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The dismal reception for Medal of Honor: Warfighter and its predecessor forced publisher Electronic Arts to put the franchise on hold. The company places the blames squarely on its shoulders, saying that leadership was at issue, not a glut of World War II games.
The Medal of Honor series is apparently being put on hold.
The US Navy has disciplined seven members of SEAL Team 6 for consulting with EA on man-shooter Medal of Honor Warfighter. The special ops chaps spent two days with EA without authorization from a commander, during which classified material slipped past their lips and they showed off their official combat gear--pretty big no-nos.
With yearly Call of Duty games and Battlefield's recent foray into modern combat, it takes something truly spectacular to make an impression in the highly competitive genre. Medal of Honor: Warfighter misfires, losing much of what made Danger Close's original reboot compelling. While far from terrible, Warfighter brings a B-game to a genre that demands so much more.
EA admits that Medal of Honor: Warfighter will not meet financial expectations, and as such, has lowered expectations for the game.
There are plenty of games that get patched on release day, but most involve minor fixes and tweaks. Not so with Medal of Honor Warfighter, which hit shelves today. Electronic Arts released a must-install-immediately patch for the game that rivals the fixes in some major content updates.
Medal of Honor Warfighter launches in a mere five days, and as with any upcoming game launch, the Electronic Arts marketing team has cranked out a new trailer, this one focusing on multiplayer.
EA's initial reboot of the Medal of Honor series failed to win hearts and minds and chip away at Call of Duty's domination of the modern-day face-shooting market, but it's not deterred so easily. Come Friday, we'll get to have a good hard look at its second attempt, when the Medal of Honor Warfighter multiplayer open beta launches exclusively on Xbox 360.
The author of the controversial Osama bin Laden book has apparently done unauthorized consulting work on the upcoming Medal of Honor.
Two years later, EA is giving the Medal of Honor series another whirl. This time, there's a brand new engine and a more bombastic, action-packed narrative. But is it any better? That's questionable.
