The Pacific theatre is a lot different from the European theatre, says Powers, primarily in terms of the terrain you're fighting in. It soon became apparent this conflict was a world away from the type of war being waged in Europe, and - as such from the gameplay in Allied Assault - something that was to have a marked effect on the game's development. What were the Japanese strategies? What kind of clothing did they wear? What weapons did they use?" We research what the battles were like, we read a lot of books, we hire consultants, who come in and teach us what it was like to fight the Japanese. Taking a tour of the EALA office is akin to visiting a WWII museum, the walls bedecked with maps, photos and paraphernalia from the period.Īs Powers says: The first thing we do is a lot of research. What you can expect is some extreme attention to detail, as the Medal Of Honor games are nothing if not exhaustively researched. So don't expect to see him appear as an end-of-level boss. However, the message back from Japan was that they were happy to see the game go ahead, providing it didn't bastardise the Emperor. Understandably so, as the Japanese attack on the American fleet is one of the more contentious areas of the conflict. Is it going to be popular in Europe? Is it going to be popular in Japan? This was one of our big concerns. The first thing we did was to talk to our partners around the world to determine if this was going to be a good idea for the franchise. The big thing to come out of it was where do we want the theatre of operations to be? The more we researched Europe, we found there were a lot more battles and interesting historical places to go, but we thought it would be really more interesting to go to the Pacific on this next product.
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Pacific Assault senior producer Matt Powers explains the thinking behind this move: About a year ago, after Allied Assault was finished, the team got together and started talking about what the next full product was going to be. Having extensively explored the European theatre in the original and its brace of expansion packs, the Medal Of Honor universe is heading East, starting at Pearl Harbor, heading for Tokyo and culminating in the assault on the Tarawa Atoll at the end of 1943. The inevitable sequel is well under way, and it looks like being a very different proposition. Arguably its biggest gift was the phenomenal Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, the game entering our Shooters chart at number one with a bullet (or several thousand) and finally displacing the epic Half-Life. World War II may have irrevocably changed history and traumatised a generation, but as far as the games industry is concerned, it's the war that keeps on giving.
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