The inclusion of the Taliban in the forthcoming Medal of Honor has been the root of a lot of controversy in media coverage of the game lately, but EA stuck to their guns in justifying its design choices. Today however, they seemed to have buckled under the rising pressure by trying to offer a solution: the Taliban will now simply be named as the “Opposing Force” in the multiplayer portions of the game.
This comes as a bit of a disappointment to me, since Medal of Honor was always striving to be as authentic as possible to current warfare situated in reality. The actual gameplay is said to remain unchanged too, meaning that the “Opposing Force” will still be depicted as they were originally intended which will surely do little to dissolve the backlash it’s been coming under fire with – glossing over this by changing the name of the opposition isn’t going to detract from the fact you are still playing as them, and followers of the game will realise this.
What do you make of EA’s drastic change of heart in the name of political correctness?
