EA: Medal of Honor being revitalized, details 'in the months ahead'

by Christopher Grant on Nov 9th 2009 7:50PM

After relaying the company's success in revitalizing the long-abused Need for Speed franchise with this year's well-received Need for Speed: Shift during this afternoon's Q2 conference call, EA Games label president Frank Gibeau revealed, "In the months ahead, you'll hear more about our plans to revitalize core IP, including the Medal of Honor franchise."

The long-established war series – whose Allied Assault team led to the creation of Infinity Ward and the now dominant Call of Duty series at competitor Activision – has been absent since 2007's triple showing of the poorly received Medal of Honor: Airborne, the poorly received Medal of Honor: Hereos 2, and the even more poorly received Medal of Honor: Vanguard. Yeah, a reboot seems in order.

Tags: EA, Electronic-Arts, Frank-Gibeau, Medal-of-Honor, Medal-of-Honor-2010

Reader Comments (58)

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Fine.
Steam then.

Wow...EA wants to become profitable by trying to revive a dead franchise.

That sounds a little like Sega to me.

oh god, road rash. that game was THE SHIT.

Hey, Bobby. If you like the past, give me a Pitfall remake. Okay?

Let me rephrase.

*waves hand*

You want to give me a Pitfall remake.

Sonic Heroes

Medal of Honor Heroes

...oh my God!

Oh, Bobby. Your popularity has been climbing lately. I'd hate for people to see these links and be reminded of your past...

http://lakupo.com/grblitz/kotick_tampon.png
http://i.imgur.com/N3NCG.jpg

Lol. Well this could work, but I am sure they are worried more about sales than bringing the gaming community another good shooter. They are probably going to make it modern or something to compete with MW2 and upcoming games like MAG and BF:BC2.

now introducing: Medal of Honor: Modern Warfare

Now with 30% more annoying 1337 kids than the leading brands

No it will be Medal of Honor: Present Day Combat

And increases in the Racial Slur category!

sadly it'll definitely be that

Medal of Honor: Current World Conflicts

Still set in WWII. By 'modern' they mean taking out features, like MW2.

To go with the MoH:AA alliteration it should be "Current Conflict"

Medal of Honor: Here and Now Edition

Medal of Honor: Urban Warfare?

heroes 2 was well received on PSP... just not wii. CoD beats MoH on every platform besides the PSP.

Actually, it was pretty well reviewed on Wii initially. Multiplayer was called the best of the year on Wii at it's release. Too bad the character models in multiplayer were shitty and it never caught my attention personally.

Got to give credit to heroes 2, one of the first wii fps to allow a expanded set of customization options.

true.

I loved Heroes 2 on wii actually. Been hoping for a 3rd with more online maps and better graphics

Medal of Honor you used to great. Hopefully they do a war that hasn't been done to death, or properly (Vietnam, Korean War, etc...)

With the success of Battlefield, and Call of Duty I expect they will go into modern times however.

I've always wanted some good Korea and Vietnam games.

Personally I think they should go back a few years and do a few things:

Medal of Honor: 1776
Medal of Honor: French and Indian War
Medal of Honor: Custer's Last Stand
Medal of Honor: Gettysburg

Allied Assault and Spearhead were fantastic games and I got years of online play out of MoHAA, but none of the recent Medal of Honor entries have convinced me that they were really worth playing.

@EA

No thank you.

Dont see the point tbqh. Seems like Battlefield is gonna be their big hit when it comes to first person shooters(as it deserves to be, BC2 looks amazing). Why waste time on a dead series?

@NotKotick

Didn't we ban you a while ago?

Modern Kotick is different from the old, insane Kotick who defended Activision's every move.

We have rebuilt him, stingier, greedier, fatter than before!

Bob of Kotick: Modern Trolling

just kidding, buddy. you're not that much of a troll.

too little too late

Medal of Honor Hereos?

I have slain the editor-in-chief of Joystiq! Hail your new chief!

do you twist them to get to the sweet white inside?

eww....... all of them are guys so that creamy white center is...

chocolate?

marshmallow actually. and you call yourself the world's greatest detective...

My friends and I used to play MoH: Frontline multiplayer all the time. Good times, good times.

Wasn't the next Medal of Honor supposed to take place in Afghanistan?

Oh right, no one cares about that conflict.

This is one of the most ignorant things I have ever read.

You do realise that proportionally a lot more troops are dying in Afghanistan than Iraq right? And that the conflict there is considered to be a lot more dangerous for troops than the "war" in Iraq is right?

Some people are really dumb.

Obviously you misread my comment. As a two tour veteran to Iraq and someone scheduled to go to Afghanistan next year, I am aware of the discord between the public and the war. This conflict has been going on for the past 8 years and both the public and media have turned a blind eye to it for at least seven years of it. If you want to compare casualty rates, Iraq still is higher than Afghanistan. So before you call someone "dumb" or "ignorant" make sure you read the original comment correctly.

Medal of Honor: Contemporary Combat.

You'll see.

This could be interesting. I think if they want to have the edge over Call of Duty they should focus more on story. In terms of soundtrack and general aesthetic, MoH always had more heart than CoD, which seems more intent on glorifying war. Of all the war games out there, not nearly enough make any attempt at creating memorable characters, incorporating player choice, or crafting a deep story.
Okay, maybe being story-focused isn't necessarily what they need for the market. But I'd sure as hell like to see it, and it'd be much more likely to warrant a purchase from me than CoD.

Are you serious? Honestly? If anything IW is trying to show people what war is really like, and how it can honestly turn out. You played a character who was in the middle of an atomic blast as he died. I actually felt sad when Price, Griggs, and Gaz died. You spend most of the game with some or all of them, and have to watch them die. In most shooters the only ones who die are the random NPCs that have no names, but in COD4 the closest characters are killed. It made me feel like they were real people, and how things can really turn out on the other side of the news broadcast.

I love how when a studio gains mass recognition, and for good reason, people decide from some backwards part of their brain that they are just doing it for money, or are trying to hatch some evil plot to look better. Is it so hard to believe a big studio who has made many lucrative titles can actually truly care about their game?

They're just Jealous of COD.

Earth Shattering Announcement:

Three-quarters of the guys at Infinity Ward of sick of taking Activision's guff, and they're going to form a new studio that, under EA's partner program, will develop future iterations of the Medal of Honor franchise :)

I hope so. I know when they announced MW2 they were all "This isn't branded as COD" and well, it got branded COD. I don't know if that was Activision's Nazi rule or the IW guys getting cold feet. I really hope they go back to being independent. Lord knows they could make some huge bank.

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