EA announces new Medal of Honor

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 December, 2009

Set in present day Afghanistan, due 2010.

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 #1 2 years ago

    Very interested. Esp if Dice are handling the MP.

  • jonbwfc #2 2 years ago

    "Medal of Honour: Up To Date Combat".

    Oh EA, you were doing so well....

  • Xerx3s #3 2 years ago

    Interested to see if DICE can make a better MP experience in this field than IW. The new BF certainly looks nice.

  • bad09 #4 2 years ago

    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 #5 2 years ago

    Kinda ironic, seeing as how COD spawned from Medal of Honor. Look where it is now, and where Infinity Ward are.

  • rhinoxious #6 2 years ago

    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.

  • MattyD #7 2 years ago

    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 #8 2 years ago

    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 #9 2 years ago

    Great bit of design on the pack. Will the game live up to it?

  • Spanky #10 2 years ago

    Looks more like Medal of Honor: Al Qaeda. Baseball cap and a gun... srs bzn

  • shamblemonkee #11 2 years ago

    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...?
    Edited by 2 at 02/12/09 @ 17:31

  • Gazza_UK #12 2 years ago

    The final nail in the World War 2 coffin.... until CoD: WaW2 of course :p

  • Tiiti #13 2 years ago

    terrible packshot - bad decision to have the guy facing away from you

  • sneetch #14 2 years ago

    @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 #15 2 years ago

    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 #16 2 years ago

    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 #17 2 years ago

    COD was a clone of MOH so seems odd people are getting upperty over this.

  • JetSetWilly #18 2 years ago

    Is that the guy from ZZ Top in that packshot?

  • sneetch #19 2 years ago

    @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 #20 2 years ago

    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)?.

  • Nodebug #21 2 years ago

    I think Modern Warfare 2 and Army of Two 2 just assimilated themselves into 1

    Modern Army Of Warfare 2 TWO 2 ?

  • Felwyn #22 2 years ago

    I miss Omaha Beach already...

  • ShinMegami08 #23 2 years ago

    @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 #24 2 years ago

    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 #25 2 years ago

    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 #26 2 years ago

    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 #27 2 years ago

    Gah! They should have set it in 'Nam. And by nam I mean Cheltenham.

    (© Ant n' Dec 1990)

  • DarthKebab #28 2 years ago

    It must be already finished since it has been rated "18"

  • MattyD #29 2 years ago

    Also the scarf is a shemagh. It's just a scarf, there's no political meaning.

  • justice-ste #30 2 years ago

    They stole the Swedish looking character from Mercs too by the looks of it ;)

  • feistycheese #31 2 years ago

    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 . . .
    Edited by 1 at 02/12/09 @ 17:52

  • themorganator #32 2 years ago

    way to go EA. UFC create a popular title so lets try and rip it off. Modern Warfare? Yep, thats a good idea so lets rip that off, too.

    cretins.

    Got any of your own ideas?

  • beastmaster #33 2 years ago

    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 #34 2 years ago

    Shame, I was hoping for a Vietnam game.

  • Beek4257 #35 2 years ago

    "Six days in Kabul" anyone?

  • hiddenranbir #36 2 years ago

    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 #37 2 years ago

    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.

  • davisorle #38 2 years ago

    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.

  • makeamazing #39 2 years ago

    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 #40 2 years ago

    Let's hope that EA aren't going to copycat COD. Otherwise, the series is dead and buried.

  • GiarcYekrub #41 2 years ago

    Sounds Shit, I don't get the appeal of these Army games

  • Skurmedel #42 2 years ago

    I would've hoped for anything but modern warfare... At least could we get to play as something else than USA?
    Edited by 2 at 02/12/09 @ 19:32

  • j-bo #43 2 years ago

    zzzz

  • des #44 2 years ago

    Yay,another EA shooter...

  • paketep #45 2 years ago

    Well, it can't be worse than Modern Warfail 2, so here's waiting.

  • space_ace #46 2 years ago

    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

  • NGCes26294BIV #47 2 years ago

    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.

  • clockworkzombie #48 2 years ago

    Looking forward to it. Airborne is fun.

  • freakzilla #49 2 years ago

    If there's no auto aim and and the guns sound as good SOCOM's I'm in.

  • FooAtari #50 2 years ago

    Contemporary war is the new World War 2

  • rexluger #51 2 years ago

    lol@people bashing e.a ,we have'nt even played but people allready saying its shit
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  • beckyh #52 2 years ago

    To anyone moaning about the scarf, look at the closer detail, it is clearly NOT a PLO scarf. Iy may be same colours, but they are different patterns.

  • Lovemoose #53 2 years ago

    Sorry, I couldn't in all conscience play this, then turn on the news to see people being killed in the same war I'd just been "playing".

    There just needs to be a bit of distance, I reckon.

  • TheGuvernor #54 2 years ago

    Hey people,

    maybe this game will awesome?!
    Remember - EA published CRYSIS.
    It certainly gonna have DS support for mulit.

    I really like modern comabt scenarios - don't start bitchin that it's overdone yet, or we'll be straight back to WW2 ffs!!!!!

    Instead of bitchin lets roll with it & wait for more info - then all of us that boycotted Infinite Greed/Actiwank can support this.
    My only issue so far is no mention of the Brits - no one talks SF without Brits, come on!!
    I'm cautiously optimistic & mildly excited, in a cautious kind of way!

  • TheGuvernor #55 2 years ago

    Hey people,

    maybe this game will awesome?!
    Remember - EA published CRYSIS.
    It certainly gonna have DS support for muliti thx to DICE.

    I really like modern comabt scenarios - don't start bitchin that it's overdone yet, or we'll be straight back to WW2 ffs!!!!!

    Instead of bitchin lets roll with it & wait for more info - then all of us that boycotted Infinite Greed/Actiwank can support this.
    My only issue so far is no mention of the Brits - no one talks SF without Brits, come on!!
    Earn back our love EA!!

  • Spekingur #56 2 years ago

    When will these guys create a proper 'what if nazis had won' game with a modern setting?

  • E-Raz0r #57 2 years ago

    I think it's about time that MoH reclaims the throne from CoD. CoD needs some competition. The SP part has not improved much since the first part (especially the A.I.) and the engine is lacking in the physics departement.

    I'm hoping for more realism (especially more realistic modern warfare and a more realistic storyline) and better AI.

  • Grayvern #58 2 years ago

    I dont know what to think yet, however its not as if other games havent gone to Afghanistan.

  • Shakermaker #59 2 years ago

    I am with TheGuvernor.

    Plus, if this game is an attempt to authentically (as much as is possible in a game of course) represent the current Afghan conflict, it is a world away from where CoD is heading with multiple nukes and a homeland invasion.

  • ST.. #60 2 years ago

    Too soon!

  • solid_smithy91 #61 2 years ago

    Why the hell are cod fans getting assy? COD spawned from MOH.
    Anyways hats off to ea trying to revive a legendary series. Lets hope they make it realistic so it has one up on the smug IW devs

  • Grayvern #62 2 years ago

    Because Modern Warfare 2's campaign was a letdown, apart from the thermal imaging rifles, they were just cool.

  • FTM #63 2 years ago

    thats how the spec ops guys like to dress...they go native

    [link url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/philchester/2799741069/
    ]http://ww w.flickr.com/photos/philchester...[/link]

    taken from a national geogrpahic documentary, they are set up in small groups, they do away with usual discipline and procedures,so the beards grow and the local dress appears

  • CosmicFuzz #64 2 years ago

    Good, WW2 has been raped enough times.

  • john_silence #65 2 years ago

    "The Tier 1 Operator is the most disciplined, deliberate and prepared warrior on the battlefield. He is a living, breathing, precision instrument of war"
    Man, I'm gonna need some help with this game. I don't think I'm quite prepared to emulate that kind of behaviour, even in a game. I'll probably just fire a rocket inside a building and wipe out my whole squad, or blow up the wrong site by accident, or shoot a bunch of civilians because they looked suspicious and waved their cell phones in my general direction. Boy is the country glad I didn't enroll.

  • jack_klugman #66 2 years ago

    The beard is a mistake.

  • Murton #67 2 years ago

    Seems like EA can't win. If they kept Medal of Honour in WW2 then everyone would bitch about it being "yet another WW2 game" and if they went contemporary, as they have done, they get accused of plagiarising Modern Warfare.

    Truth is though, there's still plenty of WW2 to explore. The issue isn't with there being too many WW2 games but rather too many focussing on Normandy and the exploits of a certain regiment of Yankee paratroopers. Ditch France and open up the Eastern Front for a full game rather than 3 or 4 predictable missions based on the movie Enemy at the Gates. WW2 would seem a lot less stale if games publishers would just pick up a history book or two and look beyond the source material offered up by Hollywood.

  • aphexstwin #68 2 years ago

    thats why i enjoy battlestations midway, its a different angle on dubyadubyatoo games. would it be wrong to want a special forces game to have a bit more realism in the workup of a mission, take on recce patrols, spotting guard movements, vehicles, weapon emplacements and booby traps? before hitting the tamale?

  • YourMessageHere #69 2 years ago

    Could it be that WWII is finally over? The only kind of WWII games that anyone seems interested in making, i.e. Allied soldiers saving the world from the evil Nazis, rah rah rah, has been done to death. Modern warfare is by nature a lot more complex and varied in scope and possibility, so I'll really not object if they want to do modern wargames for the next few years, so long as they let me play someone other than the Americans.

    However, Afghanistan and Hono(u)r do not sit well in the same sentence. Quite apart from untapped potential in wars such as the Falklands, Yugoslavia (playing as the UN), the Suez crisis or numerous Central American coups d'etat, they can always go the BF2 or Ace Combat route and simply make shit up, invent some countries and/or politics but use real military equipment. Just because a war is fictional doesn't mean it has to be any less realistic, or CoDMW-style pseudo-realistic, as it's much more likely to be.

    Is it just me that finds military jargon almost as hilarious/depressing as management-speak? Just as we have 'SKUs' instead of 'products' and 'synergy' instead of 'efficient co-operation', it seems we now have 'tier 1 operators' instead of 'special forces' in addition to 'IEDs' in place of 'bombs'.

    @ squarejawhero

    Honestly, there is no meaning to that type of scarf. Unless, that is, the fact that half of the airheaded first-year girls at my university wear them means that they are actually PLO active units when not in Sociology lectures or out ruining their Ugg boots.

    EDIT: It just occurred to me that the whole Afghanistan thing could be given a really interesting slant if you worked in a connection to the 1979 Soviet invasion, when the Taliban were called the Mujahadeen and were the good guys. Supposedly. But, you know, you could have some interesting cross-overs - play the same level 30 years apart, commentary on the nature of asymmetric warfare, and so on. Maybe have play split between a Mujahadeen protagonist and his son following his dad's journey as a translator for the Allies, and have RPG-ish dialogue choices, with your chosen translations impacting on how the game plays, how your squad treats the natives, and so on. But that's harder to pull off than a gung-ho, by-the-numbers, bravery and sacrifice for the good ol' US of A, string of increasingly large explosions as setpieces type of game, so I bet they don't do that.
    Edited by 1 at 03/12/09 @ 02:19

  • JensonJet #70 2 years ago

    Hopefully this will have a better collection of maps than Modern Warfare. Maps that promote fun, exciting and intense gunfights. With a campaign mode capable of being played co-op and a Perk-free, good old fashioned shooter without radars and player aids and I will definately look forward to this. Modern Warfare's turned into a fat-cat, an overly-confident show-off... and one that's become less fun to play along the way.

    Americas Army, the computer version, had some ideas worth incorporating into a new game. The cover system in Medal of Honour: Airbourne is still the best cover system I've seen in a game. I have no doubt if the best ideas from past modern military shooters are incorporated into this new game it could geniunely do a FIFA vs Pro Evo on Modern Warfare. The competition would will do both games the world of good. And finally, if we have to have a scoring system, reduce score for deaths rather than just concentrate on promoting kills at all costs. It would be nice to see a game that encourage exciting battles.

  • Bluetooth #71 2 years ago

    Oh no, with EA barging in pretty soon the modern warfare concept will be as tired and commonplace as the WW2 stage that came before.

    One way of preventing this is to be in control of soldiers, navies and airforce personnel from various countries - a China v Japan conflict, Russia v Chechens, African civil war... maybe have some crazy scenarios later on with Africa invading Australia because America slapped China who pissed all over Russia who kicked France in the balls. Then you get to play as the plucky Latvians who bring order to the world again. Carnage!
    Edited by 1 at 03/12/09 @ 02:27

  • Instinct #72 2 years ago

    You can't really blame EA for placing it in a modern-period, since the WW2 is thankfully dying/dead. I would have been annoyed if they'd kept it in WW2, its a purely sensible decision to move it on a bit, especially with MW2 selling so well.

    EA have been doing good reinventions of their franchises, I liked NFS: Shift, so I'm looking forward to this, despite not having played a Medal of Honor game since the PS1.

  • urban #73 2 years ago

    fail!

  • FromTheLandUnknown #74 2 years ago

    @YourMessageHere
    Sorry, it is a bit off topic, but you mentioned untapped potential in regard to Yugoslavia and "playing as UN". As I am from this parts and was involved in all this, I had to react.

    I presume, that from your distance, which may even be in time (I don't know, how old You are), not just in space, You couldn't care less, what Yugoslavian wars (yes they were more than one), were all about, and I am not trying to influence or urge anybody to take sides.
    But, from gamers perspective, I must inform You, playing as UN would be a piss poor game, as they didn't fight at all, they served just as monitors, and just tried to hold positions after every Serbian break of cease fire. Apart from that, many of them were involved in heavy arms and drug smuggling, and in plain old prostitution and white slave market. Netherland's garrison was even aiding Serbs to gather near 20 000 Muslims in Srebrenica (Bosnia), promising them protection, but then retreated and left these 20000 people in Serbian hands. Then Serbs separated every man and boy from women, and the rest is history chapter, named Srebrenica massacre. More than 8000 men and boys were slaughtered in single day.

    Then, as EU and UN demonstrated utter incompetence, and the whole world reacted, the America attacked Serbs first in Bosnia 1995 and later in Kosovo 1999, and so helped to finish the war. Clinton recently got monument in Kosovo, which was presented to him as he visited there recently.Now that would be a good game material, and game sold in major part of former Yugoslavia, apart from Serbia.

    We may think what we want of America right now, but the fact remains that it did a great thing for all the people of former Yugoslavia (even Serbs, as they were dying outside of their native country) by intervening, and finishing the war, and at least this time, there were no obvious oil interests evident.
    Edited by 1 at 03/12/09 @ 04:18

  • djed #75 2 years ago

    @FromTheLandUnknown
    Even if you version of Yugoslavian history for the period 90-00 was true, isn't it more fun to smuggle arms, deal drugs, hang around with prostitutes and slaves then massacre 8 000 slavs etc, rather than playing as a Nintendo jet pilot bombing pharmacies and civilian transports from a 1000 metres away?

  • Kenshin001 #76 2 years ago

    Hope they do something a little more grounded in reality than the stupidly far fetched MW2. I enjoyed that game's spectacle but for something supposedly based around modern warfare it was quite laughable. If the new MoH impresses I'll gladly switch.

  • Masterless #77 2 years ago

    Any news on dedicated servers? If yes, I'll certainly be buying it.

  • secombe #78 2 years ago

    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!'

    Haven't you just described Operation Flashpoint?

  • soviet_ #79 2 years ago

    @Tiiti, it's not a bad decision at all when the focal point is an interesting character. The cover is a great piece of design and I'm hoping they don't change it

  • bodypopper #80 2 years ago

    With DICE involvement this could fall somewhere in between MW and Battlefield Bad Company which sounds great.
    I wonder what the answer to perks will be... Or will they be brave and have all MP modes be realistic/hardcore for a change?

  • Razorus #81 2 years ago

    The scarf design is derived from Palestinian traditional ones but is synonymous with the middle-east and "tusken raiders".
    In recent times, it has become somewhat of a fashionable item for everyone. It's a shame that people buy them just cos they look nice without realising the implication but anyway, they have become very popular in the UK (dunno about you guys but in London it's all the rage). Armed forces in the mid-east tend to wear them often.

  • Mooglepies #82 2 years ago

    Colour me interested, particularly if they at least attempt to put some kind of serious spin on the whole affair.

  • BritishBlue1 #83 2 years ago

    Setting Call of Duty squarely in their rights, eh? And Dice are handling the multiplayer? OK, I'm interested.

  • Ranger101 #84 2 years ago

    For all those getting (incorrectly) concerned about cover design, I'll repeat this lovely comment from FTM:

    "thats how the spec ops guys like to dress...they go native

    [link url=http://ww w.flickr.com/photos/philchester...
    ]http://ww w.flickr.com/photos/philchester...[/link]

    taken from a national geogrpahic documentary, they are set up in small groups, they do away with usual discipline and procedures,so the beards grow and the local dress appears "

    And Razorus is correct, it's been a fashion/hipster thing in London and NY for the last 2 years, with most high-street shops having their own variations.

  • KennySim #85 2 years ago

    "following the release of Modern Warfare 2 last month, 2010 is an off year for Infinity Ward."

    Another example of quality writing from an award winning writer. Unbelievable.

  • Sonic_D #86 2 years ago

    Post-Modern Warfare?

  • kwarive #87 2 years ago

    "The Tier 1 Operator is the most disciplined, deliberate and prepared warrior on the battlefield. He is a living, breathing, precision instrument of war"

    Funny how the Afghan civilians see them more as thuggish mass murdering psychopaths..

    I'll still buy the stupid game (and like it) but when can we have a game where western armies are the bad guys?

  • Quint2020 #88 2 years ago

    Contemporary Warfare is the new WWII! \o/

  • IMD1_Pk #89 2 years ago

    So looks like all the blinded MW2 fans haven't tried Battlefield 2. A modern Day shooter from EA released in 2004. EA explored that area way before Infinity Ward. If a single review even mentions how EA is trying to catch up with Call of Duty by releasing a modern day shooter you know not to take that review seriously just like you know not to take the words of casual console-only gamers loafting around this article.

  • metalangel #90 2 years ago

    I have to admit, I'm really liking the sound of this. CoD has pretty much jumped the shark with its ludicrous Tom Clancy-esque snowmobile chases and heartbeat sensors and paranoid conspiracies. If this can provide a more grounded view of what a modern soldier actually does (NB: they don't bunnyhop around a devastated Afghan city with a vintage shotgun in each hand, blasting enemies left and right before calling in a nuclear missile) then it might just shake the genre up a bit.

    I might not support the war itself but I certainly support the poor SOBs who've been sent to fight it.

    That is, of course, until ARMA2: Operation Arrowhead comes out on the consoles (and, please, let it do so)

  • FromTheLandUnknown #91 2 years ago

    @djed
    From your nickname and your ethic (or better, lack of it), it is very easy to see, where are you coming from. In regard to my interpretation of history I can safely add, that it is pretty accurate. I am aware that aggressors in this wars do not agree with it, and that even normal, not brainwashed Serbs (both of them, if they are still alive) are finding difficult to cope with it, although for totally other reasons than you.But this is not my problem and it is another story.

    Gaming preferences though... Horses for courses. I can only say, that I personally at least would still rather enjoy your second scenario, more so if this would be Serbian pharmacies and civilian transports. They may even throw in some chetniks for better fun. Or I would like to play even more, as UCK (Kosovo liberating army) soldier fighting for independent Kosovo. Because I like to play on the winning side (as everybody knows Kosovo is independent now) and I like burek and baklava. Even as Nintendo Jet pilot.

  • YourMessageHere #92 2 years ago

    @ FromTheLandUnknown

    I must plead relative ignorance - I was a kid at the time and all I really recall was being very confused. I do recall that the UN was supposedly fairly useless. I also have no problems with the US intervention in that set of conflicts - my problem with being forced to play Americans is not that I have an ethical beef with them, it's that being asked to play Americans goes hand in hand with being asked to have American values and attitudes to homeland and patriotism, so players basically get stars and stripes rammed down their throats.

    Having just seen Children of Men for the first time the other day, and being really impressed that Clive Owen's character never once picks up a gun despite being in the middle of a warzone, plus recently playing Fallout 3 for the first time and seeking dialogue-based solutions whenever possible, I suppose what I want is a wargame that is a game about war rather than a game of war; something that is trying primarily to talk about the hardships of war as a situation, rather than once again just giving me a gun and saying, "look, go kill the 60fps bad men and find the red keycard for FREEDOM!".

  • FromTheLandUnknown #93 2 years ago

    @ YourMessageHere

    Thank You very much for your answer.It was a nice surprise for me, because I can totally understand your way of thinking. Being a mature gamer ( in years only, not in gaming years) I am missing engaging and mature stories in games too.

    It was just unpleasant memory of UN engagement in this conflict, and my disgust about possibility to glorify it, that moved me to react.On the other hand, I am no Idealist in regard to America either.

    Best regards, FromTheLandUnknown
    Edited by 1 at 04/12/09 @ 04:53

  • NBAoz #94 2 years ago

    Once the modern warfare setting gets old much like the WWII setting, I wonder who will be the first to create a future warfare FPS? I just hope it is not set too far in the future or in space like some sort of HALO clone. I would like to see a Call of Duty or Medal of Honor set somewhere between 2020 and 2040. That way they could still base it on modern day but have the freedom to be a bit creative with some of the weapons, vehicles etc. What do you all think?

  • metalangel #95 2 years ago

    @NBAoz: Frontlines does a pretty good future war. All the vehicles and equipment are convincing replacments for the cutting edge equipment of today.

  • NBAoz #96 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    Yeah, I have that and it is not too bad, but would be interested to see a Call of Duty set in the near future. I think it would be pretty good...

  • Martaaank #97 2 years ago

    After all these years im glad to hear that Medal of Honour is now set in modern day fighting. I loved the WW2 franchise but it needed that bit of modern time to relate to as the Afghanistan war is currently in action. I think that this will be better than the COD franchise but wont sell the same amount. Also, a lot of people have been talking about how they dislike playing as a "Special Force or SAS" format, but the thing is i like being the best solider in my "Tier" why be a average solider when you can use tactics, Intelligence and personal judgement in order to shape the outcome of a battle. Normal soldiers have to listen to commanders :/ but this is my opinion and I'm entitled to it :)

    @NBAoz - Battlefield 2142 was a good FPS not too far in the future only a 100 years or so..
    Edited by 2 at 31/12/09 @ 00:45