Medal of Honor: Airborne – Review (X360, PS3, PC)
For some reason, I actually went into this game with high expectations. I knew it was EA, so it was probably crap, but I still actually expected something from it. Never before had I been so disappointed in a game.
The game plays fairly decently. Each time you use a gun, it gains experience and gets easier to use or gains abilities as it levels up. This is actually fun, if unrealistic. The game starts to fall apart when your allies engage in battle. They run past the enemies, stare blankly at walls while being shot at and just generally act like morons. I have no idea how we won the war if this is any indication of how our real soldiers acted. EA boasted the ‘paradrop anywhere’ gameplay, but if you don’t land in the drop zones, you will die in seconds. I did learn about history from the game. I learned that Nazi snipers had the ability to stick the end of their guns through a wall and crack shot Allies in the head without exposing any part of their body. Seriously, did anyone test this game? How do they not notice this? The game becomes nearly impossible because of it. The snipers never give me a clear shot but can still headshot me in one try. I had to die several times in a row just to find out where the shot was coming from, until I noticed the end of a gun sticking out of a solid wall. This wasn’t a rare occurrence; every sniper in the game took advantage of this.
The game is also one of the shortest in history. I have played demos longer than this. The game contains 6 levels. The first takes about a half hour and the last about an hour. I finished the game in under 5 hours. At $59.99, that is more than $10 an hour. That wouldn’t even be worth it if the game was good.
The graphics…how can I put this…blow. The character models are PS2 quality and the environments are very blocky. The ground is the only thing a dead soldier can land on. If there is a board on the ground and the enemy falls on it, he falls through the board and becomes part of it. If a soldier is falling into a wall, he will go through the wall and land with part of his body on each side of the wall. I haven’t seen textures this bad since the days of 256 color on computers. For example, the sky textures…well, remember Duke Nukem 3D? Yeah, it’s that bad.
Do not buy this game. Buy Call of Duty 2 used for like $20. If you already played COD2 and traded it in, buy it again. You will have way more fun with that than this steaming pile of crap. I can take comfort in the fact that it only stole less than 5 hours of my life. Thank you EA, I hate you a little more now.
The Bottom Line
| Pros |
|---|
| Interesting weapon leveling system |
| Cons |
| Bad graphics, Short, Graphical oddities that ruin the immersion and make it nearly impossible at some points |
| Verdict |
| Another series that EA bought out in order to slowly kill. |
| Overall |
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