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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #907 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-09-05
• Platform: Windows XP

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It may be the game that popularised the whole concept of first person shoot `em-ups set during World War II, but as the years have gone by, the Medal of Honor series has found itself besieged by more and more copycats trying to offer ever more realistic simulations of the era. This is the first Medal of Honor game made specifically for the next generation of consoles though and finds you taking the roles of both pathfinder Eddie La Point and Private Boy Travers - paratroopers in the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. As such, you'll end up with a whistle stop tour of enemy hotspots in Sicily, France, Holland and Germany. The game takes its paratrooper motif serious too as the game levels are big enough that you actually have some control over where exactly you land and as a consequence what tactics you choose to employ.

The game also tries to give you as much freedom as possible with the weapons you use, with each being customisable with authentic parts which you can find during missions. Even the missions are as open ended as possible, as you're given up to a dozen objectives, of which only a few have to be tackled in any sort of order. One side benefit this creates is that the developers have been forced to drastically improve the enemy artificial intelligence so that they can react intelligently to your attacks, instead of just relying on the pre-scripted movements of the earlier games. There's also a stronger tactical element than ever before as you monitor the back and forth of battle between all the forces on the map. As over-familiar as WWII shooters have become, there looks to be enough new ideas here to keep even the most jaded virtual soldier happy.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division and engage in battles throughout Europe. From rocky beginnings in Sicily to war-winning triumphs in Germany, each mission begins behind enemy lines, with an intense and fully interactive airdrop. Your ability to determine your own starting point dramatically changes the way each mission plays out. View the entire operation from the air, and then control your parachute to choose your landing spot. On the ground, gather your senses and assess the terrain. A wide variety of authentic, customizable weapons are at your disposal, each with distinct characteristics. Choose your path in this free roaming FPS environment. Medal of Honor Airborne will also feature exceptionally photo-realistic characters, adding to the intensity of the cinematic, story-driven game.

Customer Reviews

nice looking but very frustrating, avoid, buy COD4 instead
I've played all the MOH series, and liked most of them. This one is quite a polished-looking affair with some nice cut scenes, but had a few issues for me that overshadowed the overall game and rather spoilt it.

Firstly the checkpoints. Somebody else said this already, if at the start of the level you dive out of a plane, kill about 100 nazis then die, you'll find yourself jumping back out of the plane all over again when you restart. Sometimes you're right back to square one, and sometimes when you check your objectives it's remembered the 2 tanks you blew up just before you died. So why put you back in the plane then, that's just confusing?

Whenever you do, you'll pray when the game restarts you've not lost the last half hour's play, though quite often you have.

On the last level, after having clearly reached several more checkpoints, it kept returning me to the plane, even though when you land you've cleared the top 3 or 4 floors of your descent downwards. Just getting back to where you were when you last died is onerous and unnecessary.

Accuracy of the weapons is terrible, yeah yeah, I know a head shot works best, but some of these weapons only seem capable of 'spraying in the general direction', and I like to think I'm a FPS diehard.

Final soldiers very sci-fi, went from WWII to Wolfenstein with no warning, odd.

I actually stopped playing it at 3 different points along the way, mostly after jumping out of said plane for the 30th time in an hour. This sadly became one of those games that made me want to finish it just so I could uninstall it and sell it back on.

Do yourself a favour, buy Call of Duty 4 instead.

Good Fun
I am experienced at FPS games, and am impressed with this. It runs fine with max graphics and details on my 2.2GHz dual-core laptop with Vista, 2GB RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card.

I like the fact the game 'lets you off' haveing to learn how to land properly - you just take longer to recover from the landing - as opposed to dying which would have made it unplayable until you got it right.

The sound is great, and it feels very realistic in the pitched battles. Your team-mates don't just wait for you to attack, but charge into battle in an intelligent manner, beside and ahead of you. The one thing that lets them down is that they occasionally don't do anything when it gets quiet and you're not sure what to do next. Overall very good.

Nice looking, but a bit disappointing
I really enjoyed MOH 1 & 2, but Pacific Assault (whilst looking better) was dull and repetitive.

Having played the demo of Airborne I had high hopes that it would restore my faith in the series, but...

I set it to normal difficulty and got through the Italian level ok, but once into the second level I found it impossible to progress beyond a certain point.

The inability to save your own checkpoints is a big negative over earlier games in my mind.

It got so frustrating that it was either uninstall and flog it on eBay or resort to easy mode. I did the latter and found I enjoyed it, with the graphics being a big improvement over even PA.

The fighting style is more realistic than the earlier games, as you can move around problems rather than HAVING to fight through them and it's not just you against the world, either. Having to aim is good, too and firing the weapons is more realistic than in earlier MOH (or COD) games.

Sadly, towards the end another negative reared its ugly head, namely the Nazi-Gasmask-Zombies.

These enemy, in long black dress trenchcoats, wearing gas marks (why?) and carrying MG42s (yeah, right...) can take dozens of hits at point blank range.

As others have observed, MOH is supposed to be a WW2 FPS with a degree of realism, this was more like Dawn of the Dead...

The much vaunted Parachuting element is a bit of nothing really. You get to steer a bit, but it's nothing to get excited about and you can really only land in so many places.

So, graphically it looks quite good (although COD4 is graphically better and much more intense AND runs faster on my Dual Core/Nvidia 7600 PC) and the gameplay feels a bit more realistic than the earlier games (where you could just run at the opposition and kill them, pretty much), but the difficulty on Normal is too high and the Gasmask Zombie Nazis add a degree of supernaturalism which is totally at odds with the genre.

Prices are falling on Airborne now, so if you can get it at a good price, it's worth a play, but it's not the best, by a long chalk.