Medal of Honor (series)/Trivia


  • Dueling Games: First Call of Duty, now Modern Warfare.
  • Franchise Killer: Warfighter, due to poor sales and reviews, has been taken out of EA's rotation and will probably won't be seen for a while.
  • Stillborn Franchise: Not the series in general, but rather Rising Sun. It was hyped as the be-all, end-all of games set in the Pacific Theater, and was all set up to have a direct sequel with an ongoing character-driven story about two brothers, Joe and Donnie Griffin, with the original starring Joe and the planned sequel starring Donnie. But after Rising Sun was greeted with a pretty chilly critical reception, not only was the sequel canned, but it left the original with a Cliff Hanger ending that will never be resolved.
    • Well, not exactly; at the very least, a line was added to the end of Heroes indicating that Donny was eventually rescued. In a game that otherwise had nothing to do with the Pacific Theatre...hey, it's something, right?
  • Troubled Production: Like many games in the genre including Kingpin: Life of Crime, the original Medal of Honor for the PlayStation was impacted by the fallout resulting from mainstream American society's increased scrutiny of first-person shooters following the Columbine massacre (which happened the same year as the release of the game). As a result of this (and also in an attempt to market the game as a quasi-edutainment title with its focus on historical authenticity and trivia regarding World War II), gore and dismemberment were cut to appease concerns about violence, which was also raised by former Vietnam vet-turned-actor Dale Dye who served as the game's technical advisor. Not helping matters was when former Congressional Medal of Honor Society president Paul Bucha wrote an angry letter expressing distaste over perceived trivialisation of the titular military accolade, which would have potentially put the game's release in jeopardy. Bucha eventually softened his stance when the developers convinced him through a demo presentation that the game was made with reverence as a tribute to all those who served in the military rather than just a run-of-the-mill Murder Simulator.
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