Report: Medal of Honor: Warfighter is Danger Close's next game, hits in October [updated]

by Ben Gilbert on Feb 23rd 2012 2:20PM

EA's been teasing the next Medal of Honor for some time now, so it's not a huge surprise to hear more about it on Twitter. Game Informer's Jim Reilly spent the past half hour sharing some info, saying the game is called "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," is arriving this coming October, and runs in DICE's Frostbite 2.0 engine.

The info is apparently coming from a copy of OXM, which arrived a bit ahead of EA's intended marketing push, it would seem. Reilly also says the game's multiplayer will be handled in-house by EA Danger Close now, rather than DICE as was the case with 2010's Medal of Honor reboot.

Update: The Medal of Honor blog offered a teaser image of the game, confirmed the title, and teased more details in the coming weeks. Boom! See the full image on the other side of the break.

Source: Game Informer

Tags: danger-close, dice, ea-danger-close, ea-dice, electronic-arts, frostbite-2, medal-of-honor, medal-of-honor-warfighter, q4-2012, release-date

Reader Comments (57)

seriously......is anyone going to buy this?

@matrixman92

I might if they can fix all of the issues that existed with the 2010 one. Getting an actual soundtrack instead of Linkin Park and random orchestral-rock hybrid themes from Iron Man would be a step in the right direction. Heck, making it feel like a Medal of Honor game instead of CoD would be an even better.

Not getting my hopes up, though. :(

@matrixman92 Considering I enjoyed the Medal of Honor's campaign very much I'll definitely be playing this. I think Danger Close created some really great moments in that game and I've played through it a few times. That said, I don't know if I'll be able to pay full price considering the probable length of the game. Unless what they show of the multiplayer really pulls me in I'll probably wait till it drops in price.

@matrixman92

If the campaign is actually good this time... Maybe...

Other than that (or maybe a $20 sale like the first) I wont be.

@matrixman92 I liked the Campaign of MoH. It was different and felt more real than the campaigns of CoD and BF. The MP though, wasn't very good

@trickybuz93 The campaign was the most enjoyable FPS campaign I've ever played since Call of Duty 2. So I'll be picking it up for sure. But I doubt I'll bother to pick it up at launch since Battlefield 3 does everything thing I want from multiplayer and I don't feel like playing 60 bucks for a game I'd only half use.

@trickybuz93
A Tactical FPS 4/6 persons on each side. They already have a stellar cover system. Think GoW, but Fist Person and more 'realistic' bullet damage, something a like to CS or CoD2.

@matrixman92

I'm getting it for the singleplayer/campaign. OffDutyGamers (military veteran gamers) helped with the singleplayer of the first game and are now helping with the sequel's one:

http://www.offdutygamers.com/2011/10/new-medal-of-honor-teaser/

@ComedyInK So... Rainbow Six Vegas?

i liked the multi its just felt rushed

Multiplayer balance in the first game was laughable, talk about weapon imbalances between new players and veterans

And the winner of the Most Obvious and Least Interesting Subtitle Award goes to - this!

Seriously, I thought we were going to fight halitosis, or possibly our very feelings in the next MoH games. Sheesh.

@The Pork

I was hoping for a game set during the end of the Cold War, and your enemy is smallpox. That would be neat.

Damn. I guess someone had already trademarked MEDAL OF HONOR: GUNSHOOTER.

Wish they would stop wasting our time with mediocre games. All I want is bad company 3.

@jcar302 That's coming next year with BF 4 coming out 2014.

EA's going down the same route as Activision, although they're doing it with three different games

@trickybuz93

I hope so.
BF3 was ok, but the non destructable urban enviroment kinda sucked.

Leveling an entire map in BC2 was half the fun.

@jcar302

yea bad company 2 is still my fav shooter to date. I didnt like BF3. so Im sticking it out with MW3 until BFBC3 comes and brings me joy

@jcar302 It's already out, they just dropped the Bad Company part of the name and called it BF3.

The campaign was fun to me. The bugs that made the game freeze sucked though. Especially the level where all the insurgents were rushing down the mountain at me. Anyway, the MP was irritating due to spawn kills, but otherwise pretty fun. I think the next one has an opportunity to make a solid game. The problem is, this genre and especially this setting, is getting repetitive. I think that is the hardest part to overcome. This game HAS to be really something in order to get people to buy it. It needs to be better than Battlefield at Battlefield gameplay, or better than COD at COD gameplay. If it isn't going to do that, it needs to be MOH and make MOH reason enough to get people to also buy this game too.

Warfighter? I imagine this game will be about protesting war?

Wish they would stop wasting our time with mediocre games. All I want is bad company 3.

Took me a sec to realize that "Danger Close" is a company... and that the subtitle for the game was not, in fact "Warfighter is Danger Close" being the next MoH

Initially I wasn't a huge fan of MoH but lately I find myself going through and playing it (the campaign, not the horrid MP) again and again. I like the fact that you play mostly as special operators and some of the missions are based off real operations that happened in Afghanistan. I'm also a huge military buff and try to keep my pulse on what's currently going on in the war and with special forces, so obviously the game is more for people like me than your average gamer. Looking forward to the sequel - hopefully its more polished this time around.

I've played the game numerous times on both PS3 and PC and never experienced any freezing or game breaking bugs that so many people have complained about. Guess I was just lucky.

MODERN WARFIGHTER BATTLEFIELD: COMPANY OPS 5

Coming November 2012

@CoconutSkittle

I already pre-ordered it! I'm getting a gold-camo shooter gun. Can't wait to be #1 in the leader boards.

I don't care what anybody else says, I absolutely loved Medal of Honor. I loved everything about it. The single player was like an entire campaign worth of the coolest stealth missions from call of duty. I really enjoy the multiplayer as well, it was like a perfect fusion of battlefield and call of duty. I am really excited about this

YES! I CANNOT WAIT!
First, thanks for having a subtitle instead of a number :D
Second, thanks for not letting DICE near it :)

I don't know why EA needs Medal of Honor AND Battlefield.

@Fuzunga

AND Respawns game.

@Fuzunga

Its so that they can have something to fight COD every year in the fall. The next Battlefield 4 or Bad Company 3 or whatever will come out 2013 to fight MW4.

NO NOT FROSTBITE :(
I hope they use it's capabilities well but try to keep the feel of the first game, which utilised the Unreal Engine.

@iceytoa1 Wait... what? Frostbite 2 is a next gen engine. UE3 is a current gen engine.

@mangosango

But... Frostbite 2 is being used in this current gen...

I'm confused :(

Has Respawn said their game is gonna be a modern shooter? Haven't paid much attention them since it's mostly been legal stuff

@TheDarkWayne

I'm hoping a not too distant future game. Not totally Halo and not totally MW. A nice mix of realism and a nice mix of scifi.

If it have 1080p and destructive environment then I will try it.

What does that mean? Frostbite 2 was what BF3 used, right? Doesn't that make t current?

@TheDarkWayne

He just means that UE3 is olllld and Frostbite 2 was just released

@TheDarkWayne Yeah, but FB2 was designed with the next-gen (high-end PC hardware) in mind. It'll be used on launch titles for the next gen consoles. UE3, on the other hand, is approaching the end of it's cycle, with UE4 looming on the horizon.

Anyway, Frostbite 2 looks amazing, so no complaints here =)

The first game had my all time favorite campaign, but I hated the MP. I'm willing to pay the money for more of that campaign though, which offered a fair amount if replayability in and of itself.

Only on Origin? If so no thanks. Join the rest of the EA titles I am skipping.

Not enough beard. DOA.

In other news, Blops 2 will outsell the snot out of this.

I loved the first one, was one of the most authentic campaigns I've ever seen (with a little drama on the side of course). Also note the red dot sight on top of the ACOG... Wonder if that means we'll get to use CQB sights like that on scopes in game like they do in reality...

I only played the new one recently on PC after picking it up really cheap on Steam. I actually quite enjoyed the campaign but it was so short. My overall time was only just over 3 hours and I didn't really care to touch the multiplayer. The single player had some neat little touches like sliding (more games need sliding) and the learning from cover. I thought it had a good mix up of missions too. I enjoyed it for the price I payed but for $60 brand new, I would've been pissed.

Whoah. The cover isn't some just some soldier walking or looking towards the camera. HE'S WALKING AT AN ANGLE!

Battlefield 4? lol

They should instead name it " Medal of honor: MODERN warfighter" you get the vibe?

Yea..I already wasted enough money on terrible EA games in the last year or 2. NTY

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