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. 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.
