New Medal of Honor due in autumn

By Ellie Gibson Published 4 December, 2009

US fans can pre-order now.

Electronic Arts has revealed the next Medal of Honor game will be released in the "fall".

That's according to the publisher's website, where US gamers can pre-order the title already.

"Operating directly under the National Command Authority, a relatively unknown entity of handpicked warriors are called on when the mission must not fail," reads the blurb. "They are the Tier 1 Operators."

Of America's 2 million airmen, marines, soldiers, sailors, tinkers and tailors, not the last two, just 50,000 fall under the control of Special Operations Command.

"The Tier 1 Operator functions on a plane of existence above and beyond even the most highly trained Special Operations Forces. Their exact numbers, while classified, hover in the low hundreds." The top one per cent of the top one per cent of the top one per cent then, probably. We can't do maths.

The new MOH has been inspired by these "living, breathing, precision instruments of war", and even developed with the help of some of them. "Players will step into the boots of these warriors and apply their unique skill sets to a new enemy in the most unforgiving and hostile battlefield conditions of present day Afghanistan." Topical.

There's more gubbins on the new Medal of Honor website.

Medal of Honor is in development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • beastmaster #1 2 years ago

    You've got to be kidding!

  • metalangel #2 2 years ago

    Can't wait to shoot me some goddamn towelheads! HOO-AH!

  • Xerx3s #3 2 years ago

    Who in their right mind would preorder now without having seen as much as a screenshot. It's not about games being good anymore, it's about the money they spend telling you that it's good. :/

  • gnrlstuart #4 2 years ago

    i hope this turns out to be a call of duty contender. if it does, the competition will ramp up, and competition is always a good thing.

  • Wolverfrog #5 2 years ago

    Does EA seriously think it will compete with the marketing giant that will be Halo: Reach? A better time to release it would have been nearer Christmas, or before Autumn.

  • matrim83 #6 2 years ago

    Thats a bit sooner that expected. I agree with wolverfrog, its in the games best intentions to avoid Reach by at least 1 month.

  • seantkd #7 2 years ago

    the top 1% of the top 1%?? finally an a-team simulator

  • Negotiator #8 2 years ago

    What ever happened to the good old green berets, hell even Rambo was one of them and he could kill these muppets on his own.

  • metalangel #9 2 years ago

    @Negotiator: You've got the Rangers in MW2, they're Army Special Forces like the Green Berets. I think the difference is the Green Berets are more commando in their mission while the Rangers are more like elite infantry, if that makes any sense. Suffice to say, both are seriously 'ard.

  • Felwyn #10 2 years ago

    you totally need an elite force to kill people who hide in caves and shoot you with WW1 guns...why don't we send them to africa next and make them fight against tribes people with spears and shields made of cattle hides...

    can't we find anything better to shoot at? like err...giant....space...squids?
    Edited by 3 at 04/12/09 @ 10:20

  • Apostle #11 2 years ago

    And the EA bloke says the Mod War games are samey.. Hmm. How is this different then?

  • Raz76 #12 2 years ago

    I just googled Tier 1 Operator, and the only articles that came up was about marketing salesmen and about this game. I say they are totally making this up.

  • Murton #13 2 years ago

    @ Xerx3s: it would be quite sensible to get a pre-order for a favourite franchise in now while the usual retail price of a game is $60/£45 rather than waiting to see what crazy prices publishers are pushing for this time next year.

    Though we haven't seen anything of this game yet I suspect it could very well be a serious contender to IW's supposed dominance of the FPS sector of the gaming market. Call of Duty is starting to go more than a little a stale and reinventing its biggest rival is definitely a good thing for everyone, if only to force some innovation from IW and Activision in terms of where it's going with the COD franchise.

  • inni786 #14 2 years ago

    "Players will step into the boots of these warriors and apply their unique skill sets to a new enemy in the most unforgiving and hostile battlefield conditions of present day Afghanistan."

    I wouldn't call the Taliban a new enemy and when have the service men/women been known as "Warriors"?
    I thought they were supposed to be defenders of peace not Warriors, that would explain why things are so messed up over there, being Warriors and killing innocent civilians.
    I've always wondered why these companies have never made games where instead of being a tough US/British soldier you could play as the enemy instead and shoot the so called good guys...why is that...will it make the US look weak with these "Towelheads" as Metalangel describes them shooting them and killing them??

  • r_simsini #15 2 years ago

    It's still autumn. Does this mean it's out next week?

  • Tehren #16 2 years ago

    @ inni786

    All soldiers are warriors, that's the essence of their creed. Everything else is secondary. This goes a long way in explaining why things get fucked up when young men with guns step foot in unfamiliar lands with uncertain objectives. There's no good and evil, just ideological orientation.

  • Ashcroft #17 2 years ago

    I know EA have a lot of money to throw about, but you don't have to have a MoH story on the front page at all times.

    We won't forget about it. Honest.

  • Murton #18 2 years ago

    "I know EA have a lot of money to throw about, but you don't have to have a MoH story on the front page at all times."

    Makes a change from MW2 being on the front page multiple times every day for the last month though, and with the run up to Christmas holding little in the way of decent "core" games it'll likely be articles from people's CVs and games coming out next Christmas until January until the AvP marketing campaign kicks into high gear.