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a great gaming experience

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

MoH A starts a bit slow, the interface is amateurish and EA's website wants you to pay for the soundtrack (in yer dreams), but you know the core game is fantastic. Programmers managed to create a punishing yet fair health system and the difficulty level is just right bringing you back to parachuting in different areas of the map as you try to accomplish your duty. Sure you need to download patches to fix the game but it's worth it- the final mission is a sheer delight (I have that tower in my nightmares) and the closure is satisfying. I had more fun with MoH A than COD4. Note: I don't care about multiplayer action so not sure how that rates here.

Medal of Honor stepped up... but just a little...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Okay, so the saga of 'Medal of Honor' hasn't been that great, but I have to admit that 'Airborne' has hit hard compared to great first person shooters today.

One appealing aspect of the game is graphics, 'MOH' has pushed its gaming graphics to the highest standard in gaming, although the menu was a little cheap but the gaming overall surprised me.
The story-line is the same as usual; you are a soldier during the World War, and you are writing about your experience in the line of duty. The story-line does make sense, so I have no complaints on that.

Now onto the finer details:
If you have read a history book lately, you'll realize that the context created within the game is totally out of proportion, but then again, who doesn't like to create a nice "challenging" game?
What's worse is that 'MOH' expected the gamer to fight off of these different soldiers under leveled hierarchies as you move onto the next mission. Not only we are following a story line, but it seems to me that the story line is following these extremely unnecessary targets which is so out of proportion that this redundancy tends to get out of hand.

Another disappointment is that the game didn't have an introductory video to the game, it simply led the game straight to the menu, and even the menu became all tacky, but 'MOH' has always done that.

What truly made me infuriated is the checkpoints, and no "quicksave". Most games today are using quicksaves so that way it's more gamer friendly, unfortunately, 'Airborne' disallowed that with limited checkpoints available. I'm sorry EA but I hope you know that once a person dies in the game, and happening to know that he or she have to start all the way from the beginning kind of makes me want to throw the game in the trash. To be honest, it's not worth playing from the beginning again.

On to the positive pieces, I like the awards you get, like the weapon awards where you'll receive a faster reload, or less recoil, etc. which gives the game its uniqueness and the ability for the gamer to keep playing the missions until he/she completely finishes the game with the awards. But like I said, with no "quicksave" I wouldn't even want to go back and do it all over again.

Aside from all of this, I would say that the game is pretty much a nicer version of 'Wolfenstein' with the different crazy looking soldiers.
And of course, under the line of 'Call Of Duty', it still beats 'Airborne'. Even the first 'Call of Duty' game is more appealing than this and its graphics aren't that amazing.

So it's just to show you, that graphics aren't the only things that makes a game great.
For example, take a look at 'Splinter Cell's' 'Double Agent' game and compare to all the other 'Splinter Cell' games. You'll see what I mean.

top fun & joy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excelent piece of work of entertainment, highly recomended, not as large as i expect but great work anyway.

LAME

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this game. You can't save except at checkpoints, so when you are killed, you have to play through almost the whole thing again just to get back to where you were. Even a head shot with an M1 Garand does not drop the enemy, COME ON!!!! The enemy soldiers have superhuman reflexes and can duck as soon as you pull the trigger. This game is boring and you feel like you are fighting with a pea shooter for all damage you can do to your enemy. First person shooters need to find another war to fight, (Korea would be cool) We have won World War Two too many times now.

Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fantastic game with great graphics and intense action. Much better than other recent WWII games. A must have!

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game is Excellent but to Bad Shipping was Ridiculely High!!!!!! For the Price with Shipping I could have Gone To Wal-Mart or Target and Paid the Same!!!

Great game,but difficult and frustrating at times

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think this game exceeds even Call of Duty 4 as far as gameplay. It is a very tough game to play though, even at normal difficuly, what with the exceptional enemy AI and automatic saves to contend with. If not for the difficuly, I would have rated MOH Airborne 5 stars. The graphics are excellent and gameplay intense. After the first MOH, the series went into the toilet, until Airborne came along. Call of Duty overshadowed MOH, but not anymore. I just hope the developers continue the trend, but PLEASE give us manual saves in the next one.

Why this is an OUTSTANDING game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First, let me say a few important words about the WWII First Person Shooter (FPS) genre:

Generally people think the market is; first, saturated with lots and lots of choices, and second, shrinking. In my opinion, the market is flooded with tons of junk, but only has 5 real true quality offerings for the PC. So I will continue to fork over $50 for each and every high quality product that hits the market - to me, they are worth it. I can't get enough of the gritty European WWII flavor offered. So yes, if you offer junk, the market is flooded and shrinking. If you hit the mark (like this game did) sales should be good - I know I will pay for quality.

To make this review helpful to you, let me list the genre games I consider worth $50 (if you don't own them, they are all MUST BUYS). Generally I don't care for weak graphics, choppy or linear game play, Pacific battlefield based, unrealistic "Wolfenstien" action, or basic run & gun. I enjoy historically accurate games that offer interesting storylines, set in Europe, with wide open battle field that I can attack from my own angels at my own rate. I much prefer sniping to run and gun.
1. The Granddaddy that started it all: Medal of Honor (MoH): Allied Assault & the Spearhead Expansion (the second expansion was too tedious and linear - "do exactly this, in exactly this order" - so I leave it out).
2. The giant step forward, Call of Duty (CoD) & its expansion. Superb levels of game play, and an added level of realism that the MOH series never really competed with.
3. CoD2. Although I found the Russian front less contextually engaging as the European flavor of the first CoD.
4. The little known and rarer offering of Commandos Strike Force. The Commandos series was historically an overhead strategy game, but after dismally failing in the third edition, the forth offering switched to a FPS style. The game was very inventive, and the missions were intellectually engaging (not just run & gun) - an outstanding and surprisingly fun game.
5. MoH: Airborne - explained below

I also enjoyed the Hidden & Dangerous Series, but it was too buggy and unstable to be considered a serious contender.

MOH: Airborne offers superb graphics with interesting storylines. The squads will not succeed (basically they will just hold the current line) without you personally turning the tide of battle. The maps are huge, and wide open, so you can run & gun if you want to, or slowly and strategically advance with long range shots. Mission objectives can be accomplished in any order you chose, at your own rate of advance (ex: knock out enemy communications, disable enemy explosives and secure the town).

Why this game is so much better than the competition:
* You chose how you want to play, you can run and gun if that is what you like, you can snipe if that is what you like, or some kind of combination.
* The more enemies you kill with a specific weapon, (including grenades & launchers), you earn upgrades for that specific weapon (like a scope, or larger ammo magazines, of matched and polished bolts for quicker reloads, etc.
* It is a perfect combination of enemy waves. Enemy waves will continue to re-spawn until a certain force size (depending on your location and battle) has been killed - after that point is reached, they stop spawning. Not as easy as kill the 6 guys there and you have cleared the area, and not as tedious as the endless re-spawn until after you take a certain position.
* The maps are huge and authentic feeling (expect for the last - which is very un realistic)

The only cons to this game are:
* First and foremost, it is way, way to short (6 large missions)
* The last map (and Elite Storm Troopers) are completely unrealistic and just plain silly.

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