Call of Duty: Medal of Honor (Cod: MoH) is a first-person shooter video game crossover series, published by Activision and Electronic Arts.
History
The series first began after Acivision released first Call of Duty game in 2003. Later that year, EA Redwood Shores decided to develop a crossover with the Medal of Honor series and the Call of Duty series. In January 2004, Activision and Electronic Arts agreed to make a truce with each other and publish the game together. On November 10, 2004 Activision and EA released Call of Duty: Medal of Honor, the first Activision/EA crossover game.
After the release of Call of Duty: Medal of Honor, Activision and EA signed a deal to publish all future Call of Duty: Medal of Honor titles together. In the months of May, July and September, the second, third, and fourth entires: Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Velcity, Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Lockdown, and Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Dark Moon were released.
Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Cold War , the fifth installment, became avalaible on January 18, 2006. It was the first CoD: MoH entire to feature nonlinear gameplay. On September 20, 2006, the sixth Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Silverwing was released.
In 2007, Activision and EA released Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: War Heroes and Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: 1979/80, the seventh and eighth entires. In May 2008, Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Assassin, the ninth game, was let out.
Call of Duty: Medal of Honor (2010), the tenth game in the series, was announced in 2008 as Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Operation Swordbreaker. The game was developed by Danger Close Games, a video game development team formerly known as EA Los Angeles merged in 2008. Call of Duty: Medal of Honor (2010) was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 23, 2010. Its multiplayer component was developed by the same development team of the Battlefield: World Recon franchise. It was the first Call of Duty: Medal of Honor game to be set in the modern day rather than during World War II. The game critc and commercial success as video game sales reached over 4 million copies sold in the US. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the PlayStation 3 version 75.99% and 75/100, the Xbox 360 version 72.21% and 74/100, and the PC version 71.89% and 73/100.
The eleventh installment in the series and the direct sequel to the 2010 game; Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Knightfighter was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 13, 2012. The game's storyline was written by real U.S. Tier 1 Operators. The game was dedicated to Amanda Todd who committed suicide from cyber-bullying. It was the first game in the series to run on EA Digital Illusions CE's Frostbite 2 game engine. Knightfighter was both a critical and commercial failure, selling over 706,000 copies. Aggregating review websites GameRankings and Metacritic gave the Xbox 360 version 55.41% and 52/100, the PlayStation 3 version 55.81% and 56/100 and the PC version 54.63% and 54/100.
In January 2013, Activision and Electronic Arts announced that the Call of Duty: Medal of Honor series was taken out of rotation due to the poor reception and sales of Call of Duty: Medal of Honor: Knightfighter.
Gameplay
Like in the Medal of Honor series, the gameplay originally focuses on the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), an American espionage organization during World War II, placing emphasis on using false papers and silenced pistols, but as the series and the technology has progressed, it has shifted emphasis towards front-line combat, and has now almost completely abandoned the original focus.