Medal of Honor: Airbourne
Those Damn Nazi's are back being naughty again
Synopsis:
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division, and experience war across Europe from an intrepid first-person perspective in Medal of Honor Airborne. View your objectives from above as you drop from the skies directly onto the battlefield, then gather your wits to stay alive and emerge victorious against the unrelenting Nazi war machine.
Review
I am loving this game, got it today and its a triumph of old school war-fare. Ok so its the same idea as the previous MOH games but thats what works so well. Each level is started with you parachuting out of a plane and into an enemies base but from that point on its up to you how you carry out the mission, which objectives you go after and where you land, land safe and with your men and fight together or if your like me land on towers or tall buildings and snipe everyone below you.
The AI is a little predictable at times with the enemy going in the same direction at times, but the size of the opposing force definately makes the game a challenge and if you take a wrong turn alone you can find yourself being swamped with troops and yes dying a lot.
New Stuff:
Upgradeable weapons - the more head shots and kills you get with a particular gun (kills in a row so switching between weapons hurts your upgrades) the better the gun will become - for instance, dual mags for faster reloads, less recoil, better ammo.
Medals - Completing certain skill sets like surviving a level without dying will earn you a medal and these can then be used to unload additional items (no idea what as I have yet to complete a level without dying.)
Choosing your own Weapons - Finally a useful upgrade to the game, chose your own kit, you get 3 weapons which can be dropped and exchanged throughout the level, but chosing what to start with really helps the game along. You can have shotguns, machine guns, rifles one weapion has to be a handgun which has unlimited ammo, but the rest are up to you. I personally go for the rifle a good automatic.
Parachuting - Harder than it looks, land wrong and while you try to stand up or release your chute you can be shot full of holes. Land right and you can end up in some brilliant areas especially if like me you love to have a sniper rifle in your kit. Landing on towers and specific buildings takes time to work out but once you do the game is one giant snipers wet dream.
PC Power - This game does need some power to play well, recommended set up is 1GB Ram and a 3GHz processor, my dual 3GHz processors love this game as they get to run at full speed, I recommend a decent graphics card too or else you lose some amazing detail on both the landscape and the soldiers around you, i have the 8800GTX card which is made for stuff like this but the 6800 works just a well (the 7series are not supported by this game though).
7/10 - It would have got a lot more but with Call of Duty 4 out in November it just doesn't have the new tricks to impress me enough to stop thinking about this upcoming release.
Those Damn Nazi's are back being naughty again
Synopsis:
Step into the boots of Boyd Travers, Private First Class of the 82nd Airborne Division, and experience war across Europe from an intrepid first-person perspective in Medal of Honor Airborne. View your objectives from above as you drop from the skies directly onto the battlefield, then gather your wits to stay alive and emerge victorious against the unrelenting Nazi war machine.
Review
I am loving this game, got it today and its a triumph of old school war-fare. Ok so its the same idea as the previous MOH games but thats what works so well. Each level is started with you parachuting out of a plane and into an enemies base but from that point on its up to you how you carry out the mission, which objectives you go after and where you land, land safe and with your men and fight together or if your like me land on towers or tall buildings and snipe everyone below you.
The AI is a little predictable at times with the enemy going in the same direction at times, but the size of the opposing force definately makes the game a challenge and if you take a wrong turn alone you can find yourself being swamped with troops and yes dying a lot.
New Stuff:
Upgradeable weapons - the more head shots and kills you get with a particular gun (kills in a row so switching between weapons hurts your upgrades) the better the gun will become - for instance, dual mags for faster reloads, less recoil, better ammo.
Medals - Completing certain skill sets like surviving a level without dying will earn you a medal and these can then be used to unload additional items (no idea what as I have yet to complete a level without dying.)
Choosing your own Weapons - Finally a useful upgrade to the game, chose your own kit, you get 3 weapons which can be dropped and exchanged throughout the level, but chosing what to start with really helps the game along. You can have shotguns, machine guns, rifles one weapion has to be a handgun which has unlimited ammo, but the rest are up to you. I personally go for the rifle a good automatic.
Parachuting - Harder than it looks, land wrong and while you try to stand up or release your chute you can be shot full of holes. Land right and you can end up in some brilliant areas especially if like me you love to have a sniper rifle in your kit. Landing on towers and specific buildings takes time to work out but once you do the game is one giant snipers wet dream.
PC Power - This game does need some power to play well, recommended set up is 1GB Ram and a 3GHz processor, my dual 3GHz processors love this game as they get to run at full speed, I recommend a decent graphics card too or else you lose some amazing detail on both the landscape and the soldiers around you, i have the 8800GTX card which is made for stuff like this but the 6800 works just a well (the 7series are not supported by this game though).
7/10 - It would have got a lot more but with Call of Duty 4 out in November it just doesn't have the new tricks to impress me enough to stop thinking about this upcoming release.