Evening Reading: Modern Honor

This morning's teaser for the new Medal of Honor underwhelmed me. I kidded some about the figure looking like Dog the Bounty Hunter and it was pointed out to me that he even more resembles Opie from Sons of Anarchy. That was just a distraction, though, from what I really wanted to get at.

After allowing the Medal of Honor series to lie fallow long enough to get some separation from its last couple of outings EA held a golden opportunity to dramatically reenergize the franchise. Instead they chose to go what must seem to them ultra-safe following Modern Warfare's lead into the current era and putting their best multiplayer team (DICE) on the project.

What could they have done differently? Well, you know, off the top of my head I don't have an amazing game idea but hopefully they thought this thing through a little more than that. Suffice it to say, though, that there are a number of conflicts and potential scenarios both fictional and historic that could have been tapped into that wouldn't so immediately invoke thoughts of Modern Warfare.

The rest of the day sparked a few things to talk about as well:

Put your WoW knowledge to work. Future is looking for an Editor-in-Chief of the Official World of Warcraft Magazine.

Maybe they should get the resume from this guy who got all 986 achievements in WoW

In an interview with the Sporting News NBA star Ron Artest admits to drinking Hennessy during halftime of games

Drinking probably wasn't involved but the Italian police officer who wrecked their Lamborghini police car may need one now.

And since we have a pretty regular string of Google Wave invites going I couldn't help but include this on the street video asking people what Google Wave is

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