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Medal of Honor Airborne | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 1386
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15289
UPC: 014633143249
EAN: 0014633143249
ASIN: B000PS4X9G
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Experience real World War II combat! | | • | Nonlinear gameplay style lets the player start the game anywhere in the map | | • | Fight with an arsenal of historically accurate weapons | | • | Multiplayer mode for online play | | • | ESRB Rated T for Teen |
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Product Description
In Medal Of Honor: Airborne, you'll step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division. 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.
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Count to 6 and pull the chord September 13, 2008
The Airborne was a hell of a group of soldiers. They jumped out of planes into enemy territory and many times had no back up since they were the ones sent in to soften the enemy's defenses. In Medal of Honor: Airborne, you take on the role of a paratrooper and parachute directly into the battlefield. EA has literally dropped you into World War II. Medal of Honor: Airborne is a fun game with some definite flaws you may or may not be able to overlook.
The main game play element is the ability to start a mission by parachuting out of a C-47 and choosing your landing zone. Each mission features a couple of safe zones with help and extra ammo. You can choose to land outside of these, but there's no guarantee there won't be an ample supply of enemy troops nearby to kill you before you've even pulled your gun out. It's an interesting mechanic and one I was not very good at. It never felt like you could land anywhere you wanted. You were basically dropped directly above the safe zones and if your objective was near the edge of the level you couldn't land directly on it. You also spawn from the jump at times, though it is more often than not, but that takes away from some of the action. You've just died, sat through a lengthy loading screen, and now you have to wait to land before you can be on your way. If you die a lot in one area this tends to become rather tedious. The good part about it is you can choose how you complete your mission, so if one part is giving you fits, you can try and achieve another objective or even try and take your original objective via another route.
It's that sort of open world approach that helps keep the game interesting but also frustrating due to the game's lack of consistency. Like I said, the majority of time you spawn from a jump but in some areas you spawn in a building. Which is fine, and I actually preferred it because I could get to shooting Nazis quicker. The checkpoint system is another thing entirely though. The last level is the best example. You have to work your way down this tower taking out guns and equipment. If you opt to land on the roof and take out the artillery guns, you'll have to clear out the enemies on the roof. Destroy one of the guns and reach the checkpoint. Die, and land on the roof again and there are no enemies on the roof. Take out all the guns and then proceed down a level to take out the AA guns on the outer edge of the tower. Work you way around killing Nazis and take out the first three guns and reach three separate checkpoints before you die. Spawn and land on the outer edge, but now instead of being able to walk directly to the fourth gun, you've got to re-fight your way through the same enemies you killed while taking out the first three guns, even though you won't have to re-destroy those guns. It just seems like a very poor design decision to artificially enhance the difficulty by essentially making you memorize the level and practically force you to complete the entire mission without dying.
That's not really an issue because the AI is pretty bad. Sure, they'll duck behind cover and blind fire at you, but most of the time you can aim and wait for them to pop out because they don't get more advanced than that. Though at times they'll just stand there and take your bullets without so much as a word. Your companions aren't much better I don't think they killed one soldier the entire game. Even though the enemies will lock in on you when you show up and they will completely disregard the other Allied troops in the area. That's another decision they probably made to make the game artificially harder.
Having never been to war, I can't really tell you what it's like, but the Call of Duty franchise was the first game I played to really feel like war to me. Airborne has done a great job of recreating that feeling. Even though the enemies are stupid, they are numerous and addicted to you, so the firefights are intense. Between the shockwaves that stun you when grenades go off around you to getting shot at while parachuting to the constant fighting your allies take part in, this feels like a battlefield.
While Airborne doesn't feature a cover system so to speak, it does feature what I'd call a cover system lite. While aiming down the iron sights you can't move unless you press the sprint button, but if you press the left stick in any direction you'll peek that way. This allows you to stand behind walls and peek out the sides to aim or to crouch behind some low cover and peek down to duck down even more so your head isn't exposed. I thought it was a really intuitive way to handle things. At first you'll take some shots because you can't really move while aiming, but then it's easy to figure out you need to take cover and peek to survive.
On the PS3, this game was pretty graphically impressive. The lack of consistency rears its ugly head and really keeps this game from looking great all the time. The guns looked good and there was some excellent texture work done in the environments. Head inside and not only were the interiors pretty stripped down, the real world stuff like chairs and equipment didn't look good. It's as if they used the PS2 Medal of Honor assets for these items. Get used to the explosion look because it's the only one you'll see. They use the same plume of smoke for every grenade you toss.
I remember the developers saying the weapon upgrade system was stripped down and it shows. I understand the premise. Supposedly in WWII soldiers would outfit their weapons with scopes and other non-OEM equipment in the field. The game doesn't do a good job of recreating that feeling though. They add things like grips, bigger ammo clips, scopes; but it never felt like the weapons were that much better. You could just as easily start using a new gun of the same type once you maxed out one gun and not feel hindered because of the lack of upgrades.
In the end I enjoyed my time with the Airborne. The controls were solid and it felt good shooting bad guys and fighting the good fight. It's not the best FPS you could play and it does have some design flaws but it works and if you're a fan of the genre you might just enjoy it. Medal of Honor: Airborne is a fun game with some definite flaws you may or may not be able to overlook. I could.
MOH Airborne Fun 2 Play August 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
MOH Airborne is a Relatively fun game, but really falls short of it's potential to be a great game. The game play and graphics are on Par with the PS3, but the game itself lacks some luster when compared to some of the next gen FPS games. The game is fun and very enjoyable, but you have to know what you are looking at before jumping into it. It does not have a completely open environment like it advertises. Instead you will find that you have a series of missions to accomplish, but are free to choose which mission to do at any given time. The controls are a little loose and takes some time to adjust and the AI isn't all that great. The game is not lacking in action though, so if you need a mindless free for all shooter, you can find it here.
A Good Addition to the Medal of Honor Series July 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good addition to the series and the game is fun to play, however, there are some things I dislike about this game, which is:
-It is not compatible with the dual shock 3 controller, so no rumbling when firing your weapons. Which is totally difference then the rest of the series, that's disappointing.
-EA didn't include actual WW2 video footage, like in the rest of the series. I'm a big WW2 fan, so I enjoyed seeing what actually happened in the war.
-You can't do a military crawl like the rest of the series and I don't like the way grenades explode - it's kind-of weak.
-It's too short; which is my complaint regarding the entire series, with the exception of FRONTLINE, which is the best one out of the entire series; in my humble opinion.
If I had to rank the series (FOR PS2 & PS3 users), it would be in this order: FRONTLINE, EUROPEAN ASSAULT, AIRBORNE, RISING SUN. I put European Assault ahead of the PS3 Airborne because of the things I mention above (no actual WW2 video footage, no controller rumbling, no crawl, grenades exploding and its too short.) That's also the reason why I gave it 4 stars. If I could have giving it 3 1/2 stars then I would have. It gets 4 stars because of weapon upgrades. But all and all, it's a fun game
 Setting the Standard for Military Games July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
OK... first off, I'll have to admit that the game is actually a 4-star. But I loved it because of the Airborne aspect of the game. It reminds me of the good ol' days from when I was with the 82nd Airborne Division. The controls took some time to get used to, but I was soon on my way to earning my medals on each mission. The graphics were a bit typical of the MOL series, but still has some great scenes and beautiful pictures. Being in the military, I quickly noticed how real the weapons, airplanes, and armored vehicles sound; really great, crisp, and authentic sounds.
All in all, I really enjoy playing this game. I'm having some trouble with my German internet provider, so i can't comment on the online play, but I'm sure I won't be disappointed when i finally go online.
 great gameplay, classic medal of honor graphics January 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the game to be fun to play, but lacking in the graphics department(we don't have hdtv's out here). You can tell what they spent there time on and what they didn't. I'm forward deployed to Iraq right now, so the online review will have to wait.
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