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PC Xbox 360 First Impressions by Tom Bramwell
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They say that E3 is always a crap place to get a good look at a game, but my time with Medal of Honor Airborne takes this to a new extreme: I can't actually pick the enemies out from the scenery. Such is the depth of rubble, and the density of similar colours on the textures that wrap the fallen tiles, halves of bricks and half-buried window frames, that I have to put on my glasses to spot the German movements further up the street. It's absolute chaos. A few seconds later I'm dead. And then it's back in the aeroplane for another attempt.
Airborne's headline feature is that you start off in the sky, parachuting into the level, and that this lets you approach missions however you like. Obviously, then, if you die before you've completed any objectives, you respawn in the plane and try again. It's a key distinction, because the death-rate can be quite high if you're gung-ho, or a poor judge of enemy concentration. In a sense, it also mitigates against the usual agony of death; here, if you're confident of your plan, you can target the same landing zone with a renewed vigour, but if you're sure you'll just die again you can try something different.
Feeling I was somewhat in the latter camp, my second attempt (glasses locked on), sees me arcing toward a cluster of rooftops. As I descend I can glance quickly over the city, which is vast, and struggles relatively little with the amount of fully formed houses, bridges and town squares it's rendering - so much so that it's hard to believe that Unreal Engine 3, king of the corridor shooters, is pulling levers behind the scenes. Anyway, I skid across the tiles of a church or something similar, which towers in partial ruin over a Nazi-infested street. Presumably a man with a giant bedsheet strapped to his back landing smack bang in the middle of a bright red roof is slightly conspicuous though, because in my exposed state I'm dead again pretty quickly.
There are several factors to consider when descending on French towns. Number one, does it have a Hypermarket?
The next time I benefit from a bit of instruction from the developer. The game separates hot-zones and safer areas on your mini-map, which also indicates objectives in yellow, and enemy troops in red. Targeting a safe zone proves to be the trick, guaranteeing a certain amount of reinforcement on the ground. Hotter areas have put me under fire from ground troops, or sprung me into buildings infested with difficult-to-see Nazis. I even had rockets fired at me. Not so here. Another benefit to this attempt is being shown how to land properly, cutting my chute smoothly just before my feet hit the ground so I can be up and running, gun-in-hand, rather than tumbling and then having to get my head together before taking full control.
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I'm looking forward to it.
Never cared for MOH games, but the ability to start where I want to start, each and every time, without the 'corridors-through-open-fields' approach of previous games, appeals mightily. And the pulling the trigger a bit to ensure a good sniper shot is fantastic. /loves sniping |
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monkie_king
01/08/07 @ 13:41
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seems appropriate:
Call Of Duty 2 Gamer Wonders If War Is Worth Dying 79 Times For http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44458 "you start to wonder if it's really worth it," said 23-year-old Avers, who has been decorated 1,327 times since 1995, when he began fighting on his Sega Genesis." |
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bigjimbeef
01/08/07 @ 15:21
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Am I the only person that reckons the first screenshot looks a little bit like Midgar?
Meh.. maybe my monitor's at a funny angle. Though I can happily say that I lost interest in WWII games a long time ago. The parachute part does sound interesting enough, but not enough to merit a purchase, methinks. Though I do agree with bioreit on the use ofthe trigger for sniping - that is an excellent idea. |
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StormRider
01/08/07 @ 15:37
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I think the free-to-do-what-you-bloody-want idea is great, and especially needed in this dying ww2 fps genre. At least it'll give the genre a good farewell if this is one of the last ww2 fps games coming, which I don't really think so, especially if airborne turns out to be a bestseller and gets good marks.
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afghan_jones
01/08/07 @ 15:49
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Why cant someone make a WW1 FPS?
or a decent Robin hood game? or more games with dinosaurs? or Zulu the game? or the Great Escape? or a prehistoric caveman game? or a game where your a cop in Olde London, chasing Jack the Ripper? or a King Arthur game? or an apocalypto south american game? or an Atlantis based game? or more Cowboy games? or an arctic exploration game? or an ancient egypt game? or 1920s archaeologist indy style game? or bram stoker era vampire hunting game? or another Blade Runner game? or a knights & jousting game? or a Borrowers game? My point is, there are tons of cool ideas out there for games we've never seen before , so can we PLEASE STOP FLOGGING THE WW2 THEME?!?!? |
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PatrickEwing
01/08/07 @ 18:10
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christ I'm fed up of the no more WWII games argument, I would bet that there are more alien FPS or Zombie FPS than WWII FPS, I can play any, but to say there are too many WWII games is a load of old codswallop.
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Why cant someone make a WW1 FPS?
maybe the mud and the fact youd die all the time wouldnt be fun though they could tie in a EA Fifa War Edition I suppose or a decent Robin hood game? FPS in green tights - erm nope or more games with dinosaurs? No more Lara please............... or Zulu the game? Interesting but might not be PC or the Great Escape? Erm isnt this WWII? or a prehistoric caveman game? FPClub em up - sounds a bit boring or a game where your a cop in Olde London, chasing Jack the Ripper? Would be a bit dull with just the one baddie okay Im bored now..... |
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asphaltcowboy
02/08/07 @ 13:50
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I for one, think this has potential. Despite being Ea and not Call of Duty
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ExplodingClown
05/08/07 @ 10:36
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@Tonka: :-D
@DukeRed: that's what makes this site such a pleasure to read! @Darren: too late, my will has already been sapped by endless pixellated retreads of 'Saving Private Ryan' @StormRider: good point: why doesn't anyone make a decent WWII game where you're a member of the Resistance? Or SOE? Or a German soldier trying to survive the fall of the Reich and get home to his family? Why are you always a bloody GI? answer- instant ready made market of American consumers, and no research required just another trip to the mystical Well of Cliches >:-( @afghanjones: amen, and thus Bioshock is the answer to my prayers (I think your playful sense of irony is somewhat lost on some of the subsequent posters) @PatrickEwing: aliens maybe, but there's nowhere near enough zombie games around. Zombies rule. And my gripe with the WWII fps genre is the sameyness, not the quantity - these things may tinker with the ingredients but otherwise Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms etc have a horrible familiarity. *What's the betting that the music for the menu screen on MOH:A will feature 'distant trumpets/ratatat snare drums' and the tone of the thing will be along the lines of "gawsh, Ah'm jes' a farm boy but Ah lurned that when Uncle Sayam called, these gahs with me would become not just mah buddies but mah brothers". Gruff officer pre-mission briefings are pretty much on the cards. |
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I fucking love World War Two games.
The wonderful thing with WW2 is how it lets you strip away all that pretentious shit that is always getting in the way of decent First Person Shooters. I mean, you don't need a story. You don't need any exposition whatsoever beyond mission briefings that people will probably just skip, anyway. You don't need any plot or any characters. There's no necessity to make up some techno-babble bullshit about the guns because, at this point, every gamer has an ingrained knowledge of the exact specifications of every single side-arm, rifle and submachine gun used by the Americans and the Nazis or the bonus third side: the comedy Russians. As for settings. Jesus! This was World Friggin' War TWO. You can set it anywhere. Brown hot places, brown wet places or white cold places. You can even have bits inside grey places! It's not like any of that makes any discernable difference anyway. Best of all: straight out of the box, World War Two featured the greatest villains ever. No-one has any moral issue with killing Nazis. I mean, after all, they experimented on disabled people (!) and even had the good grace to do it dressed entirely in black. Saying World War Two is generic is stupid. World War Two IS a genre. |
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Agente_Silva
24/09/07 @ 11:54
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Why do pepole who donīt like or got sick of this kind of shooter keep on posting their opinion! Itīs like I would go comment on Half-Life (whatever episode) and say it sucks because I donīt like Non-Human FPS games - so I donīt bother (me and others) to comment. Medal of Honor Airborne is a GREAT shooter! More from the same, you would say: YES, correct... More from a game that always have entertained many. EA has thought about what had been made in previous series and came up with a simple conclusion: it is not meant to be like BiA so weīll quit on those pesky squad command option (wich in fact did work quite good); it is meant to impress both AGP and PCI-e users (and so it did, AMAZINGLY - Iīm running it on P4, DDR400 and X1950 Pro platform and my graphic setting, by DEFAULT, is High and Full :P); itīs an "in your face shooter" but not a "mommy look Iīm John Rambo" game. If you go Gungh-Ho, like someone said, you probably have to play the same scene for 10 times until you realize you must calm down, explore an IMMENSE map (and even end up finding weapons and health) in order to pass through the various scenarios. In terms of interaction and movement, EA sticks to the basic - i.e: you donīt need to follow a strict map path, just jump onto some boxes or make your way through ceilings and hope down, there you go ready to the next objective! Someone said the game is short - have you completed all objectives beyhond primaries?! This is what EA is good at and I think we all know that! It is surely the BEST MoH Iīve played! :)
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