Medal Of Honor Developer Replies To Critics

12 Oct 2010 at 11:32:36 by Dave Gibbon

A director working at Medal of Honor developer Danger Close has fought back at critics of its new shooter, claiming they are not familiar with the nature of video games.

“The objection was, kind of from an older generation that doesn't understand games, that the sound byte was 'Play as the Taliban and kill US soldiers’,” Craig Owens, marketing director at developer Danger Close, told Joystiq.

Owens also said that gamers who tried out the beta did so without complaint, but confirmed why they changed the Taliban name in the title, stating: “Really the big thing was playing as a Taliban killing US troops. So we basically just changed it to 'Opfor' – which is a term [the US Armed Forces] use, some of our competitors use – more out of respect.”

To read our review of Medal of Honor, click here.

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