Medal of Honor: Airborne

"That might make this a nice tune-up for some while waiting for the upcoming multiplayer heavyweights soon to be released, but it comes up well short of redeeming the misguided single-player campaign."

"From our session, we came away pleased with the direction MoH is taking. While it still features floating medical kits and ammo boxes (so last-gen), the action was fast and nerve-racking. The air drops are a nice touch and, surprisingly, the arcade element of an on-the-fly weapon upgrade system adds to the fun, realism be damned. But the gameplay is really all about the open battlefield and dynamic war that unfolds around you. You decide where to drop, you decide how to fight. It's a different war every time."

"Medal of Honor: Airborne, while not perfect, is definitely the best game in the franchise to come along in quite a while. It may be fairly short, but those hours are pretty much one non-stop battle with Nazi Germany throughout the various paratrooper campaigns from World War II. The levels are designed well and provide a few different environmental challenges that shooter fans should appreciate. The weapons feel and sound good as well and dropping into each level from the sky adds some interest and replayability through occasionally the feature seems more like a gimmick than something to change shooters for all time. The shiny coat of EA presentation covering all aspects of Airborne certainly help with the enjoyment, but there's not quite as much variety and interaction that we're becoming used to in top-tier shooters these days."

"It's a game that, when played under pressure, can be a real pain, but taken at your leisure is one to savour. With an excellent mission-rating system in place, it's also one of the few games that gives you an incentive to go back and do better. If only more shooters had such in-built replayability. With 12-player online team deathmatch and capture the flag thrown in there for good measure (that we couldn't test because, well, no-one was online yet!) across all six maps, there's even more reason to cast off your Medal of Honor prejudice and enjoy the best World War II game to date."

"Medal of Honor Vanguard returned the franchise to where it was way back in 2002 with Frontline. Airborne is the future. Activision will be looking at Airborne for pointers in their next Call of Duty instead of the other way around."