Medal of Honor: Airborne (Xbox 360)

If there is one thing that the 360 does not need it’s another First Person Shooter. This console has more FPS than a guest on Jerry Springer has illegitimate kids. In the most saturated of markets there is a one subgenre that is even more crowded - the WW2 shooter. ‘Medal of Honour’, ‘Call of Duty’, ‘Valour of Armies’ and ‘Shooting of Nazis’ (I made the last two up) are some amongst many series that explore the Great War. ‘CoD’ has decided to forgo the WW2 setting and is now modern combat, but ‘MoH’ has remained true to its roots with ‘MoH: Airborne’. Can ‘Airborne’ bring enough new features to the table to make people bored with the genre interested once ...  Read the complete review

Ok I have now been off my foot for 3 weeks now and I am not saying I am bored because I will be wishing I was back home when I go back to work, but it is getting to the stage that if I see Jeremy Kyle's face again I will put my crutches through the TV! So in a fit of rebellion I decided to have a go of this newly acquired game that my eldest monster saved his pocket money for. Now you may think its strange that a 36 year old women would even think of playing these sorts of games but I suppose a part of me has never really grown up and I loved all console games when I was younger and have marvelled at the way they have evolved over the years. I finally found my ...  Read the complete review

Medal of Honor: Airborne is a World War II inspired first person shooter. The default buttons are what you expect on the Xbox 360 controller, primarily being the sticks to move/look, left trigger to aim and right trigger to fire your weapon. The other buttons control movements like throwing grenades. The difference with this game compared to most shooters is the fact you are given full control of where you are inserted in the level to begin with. All levels start from a plane that you jump from. Your safe landing zone is marked by green smoke and you are advised to land here. For the more ambitious gamers you can choose to land anywhere you wish, including ...  Read the complete review

Medal of Honor.....Airborne this time. I put it like that as quite simply, the series is being a smidge over done. It seems that once EA got good reviews over the first few releases of the Medal of Honor series, they did go a little crazy. This is the 11th in the series which puts you in control of Boyd Travers who is part of a squadron known as Airborne who are an elite group of soldiers trained to 'drop in' on the enemy and bring death from above. The game title and cover implies a lot of 'airborne' action however really it's just the start of each mission that puts you in control as you glide through the air to drop in to any one of ...  Read the complete review

I'd not played Medal of Honour, since Rising Sun on the Playstation 2, and was quite excited at the prospect of a new game, especially on the Xbox 360. It's the 11th in the Medal of Honour series, and I think they're running out of ideas now. The game is your bog standard WWII first person shooter, what you'd expect from Medal of Honour really. Your character this time round is PFC Boyd Travers a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne. Your missions take you into Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Each mission requires you to drop behind enemy lines, and complete a series of obectives. You control your parachute so you can steer ...  Read the complete review