If you picked up the first game in the reboot, you’ll know that the impressive single-player was handled by Danger Close, while multiplayer was overseen by DICE who are obviously well known for the Battlefield series.

In perhaps a surprising move though, we can tell you that Medal of Honor 2 will feature single player and multiplayer which are both developed by Danger Close. Before you get worried, DICE won’t be involved in the game but they have given Danger Close access to use the Frostbite 2.0 engine.

The game will release in October and seemingly looks set to go head to head with Treyarch’s Call of Duty game which will probably end up being revealed as Black Ops 2, although Activision are remaining quiet on this. While we’re pleased to see Danger Close return for the sequel, it is interesting that DICE has decided to step away from multiplayer, or was it a decision taken out of their hands?

We’re expecting to see a full reveal by EA on the game on March 6th, during GDC 2012 – hopefully they will have some gameplay footage to show off as well so we can see how good the sequel looks using the new Frostbite 2.0 engine which makes Battlefield 3 on PC look so lovely. In the meantime, EA has provided a new teaser image on their website which we’ve included for you below – it looks like Medal of Honor is going to be a serious looking game with plenty of attention from EA.

How do you feel about DICE not developing the multiplayer this time around though – is this a step forward or step backwards for the future of Medal of Honor? It will be interesting to see how Danger Close utilizes the Frostbite 2.0 engine compared to DICE and in a way, it will be nice to see the game go in a completely different direction as we may have ended up with multiplayer that plays very similar to Battlefield 3.

Another big request that we’re hoping they improve on is the length of the single-player campaign. You’ll all agree that the first game was severely lacking in this department, so we hope that this was one of the first priorities when they started developing the sequel.

Danger Close multiplayer for Medal of Honor 2 – are you looking forward to this or not?

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The news of a sequel shouldn’t be a surprise to current Battlefield 3 owners. The first teaser information regarding a sequel was actually contained inside the retail box for Battlefield 3, and just recently you may have heard that PSM3 is going to feature a FPS sequel on their cover for the next issue.

Now though we can confirm that EA has scheduled an event to take place on March 6th, and all signs are pointing towards the direction that this is solely reserved for Medal of Honor 2. Timing has already been revealed too, with the event taking place at 8.00pm PST, 11pm Eastern Time or 4am for those of you in the UK.

So now that we know that a new game is on the way, how do you feel about it? We’re presuming that development duties will once again be in the hands of Danger Close, who worked on the single player portion, and DICE who specifically built the multiplayer mode. Medal of Honor was given a mixed reception by gamers, although criticisms were made at the rather short duration of the single-player campaign. Having said that, the content within was very good, so fans will be hopefully that a sequel contains a much more deeper campaign, while DICE will probably just build on the successes of Battlefield 3 to make multiplayer as exciting as BF3.

Don’t forget that the new game will be built on the Frostbite 2 engine as well, which is another mouth-watering prospect to look forward to. We felt that Medal of Honor was ‘almost’ a great game, but certain aspects let it down, like framerate and far from impressive graphics. There will be no sign of that with the sequel on Frostbite 2 this time though (on PC anyway!), so there really is a lot of potential with what Danger Close and DICE can do with the game.

If you played the first game, what new features would you like to see for Medal of Honor 2? What do they need to include to secure your pre-order?

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A recent tweet from the official Medal of Honor Twitter feed reads “Heads up, 360 players – The #MoH servers will be down for maintenance this Friday (9/23) from 1 AM to 2 AM PST”, as you can see from 1.00am until 2.00am PST on Friday September 23 engineers will be carrying out maintenance on the servers – this equates to roughly 4.00am – 5.00am ET and 9.00am – 10.00am UK time UTC / GMT.

Sadly the official Medal of Honor Twitter feed has not explained what maintenance is taking place, however we wonder whether it has something to do with the Battlefield 3 beta – people with early access to the beta for Xbox 360 had to buy Medal of Honor Limited Edition or Tier 1 – the fact the BF3 beta start date is just four days away seems very coincidental in our opinion – what do you think?

To our knowledge Xbox 360 gamers will receive an email where gamers will get their personal access code and instructions on how to get the BF3 beta – perhaps there will be a new menu item added to Medal of Honor and that is why ‘maintenance’ is taking place early Friday morning – that’s our best guess. If you want to find out more about the Battlefield 3 beta, this previous post may be worth checking out.

So there you have it folks, if Medal of Honor goes down on Xbox Live within the next 12 hours or so don’t worry service should soon be restored – panic over!

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If you read the back of the Medal of Honor Limited case, or the leaflet which is in the box you will clearly see that people who purchased Medal of Honor Limited edition will get beta access to Battlefield 3 within 12 months of Medal of Honor’s release – well the game was released on October 12 in North America and it is September 20 today, this must mean that Limited Edition buyers will find out something within 22 days. (Below we have embedded an image showing the message we are talking about).

Now that isn’t all that confusing, however the message below clearly says “Visit www.ea.com/beta for details”, obviously last year when Medal of Honor came out we knew that there wouldn’t be much information at this address, but still almost a year later the ea.com/beta page leaves us with more questions than answers. All it says is the following:

Beta Details

Beta offer is contingent on Beta availability within 12 months of Medal of Honor release. Beta will be available for a limited time only and offer expires upon close of Beta events. Participation in Beta requires acceptance of Beta Agreement. Must be 18+. Xbox GOLD membership required for Xbox users. Check this site for further details when available.

As you can see 11 months down the line nothing has changes and the end part “Check this site for further details when available” is vague to say the least, are we meant to keep checking daily? Will we receive a message via Xbox Live / PSN when the beta information has been updated on this site? Your guess is as good as ours! We also loaded up Medal of Honor to see if there were any Battlefield 3 beta-related messages splashed on the game’s menu screen, we couldn’t spot anything.

Now we are not being pedantic, we don’t want dates and times etc (well we do, but that is not what we are complaining about), we just don’t know why EA can’t give Medal of Honor Limited Edition a bit of reassurance by saying something similar to “Medal of Honor Limited Edition owners fear not, Battlefield 3 beta access is coming”, this would surely clear up lots of speculation / confusion.

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Currently this DLC is available for Xbox 360 gamers on the Xbox Live Marketplace, it costs 800 Microsoft Points and can be added to your 360′s download queue here, as for PS3 gamers it should hit the PSN soon.

This news was revealed on Twitter roughly 3 hours ago, you can see the tweet from the official Medal of Honor twitter account below, hopefully they will tweet an ETA for the PSN launch soon, it should cost $10.

This content can be purchased via the MoH’s in-game store, personally I think that this sort of DLC should not be released, let’s face people have worked hard to unlock the Tier 1 arsenal, now people can get all of the Tier 1 perks for just 800 MSP / $10.

What do you think about the Medal of Honor Shortcut Pack? Should this sort of DLC be released?

Source: MedalofHonor

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For example, an article over at thegamersparadise.com lists Halo: Reach as one of the worst games of 2010. I can just see many disagreeing with that choice. Although the author of the article says the game looks good and packs a good story, the Halo: Reach game just wasn’t for them.

Another game that made it onto the list is of course Medal of Honor. There was a lot of hype before this game was released and when it did, many were disappointed. The game may have a good story behind it, but respawning, weapon damage and ranking has been described as total chaos.

Dark Energy Digital’s survival-adventure game Hydrophobia also made it onto the list (not that I’ve even heard of this game before), as did Artificial Mind and Movement’s Naughty Bear for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This game may be fun, but only for about 15 minutes.

Other games on the list include Limbo, Skate 3, Sniper: Ghost Warrior and Create. You can read the full list via thegamersparadise.com. What would you class as the worst games of 2010?

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Let me just reiterate, this release will not allow you to play games that require the 3.42 or 3.50 firmware, but it will allow you to downgrade from those versions to allow you to play games that were released prior.

The latest release (3.50) was intended to put the PS Jailbreak, and similar services to rest. Medal of Honor forcibly required you to install it, and it was apparently also one of the many reasons for the delay to Gran Turismo 5, whether that is truesay or not we don’t know.

Although 3.50 has not been completely hacked as of yet, i’m guessing that it would be only a matter of time before Sony re-issue another firmware update to stop this downgrade support from happening. Either that, or someone else will find a way through.

Will you downgrade to play all of your older games?

You can find more information via PS Jailbreak.

Source: Engadget

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The offer for COD Black Ops is from HMV in the UK, and they seem certain that because people have not been happy with MoH, they will be more than happy with the trade-in. HMV knows that they cannot compete with the likes of Sainsbury’s and Tesco in the price war, but this offer will not go unnoticed.

James Love from Connected Consoles states that there is another catch though, you cannot get this offer until November 15th, not certain how many gamers will wait that long to get their hands on a copy of Black Ops? That’s almost a week, good luck on that one HMV.

We already mentioned that retailers have already started their price war for this latest title from the franchise; we have yet to see it for £26, which is how much Sainsbury’s sold Modern Warfare 2 for.

Will you take HMV up on this offer, or is it too long to wait?

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Our initial review roundup thread told you about some pretty good scores for the game, with IGN UK’s 6/10 being the only score which stood out amongst the rest.

Skip forward to today though, and EA CEO John Riccitello has recently issued a statement regarding the review scores, stating that the low scores were provided by a ‘narrow demographic of reviewers’. Here is more of his statement below:

“[Low scores} come from an excpetionally narrow demographic of reviewers which is offset by the amount of people buying the game. The game has exceeded our plans in both sell through and sell in, and has exceeded our expectations. So it is absolutley a clear success, and consumer feedback has been strong and its a franchise we can successfully continue in the future. ”

EA are under the impression (we agree) that scores generally in the mid-70s range are considered to be good, and we have actually read a lot of contrasting reviews praising the game.

After having a few weeks to sit down intensively with Medal of Honor, do you still stand by your initial positive/ negative feedback for the game? Let us know your thoughts on this one. There’s more from Riccitello over at VG247.

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As reported from VG247, the pack is titled ‘Hot Zone’ and unlike Clean Sweep which we told you last week was free, Hot Zone isn’t and it will cost $9.99 on the PSN store and 800 MSP on the Marketplace.

Hot Zone will add a new multiplayer mode into the equation, and features a ‘King of the Hill’ style game mode, where players will have to hold a specific position for the longest time possible. You’ll be able to play Hot Zone on some of the new maps which will come in the Clean Sweep pack, these are Hindukush Pass and Korengal Outpost.

Although you may be disappointed about the price, the pack will also release next Tuesday (Nov 2nd), so you’ll get two DLC on one day, not too bad. Let us know your initial thoughts on this and if you are planning to buy it.

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