anyone bringing out a game set in a contemporary setting will get a "OMG copying COD4" from the interwebs but in all fairness there were FPSs set in modern times long before COD4 (although, I do think you're right that this is obviously an attempt to challenge COD4).

Still I suppose COD was the one to start it :)

Yep, what goes around comes around, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and so on. :)
Eraysor
02/12/09 @ 17:28
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How times change!

To be fair, WW2 has been flogged to death, but they could have at least done something more original than a MW clone.
Ryuken
02/12/09 @ 17:30
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Does anyone else feel dirty with this shameless me too warfare? Still I suppose COD was the one to start it :)

To be fair, Soldier of Fortune started it but Activision managed to grind that series into the ground with SoF: Payback. MW2 could have easily been SoF 3 in most regards. Good thing to see some competition coming up, only fear is what this will mean to Battlefield 3?
QPRHOOPS81
02/12/09 @ 17:31
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COD was a clone of MOH so seems odd people are getting upperty over this.
JetSetWilly
02/12/09 @ 17:32
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Is that the guy from ZZ Top in that packshot?
sneetch
02/12/09 @ 17:33
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@squarejawhero

Dude, it's just a scarf a friend of mine had a very similar one when he was in Iraq, he wasn't part of the Palestinian anything.

Actually looking at the scarf in that picture it looks more like a Burberry scarf than a PLO scarf. ;)
feistycheese
02/12/09 @ 17:35
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sneetch

'but in all fairness there were FPSs set in modern times long before COD4'

yup, the Delta Force series always springs to mind. Now, Delta Force Land Warrior, that was an authentic, realistic game (runs away sniggering . . . )

In fact, on that note, wasnt there a Delta Force game set in Afghanistan a few years ago (think about a year after 9/11)?.
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02/12/09 @ 17:36
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I think Modern Warfare 2 and Army of Two 2 just assimilated themselves into 1

Modern Army Of Warfare 2 TWO 2 ?
Felwyn
02/12/09 @ 17:37
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I miss Omaha Beach already...
ShinMegami08
02/12/09 @ 17:38
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@feistycheese: had to laugh a couple of times, especially at the poncho part.

REAL WAR SIMULATOR: you lay in dirt day in day out, get humiliated by your sergeant, and die for a country that doesnt give a shit about you
dudefella
02/12/09 @ 17:39
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Kinda weird... the Bad Company games already do the whole modern warfare setting, and now this... it'll need to do something special to differentiate itself from MW2 and the BF: BC games.
Felwyn
02/12/09 @ 17:43
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at least make up a credible threat for the americans...fighting denourished teenagers who make bombs out of fertilizer just doesn't deserve a 'medal of honor'...
MattyD
02/12/09 @ 17:43
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Tier 1 is just a classification for Special Forces units. Tier 1 is units like Delta Force, SEALS and the CIA's Special Operations Group. Tier 2 would be SF support units like signals, air transport etc. Then you have elite non-sf units like sg support groups, force recon units and finally elite infantry units. It's just a fancy way of saying units at the top of the peckng order, basically.
el_pollo_diablo
02/12/09 @ 17:44
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Gah! They should have set it in 'Nam. And by nam I mean Cheltenham.

(© Ant n' Dec 1990)
DarthKebab
02/12/09 @ 17:45
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It must be already finished since it has been rated "18"
MattyD
02/12/09 @ 17:46
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Also the scarf is a shemagh. It's just a scarf, there's no political meaning.
justice-ste
02/12/09 @ 17:49
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They stole the Swedish looking character from Mercs too by the looks of it ;)
feistycheese
02/12/09 @ 17:51
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MattyD

'Also the scarf is a shemagh. It's just a scarf . . . '

Ah ha, but as us ex-tier 2 operators and Ray Mears will tell you, its not just any old scarf, it can be used to keep the sand out of your face, used as a sieve to drain impurities out of water, cut into strips can make webbing and bandages, and in the event of yet another crappily produced American FPS, can be rolled out to make a handy noose . . .
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beastmaster
02/12/09 @ 17:59
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Could be very interesting year for EA. DICE handling the multiplayer for this one. With Criterion doing the next Need For Speed. Hmm.. I'm hopeful.
Iain815
02/12/09 @ 18:00
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Shame, I was hoping for a Vietnam game.
EarlBassett
02/12/09 @ 18:00
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That cover artwork looks very very familiar:

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/images/...
Beek4257
02/12/09 @ 18:28
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"Six days in Kabul" anyone?
hiddenranbir
02/12/09 @ 18:36
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They need to not just make it American only.

There is a reason all the best missions and bits of CoD are involving the British!
mooseman721
02/12/09 @ 18:37
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Crikey you guys are negative! As long as it's a good game, who cares about the modern warfare similarity? Its not like IW trademarked all war since 1998. Hey, maybe for originality they could do a FPS set in the American civil war, think how thrilling the battles would be? Stand 20ft away from your opponent, fire, crouch, reload for 5 mins stand and fire, repeat. Sounds great.
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02/12/09 @ 18:47
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I am already sure that visually it will be great ( cause if not they are already burning one of their basic cards in the FPS field against CoD etc ) so as long as it feels right while playing, its not as linear as CoD, isnt ALL scripted and you can follow a path that can be cleared by the least 80% of the game by just your teammates who kill everyone around you themselves AND if the game gives the cinemati feel at least once in a while and not contantly they can easily catch up with IW in the FPS race for tops.

EA is a big fella and I hope they dont cut budgets and this will give no rooms for FPS ever after to not improve. For example.. If MoH wasnt absent from the scene IW would have never chose to not offer dedicated servers, would give even beter online and MW2 would already have been wirth more its money as a PC game than it is now. Anyhow. This is great news in all and Im already glad to know they are on it. Lets hope its not dissapointing.
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02/12/09 @ 19:02
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Dont know why people are having a go at this already, considering how poor MW2 is (SP mode), hopefully there is no way they can screw that up.
BigAl-1992
02/12/09 @ 19:07
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Let's hope that EA aren't going to copycat COD. Otherwise, the series is dead and buried.
GiarcYekrub
02/12/09 @ 19:08
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Sounds Shit, I don't get the appeal of these Army games
Skurmedel
02/12/09 @ 19:28
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I would've hoped for anything but modern warfare... At least could we get to play as something else than USA?
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02/12/09 @ 19:41
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02/12/09 @ 19:46
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Yay,another EA shooter...
paketep
02/12/09 @ 19:59
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Well, it can't be worse than Modern Warfail 2, so here's waiting.
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02/12/09 @ 20:07
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1. will this go the way of "six days in fallujah"?
2. there is no honor in what they are doing in afghanistan

still, infinity competition is good
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02/12/09 @ 20:07
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Looking forward to seeing where EA go with this. I'm confident that they wouldn't bring another MoH game out unless they could guarantee a certain level of quality. Having separate devs dedicated to SP, MP etc is a great idea - shows they're not looking to rush the game out.

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