If you even have a casual interest in games, chances are you'll have heard of the Medal of Honour series. Perfecting the heart-pounding, adrenaline rushing wartime first person shooter before Call of Duty was a blip on the radar, the series used to dominate the charts - until its key developers left, to make Call of Duty.
Roll on 8 years, and now history seems to be repeating itself, as key staff leave Call of Duty's developers to start up their own company, and Medal of Honour, with a new sense of purpose, looks to capitalise on the market.
Taking the series out of the World War Two setting (for the first time in 11 years), Medal of Honour is taking the war to Call of Duty's front yard, as it enters the modern-day Afghanistan war (cue plenty of controversy). Putting you in the burly boots of a "Tier 1 operator" - an elite warrior and relatively unknown instrument of the U.S Military that operates under the National Command Authority, taking on missions no one else can handle. Not a call centre manager, like we originally expected.
To ensure an authentic experience, Electronic Arts have even gone so far as to draft in support from real Tier 1 Operatives from the U.S Special Operations Community, who've no doubt been sharing stories, tactics, and their real life experiences in Afghanistan with the developers.
Medal of Honour will be hitting these shores on October 15th. Move out.
