Yesterday, Electronic Arts demonstrated it had some balls by revealing that the new Medal of Honor game was going to be set in Afghanistan. While some may view this as a cynical way of following in Activision's footsteps, EA boss John Riccitiello has other plans -- he's aiming to rip Activision from its gilded FPS throne.
"I'm not saying it's going to happen tomorrow, but in the way that Activision sort of alternates sequels of Modern Warfare and Call of Duty and owns the leadership position in FPS, between Medal of Honor and Battlefield, I want it back," states the silver-haired champion. "And we're going to get there with innovation and quality."
"The first [Bad Company] did very well in its first outing. The next one is a heck of a lot better and it looks like a worthy competitor to Modern Warfare. We think we've got an advantage over Modern Warfare 2 with our multiplayer ... Frankly, once you get past, sort of, four people on a map, I think our gameplay is better."
Anybody who stands up to evil publisher Activision gets a thumbs-up from me, and it's going to be very interesting to see how EA's two-pronged attack fares. Still, you're going to need a heck of a lot more than innovation and quality to take down a beast as mighty as the Call of Duty franchise. More than a little luck is going to be needed to see that fight through.
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6:00 AM on 12.03.2009
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wtf? four people for online multiplayer?
hu?
I find it difficult to bring myself to put the MW2 disc in, or even just choose it from my XMB, knowing it consists of running around a map hoping to come up behind someone and shoot them in the back - I always choose to go with the objective based battlefield, even if it's just the same map over and over, it's a nice big varied map and has that all important feature of FPS games.....
Set spawn points for each team.
I've had more than enough of people watching where i am on their killcam, instantly respawning and running up behind me with a knife, or throwing a grenade through my window. - Killcam + Insta-spawn fucking ruins FPS games.
Now, i'm currently playing more MAG beta than BC2, but my personal FPS rankings go...
1) MAG
2) Bad Company 2
3) MW2
If they're going to put similar effort into MoH as they have BC2 it's going to be fucking awesome.
However, it's going to take a whole lot to beat MAG when that comes out, wow, just wow. - Suppose those billions of 360 users without PS3's out there will stifle MAG's chances to have success on the kind of level of MW2, but personally I've never played anything anywhere near as good as MAG, on a gameplay front anyway, there are prettier games, but the way it plays is off the hook!
Fuck that. Auto-aim is for mainstream pussy-hole kids.
Mirrors edge,Brutal Legend,Valve games,Dead space Spore, Dragon Age, Dantes Inferno and skate.
Ea's cleaned up it's act alot of these games wouldn't of even made a profit a few years ago but EA's made it happen EA are really not as evil as you think
I'm just glad there was still a big community to the 360 version, since I came late to the party, but I couldn't shake the feeling that it missed out on the massive branding of Modern Warfare. Now that Activision's rep has been cemented, everyone won't be able to come out from the shadow any time soon and all this PR fighting talk is a moot point.
I don't think that EA neccesarily will take the crown but there's gonna be a lot of fun smack talk thrown around and (hopefully a really good MoH.
I'm a little bothered that they're already bragging about multiplayer since MW2 alledgedly had very strong single player but it's way too early to write it off.
If this succeeds we will be back to seeing MoH & Battlefield games every year like we were a while back. I put no stock in the jargon of talking head publishers - let's see some real innovation from the developers and hopefully not some "hey look - we are modern too!" bullsh!t.
we get it, you don't like MW2, it's time to move on.
@Phantom Spaceman:
I totally agree. Airborne is my favorite WWII shooter, and not nearly enough people give it the credit it deserved.
Just make a level where we can be a suicide bomber who hits a nursery school. But we only blow up after we've made all the children strip naked and force the teachers there to chant "US of the A is devil!" ten times.
There you go, you just topped the airport scene. Hell, everyone on Fox will probably have a stroke all at the same time. (so some positive would come of it)
If only I knew how to use my powers for good. But alas, no. If you only knew the power of the dark side.
its the best fps ive played since killzone 2
i dont like mag after playing badcompany2; and i was looking forward to mag but maybe it should have been a third person shooter more like ed faction guerilla and nothing like warhawk.
I agree with your statement.
EA has been a good developer for a few years now. I loved Dead Space, definitely my favorite game of 2008. Really looking forward to this new MoH, even though I've never really played any of the previous games.
Since BC2 has destruction... it's already got a leg up on CoD and I LOVE CoD.
Maybe something to actually pry my hands off of Killzone 2. I don't like the Modern Warfare multiplayer, hell, I preferred World at War simply because of the gibs but... yeah. Call of Duty multiplayer, not my thing, even the objective-based game modes are boring and frankly... I'm getting tired of maps that are either wide open or a clusterfuck of buildings with a million floors.
(has not liked any Modern Warfare multiplayer map, ever)