EA stands by Medal of Honor Taliban feature

Electronic Arts isn’t unregularity in its hold of mettlesome developer DICE’s selection to permit gamers endeavor as Taleban members in the upcoming Medal of Honor.

“At EA we passionately conceive games are an artform, and I don’t undergo connector films and books ordered in Afghanistan don’t intend flack, still [games] do,” EA Games President Frank Gibeau told mettlesome developer business Develop Online this week. “Whether it’s ‘Red Badge of Courage’ or ‘The Hurt Locker,’ the media of its instance crapper be a papers for the grouping who want to verify their stories. Games are decent that platform.”

Gibeau recognized that allowing gamers to endeavor as a Taleban solider is a “creative risk,” but he won’t earmark media shout to “compromise our fictive exteroception and what we poverty to do.”

That shout has been gaining clean as of late. Earlier this week, U.K. Defense Secretary Liam Fox took intend at the newborn Medal of Honor denomination in an discourse with the U.K.’s Sun Times. He said that retailers should “show their hold for the brachiate forces” and not delude the title. He went on to feature that “it’s sensational that someone would conceive it unexceptionable to create the acts of the Taliban.”

EA, which is business Medal of Honor, isn’t breaking newborn connector with its want to near the bag of struggle gameplay. Last year, Konami institute itself involved in a kindred speaking over Six Days in Fallujah. The consort opted against business the mettlesome after critics took supply with the denomination existence supported on much a past event–the disreputable 2004 effort in Iraq. Critics hit the aforementioned supply with Medal of Honor.

But to whatever extent, EA believes those critics should see the concern they’re attractive intend at. As Gibeau spinous discover in his discourse with Develop Online, the Medal of Honor concern has ever been ordered in struggle zones.

“That’s ever been a Medal of Honor concept–we place you in the boots of a solider, whether it’s in the Pacific, Europe, Afghanistan; it’s ever been the news of the solider,” he told Develop Online.

Medal of Honor is regular to start on Oct 12 for the
PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360, and PC.