NEWS
by Mark Barley
Danger Close Listened To Fan Feedback With MoH: Warfighter
Medal of Honor developer Danger Close has said that while the Metacritic rating for the studio's first MoH title wasn't what they hoped it would be, they've taken fan feedback to heart for the sequel.
Speaking with Games.On.Net the studio's creative director Rich Farrelly stated that the first change they made to the sequel was to develop the game's multiplayer in-house.
“The Metacritic rating was a lot lower than what we would’ve liked,” he said. “I’m gonna save my comments on what I think about that site, but you know what? It was the best-selling Medal of Honor ever. It came up on 6 million units sold. No one ever mentions that. We’re really proud of that.
“I think there was a really high bar of expectation set for us, and maybe we didn’t meet certain aspects of that. The single-player campaign had its issues, but overall I think it stands on its own two feet – and we’ve definitely been listening to the feedback over the past few years, and we’ve been addressing a lot of things.”
Farrelly also stated that they are aiming to make Warfighter stand out from other war-time shooters. “I think there was a really high bar of expectation set for us, and maybe we didn’t meet certain aspects of that. The single-player campaign had its issues, but overall I think it stands on its own two feet – and we’ve definitely been listening to the feedback over the past few years, and we’ve been addressing a lot of things.”
“It gets more involved as you go along in the game,” he said. “We touched on it a bit in the last game, by concentrating on the brotherhood aspect of it and the emotional side of the conflict; the non-military side.
“This time around, it’s more about family. It’s more about these guys. You know, they’re deployed 300 days of the year. Some of them have wives and kids, and sometimes they can’t even tell their wife where they’re going. Their buzzer goes off, and they have to go. You can imagine the kind of stress that would put on a family; you can imagine what that would do to a marriage over time.
“We want to explore that path with the main character Preacher – how he deals with that and how that all resolves.”
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is out in October for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
“This time around, it’s more about family. It’s more about these guys. You know, they’re deployed 300 days of the year. Some of them have wives and kids, and sometimes they can’t even tell their wife where they’re going. Their buzzer goes off, and they have to go. You can imagine the kind of stress that would put on a family; you can imagine what that would do to a marriage over time.
“We want to explore that path with the main character Preacher – how he deals with that and how that all resolves.”