Medal of Honor: Warfighter gets Fireteam trailer

The latest game in the Medal of Honor franchise, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, got a new trailer during Gamescom. The trailer shows off the Fireteam gameplay system, which pairs up two players into one micro-team, who have to watch each others’ backs and keep each other alive.

The trailer also shows off more of the multiplayer, which looks like it’ll be filled with explosions all over the maps. The Fireteam system seems to have some things in common with the Battlefield squad system. According to EA, “Your fireteam partner serves as your closest mate on the battlefield. Your fireteam buddy supplies you with ammo and serves as a spawn point, providing a significant strategic advantage.”

It was revealed last month that pre-ordering Medal of Honor: Warfighter would grant you access to the Battlefield 4 beta. The promo, first spotted on EA’s own Origin service, has since been taken down and has been replaced with a banner for Battlefield Premium.

This wouldn’t be the first time a company has done this. During the PlayStation 2 era, Konami shipped the demo for the massively anticipated Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty with the game Zone of the Enders that sold very well despite being an average game because of the demo for Metal Gear Solid 2.

As of now, there is little or no information about Battlefield 4, but Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be made using DICE’s Frostbite 2.0 engine, the very same engine fuelling Battlefield 3. Medal of Honor’s multiplayer, which was designed by DICE, will now be developed in-house by Danger Close.

Showing off the team based multiplayer

EA has released a small trailer that displays the badassery of Tier 1, the hardcore operatives you’ll be playing as through the campaign of Warfighter. During a keynote at the University of Southern California, president of Electronic Arts, Frank Gibeau said, “There is going to be a Battlefield 4.”

The Medal of Honor series wasn’t doing very well with its World War II setting, especially during a time that saw Activision releasing Call of Duty IV: Modern Warfare. This caused EA to reboot the series with a more modern setting. The first game of the reboot didn’t do very well, mostly because it wasn’t a very good game.

Battlefield 3, on the other hand, was a highly successful game that sold five million copies in the first week of its release. The game was the first in the series to not support any Windows versions before Vista. The game had a lack-lustre single player campaign with a decent story but extremely scripted levels.

Battlefield 3 was popular majorly because of its multiplayer features. The maps were gigantic and the PC version of the game supported 64-player multiplayer matches with different gameplay modes, ranging from Conquest to Team Deathmatch to Rush. The game put you in control of one of four classes: Assault, Support, Engineer or Recon.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter will see an October 2012 release on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the PC.