In recent days, a fierce controversy surrounding the game Medal of Honor from Electronic Arts. A war game that is meant to compete with the highly realistic Call of Duty series, Activision and to this end, decided to use environment for the war in Afghanistan. The player will therefore follow an elite commando unit on the ground, but may also control Taliban soldier in the multiplayer title. Hence the grumbling of some groups of soldiers in the U.S. where the controversy quickly took an unexpected dimension.

"The controversy it took me by surprise. For several weeks, the beta version of the multiplayer is available and many players devote themselves in the world. Nobody has ever offended to play a Taliban until a reporter decides to take the game box and go do a story with the mother of a soldier killed in Afghanistan for the sole purpose of creating controversy. I think it says more about this newspaper that does the video game industry. It's game, but this reporter clearly plays with our product to create anger and create a climate of tension "explains John Riccitiello, CEO of EA.

He said also extremely proud of Medal of Honor and said to think that the game remains within acceptable barriers to the entertainment field, although his goal is to keep as close as possible to reality as do movies or war books.

John Riccitiello who also took the opportunity to admit that the game, saw its pre-orders, would not cut out to beat Call of Duty or Halo Black Ops: Reach this year. EA CEO still expects to see market share grow from the publisher for FPS, with the idea to take hold of this kind in 2011. A project that integrates directly draft Respawn Entertainment, formed by Jason West and Vince Zampella, former executives at Infinity Wars Licensed by Activision.