Medal of Honor: Airborne
Review
The badge of honor for this game?
by T3HDX
reviewed on PC
Gameplay (cont.)
The action is set over six levels, ranging from all kinds of locations such an Italian town to the beaches of Normandy. These locations all look different, and give you a good sense of the game letting you visit places you've not seen before. The level diversity is welcome with the amount of World War 2 shooters out there that usually look the same through the entire game. Each level introduces new enemy forces as well, stronger enemies and new threats to watch out for are added, helping make the game more difficult, and at the same time keeping it slightly more fresh.
Weapons and upgrades
There is a vast number of weapons available from single shot rifles, to sniper rifles, machine guns and a trusty shotgun, each having their own uses for different kinds of battle situations, some working better than others, but each being able to upgrade. However, the upgrade process is fairly linear in that you only have to shoot and kill a certain number of enemies before the weapon upgrades, with a maximum of 3 upgrades per gun. Upgrades consist of increased clip sizes, reduced recoil, adjustable scopes from increased zoom to adjustable scope, and finally a grenade launcher attachment for some of the rifles. Though not a very realistic way of upgrading, it does show skill with the gun in a general sense that you've used it and gained skill by using that gun so much.
Multiplayer
The multiplayer aspect plays a vital role in this game. Due to the small length of the single player campaign, the ability to play against people online is a nice addition. However, it is probable that the main hype on this type of game with multiplayer dies down after a month or two and the gamers filter back to the more popular online shooters like Battlefield, Call of Duty and Counter Strike.
Final words
There is some replay value to this sequel to MoH, mainly on playing it through on harder difficulties than before to prove yourself in the ranks of the Airborne, as well as upgrading all of the weapons for no particular reason, except to say you have, as well as replaying the missions to achieve stars for the medals, and attempting skill drops. With 5 skill drops per level, that's a fair bit of replay value just to get all of those. Aside from that, Medal of Honor: Airborne is the kind of game you can play through in a single 5-6 hour sitting any time you want to.
Overall Medal of Honor: Airborne is a decent game, and worth paying full amount if you're a big fan of the MoH series, or just WW2 shooters in general, or really love the online play. But if you're just looking for something new to play, I'd suggest waiting a while for it to come down in price, which it surely will with such a short life as it has.
7.0
fun score
No Pros and Cons at this time
