Medal of Honor Interview
GameSpy: I may as well tackle this early: there's a petition floating around -- a "give us blood" petition from game fans. Can you try and explain what this "blood" issue is about?
Benson Russell: EA's goal for the game was to get a teen rating. The game needed to reach as broad an audience as possible, and that meant not putting blood in the game.
Personally speaking, at first I was a bit miffed by it because I wanted to see some 'tasteful' blood effects (meaning no over-the-top Quake3 style gibs), but after all the animations were added to the characters, I really didn't miss it. The characters still behave and respond depending upon what location of the body they get hit in a realistic fashion. Plus there is a dust spray effect that happens as it would in real life. The overall effect is convincing enough for me that I don't miss the blood. 2015 has some very talented animators that did an awesome job. [...]