Medal of Honor: Airborne PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andrew   
Thursday, 27 September 2007 11:45

Mhrmm. Medal of Honor is the latest in a long-line of MOH games, given EA's liking to milk a series until it drops dead. Anyways, nonetheless, I've now played it through and its quite an enjoyable game. EA's use of the Unreal3 engine means the game looks and plays great. The graphical effects, in particular the light rendering and the motion blur serve to really enhance the game immersion instead of being yet another useless but cool graphics technique that nobody notices. MOHA is incredibly fluid in its use of animations and ragdoll, it strikes a great balance. At times you really feel like you're there. They've also really taken things a step further; you have the entire map and you can land wherever the hell you want. This is very very good. You have a bunch of objectives you have to achieve in any order you want, and you drop accordingly. Theres also 'skill drops', like landing in through a window. The non-linear really helps the game to not be yet another nazi-killfest MOH. I was having fun, and stuff was even fairly historically accurate (within my limited knowledge to know right and wrong on that matter), but towards the end of the game, it just got a bit silly, and to me, it did detract from it being a decent WW2 shooter. Main complaint is levelled at the Nazi-Storm Elite soldiers you encounter. Bad move EA. You see one first in a cutscene, deployed as an elite troop off a tank-train to counterattack the industrial area you just took. I have no problem with fighting well trained troops, but it was just silly. They wear a gasmask (I'm sorry, but you do not wear a WW2 gasmask unless you have to, especially in combat. Reduces vision, very uncomfortable etc), and fire an MG42 with a drum feeding it. Now this is all really quite stupid to start with, but they walk forwards firing an MG42. Sure its a light machine gun, but seriously, recoil anyone? And they take multiple headshots to put down. Like five or so shots to the head. Stupid. Combined with the uniform, gasmask and stupid weapon choice, it really ruined MOHA and made it feel more like something out of Wolfenstein. It was a shame when the game was doing so great to do that. Other than that slipup however, a very fun enjoyable game, if not too long. Shame about the Nazi-Storm-Elite, it ensures MOHA to be nothing more than just another nazi-shooter instead of being a decent historical WW2 FPS.

 

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