Medal of Honor gets a Reboot. Heads to Afghanistan.

[Ackmed]

Pretty excited about this game now.. I am in Quantico VA doing some (Rifle range table 1-4, Gas chamber, and Swim Qual) training to go to Afghan in Jan. Wont come out till after I get back, maybe wont want to play by then though.

 

[Glitchny]

The reason for this is the core team and leads of 2015, the developers of the original MOHAA, left and formed Infinity Ward. So think of it as: MOHAA -> CoD -> CoD UO -> CoD2 -> MW -> MW2

Yea exactly. CoD was basically the next logical step from MOHAA for that team as they were no longer working with the MOH license. COD was the evolution of MOH and it's the same team making the good COD games now.

With DICE working on it I can see the game coming out decent. Might not take over etc from COD but it should be a decent entry and competition is usually a good thing.

I'm still kinda surprised at the lack of Vietnam games. With current graphics engines and tech the jungles wouldn't be hard to design/implement, and i think it would be a pretty sweet atmosphere.

 

[Fox5]

EA usually doesn't take this long to find a bandwagon and jump on it.

personally i've never found any of the medal of honor games particularly good, CoD has always handed them their asses when it comes to single player.

Didn't Medal of Honor do the whole WW2 thing first? Or at lest, it was on the consoles first, the original one on the PSX was a very competent shooter, almost goldeneye level. Well, at least for single player, the multiplayer maps were way too small and confining to be interesting.
BTW, from what I remember, you were an OSA agent in the original Medal of Honors, so you were still some kind of spy type, though you mostly just killed enemies enmasse.

 

[herkulease]

Ha, I remember those SF guys getting pummeled by their superior officers when those photos came out... crazy long beard ain't regulation standard, from what I read.

Also, I think a game that had you as a Blackwater / Xe contractor would be insanely awesome, and probably go a long way to making the story more believable. (Regulations? That's for them Army boys!)

Uhh isn't that what Army of Two is?

You were paid contractors. You had a petulance for high fives and horrible one liners.

 

[jrphoenix]

Electronic Arts has officially announced that the Medal of Honor franchise is getting the long-rumored modern day reboot. Set in present day Afghanistan, it will feature "Tier 1 operators" who operate in obscurity and secrecy but are even more deadly and highly-trained than the best of the Special Forces. The tagline for the game is "I fight with my mind. My hands and my weapons are extensions of my will."


EA promises that the single-player gameplay will be inspired by actual events and will be developed with the help of the Special Forces community.


Set to be released in 2010 for the PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3, the single-player will be handled by EA Los Angeles while the multiplayer portion of the game will be handled by Battlefield franchise experts DICE.


More information and a full trailer will be released as part of Spike TV's VGA award show on December 12th.

Teaser Trailer

Looks like it could be promising. I like the modern era fps games. I was very dissapointed to see the "Fallujah" game get cancelled because of public outcry... "too soon". If this is really Afghanistan and it has US troops, I wonder if controversy will shut it down. I hope a publisher picks up the Fallujah game again.

 

[Q]

I don't care if it's a ripoff, if it's fun I'll play it. I play games to have fun, not for originality.

 

[PricklyPete]

The reason for this is the core team and leads of 2015, the developers of the original MOHAA, left and formed Infinity Ward. So think of it as: MOHAA -> CoD -> CoD UO -> CoD2 -> MW -> MW2

I was going to make the same comment.

 

[Kromis]

EA? Jump on bandwagon? How else are they suppose to evolve Medal of Honor? Besides, they want to compete directly with Call of Duty as a "modern" game so that makes sense. Why should they have to go with something other than modern warfare?

 

[tdawg]

Can't believe we're worrying about the facial hair of these soldiers, but I'm under the impression that these Operators fall outside the clean-cut soldier regulations because they're supposed to look like regular people, so they can blend in. Am I wrong? Isn't that why Delta operators don't have to keep their hair cropped and such?

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/medal-of-spike-tv/59827

 

[zerocool84]

I won't make judgment until it's released. Anyone saying this is a Modern Warfare rick-off is well umm durr every company makes games that are similar. Medal of Honor was released 4 years before the first Call of Duty.

 

[GullyFoyle]

twitter.com/LordAinzalot: "@Bazajaytee is it just rumors or is a moh mp-beta really on its way? Medal Of Honor Multiplayer Beta Coming Our Way - PS3 News - psxextreme.com"

 

[Kabob]

I'd like to see the beta. If they could capture the scale/style of BC2's multiplayer with the much more fluid movements/shooting of MW2 it'd be a winner.