Customer Reviews

Medal of Honor Airborne

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I'm really into military/war type games, so I decided to give this one a shot. And I really like this game. It's a bit harder than the older MOH games, however, game play is interesting! You actually get dropped out of planes for each mission, you can land anywhere you like! You can land with your teammates, or you can land behind enemy lines, it's up to you....Each time you play the game it's always different, which is kind of refreshing in today's world of video games.

Weapons are your standard 1940's weapons (American & German), grenades, M1 Garand, bazooka, etc etc

While I do find the controls a bit awkward right now, I'm sure after some time I'll get used to them. I must say the graphics are very nice, weapons are very true to life, game play is very smooth...

Overall, great game, with HOURS upon HOURS of replay value. Remember: Each time you play, it's totally different.

This is the first game I've played for PS3, and I was intrigued with the concept of the game. I'm a veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division, and I was thrilled to see my former job (from an earlier era of course) being brought to life. For a video game, it's a hoot, a lot of a fun to play (like all MOH games). If you like any past MOH games, you'll love this one...and while I haven't been playing it for more than a day, I'm dying to pick up the controller again.
It is great how you can start anywhere on the map from the time you jump, instead of just appearing somewhere on the battlefield to face the same enemy and watching for the same enemy movement and such. The A.I. for the enemy is pretty good, they react to what you do very well. For instance, if you start hitting them hard with grenades and automatic fire, the enemy will start pulling back and digging in, they won't just start running toward you so that you can continue to mow them down. If they're dug in with a gun, you'd better be a sharp shooter, otherwise taking out a gun is a serious hassle (as it should be).
As for the graphics, I was expecting better, but when you're dealing with MOH, the gameplay more than makes up for any deficiencies there. I highly recommend "Airborne!"

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

This is a game that understands what it's all about. It took about 3 levels to finally appreciate this game for everything it is, but once I got into it I really, really love it. I would say this is the best WW2 fps I've ever played. This game shows that you don't need the best graphics and most advanced gaming engine to have a lot of fun.

At the beginning of every level you float into the board on a parachute and you have to land properly and in the right area or you will be struggling for several seconds to get your gear off, stand up, and pull out your weapon and if you don't land in a safe zone, you will be bludgeoned to oblivion before you can even fire a shot. You also respawn floating down on the board again so you get a lot of chances to perfect this.

With each weapon there are three possible upgrades that you get by killing krauts with each particular weapon. This makes for some very addictive and fun gameplay and once your weapons are fully juiced up you're unstoppable.

My favorite part of this game is that every board is an open battlefield with multiple objectives that you can accomplish in any way you see fit. There are always several ways to assault a position, or take out the enemy and I get a lot of satisfaction by sneaking around behind the enemy while my boys are engaging them from the front and mercilessly slaughtering them! Oh what sick creatures we are!

overall, not a bad game, the best Medal of Honor in a while. If you are a fan of airborne and air assault alike, definetly check out this game. dropping into battle has never been this much fun. I tip my hat to the veterans of the 101st and 82nd Airborne, they did their duty.

The game could have been longer, but the weapon upgrades are pretty sweet. more than likely you will play the game more and more.

This game will keep you WWII junkies occupied until Hell's Highway comes out.

peace out.

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.

I've played a great many FPS games by different developers. My favorites seem to be the WWII games (maybe because I grew up on WWII movies and playing soldier). While the button arrangement could use more variety (I like the trigger on R1 rather than R2), I've gotten used to the controls and have played the entire game to conclusion. Beginners may complain that when an objective is completed, the AI allies frequently run off to the next so quickly that it's hard to find where they went. When I played it the first time, that was particularly frustrating in the last battle. I wandered all over the Flak Tower until I found the elevator to the ammo dump in the back of the room where I got my checkpoint. And that last battle was particularly difficult, but that only increased the satisfaction when I'd finished it.

At first, I had no idea what the standard is for getting 4 and 5 stars in my performance. After searching online, I found out that it takes something like 150 kills to get 5 stars, and each time the player is killed, that requires 10 more kills. In order to get that many kills, however, typically requires saving the last checkpoint and then reloading it, which then returns the player to a battle segment already completed but provides more enemies to kill. Fortunately, the AI doesn't place many of them in the same place or make them behave the same as the previous times, so it takes care when returning to the same battle segments.

Parachuting into each battle has been challenging, and I haven't gotten many wings yet for landing in the "skill drop" locations, but as I play the game, I'm getting better. It appears that once the player lands in a skill drop location, a checkpoint must be reached to save it, and that requires some planning in how to complete each checkpoint while following the procedure I described in the previous paragraph.

Overall, for an old codger, this is a very good game, fun and challenging in many ways that younger players probably find easier to manage. I like the open map with opportunities to flank and get above the enemy, dropping into any area of the map, being able to select my own weapons for each battle (with the option to pick up alternate weapons during the battle), and not having to rush through as if speed is the most important factor. Since the game dates from 2007, graphics aren't at current levels, but game play is, and I can tell that I'm going to enjoy playing this game many times more, just like Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway.

This review is limited to the "campaign" or story mode. I haven't played it online (multiplayer), so I can't address that. For anyone (like me) who wants a fun game for solo play, this is a great one.

I have every single world war 2 era game. This is not the best but its definitely worth getting. For some reason they decided to change a few buttons around. Usually the fire button is R1 but for some reason this game made it R2. Not a big deal but takes a little bit to get used to when every single game out uses R1. The graphics are good- not Call of Duty 4 but still PS3 worthy. The really neat feature is there are a bunch of small missions when you are on a level and you can decide whatever order you want to do them in. I am half way through and I really like this game. The game play and graphics are not Call of Duty 4 but still worth getting right now.

As far as WWII first-person shooters go, this is one of the best. Much better than the Call of Duty series. This game has many of the good classic features of the older Medal of Honor games, in an updated package with great graphics and sound. Controls are easy to adapt to, not overly complex, and the missions are straight forward, yet challenging...they are a nice balance, great for 30-somethings gamers like me, who prefers a simpler game format, yet enjoy a challenge of a fairly advanced AI from the enemies. When I say "simpler" format, I by no means mean "simple" game...more along the lines of that this game focuses more on what a first-person shooter should, shooting the enemy, with minimal side activities...unlike some other first-persons that have you tiptoeing around motion-detectors and sentries, and going on what essentially amounts to a scavenger hunt for about 10 hours in order to get past one level. That is not fun for me, if that is fun for you, this is not your game.

Some of the pros include : Weapon power ups - as you make more kills with a weapon, a meter fills up and you upgrade that particular weapon 3 times as merits are earned (marksman, sharpshooter, expert), and you earn things like a scope, or a larger magazine, or a bayonette, and other items for your weapon. As I mentioned, the AI is descent...the enemies are not stupid and do not seem to follow patterns in most cases, some will actually stalk you and hide and ambush you. Taking you through various real-world WWII battles (and some fictional) in multiple locations is pretty cool, and having control of where your paratrooper lands can make for a different battle every time. There are a few cons, but not many. I would just like a little more depth, and maybe more numerous shorter missions, rather than the way it is set up with a handful of very long missions. Also, kind of a personal preference, but I do miss a couple things from MoH European Assault, and that is the ability to command the men in your group, and the ability to hold onto up to 8 medkits at a time for use later when you need them (instead of using the old trick of constantly going back to the furthest one away first and working your way up every time you need one). One other thing that is kind of dumb is when an enemy charges you with a melee attack and starts hitting you with the butt of his gun, it kills you faster than actually getting shot or hit with a grenade, which makes no sense. Overall a great game. I am disappointed that they discontinued the WWII format, and hope they go back to it eventually.

In the medal of honor franchise they made one for PS3 Medal Of Honor Airborne. This Game makes you think while working on having a whole lot of fun. I bought this game and finished it in 2 weeks now for me thats normal.
This game is very hard in some places but never too hard just right. As you go up in levelsthe opponents get harder and harder. on the first level you have men with 5 shot rifles that arent the brightest but since you are just starting on the first level it seems pretty hard. ny the last level you have men with bulletproof vests and 50. Machine Guns at thier side. Whats also good about this game is that it isnt just one goal you have 5-10 and you can carry them out as you wish. Also you get introduced to weapons throut the game and if you run out of ammo you can just pick up a dead players.

Overall This Game Is Great For Action Players And A Great Gift for 10 and up