EA Modernizes Medal of Honor, Promises "Authentic" Modern Day Afghanistan
EA Modernizes Medal of Honor, Promises "Authentic" Modern Day Afghanistan
Posted 12/03/2009 at 12:40am
| by Nathan Grayson
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After an exceedingly long tour of duty in World War II, EA’s Medal of Honor series has finally that it’s time for a change of scenery. So, where to? Well, we hear modern times are pretty nice this time of year, and evidently, so did EA.
"EA has always been an advocate for telling the soldiers' story. The new Medal of Honor follows that tradition. We felt it was important to tell the story of today's war and today's elite soldiers via today's most relevant medium--videogames," explained EALA general manager Sean Decker. "We are so proud to bring together two powerhouse development teams to make this game a reality; EA Los Angeles and EA DICE. Medal of Honor promises to be an unforgettable entry in the modern shooter genre."
Battlefield developer DICE on multiplayer duty? Yes please.
If you’re afraid EA might be attempting to ape the 800 lb. gorilla that is Activision’s Modern Warfare series, though, fear not. While Modern Warfare has all the trappings of a (good) Michael Bay film, the new Medal of Honor’s shooting for something a bit more grounded in reality.
“Medal of Honor, an all-new first-person shooter game, will introduce the Tier 1 Operator: a relatively unknown entity directly under the National Command Authority who takes on missions no one else can handle. 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,” said EA.
Er, sorry, EA. We don’t mean to rain on your parade, but, as it turns out, Activision’s already got that whole “authenticity” thing covered after all. Bummer.
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JDorfler
December 04, 2009 at 4:53am
This sounds great. Not only after working all day here, I can play a game based on here. I wonder if one of the characters is a Comms Contractor. A whole level of just dodging stuff during a bad day on a FOB.
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December 03, 2009 at 6:16am
Dedicated servers? Yes, no?
Steam is fine by me, I got Star Wars KOTOR for $2.49 last week. In fact now that I think of it, I would prefer if they used steam as their DRM.
Of course if you don't like DRM you can wait 10 years and get it on Good Old Games. =) "OMG! MDK 2 just came out!"
QUINTIX256
December 03, 2009 at 6:56am
We live in the days of cloud computing! Every client will serve as being part of a giant virtual(ized) cluster-server. Is that not what quad-cores and hex-cores and the oddles of memory they communicate with are for!?
You can have your recession. I'm not participating.
graill
December 03, 2009 at 1:16am
The modern warfare series has about as much realism as a game of snipe hunting. Weapon physics, environment, player physics, npc ai, all blow chunks, that sidearm draw and drop to prone and getting up again always give me a chuckle, though the graphics are pretty nice. Even the sound is wrong on most weps. (22 years in the miitary, i know). Sadly most of you wouldnt like the way real weapons sound, they aint sexy enough for ya.
Lets hope someone can come up with a better war simulation by which to frag by. Can EA do it, we shall see.
And if it is tied to steam, forget about buying it, the mw2 series lost me when i needed to use steam to activate and use the game, what garbage.
I Jedi
December 03, 2009 at 2:17am
Hm. Well, I can't argue with your point, as I've never been in a war, not currently in the military, or ever fired anything in my life but a shotgun. However, I'm sure that we probably won't see realism of war in games for a very long, long time if ever.
Now, onto part two, why does everyone hate Steam so much? I love Steam, but I can't see why everyone rallies behind the nay sayers?
Toady00
December 03, 2009 at 8:25am
I love Steam as well. I'm not very fond of DRM but games on Steam makes it so much more bareable. I don't have to worry about what happens if I lose a disc. I don't have to mess with product keys. I don't have to go to the store to buy the game. And I can install it on my desktop, laptop, wife's laptop, wherever, and it doesn't give me any grief. Compare Steam to the debacle that was Bioshock, and I'll take Steam any day.
Phosphorous
December 03, 2009 at 10:06am
I have no problems with Steam either. I have a ton of games I've bought through Steam. A lot easier then trying to find time to get to a store.
Ravenhurst
December 03, 2009 at 10:20am
I think its just because Steam had such a bad launch that the stigma stayed with it. The Server screen being buggy, friends list not working at all. It was way ahead of its time. These days, all the bugs (most) are worked out and its actually a very easy to use interface for all your gaming needs.
Caboose
December 03, 2009 at 1:16pm
Some people just can't get over it. Steam's launch was what, 7, 8 years ago? I think it's time to leave the past in the past!
I love Steam. I don't think I'll ever buy a disc based copy of a game again!
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