Electronic Arts has today announced its intention to own Xmas this year, with details of the next iteration in their critically-acclaimed, multi-million selling World War II franchise Medal of Honor. SPOnG is already taking bets on Medal of Honor Airborne being in this Xmas’s top three!
Medal of Honor Airborne will be the first outing for the series on next-gen consoles, with both the PS3 and Xbox 360 releases scheduled for Xmas 2006. The game will redefine the series by introducing an entirely new gameplay element – a fully interactive and historically accurate airborne experience.
The details released on the game today are as follows. You play a character called Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division, and engage in battles throughout Europe. Each mission, from early beginnings in Sicily through to war-winning triumphs behind enemy lines in Germany, starts with a fully interactive airdrop. This means that you will be able to determine your character’s starting point, which will change the way in which you get to play each mission. This airdrop feature gives you far more freedom to choose your path through this free-roaming FPS.
Patrick Gilmore, VP and Executive Producer at EALA. "By fully controlling the airdrop from your very first step through landing, Medal of Honor Airborne adds a new dimension of player choice by letting you decide where every mission begins and how it plays out."
The game, as in previous iterations, has been developed in close association with numerous expert sources to ensure it's historically accurate and as true to the WWII Airborne experience as possible. Indeed, the series has its own qualified military spokesperson in Capt. Dale Dye, who has worked as the Military Technical Advisor for the last seven Medal of Honor games.
After the airdrop, you return to more traditional Medal of Honour FPS gameplay. The next-gen title promises, according to the press release, "exceptionally photo-realistic characters, adding to the intensity of the cinematic, story-driven game."
So all in all, pretty much like the last Medal of Honor, but with realistic airdrops and generally loads better. Sounds like a fairly good plan to SPOnG, EA!
Medal of Honor was credited with introducing the First-Person Shooter (FPS) WWII genre when it debuted on PC way back in 1999.
Medal of Honor Airborne will be the first outing for the series on next-gen consoles, with both the PS3 and Xbox 360 releases scheduled for Xmas 2006. The game will redefine the series by introducing an entirely new gameplay element – a fully interactive and historically accurate airborne experience.
The details released on the game today are as follows. You play a character called Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division, and engage in battles throughout Europe. Each mission, from early beginnings in Sicily through to war-winning triumphs behind enemy lines in Germany, starts with a fully interactive airdrop. This means that you will be able to determine your character’s starting point, which will change the way in which you get to play each mission. This airdrop feature gives you far more freedom to choose your path through this free-roaming FPS.
Patrick Gilmore, VP and Executive Producer at EALA. "By fully controlling the airdrop from your very first step through landing, Medal of Honor Airborne adds a new dimension of player choice by letting you decide where every mission begins and how it plays out."
The game, as in previous iterations, has been developed in close association with numerous expert sources to ensure it's historically accurate and as true to the WWII Airborne experience as possible. Indeed, the series has its own qualified military spokesperson in Capt. Dale Dye, who has worked as the Military Technical Advisor for the last seven Medal of Honor games.
After the airdrop, you return to more traditional Medal of Honour FPS gameplay. The next-gen title promises, according to the press release, "exceptionally photo-realistic characters, adding to the intensity of the cinematic, story-driven game."
So all in all, pretty much like the last Medal of Honor, but with realistic airdrops and generally loads better. Sounds like a fairly good plan to SPOnG, EA!
Medal of Honor was credited with introducing the First-Person Shooter (FPS) WWII genre when it debuted on PC way back in 1999.
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VastikRoot 17 Jan 2006 13:26
1/2
But more importantly - will people bleed when you shoot them?
SPInGSPOnG 17 Jan 2006 16:23
2/2
spong wrote:
SPOnG is already taking bets on Medal of Honor Airborne being in this Xmas’s top three!
Is you really taking bets? What odds are you giving?
I'll have a tenner on Medal Of Honour Airsick not being in the Al formats top-three come Xmassy day 2006.