Medal of Honor Warfighter developer Danger Close will release a map pack tied to the upcoming film Zero Dark Thirty in mid-December, and the studio discussed the process of fictionalizing Pakistani locales for the multiplayer maps in a video released today.
Art director Chris Salazar explained that the studio had to rely on images and footage of the areas in question — the Darra Gun Market and a region called Chitral — since the developers couldn't visit the places themselves. After doing research, artists went in and designed the scenery to fit the real-life settings, while level designers built the terrain in a way that makes the maps fun to play in multiplayer.
Warfighter launched on Oct. 23 on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The Zero Dark Thirty Map Pack is free to owners of...
In this video we glide through the two eerily empty maps for the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty pack for Medal of Honor: Warfighter, due out next month.
Both Darra Gun Market and Chitral Compound were built around locations in the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty movie, which depicts the decade-long hunt for Osama Bin-Laden.
The map pack is free for those gamers who purchased the limited or deluxe versions of the game.
The single-player campaign for Medal of Honor: Warfighter, shown in the above trailer, will take players across a global battlefield, moving through a story based on the real-life experiences of U.S. troops.
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is out today for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Medal of Honor Warfighter launches next week, and a new trailer from publisher Electronic Arts marks the occasion by focusing on the game's multiplayer component.
The video shows off competitive and cooperative gameplay on maps in eight locations around the world, with a variety of special-ops soldiers duking it out for supremacy. Warfighter's Xbox 360-exclusive multiplayer beta ended earlier this week.
Medal of Honor Warfighter will be available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on Oct. 23. For more details on its multiplayer modes, check out our preview from E3.
