Redwood City, CA— Medal of Honor: Hot Zone—a new multiplayer King of the Hill mode on Xbox LIVE—makes use of a feature intended to help nervous or otherwise giddy or twitchy players calm themselves so that they can enjoy shooting people with virtual nerves of steel.

“In reality, snipers and soldiers face an assortment of environmental stresses,” game combat researcher, Omar Ovario told IGNN. “EA has recreated that with jiggly graphics and a control option to bestill the player’s beating heart so that they can take a good shot.”

The development team noted that the feature isn’t actually new to Hot Zone. “It’s been there for some time, but we found that multiplayer matches get lots of players super excited and jumpy, so it made sense to emphasize that feature,” related Tom Bassilik of ShooterDaily.com, who had recently interviewed members of the dev team about the importance of the gaming environment. “Of course, there are several additional new “environmental control factors” that were added,” Bassilik added. “There’s the Potty Squeeze Factor, which kicks in every 45 minutes if the players don’t pause the game, and there’s a Sugar Crash, which makes character reactions unpredictable and causes them to run around like crazy chickens unless you eat Doritos. That feature only works with Kinect, and you have to scan the Doritos bag with the Kinect camera and shout “Xbox! I loves me some Doritos!” three times at 87+ decibels for it to work. But, hey, it’s pretty fun.”