Frank Gibeau, president of EA Games, has declared that the publisher intends on sticking with the Medal of Honor brand for “a long time,” hoping to re-establish the franchise within the Top 10 following lacklustre sales of MoH: Airborne
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“With Medal of Honor, we’re rebooting the series to get into the top 10,” said Gibeau, during a chinwag with the folks at Gamasutra.
“I was not satisfied with the sales of Airborne, and it was a project that I inherited when I came into this label, and at the very last minute. We basically had a month on it. So I looked at the future of what I wanted to build inside of the Games label, and we want to be the worldwide leaders in the shooter category, full stop.”
“We’re going to be in the Medal of Honor business for a long time. It helped build the genre in terms of the shooter category. When we talk to consumers on the research level, there’s still a very strong, positive feeling about the brand. It did fall on hard times there, but the goal is to bring it back in a bigger, better, badder way.”
Just in case you’ve been kipping under a rock for the past couple of months, Medal of Honor marks the series’ transition from WWII-era combat to the more contemporary shenanigans of modern-day Afghanistan. It’ll also utilize two game engines — Unreal Engine 3 for the single player, and the Frostbite Engine for the multiplayer.
As revealed by the chaps at EA yesterday, the game is pencilled in for release in the United States on October 12, and will hit Europe on October 15.