Most of you probably remember the Medal of Honor series from its so-called “glory days” of the early 2000s. Many WWII-themed MoH titles appeared on the original Xbox at the time, before the series began to fade away with Call of Duty’s meteoric rise to stardom fueled by Modern Warfare. However, EA tried to follow in Activision’s footsteps before ending the series, and that attempt spawned a very interesting project.
Essentially EA went the reboot route with ‘Medal of Honor 2010′ as we know, a modern themed shooter designed to try and compete with Call of Duty at the time. As EA studio Danger Close prepared the game’s single-player campaign, FPS veterans DICE fully fleshed out the multiplayer portion, and it was actually Very funny.
MoH 2010’s multiplayer, for short, was DICE’s.Bad company on the battlefield‘ became something very much like Call of Duty. Reduce the importance of vehicles and classes, and add relatively small loadouts, killstreaks and levels and you’re done. It was by no means perfect, but DICE had a very solid bad company 2base-based construction from this; We’ve ended up spending quite a bit of time on this in the past.
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Well, over a decade after its release, the game’s servers will officially shut down on Xbox 360 and PS3 this week on February 16. Lockdown has been listed on EA’s support site for a while, along with a few other Medal of Honor games, including the backward compatible game. Airborne – but this one still had a small community a few years after its launch, and we will be sad to see it go!
The game was never backwards compatible, so we haven’t played it much in recent years, and we don’t know if anyone is still playing at this point. However, as we near its closing later this week, we may have to queue one last time, in hopes that DICE’s only Medal of Honor battlefield they are not a complete ghost town in 2023.
What’s your favorite Medal of Honor game on Xbox? Vote in the poll and tell us!
What’s your favorite Medal Of Honor game on Xbox? (7 votes)
- Medal of Honor: Frontline (Xbox Original)57%
- Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Xbox Original) 0%
- Medal of Honor: Asalto europeo (original Xbox) 0%
- Medal of Honor: Airborne (Xbox 360)14%
- Medal of Honor 2010 (Xbox 360)29%
- Medal of Honor: Warrior (Xbox 360) 0%
Ben is a fan of action, racing, and direct fire in every video game he can get his hands on. When he’s not playing, Ben spends his time listening to too many Guns N’ Roses, watching football, and probably eating somewhere.