What makes Medal of Honor: Airborne different from the rest of the FPS crowd is, well you know, the air drops. Each mission begins with an "In the Plane" sequence that ends with you getting out of the plane from several thousand feet in the air. Once you're out of the plane, there is no loading time or sequenced mission objectives (even saving the game is seamless), and it's up to you where to land.
We have a new trailer today that shows off some of the combat and a bit of a drop sequence, and
Anyone who has been following Medal of Honor: Airborne will be well aware that a major gameplay feature in the WWII FPS sequel is "go anywhere," i.e. the ability to parachute into any part of a level and begin the fight against the Nazi war machine from there.
A new trailer released focuses on that feature, using the D-Day attack on Utah beach as an example of the game's open battlefields that allow players to choose where to initiate their assault from.
A heavily defended German beach
September 6, 2007
We know unlocking achievements is rewarding on Xbox 360 games, but we do like to feel we earned them. Check out this video of the training mission at the start of Medal of Honor: Airborne. Surely there should be a rule that says you have to 'do' something before it congratulates you? You don't even have to jump - wait too long as we did here and you get pushed.
Still, the game's out in the UK tomorrow on Xbox 360 and PC, and it's lived up to its promise. Once you've watched
September 18, 2007
Official ELSPA Entertainment Top 20 Software Chart (all prices) - week ending 15 September:
1 (1) Medal of Honor: Airborne
(Xbox 360, PC)
2 (NE) Stranglehold
(Xbox 360)
3 (2) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
(PS2, Xbox 360, PC, DS, Wii)
4 (NE) Super Paper Mario
(Wii)
5 (14) Wii Play
(Wii)
6 (7) More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima: How Old is Your Brain?
(DS)
7 (NE) Heavenly Sword
(PS3)
8 (8) The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
(PC)
9 (5) Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
A fresh supply drop to the GR bunker revealed a box loaded with multiplayer screens for Medal of Honor Airborne, so we rushed them by armored car to the Images tab for your eyes only. Get a load of the detail in the highly polished visuals and imagine capturing the flags and lighting the icons at the top of the screen. Now tell yourself it's only a month away - at least on Xbox 360 and PC. The PS3 version's date is yet to be announced, but it shouldn't be too far
In adding his two cents to the videogame-violence debate, scientist Christoph Klimmt once said that "not everyone who plays a 'killer' game would be able to stand the stress of a real murder." We'd take it one step further and say that violent games don't even prepare would-be murderers for the stress of a real gun. It's something we found out firsthand when we sent two of our editors - one of whom had never shot a real gun despite being American, and one whose dad kept a "shootin' car" in the
Nov 28, 2007
Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford has described Brothers in Arms competitor Medal of Honor as a franchise "in trouble.”
"It's a great franchise, and a lot of people love it, but I think somebody really needs to get hold of that franchise who cares about the subject matter and understands what the real promise and the fantasy is," Pitchford said earlier today at a press event in London.
EA's Medal of Honor series blew gamers' socks off when Allied Assault launched
Nov 28, 2007
Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford has described Brothers in Arms competitor Medal of Honor as a franchise "in trouble.”
"It's a great franchise, and a lot of people love it, but I think somebody really needs to get hold of that franchise who cares about the subject matter and understands what the real promise and the fantasy is," Pitchford said earlier today at a press event in London.
EA's Medal of Honor series blew gamers' socks off when Allied Assault launched
The relationship between games and movies has always been a tense one. There's something almost violently alchemical about the way the two media usually react to each other. It's like getting hit by a yellow, piss-soaked snowball. Either element can be unpleasant enough on its own, but put them both together and something far more horrible happens.
Games of movies, movies of games, they're both usually about as much fun as the death of a clown at a ten year-old's birthday party. But still we
EA's going up to bat with the Medal of Honor franchise yet again, this time with Medal of Honor: Warfighter. The FPS, which is supposedly due out in October, will run on the Battlefield engine, according to OXM US...
