Medal Of Honor: Airborne was released in 2008 amongst a wealth of WW2 shooters (one of which was Call Of Duty: World At War, 8/10), and now when you look at it against some modern shooters such as Modern Warfare (8/10); Battlefield Bad Company 2 (8/10) and Modern Warfare 2 (9/10), it's easy to see its major shortcomings, and in a world of so many FPS titles, major shortcomings are no longer easy to look past. Airborne is set in the final days of the Second World War, and sees you as part of a team of paratroopers dispatched to flank the enemy in major battles (one of which is Normany- again. Sigh) via parachuting into the battlefield. It's a novel idea for shooters, to be sure, but one that is executed with the utmost sense of tedium- 'chuting into the warzone after every death gets tiresome, and fast. To its credit, enemies gamers kill in Airborne stay down so that when you land there won't be Nazis on all sides, though respawning foes do rear their ugly heads around every corner. Medal Of Honor games have always been known as the trademark WW2 titles for linear, scripted drama sequences, and in giving the player so much freedom Airborne loses even some of this. It's hard to call the latest entry in the franchise terrible because it really does nothing wrong, rather it feels somewhat lacking. That being said though, it isn't worth its £20 RRP simply because the Call Of Duty equivalent for 2008 (and earlier in many respects) outclasses with its emotional campaign and lengthy Zombie mode.
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