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Medal of Honor: Airborne (PC DVD)
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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
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3/5 |
not bad WW2 FPS
(August 31, 2008) |
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A lot of people seem to not like this and, while I can understand their points, I found this okay if a little frustrating a times.
Basically you drop into the action taking a hard route or an easy one, then you go for your objectives via a variety of bad guys. Frustrations include a long time between checkpoint saves,the fact you have to keep parachuting in despite your checkpoint being on the ground, and the strange addition of hard to kill super-soldiers(?) near the end!
On the plus side the graphics are lovely and it can be intense fun at times. My XP machine was top spec two years ago but managed to cope well, (apart from some occasional freezing) and still enjoyed this. Yep it could have been better but it is still an acceptable shooter that will entertain you for a few hours. |
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1/5 |
Yet again EA expect you to buy a new computer
(July 03, 2008) |
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I'm sure this would be good game if I ever was able to play it. Why is it EA expect to change our computer everytime they bring out a new MOH so we can get it to work? I wont be buying this game in the future as I know it wont work as it is so hungry for graphics, processor etc.
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1/5 |
dvd drive woes
(June 09, 2008) |
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I would love to give a complete review of MOHA but, as is the case with a colleague who also bought the game, I cant play it. The game won't load. I used the compatibility checker and was informed that my DVD drive was not supported!. To say I was dissapointed would be an under-statement. It would appear that in an attempt to prevent the game being copied it does not work with certain DVD drives.My drive is only a DVD ROM so I could not copy it even if I wanted to. I have never had this problem before and there is no warning on the case stating that you need a particular make of drive to play the game. Looks good but I will never find out so one star, only because I cant give it no stars. |
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2/5 |
Don't bother
(May 31, 2008) |
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This game may look good via trailers etc, but don't bother. Graphics are ok, but the game play is rubbish. Germans come out of nowhere, they are better at shooting with ANY firearm than you are with a sniper rifle, they can throw grenades to within a few centimetres from 50 metres and if you go for anything higher than novice, forget it. Almost every time you die you have to jump from the plane again, you can't save the game where you want to. I've played all COD's and others, but this one is a NO NO. |
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3/5 |
nice looking but very frustrating, avoid, buy COD4 instead
(April 28, 2008) |
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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. |
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