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DICE answers the Call of Duty.
With Call of Duty so conclusively dominating the first person shooter genre in recent years, it's going to take something very special indeed to overwhelm the all-powerful Activision franchise. Electronic Arts' response has been to launch a new attack on two fronts: firstly via the simply sensational Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and now, with a reboot of the classic Medal of Honor for PC and HD consoles.
The Medal of Honor package is a curious beast. It's actually two games in one, with EA's Los Angeles studio using Unreal Engine to create the single-player game, while Battlefield veterans DICE are crafting the multiplayer experience in Sweden, using their own proprietary Frostbite engine. Closed beta invitations for the online portion went out this week allowing us to get our first look at the game away from the canned footage and the solo-player E3 sampler we played last week.
Eurogamer has already run hands on impressions of the code, but it's fair to say that the beta accurately represents the dilemmas DICE must be facing with its latest project. With Battlefield: Bad Company 2, it's clear that the team worked incredibly hard to produce a multiplayer game that differentiates itself substantially from the Call of Duty template, while at the same time offering gameplay likely to tempt the Modern Warfare veterans to jump ship.
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With Call of Duty so conclusively dominating the first person shooter genre in recent years, it's going to take something very special indeed to overwhelm the all-powerful Activision franchise. Electronic Arts' response has been to launch a new attack on two fronts: firstly via the simply sensational Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and now, with a reboot of the classic Medal of Honor for PC and HD consoles.
The Medal of Honor package is a curious beast. It's actually two games in one, with EA's Los Angeles studio using Unreal Engine to create the single-player game, while Battlefield veterans DICE are crafting the multiplayer experience in Sweden, using their own proprietary Frostbite engine. Closed beta invitations for the online portion went out this week allowing us to get our first look at the game away from the canned footage and the solo-player E3 sampler we played last week.
Eurogamer has already run hands on impressions of the code, but it's fair to say that the beta accurately represents the dilemmas DICE must be facing with its latest project. With Battlefield: Bad Company 2, it's clear that the team worked incredibly hard to produce a multiplayer game that differentiates itself substantially from the Call of Duty template, while at the same time offering gameplay likely to tempt the Modern Warfare veterans to jump ship.
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