Trivia / Medal of Honor

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• Dueling Games: Originally with Call of Duty (which was established by the former developers of Allied Assault), while the 2010 reboot and Warfighter went against Modern Warfare.
• Follow the Leader:
  • While the 2010 reboot was a mild example of following the footsteps of Modern Warfare, Warfighter was attacked by critics and fans alike for being especially brazen about it.
  • Even before the reboot, the games from Pacific Assault onward increasingly took cues from new-kid-on-the-block Call of Duty with the addition of mechanics such as squad combat and ironsights, and the abandonment of the OSS behind-enemy-lines theme for straightforward recreations of WWII battles.
  • The original game (and to an extent, Underground) for the PlayStation eventually become the leaders for several low-budget (some of them borderline mediocre) FPS games in the early 2000s, all of them set in the Second World War where the player gets to shoot generic Germans for around an hour before deciding to stop playing altogether. Beyond Normandy: Assignment Berlin, Airborne Hero: D-Day Frontline 1944, Battlefield - The Battle For Normandy, just to name a few unheard-of titles.
• Franchise Killer: Somewhere between this and a Series Hiatus, the poor sales and reviews of Warfighter took the series out of EA's rotation, and a new game wouldn't be seen until 8 years later.
• Method Acting: For the development of the original, Spielberg not only brought on Capt. Dale Dye, the military advisor for Saving Private Ryan, to work with the developers, but the developers were ran through a boot camp similar to what the actors in Saving Private Ryan had been subjected to. All in the name of ensuring that the game would be as authentic as possible.
• Stillborn Franchise: Not the series in general, but rather Rising Sun. It was hyped as the be-all, end-all of games set in the Pacific Theater, and was all set up to have a direct sequel with an ongoing character-driven story about two brothers, Joe and Donnie Griffin, with the original starring Joe and the planned sequel starring Donnie. But after Rising Sun was greeted with a pretty chilly critical reception, not only was the sequel canned, but it left the original with a Cliffhanger ending that was never given a full sequel. One of the lesser played ports (Heroes) resolved it off screen by saying that Joe and his friends were rescued.

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