A New Medal of Honor Could Arrive by the End of 2010

The Second World War has been the Holy Grail of first-person shooters for some time now. It might have started well before it, but a big series that has stuck to its guns and has remained strictly in this time period is Medal of Honor. Before Call of Duty and its infinite regeneration came into play, Medal of Honor was the undisputed king of World War 2 first-person shooters. The game had a solid single-player campaign, with competitive graphics and and an immersive gameplay. The multiplayer section wasn't glorious, but it did its job well enough.

But it seems like Electronic Arts started too slowly, put the game aside and no news of any Medals have been heard in over two years. But with the financial pinch the company finds itself in, it seems like it is willing to remember one of its older franchises and try to instill some new money-making life into it. As such, a new Medal of Honor game could be popping up from around the corner anytime now.

During a meeting with its investors, the President of the EA Games, Frank Gibeau, spoke about a "revitalization" of the Medal of Honor series, according to G4tv.com. The exact details of the game or when it might be expected were not made public by Gibeau, but G4tv speculates that the title could be ready by the end of the next year. What was mentioned by EA's president was that MoH would go through a process very similar to the one that the Need for Speed Series saw.

The economical jam that the company faces has forced it to look even further than just Medal of Honor. According to Gibeau, this won't be the only franchise that will be looked upon as a possible new one to be resurrected, and other "core IPs" from Electronic Arts might receive a new installment. It seems the company has decided to opt for a safer approach of investing into existing IPs, rather than the riskier one of developing new concepts.