10 More Video Games That Sold Millions (Despite Being Terrible)
7. Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Medal of Honor's fall from grace was a sad sight to see.
EA's series of WWII focused FPS games were hugely popular in the early noughties, with Frontline and Rising Sun combining to sell upwards of 15 million units. Unfortunately, in 2007 a Call of Duty-shaped bomb fell from the sky and obliterated gamers' interest in EA's franchise.
EA fought back with 2010's Medal of Honor, a modern warfare based reboot that shamelessly pilfered from Activision's juggernaut franchise. Medal of Honor's copying from Call of Duty's homework may have been brazen, but it clearly worked as the reboot sold around 5 million copies. Unfortunately, EA failed to make lightning strike twice with the follow up.
Warfighter was a rushed mess of a game. The shooting felt weak and unsatisfying, the campaign was comfortably the worst in franchise history, and the game released with a boatload of technical glitches (such as enemies and allies alike flickering in and out of sight like Predators with wonky camouflage). Despite this, Warfighter still managed to sell 3 million copies across all formats. Unfortunately for it - and the series at large - Call of Duty: Black Ops II sold 31 million copies.
EA saw the writing on the wall and admitted defeat, quietly closing the door on what had once been one of their biggest moneymakers.