The enemy AI in Medal of Honor Airborne is tough. Sometimes the enemy spawn locations seemed a little unfair, but overall it just made for a more cautious time when moving through the levels. Even on the normal setting I died a lot. While the enemy AI is pretty respectable, the friendly NPC soldier’s are completely worthless. They constantly get in your way and walk in front of your shots, not to mention they rarely ever hit anything when they fire their own weapons. Why even give these morons guns is a mystery to me.
The graphics in Medal of Honor Airborne are well done. The game has some great lighting, textures, and animations. Some of the cut scenes while you are in the plane waiting to jump are outstanding. On the downside, each mission location is similar in over all look and style. A lack of variety may turn some players off.
EA has produced good sound for Medal of Honor Airborne. Guns are loud and explosions will shake your surround sound woofer. EA almost never fails to spread a nice layer of production polish over their games. Medal of Honor Airborne is no exception.
I had a bit of a hard time with the Xbox live multiplayer portion of the game. While I was able to jump into games with ease, there was a serious lack of man power. Some matches had around three or four players in them, but most were being played one on one. These maps were designed for bigger battles. A couple of times I signed on to find less than 100 people playing the game online. This probably has something to do with a certain shooter from Microsoft, but it’s still disappointing for fans of multiplayer action.
The achievements in Medal of Honor Airborne are not very hard to come by in the beginning. You will start unlocking them literally seconds after you pick up the controller. You gain achievements for things like completing levels, upgrading your weapons and also completing different parachute landings. Most of the achievements offer only a small reward for your gamer score, so getting all 1000 points may take you awhile.
Overall, I have mixed feelings about Medal of Honor Airborne. At times the game was fun, but other times there wasn’t too much to hold my attention. The weapons upgrades were nice, but the difficulty of aiming the darn things made me frustrated. The graphics and sound were good, but the level design and settings were rather lack luster. The bottom line is that I would recommend renting this game before you take the $60 jump.
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