RespawnAction: "EA's Greg Goodrich and Rich Farrelly sat down with Gamepro Magazine recently and discussed their new title, Medal of Honor Redux. When asked about how development was coming, they had an interesting comment about how the game is turning out."
Jim Sterling of Destructoid.com writes: Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay has become the latest in a growing line of people who presume to speak for their entire country and for every soldier in the world, criticizing Medal of Honor for its Taliban shenanigans and implying that anybody who enjoys the upcoming game hates Western freedom.
pretty lame line: "By the way, I heard Electronic Arts was building a Mosque on Ground Zero out of the bones of American babies IS THIS TRUE!?"
its funny how Politicians always say " video game are for kids "
and then all of a sudden they all care when a game like this pops up
I hate the way politicians/governments etc look down on games as though they are nothing but toys for kids or something and therefore make a huge fuss about a game containing Adult Content.
If a game is an 18+ it should be able to contain everything a movie that is 18+ does, but it isn't "allowed", imo they are a huge problem in slowing down the evolution of games.
I'd like to see what they think when seeing someone play through a game like Heavy Rain which shows a game isn't just about Shoot and Kill, or even Flower which is simply there to make you feel calm/relaxed coursing through the wind etc.
"By the way, I heard Electronic Arts was building a Mosque on Ground Zero out of the bones of American babies IS THIS TRUE!?"
1: from where did hear it from? because i could say i heard he came from a chimpanzee mother too u know?
2: last i heard from the news it was not a Mosque but an islamic center, so who told him it was a mosque?
3: since when the entire area of Manhattan in New York became ground Zero? i thought they were building the islamic center in place of an old buiding that was almost collapsing that had nothing to do with 9/11 in any way, form or shape??
4: since when babies go to world trade center? and if the heat burned even the black box of the airplanes (yeah sure, a step to hide evidence), then how come any baby bone will survive the heat?
5: did any muslim americans build Mosques from bones before? how he came up with this idea and why did he bring it up and for what goal he brought it up?
6: since when suspects are accused and judged and implemented the punishment without evidence of their crime? last i know there is no proof that muslims or al-qaida did 9/11!! so whats the problem with muslims building anything anywhere in USA?
these questions need to be answered by this minister or the likes of him!!
those who love to follow the main stream like sheep without thinking, i tell u think once more and put ur faith/beleif/non belief in the muslim shoe and imagine USA accuses you faith to be responsible for a mass crime without evidence and makes wars and invade your fellow brothers in faith for this false accusation. how would u feel? imagine the atheist were accused without evidence for 9/11 and wars raised on your lands and millions died because of it , or christians, or jews, or hindu or buddha etc how would any of u feel?
As a Canadian myself I officially declare that canada doesn't give a shit about being able to play as the taliban in medal of honour.
It's a game. People play them. Thats it. It's not a judo ethical commentary on modern wars.
Repeat just a video game.
Nobody who has a life gives half a shit.
Yea really. As a Volunteer of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games here in my hometown Van City, I could care less about playing as a taliban or not.
PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND: ITS A GAME. Just like Dramscus said, people play them and its not a game based on actual events with real life people who actually died overseas.
It is a game. Made up characters, made up story, perhaps somewhat life-like environments from the actual war, but Seriously.
I think I speak for all Canadians when I say: CANADA DOESNT CARE!
All We care about is the upcoming NHL Season and getting stock of Molson Canadian Every Saturday Night!
I'm Canadian and I certainly don't care.
It's no different from all other war games. You can play as Nazis killing the Allies is Call of Duty. You play as an unnamed terrorist organization in Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2, but nobody cares about that. As soon as there's some kind of specification, people go insane. If anything in these games should piss people off, it should be being able to play as Nazis.
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I prefer GOOD beer over Corona, Heinekin, and a lot of Canadian beer.
Canadian myself and I can tell you that this is just political posturing. Canadians (most) don't give a shit about things like this.
I would think most people didn't even have a clue what he was talking about. Most people don't even know the game exists let alone what it's about
I'm a Canadian as well and couldn't give a rat's a$$ about playing as a taliban in a bloody video game. Good God I wish these friggin' politicians would shut the hell up, you idiots don't speak for me at all. You're the ones that start most of these f*cking wars in the first place... all for control of the world's oil.
Why don't these idiots make good on their promises and take care of the problems in their own backyards!
I live in america which is land of the free so in other words i can play watevr the hell i want and if u dnt like it tough luck cuz im gonna support the devs that took the time to make this game.
I'm canadian and I haven't seen/read/heard any kind of discussion on the whole MOH contreversy.
''Politician says Canada is angry about Medal of Honor''
STFU!!!! Who Exactly are they to say CANADA is angry about this? Dont mix Political bullsh1t with the rest of canada.
I'm pretty sure NONE of my Fellow Non-gamer Canadians Are even aware of the supposed contreversy. We dont give a f1ck about playing as Talibans or Americans. We just want to play a damn game.
Yeah, I know exactly zero Canadian gamers - or Canadians in general, who find an issue with this. What, should we stop making movies if they have the Taliban in them? How about books? Tell us, Peter Mackay, what else are we as Canadians mad about?
Vancouver here, and I could care less. In fact I could care less about this half assed game anyways. EA is loving all of the controversy, just gives the game more exposure.
Gamervision's Jonathan Cooper writes, "Later this year, EA's rebooted Medal of Honor will compete against Activision's Call of Duty, bringing the two head-to-head for the first time in a few years. In the PS2 era, the two were nearly on an even level, and it wasn't until the current generation that Medal of Honor fell to Call of Duty, mostly thanks to Infinity Ward's dominance with Call of Duty 2 and the final nail in the coffin, Modern Warfare. For some time, it seemed as though it was going to be an easy win for Activision, and there was little reason to believe that the reboot would be able to top the $1 billion earner in CoD. However, recent happenings make this seem like more and more of a possibility, and there's historical evidence that EA may be ready to overtake Call of Duty in 2010, or at least take back some ground."
Call of what now? they must meant can Medal of honor dethrone Battlefield Bad company.
I don't think any game can dethrone CoD, I think the only thing that CAN dethrone CoD is CoD itself, and by that I mean Activision having new developers make future games, and as seen by other IPs, when it switches devs the series usually goes downhill. That's if I'm remembering right, that IW won't be making any more CoD games.
Also Delta, MoH and BF aren't competing with eachother supposedly, of course that came from the mouth of EA who happens to be publisher of both franchises
If it doesn't have bugs then yes.
If it is balanced then yes.
If the story makes sense and offers closure then yes.
Meh first it was Halo. Then Battlefield:BC2, and now MOH. To be completely honest with you i think COD killed it self. Heck i didn't even buy the game from my experience with it's mediocre single player and buggiest online component yet
EA's reboot of Medal of Honor arrives later this year. Does it have a hope of beating Activision's Call of Duty at it's own game? The imitator vs. the imitated… or is that the imitated vs. the imitator? Only one series walks out of here supreme!
well I think MoH has two things going for it.
One is that CoD is currently in a glitch mess from what I've heard.
Secondly MoH is based off real events and in that respect is based on the classic ww2 shooters, based off real battles/events.
The second is why I'm so excited, a war game that is based in reality that isn't ww2 but instead modern war I find very appealing.
I would love to see Medal of Honor make a nice comeback after all these years. I haven't played a MoH game since Underground on original PlayStation.
Lol I get it. EA/DICE make Medal of Honor because they are chocolate and peanut butter which makes Reese's. That's so sweet. No pun intended : v ).
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