Modern Medal: EA Announces Medal of Honor Avant-garde Day Reboot, VGA 09 Debut Trailer

EA appear a new “modern day” administration for their Medal of Honor authorization today. The accessible sequel, artlessly blue-blooded “Modern W…whoops, Medal of Honor” will be set in a war-torn Afghanistan. In an absorbing move, EA LA will focus on the individual amateur aspect, while EA DICE will advance the multiplayer allocation of the game.

Considering the success of Activision’s Avant-garde Warfare series, this move to the avant-garde day ambience shouldn’t abruptness anyone. That said, I like the attending of the appearance apparent in the VGA brain-teaser below. He affectionate of reminds me of Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top. He’s got beeeeeeaaard! He knows how to annihilate you!! … Every girl’s crazy for a war-torn man! Okay, I’ll stop.

You can get your aboriginal attending at some Medal of Honor “reboot” gameplay on December 12th during Spike TV’s 7th anniversary Video Bold Awards. Press absolution and brain-teaser bivouac below.

Chris Plante over at UGO’s bold blog seems to anticipate he resembles “Cowboy” from a 2002 TIME LIFE alternation of photographs taken of troops in Northern Afghanistan. I’m afraid with ZZ.

EA ANNOUNCES ‘MEDAL OF HONOR’

Franchise Re-booted with New Development Teams, New Soldier, New Setting

Guildford, UK – December 2, 2009 – Medal of Honor™ allotment to the foreground lines, this time in today’s war. For the aboriginal time in the franchise’s 10-year history, Medal of Honor is abrogation the WWII theatre and putting players in war-torn Afghanistan. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today appear that in 2010, Medal of Honor, an all-new first-person ballista game, will acquaint the Tier 1 Operator: a almost alien article anon beneath the National Command Authority who takes on missions no one abroad can handle. The development aggregation has been alive carefully with Tier 1 Operators from the US Special Operations Community back the ancient stages of development to actualize the a lot of accurate avant-garde war experience. Inspired by absolute events, Medal of Honor reveals the mission of today’s a lot of aristocratic soldier – his will, his mindset and his uncompromising professionalism.

Medal of Honor is getting congenital with a best-in-class single-player campaign. The Medal of Honor development aggregation at EALA has been hand-selected by the flat administration of General Manager Sean Decker, Executive Producer Greg Goodrich and Senior Creative Director Rich Farrelly. To acclaim the single-player experience, EALA has enlisted the multiplayer ability at EA DICE. This aggregation will advance the multiplayer acquaintance of Medal of Honor. These two studios are advancing calm to bear a world-class Medal of Honor that is assertive to re-set and re-boot the authorization for a new generation.

“When we aboriginal set out to reinvent Medal of Honor, we capital to break accurate to its roots of actuality and account for the soldier but accompany it into today’s war. The Tier 1 Operator is the a lot of disciplined, advised and able warrior on the battlefield. He is a living, breathing, attention apparatus of war.” said Greg Goodrich, Executive Producer, Medal of Honor. “We are accustomed to accept the attenuate befalling to plan carefully with these men to actualize a bold that shares their experience.”

“EA has consistently been an apostle for cogent the soldiers’ story. The new Medal of Honor follows that tradition. We acquainted it was important to acquaint the adventure of today’s war and today’s aristocratic soldiers via today’s a lot of accordant average – videogames,” said Sean Decker, VP and General Manager of EALA. “We are so appreciative to accompany calm two assertive development teams to accomplish this bold a reality; EA Los Angeles and EA DICE. Medal of Honor promises to be an acclaimed access in the avant-garde ballista genre.”

Tune in to Spike TV’s 2009 Video Bold Awards on Saturday, December 12 at 8pm PST for a world-premier first-look at Medal of Honor.