EA: 'MOH combat stands apart from rivals'

EA has claimed that combat in the upcoming Medal Of Honour reboot will set the title apart from its rivals, including the Call Of Duty series.

The game, being jointly developed by EA Los Angeles and EA DICE, transports the series to the modern day setting of Afghanistan, with events covering the allied invasion in 2001 and the resulting occupation up to 2004.

According to an early preview in the new edition of GamesMaster magazine, the shooter features "slick and smooth" combat between US Special Forces and rebel fighters.

Alongside various elite operations, the game will also deliver large-scale "sledgehammer" campaigns which bear more similarity to EA's own Battlefield series than Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare.

In the preview, Medal Of Honour executive producer Greg Goodrich claimed that tactics, weapons and challenging enemies in the game will "set it apart" from rival shooters.

"I can't go into details, but let's just say you'll be surprised by how some of the enemies respond to you, both in terms of tactics and the weapons they use," he said.

Last week, Official Xbox Magazine revealed ahead of its Medal Of Honour preview that there will be multiple playable characters in the main campaign story.

The first-person shooter is scheduled for release in autumn 2010 for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.