14 DAY TRIAL // Medal of Honor, EA's latest attempt to reboot the first person shooter series, hasn't exactly met the company's quality standards, according to Patrick Soderlund, the company's racing and shooter boss.
[admark=1]Medal of Honor was revealed last month, and even though it was hyped as one of the most realistic shooters this generation, portraying real life conflicts with U.S. troops against enemies in Afghanistan.
Even though it was a pretty decent effort, EA's Soderlund revealed that the title didn't meet the company's quality expectations.
"I'm not going to comment on the sales because EA has an earnings report going out next week and we will unveil sales in that meeting", Soderlund revealed. "What I can say is the game didn't meet our quality expectations. In order to be successful in that space, we're going to have to have a game that is really, really strong."
"Medal of Honor is to some extent judged harsher than it should be", he then adds in the game's defence. "The game is better than today's reviews are indicating."
Currently Medal of Honor's aggregated Metacritic score is 75, meaning generally favorable reviews, while we gave it an 8 in our own review.
All of these things didn't affect the sales of the game, as Medal of Honor sold around 2 million units in just two weeks, almost enough to warrant a sequel to be made, at least according to previous statements from the games publisher.
A lot of these sales can be attributed to the hype that EA managed to get around the game, especially through the Taliban multiplayer option, which generated a huge scandal in the USA and with the U.S. army.
Also, the fact that new games had a special token for the upcoming Battlefield 3 multiplayer beta stage also meant that fans of EA's other shooter series would flock to get new copies of Medal of Honor.