EA’s prez Frank Gibeau has publicly admitted via Gamasutra that Medal of Honor: Airborne was a rubbish game. It really was. It gave me motion sickness. When games quite literally make gamers want to chuck up, something’s gone horribly wrong.
“With Medal of Honor, we’re rebooting the series to get into the top 10,” he says. “I was not satisfied with the sales of Airborne, and -” then goes on to make some drab excuses for why it was so bad. “So I looked at the future of what I wanted to build inside of the Games label, and we want to be the worldwide leaders in the shooter category, full stop.”
Well, at least they’ve tossed all that criminally overworked World War nonsense.
“We looked at the assets, the intellectual property, and the team talent that we had, it made sense to me to bring Medal of Honor back, but it had to be brought back in a new way with a new approach, and that’s what we spent the last 18 months or so working on. We’re really excited so far to the response to the reboot, and we haven’t even really shown that much at all”.
Expect it to turn up at E3 next month then.
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