Medal of Honor Screenshots Go Dark

March 11, 2010 1:40 PM

Having already offered us a glimpse of the light, publisher Electronic Arts now takes us into the dark with the second batch of screenshots from the upcoming Medal of Honor.

Bringing the long-running World War II shooter series into the modern-day, Medal of Honor hits PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sometime between July 1 and September 30, 2010. The single-player portion is being developed in a "heavily-modified Unreal 3 engine" by franchise veterans EALA, while Battlefield developer DICE is crafting the multiplayer portion with the Frostbite technology used in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

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Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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busydoinnothin

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March 11, 2010 1:56 PM

Why two separate engines??
- SeraphielX
  
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  March 11, 2010 2:08 PM
  
  Maybe Frostbite is better at dynamic things (such as buildings collapsing in different ways) and U3 is better at other stuff needed for SP?
  
  That, or DICE got the job for the MP portion and insisted/were asked to use their engine for it.
- kungfusquirrel
  
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  March 11, 2010 2:09 PM
  
  It's messy, but not unheard of. GRAW/GRAW 2, Wolfenstein, etc. Likely related to split development and engine limitations/features.
  - Loxodrome
    
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    March 11, 2010 2:45 PM
    
    Didn't Tribes actually use two engines simultaneously? A standard FPS engine for the in-door areas and a flight-sim engine for the outdoor environment?
    - TheSty
      
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      March 11, 2010 8:04 PM
      
      All one engine, Darkstar.
- Loxodrome
  
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  March 11, 2010 2:41 PM
  
  It's probably a tools issue. No one outside of DICE has ever used the Frostbite engine. Since EALA is doing the SP campaign, they're probably sticking to UE3 because it's more familiar.