So there isn’t any demoralisition within Danger Close, or a feeling that the team is working on something in the shadows of a bigger product?īJ: No, I don’t think so. So I think, yeah, if you’re a fan of shooters you have plenty of reasons to pick up Warfighter even if you are already committed to Battlefield DLC. Even though Battlefield’s releasing compelling DLC this year, our experience comes out, it’s a completely different shift and gives you an opportunity to play with the Fire Team focus, which is like co-op within the multiplayer world. Because they are so different from a gameplay perspective, I think it gives you a refreshing opportunity to bounce back and forth. How does Medal of Honor fit in amongst those people who have already invested in EA’s existing shooter for the long-term?īJ: Well, if the consumers are anything like me, I know I’ll buy and play both. I think we set ourselves apart quite well.ĭo you think consumers will actually recognise those differences ? EA wants players to continue playing Battlefield 3 until at least March, and then presumably transition onto Battlefield 4. So no, I’m not concerned with us cannabilising our own products. In Battlefield I spend half my time just getting to the battle, here that battle is super accessible, fast-paced, and with the number of different features we’re delivering with international Tier 1 units and Fire Teams, I think we’ve got a lot to offer that really differentiates itself from the Battlefield series. And being in an environment where that combat is nearly constant. Whereas with, we’re really going in and trying to be as intricate as possible with our infantry combat, and that’s really where the focus is boots on the ground and not so much planes in the air and tanks rolling by. Battlefield is so large-scale it’s like this giant hammer hitting you on the head. Especially in MP, our focuses are really different. Is there a fear inside Danger Close that EA is cannabilising its own boxed product with new content for last year’s game?īen Jones, Senior Designer, Danger Close: We don’t think so, particularly because we’re delivering such a different product with Warfighter. Is Medal of Honor a harder sell than usual this year? EA appears to be pushing Battlefield 3’s DLC as hard, if not harder than Warfighter. Blue’ gunfights.īut will friendly fire stifle Warfighter’s chances of success when it releases later this month, or are players ready to accept another shooter? speaks to Medal of Honor: Warfighter’s senior designer Ben Jones on the threat Danger Close faces from its own side, and the impact that Battlefield 3’s ongoing success has had on the development staff behind the project. It’s unwittingly appropriate, perhaps, that Warfighter’s very own multiplayer component is built around the idea of ‘Blue vs.
For the first time in history, EA’s shooter won’t just be stepping into the line of fire laid down by Call of Duty, but gunning against one of its own, competing against ongoing content from the publisher’s own Battlefield 3. The annual shooter showdown is almost upon this, but this year, Medal of Honor faces a threat from a very different type of enemy.