News on the new "Need for Speed" and "Medal of Honour" sequels leaked

The store who's Twitter account is responsible for the leak

The U.K video game outlet "Game" has apparently leaked information on their official Twitter account that their is to be another Need for Speed game (surprise surprise, wonder how many their are in that franchise now..) but more interestingly a reboot of the Medal of Honour franchise.

The Twitter comment has naturally been taken down and EA refuse to comment on speculation, but the fact that the comment was posted by someone who was apparently on a trip to EA gives it enough credence for me to be interested. 

My opinions of these two games are complete polar opposites, on one hand you have ANOTHER Need for Speed game, which seems to be a yearly thing now, but on the other you have a genuinely exciting game that will enter a market alongside the unbelievably stale COD franchise and the exciting but slightly flawed Battlefield franchise, so their is genuine potential for this game to be a success.

Maybe I am being a little harsh on Need for Speed though, I, like most people, used to love the Need for Speed series back in the ps2 days and even the early 360 versions, but disappointments like the Shift branch of their franchise and the failed attempt at bringing back their former glory that was Undercover have severely damaged their reputation in many gamers eyes. Unfortunately I haven't yet played The Run so can't offer my opinion on that but I've had a lot of negative feed back from friends who picked the game up day one. I will keep my eye on this game as more information develops but my interest level currently sits at a 5/10 level, if they can take aspects of Hot Pursuit and combine that with new ideas or revert to their old style games then it may have potential.

A return to the old style Need for Speeds could revitalise the series

On the other hand to Need for Speed I am incredibly excited for the new Medal of Honour (if the leak is legit) I truly believe it can add something new to the genre, and incredibly I actually wouldn't mind a return to WW2, a couple of years ago this era was condemned in the gaming world by various gaming communities as being stale and having no more potential but in the last couple of years certainly the pendulum seems to have swung the other way and now I feel their is a gap in the market for a return to that era, so in this regard the timing of the game is perfect. Medal of Honour has been overlooked and underrated to me, in 2007 you had Airborne which at the time reviewed quite well but was completely over shadowed by the original Modern Warfare, which made Airborne slip into the wilderness pretty much straight away, but their are things that can be took from that game which were good gameplay features, such as the jumping from the plane to start the mission or the large battleground within most missions.

Airborne had a lot of good ideas that could be used in the new game

Medal of Honour 2010 was a massive disappointment for me which leads me onto my main concern about this new game, the developers need to stray away from this type of game which essentially was just a combination of the COD and Battlefield series's done poorly and without imagination, they need to draw inspiration from their older games and hopefully not set the game in a modern world because then you are in direct competition with said franchises and the new Medal of Honour won't stand a chance going up against these behemoths. 

It will be interesting to see these two games develop and see what creative direction they take.