In 1999, DreamWorks Interactive's Medal of Honor helped kick off ten years of successful shooters set in World War II from a number of developers, but by the time the decade came to a close, the Infinity Ward-created Call of Duty franchise had eclipsed its predecessor in both commercial success and industry relevance.
Now, the Electronic Arts Los Angeles team descended from that original group has rebranded itself Danger Close Games, and hopes to reinvigorate the Medal of Honor name this fall with the series' first modern day entry.
Gamasutra sat down with Medal of Honor executive producer Greg Goodrich to discuss the game's efficient development process, the increasingly competitive first-person shooter market, and the challenges and fears of creating a game that hinges on a real-world modern conflict.
Ibrahim from eXputer: "The Medal of Honor franchise was once the crown jewel of FPS war games, later defeated by the tides of time and poor development."
They tried to turn it into Call of Duty and it killed it off. They should reboot it and go back to it's roots. But they'd ruin it with online-only/multiplayer style bullshit so why bother? I have very fond memories of these games, but this series can stay dead as far as I'm concerned.
Was literally just thinking of this game the other week with the secret nut cracker mission and the shooting Bismarck dog lmao. Loved these games as a kid
I have fond memories of playing the Medal of Honor Breakthrough MP Demo. It had two maps and custom servers. Living on campus, I had it downloaded on one of the PC Lab servers so I could access it on any computer at the university. Joined a clan and made friends that I still keep in touch with today.
Game Rant Writes "It's been over a decade since fans have seen the Medal of Honor franchise on consoles in any capacity, and it's about time EA brought it back."
Medal of Honor 2010 was a good start for a modern reboot. The campaign was fantastic. Multiplayer wasn't great but that's DICE's fault. I'd love if they went back to that game and gave it a proper sequel.
I actually really liked the multiplayer in MoH 2010. Battlefield gunplay on small maps. I would love to see a Rising sun remake, the opening scene would be amazing to see.
I enjoyed the multiplayer of MoH 2010. It felt like battlefield 3 in a way. The multiplayer in Warfighter was also pretty good but the campaigns single player story was not appealing with the whole family cutscene thing. Gameplay was fun though. MoH to me is the PS1/2 titles and I don’t expect to see a WW2 MoH after the last Call of Duty’s
PS1 MOH 1999 and 2000 (Underground) and Allied Assault PC is my childhood.. it's still soo good and it holds up. Not to mention Michael Giacchino's soundtrack is one of the best video game soundtracks ever made. Even if you weren't born in early to mid 90's go listen to the main theme of Allied Assault and you will be overloaded from nostalgia.
I miss this franchise a lot.
I’ve always thought that MOH and Battlefield should be separate…
Have MOH as the full fledged single player with an amazing store and whatnot. And a basic multiplayer just to have multiplayer. Sorta like how the MOH reboot was.
And then have BF as the full fledged multiplayer with all effort put into that and ditch the single player. Maybe add Commander back in.
Only in a perfect world.
Oh man medal of honor on pc was awesome back in the day. Multi-player was fun. Joined my first clan on medal of honor. Definitely deserves a comeback. But needs to be on the same level or surpass COD. Since it came out before that ip in 1999 to avoid embarrassment.
The guys who did Allied assault are the one who created call of duty. They're back at EA, Vince something
I'll be the weird guy in the room and say I actually loved Warfighter. I thought the squad mechanics made it stand out a bit and thought the shooting felt good. Put a lot of time into the multiplayer.
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Still have my original PS1 my family got at Sam’s Club back in 1999 :) it still works and I have it hooked up to a 32” Sony Wega Trinitron that supports S Video and Component 👌🏼 PS1 games in S Video POP on there 🤩
I have to say, they don't help themselves with these melodramatic trailers, like the one with the soldier leaving a voice message to his family. It seems kind of inappropriate, and only magnifies the point critics have been making, to treat the subject matter so seriously on one hand, only for the experience to devolve into a mindless shooter for our entertainment. The fact that it will no doubt be partially for the amusement of kids who are frankly too young to be playing such a game or to properly appreciate the true sacrifice these soldiers make only serves to pour salt on the wound.
Then when I see that ridiculous Gamespot ad for the bonus machine gun, especially after these heart-string tugging trailers, I can only facepalm in embarrassment for both the developers and the retailer in question.
This kind of thing works for conflicts that have passed...but even then, mainly for WW2. For more recent conflicts, even as far back as Vietnam, it is right on the knife's edge of tastefulness.
In other words, make the game a game...by going out of the way to express the true horror of an existing war of the present, they're only coming off as opportunistically exploiting it and making a bigger mockery of it.
I hate to be on this side of the fence but I think everyone knows it to be true, at least subconsciously. Donating money to a military fund is a nice gesture, but it's clearly guilt-driven.
These troops aren't out there getting shot at AS WE SPEAK to help EA push more units of product.
In summary, it's not the game itself that bothers me so much as the methods they are using to promote it.
It's ok to shoot everyone else in the world. But when we get to see the other side. Now we have issues. I like our standards. Funny how Hollywood does this all the time. Perhaps they should just stop making War based games altogether? Since it's all "tasteless". They all exploit a violent act which happened in ones nations history. So if you can't handle the real world. Stop going to the movie theater. Stop watching your daily news and get off video games.