Followup - Medal of Honor: Modern Warfare

Seems the folks at EA are going to try to take up the torch that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has so ignominiously let slip from its grasp. Medal of Honor (subtitle as yet unknown), will be set in modern-day Afghanistan, and will feature a bearded, sunglassed hero, who may or may not be the long lost bass player from ZZ-Top. According to EA, this guy will be known as the "Tier 1 Operator" (presumably they mean a 1st SFOD-D Operator), and will be "a relatively unknown entity directly under the National Command Authority who takes on missions no one else can handle." Yeah... sounds like pretty much the set up for every Splinter Cell game ever, but hey, maybe it won't hate America, so that'd be nice.

Given Medal of Honor's history of PG-13 (at best) maturity level, one wonders if this new release can be an honest contender for a mature approach to a modern warfare FPS, but given how low Call of Duty has sunk, I can't take this announcement as anything less than welcome news. On the plus side, EA has emphasized how much effort and talent they've put into the single-player campaign, so that's very encouraging. Multiplayer is allegedly designed by veterans from DICE, the guys behind the Battlefield games. I wait with baited breath, as the poet said.