8 Dead EA Video Game Franchises That Deserve A Comeback

8. Medal Of Honor

Deposed as the shmup king by Call of Duty's phenomenal rise to prominence in the late noughties, Medal of Honor proved incapable of keeping pace with its new competitor and has faded further into memory ever since. Eager to abandon its own IP at the first sign of trouble, EA discarded the franchise in favour of DICE's Battlefield to serve as its flagship shooter, and would only revisit the former years later.

2010's gritty quasi-reboot set during the Afghan War laid the groundwork for what could have been an excellent alternative to the increasingly outlandish warfare propagated by Modern Warfare and its successors, but then 2012's Warfighter came along and ruined any prospect of the two coexisting. Filled with bugs, a bad script and bland multiplayer, what should have been a more successful follow-up felt largely phoned in by comparison.

EA at least took the blame for Warfighter's poor quality, citing an "execution problem" as the major contributor to its failure and now, instead of attempting to right those wrongs, the entire franchise has been tragically left in stasis until God knows when. Probably until Battlefield's popularity inevitably runs dry and EA brings the cycle full circle by replacing DICE's shooter with yours truly.