Medal of Honor: Warfighter

EA has let go an undisclosed number of staff at its Montreal and Los Angeles bases.

EA has admitted it "should've done better" with last year's Medal of Honor: Warfighter - the disappointing performance of which led to the long-running series being benched.

EA is putting its recently resurrected Medal of Honor brand out to pasture, following the "well below expectations" sales of its most recent entry Warfighter.

"Critics were polarized and gave the game scores which were, frankly, lower than it deserved," said EA COO Peter Moore during a recent financial call. "This one is behind us now. We are taking Medal of Honor out of the rotation and have a plan to bring year-over-year continuity to our shooter offerings."

EA Labels president Frank Gibeau added, "We're in a hit-driven business where it's about what you can build in a certain period of time and really deliver for the marketplace, and frankly we missed on Medal of Honor. And we take responsibility for that."

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EA positioned Medal of Honor: Warfighter as the realistic recreation of war. "We've had help from all these soldiers to make it so," EA whooped at every turn.

The two HD console games battle it out with PS3 commanding a clear advantage in terms of screen-tear - or lack of it.

A collection of clips demonstrating how the Xbox 360 version of Warfighter performs during the online multiplayer modes.

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See how Warfighter stacks up when playing online on PlayStation 3.

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5/10 shooter Medal of Honor: Warfighter has topped the UK all-formats chart - but sold less than its predecessor, the 2010 Medal of Honor reboot.

EA this week pulled from its own website its claim that Medal of Honor: Warfighter's single-player campaign is 10 hours long.

Warfighter sounds like a joke. It's the sort of ludicrously macho title you'd expect to find on a mischievous Grand Theft Auto parody of first-person military shooters, or perhaps a cheesy Rainier Wolfcastle movie in The Simpsons. What's really disappointing is that either of those options would be more entertaining than what's ended up on this disc.

That Medal of Honor: Warfighter is utterly generic and devoid of personality doesn't come as much of a surprise. Clearly dusted off to fill the years when DICE can't provide EA with a new Battlefield game, Medal of Honor's rebirth as a khaki placeholder is now complete. This is not a game that seeks to challenge or innovate. It's here to give you exactly what you expect and nothing more. Yet even when following in the footsteps of others, it can't help tripping over its own boots.

The story finds you hopping from one Tier One operative to another across a fragmented time frame as you close in on The Cleric, a shadowy terrorist leader who should in no way be taken as a stand-in for Bin Laden. You pop up in Pakistan, Yemen, Dubai and Sarajevo to take down evil Muslims, Somalian pirates and swarthy Eastern Europeans. Stark captions tell you that events happened SIX WEEKS AGO or EIGHTEEN HOURS LATER - but none of it adds up to anything compelling, or even coherent.

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There is a day one patch for shooter Medal of Honor and it fixes more than you'd expect.

The patch, for consoles and PC, includes a raft of fixes for both the single-player and multiplayer portion of the Danger Close-developed first-person shooter.

The patch notes are available on the EA website, but I thought it would be fun to pick out some of my favourite fixes.

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Medal of Honor Warfighter is getting a beta early next month exclusively on Xbox Live, publisher EA has announced.

The beta will premiere a new multiplayer mode called Hotspot which sounds like Warfighter parlance for King of the Hill as it tasks players with attacking and defending randomly-selected bases on a Sarajevo Stadium map.

In a curious promotion, EA will grant players early access to Linkin Park's Castle of Glass music video if over three million users download the beta. Evidently the video incorporates gameplay footage from Warfighter and will be released publicly five days after the beta.

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter pre-orders automatically upgrade to the game's Limited Edition which includes access to the just announced Zero Dark Thirty map pack, EA has revealed.

Dubbed the Hunt map pack in Europe, the add-on includes two new multiplayer maps based on The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow's upcoming film about the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.

One map is the Darra Gun Market, a Pakistani arms bazaar. The other is Chitral, a northern region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan and China that's ruled by tribes. The bonus maps will also be available as paid DLC on 17th December in North America to coincide with the film and the same week in Europe for £7.99.

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I hate DLC. I hate online passes. I hate EA.

Playable EA games at the Eurogamer Expo 2012 next month include Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, SimCity and FIFA 13.

Rumours of a buy-out have boosted EA share prices today, as unbelievable as that sounds. Or is it?

EA has responded to concerns about its Project Honor initiative to sell Medal of Honor branded weapons to the public in order to raise money for veterans by removing the promotions from its official website.

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Realistic war game Medal of Honor: Warfighter wants you to fight for and represent your nation online for the first time, when it launches this autumn.

(Editor's note: Since we published this report, EA has pulled the Medal of Honor tomahawk promotion and issued a response to Eurogamer.)

Entry into Battlefield 4's "exclusive" beta will not be exclusive to those who buy Medal of Honor: Warfighter, DICE has reassured.

EA made Battlefield 4 official yesterday by confirming that beta access for the game would be granted to Warfighter conscripts.

"The exclusive Battlefield 4 beta will be available in Fall 2013," EA said. "Additional details regarding Battlefield 4 will be revealed at a later date."

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Battlefield developer DICE has insisted there's plenty still to come for Battlefield 3 in a statement issued to fans following the announcement of Battlefield 4.

UPDATE: EA has confirmed that the Battlefield 4 beta will run in the autumn of 2013, suggesting a launch October/November 2013 time.

"The exclusive Battlefield 4 beta will be available in Fall 2013," EA said. "Additional details regarding Battlefield 4 will be revealed at a later date."

EA Labels president Frank Gibeau added: "Though Battlefield and Medal of Honor Warfighter each offer players a completely unique experience, they are united by their underlying technology base - Frostbite. These are two of the hottest shooters, coming together to deliver a one-two punch of action, intensity and shooter entertainment."

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Like the bullet-ridden fuel tank in one of Medal of Honor: Warfighter's helicopters, details from the game's alpha testing phase have begun to leak.

Update: We've heard back from EA and, surprise, the publisher won't be making any comment.

Original story: Battlefield 4 has been mentioned by EA.

The publisher dangled Battlefield 4 beta access like a golden carrot, as a reward for people pre-ordering Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

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Members of the US armed forces will be able to pick up their own exclusive special edition of FPS sequel Medal of Honor: Warfighter, publisher EA has announced.

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EA's shooter sequel delves into real-world combat locations.

In a battle to precede the war, both EA and Activision will debut new television adverts for their shooter mega-series Call of Duty and Medal of Honor during Saturday's Champions League final.

Tier 1 drops.

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Medal of Honor: Warfighter storms the high street on 23rd October, publisher EA has confirmed.

It announced the date at the game's official unveiling in San Francisco earlier today, following last week's leak.

Executive producer Greg Goodrich stressed that authenticity remains key, but revealed that the action leaves Afghanistan this time around to focus on a more global conflict.

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Forthcoming FPS sequel Medal of Honor: Warfighter features a new one-shot-kill hardcore mode as well as some kind of co-operative play.

As reported by CVG, developer Danger Close hasn't detailed exactly what form the co-op content will take, though a full multiplayer campaign seems unlikely.

As with the 2010 franchise reboot, the game will focus on Tier 1 Operators as they go about their day-to-day. Real life soldiers have apparently contributed to the game's storylines.

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