Tue, Sep 11, 2012 | 00:53 BST

Medal of Honor: Warfighter ‘Hunt’ DLC based on hunt for Bin Laden

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is flirting with controversy again in its ‘Hunt’ map pack. The DLC delivers a pair of maps based on locations in Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow’s upcoming movie Zero Dark Thirty. The movie focuses on America’s decade-long search for Bin Laden.

The first map in the Hunt pack – called the Zero Dark Thirty pack Stateside – is The Darra Gun Market, and an official descriptor posted on the Medal of Honor: Warfighter blog reads, “The Darra Gun Market is located in a tribal land where the rules are defined by only two principles – hospitality and revenge. No police are allowed to enter the area and all the laws are made by the tribal leader.”

“This small town in Pakistan is home to dozens of back-alley shops and self-taught machinists who are in many cases building guns by hand. Almost no outsiders ever see this town. What better place to hide than where only locales and known tribal members are allowed to enter.”

The second map, Chitral described as, “another area of Pakistan thought for a time to be one of Bin Laden’s hideouts. A rural mountainous area filled with deep narrow valleys, it has many places that are inaccessible several months each year because of snow and road conditions.”

“There are over 1200 small towns scattered throughout the Chitral district and finding someone who doesn’t want to be found would be next to impossible.”

The pack launches December 17 on all formats. It’s free to pre-order customers, but will cost £7.99 for everyone else, CVG reports. £1 of each DLC sale will go EA’s Project Honor war veteran fund.

Here are shots of both maps, plus a trailer:

What’s your view on basing Medal of Honor’s ‘Hunt’ map pack on real life events? Let us know below.

107 comments

#102

JimFear-666
11/09/12, 8:32 am

i hope they dont say the word taliban or ben laden in the game cause faggots and queer will cry and EA will change the name again since they are a bunch of cock sucker with no spine.

#103

monkeygourmet
11/09/12, 8:37 am

@90

It’s funny if you think the US ‘know’s’ war…

I don’t think you could be more wrong. Generally it’s resource grabbing under the illusion of ‘freeing’ or ‘liberating’ some poor country.

America is prepared for war, it’s a war machine and the cycle produces billions of dollars in profits as Youngzero has stated.

The extra resources they can grab while over their can’t be bad either.

In the UK the attitude is generally similar to yours.

I just find it hard to support wars the were started under bullshit pretence.

If you think this kind of thing doesn’t create far more extremists and political unrest, you sir, are an American.

@ Dragon

You talk about me not understanding other countries?

What about the fucking troops the UK and US sent over. Im sure handing round the term rag head etc… Not understanding culture and being ill prepared to deal with a hostile reception from the people the thought would be singing their praises really helped the situation…

Im sure burning a Quran really helped the people understand who was there to liberate.

I bet you’ll try to defend this with ‘in war, people sometimes make bad choices because of the pressure their under’ argument.

Half the problems troops faced were because of ill prepared research surrounding the people and factions that lived in this area.

If you think Afganistan will be more stable after we leave then your clearly deluded.

#104

monkeygourmet
11/09/12, 8:39 am

@102

Who’s Ben Laden?

#105

Da Man
11/09/12, 9:04 am

D-Sub surely comes across as a healthy, socially active, intelligent individual..

#106

Dragon246
11/09/12, 11:00 am

@93
Lets just say I live a lot nearer to those areas (Afghanistan) than you and your fellow blabbermouths.
And you just like to stuff useless things in others mouths don’t you. Arab countries have a pretty good reason to feel animosity towards israel and us. Although no side is willing to make compromises, so situation will probably stay like they are for a few more years.
Also don’t talk about nukes again. You don’t know jack about them.
Food for thought. Having nukes probably saved the world from third world war (us vs soviets) .
Nukes represents the ultimate deterrent. Everyone fears them, no one uses them. They are probably the only reason big countries dont go into war with each other. Face it, every country treats their soldiers as cannon fodder for war, but nukes threaten much more than just borders, they threaten the existence of entire countries.
The world is safer although more fearful because of MAD.
@103
Afghanistan is much better than it was 15years ago. Unfortunately many ignoramuses dont want to believe that.
US fought all of the wars with vested interests. Fact. But who doesn’t? Its utterly wrong but everyone does that.
Afghanistan will be a better place IF taliban is contained , which us will probably fail to do before last of their troops leave the country. I fear Afghanistan will return to what it was 2 decades ago, but that remains to be seen.

#107

monkeygourmet
11/09/12, 12:24 pm

@106

‘It’s utterly wrong but everyone does that…’

Man, what a lovely moral code you must have.

The fact that the US places itself at the top of the world when talking about democracy and freedom, then still operates on the same bullshit ethics as the so called under developed terrorist cells speaks volumes about their integrity.

Lets face it, if your going to use torture, not worried about rebuilding and aid after blowing the shit out of a country, at least have the balls to admit it…

Of course, they couldn’t, because a lot of Americans would start questionning things like the ethics of US foriegn policy.

The only reason we are still there is because the big companies and private investors who roll in after the dust settles haven’t finished building infrastructure that can generate them more PROFITS…

It’s nothing about helping the average guy who has had his leg blown of by a drone attack. Leave that to the red cross pussies and aid organisations eh?

I think you underestimate some of the anger average civilians build up when being occupied by a force who claims to liberate but has vested intrests in stealing most of your natural resources by making deals with other warlords, who im sure they’ll be attacking too once they have become of no use.

You don’t seem to understand the severity and fallout for what the US has done in Iraq and Afganistan under the name of liberation.

The fact, these ‘wars’ have not only changed the climate of the world, but also changed civilians rights in the US & UK and led to an increase of fear and un needed security of the general public.

If you can’t see that they should be tried for war crimes, i don’t think we will ever see eye to eye on this subject, and it gives me a good insight in to the way you view the world.

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