Medal of Honor: Airborne is a World War II first-person ballista computer bold and the 11th chapter of the Medal of Honor series. It was developed by EA Los Angeles and was appear common on the PC and Xbox 360 in aboriginal September 2007. A PS2 and Wii adaptation was set to be appear but was annulled in 2007. A PlayStation 3 adaptation was appear backward November 2007. The bold takes abode in the European amphitheater of World War II, and is the aboriginal in the alternation to focus on paratrooper activities.

In the single-player mode, the amateur takes on the role of PFC Boyd Travers, a paratrooper in the US 82nd Airborne Division. Missions cover assorted insertions into Italy, arctic France, the Netherlands and Germany, anniversary one alpha with a jump abaft adversary lines, and success acute achievement of accustomed objectives. Airborne aswell appearance a multiplayer approach accessible for online play, area users accept the best of angry for the Allies and parachuting down to the battlefield, or angry for the Axis and starting on the ground, arresting the position from adversary paratroopers.

The bold uses a heavily-modified Unreal Engine 3. Airborne employs a nonlinear gameplay appearance whereby the amateur can alpha the bold anywhere in the map by administering area they land, as against to antecedent beeline FPS amateur area the alpha point and administration is already laid out, such as Allied Assault.

The capital gameplay element, which is alien in Airborne, is the paratroop jump. At the alpha of anniversary mission, the amateur begins in a C-47 forth with adolescent soldiers advancing to drop. The aggregation again all-overs out of the even and parachutes down to the ground, appearance the alpha of the mission. During the bead the amateur is able to advisedly ascendancy area in the acreage of action they land; pre-determined bead zones are apparent with a blooming flare, area the amateur will acquisition their allies and supplies, about they can aswell accept to acreage elsewhere,within a baby to average sized map, which affects the way the bold is played. For example, the amateur could acreage abreast the adversary bastion and appear up adjoin abundant opposing firepower, or acreage on the rooftops with a assassin burglarize and accept a catlike access to the mission. This free-roaming acquaintance based on absolute best of landing spots offers absolute means of gameplay, ensuring no two matches are alike. For Playstation 3, the SIXAXIS ambassador can be acclimated to aswell actuate which way the amateur leans, getting able by angry the ambassador advanced or backward. Additionally, clashing antecedent scripted first-person shooters, the missions in Airborne accept no specific alpha or end point. As the amateur can acreage anywhere in the map, alpha the mission area they choose, they can complete the accustomed objectives in any adjustment they wish. The amount at which players become accessible for action depends on their accomplishment at hitting the ground; a poor landing after-effects in notification of a "botched landing", with the amateur accepting to additional a few abnormal to accomplish composure. In accession to this, players can instantly annihilate an adversary soldier if they acreage on top of them. The objectives in the missions usually accept the amateur demography down 20 mm Flakveirlings, high-ranked officers, or agreement Composition B accuse on abounding altered food (i.e. ammo caches, a railway gun, Tanks, burden valves, and cannon cars) for accumulation destruction. The amateur aswell has to survive abounding ambuscade groups and abundant infantry like a Panzergrenadier and a Nazi Storm Elite, which is a actual able masked man that carries an MG42. These abundant infantrymen appear in backward in the bold though.

The aboriginal and a lot of analytical allotment of the mission, the jump. Players can accept area in the map they acreage by council their parachute.Airborne uses a bloom about-face arrangement agnate to one acclimated in Pariah area the bloom cachet bar is breach into four quarters. If a accomplished division of bloom is lost, a bloom backpack is bare to furnish it, although if the division is not absolutely absent it will boring bushing if the amateur finds awning and rests for a few seconds. The bold aswell has an absolute sprinting adeptness area the amateur can acceleration up, about they will not be able to shoot while sprinting. Like added added contempo FPS games, Airborne makes use of adamant sights, area the amateur can advance their accurateness by searching down the architect of the weapon. The game's crosshair is activating area it will abound beyond while the amateur is running, advertence that battlefront is beneath authentic while on the move.

Weapons

A advanced ambit of weapons is accessible in Airborne, such as the Thompson submachine gun and the M1 Garand rifle, which accept authentic antecedent Medal of Honor titles. However, like a lot of of the antecedent Medal of Honor titles, the weapon actuality avalanche far abbreviate of the mark. Grenades can be kicked away, and if one explodes too close, the amateur adventures blurred eyes and shock effects. Players are able to backpack two primary weapons(up to 780 rounds), a side-arm and 21 grenades (12 frag, 12 stick grenades, 12 Gammon if absolutely upgraded).

Airborne uses a weapon advancement system, whereby the amateur is awarded with add-ons to their called weapon as they become accomplished with it. This affection is based on the abstraction that not every weapon in World War II was the aforementioned as every added one, soldiers had a advanced array of acreage modifications and upgrades that they could administer to them. Every weapon in the bold can accomplish three upgrades e.g. the Thompson SMG evolves to resemble the abominable 1920's bandit weapon of best "The Tommy Gun" afterwards the accession of a advanced pistol anchor (for stability), a "Cutts Compensator" to alter the cage gas upwards (eliminating cage acceleration during accelerated fire) and a boom magazine, accretion ammo captivation accommodation from 30 to 50. Some upgrades can access accurateness (by replacing the barrel), access ammo (by application a Satchel (bag), or even access the affray effect. If wielding an MP40, the amateur will cull a artful for the melee, and for the M12 Shotgun, a bayonet is attached. Travers will be able to band magazines calm or install a appropriate able bolt (like on a Karabiner 98k or Springfield 1903) to access amount of fire.  Aswell beneath able-bodied accepted weapons are accessible as upgrades, such as the burglarize grenade. A notification appears anniversary time a headshot is performed, the amateur assets a amount of kills in accelerated succession, or performs a affray kill, all of which earns the amateur accolade points. Even if the amateur drops their weapon, any others they aces up of the aforementioned blazon absorb the upgrades.

Multiplayer

Airborne appearance a multiplayer approach for online play. Users can play as either the Allies or the Axis on six multiplayer maps, three of which accept been acclimatized from the individual amateur aspect of the game: Operation Husky, Operation Avalanche, and Operation Neptune. The actual three maps are all adaptations of multiplayer maps from a antecedent Medal of Honor title, Allied Assault. While the basal architecture and blueprint of the maps are the same, they accept been decreased in size, to added antithesis the two teams. These maps are Destroyed Village, Remagen and The Hunt.

Currently there are three gamemodes in Airborne. The aboriginal is "airborne deathmatch" area the Axis accept to avert adjoin the Allies who are bottomward in from the sky. The additional is "team deathmatch", in which the Allies spawn on the arena instead of jumping from a C-47. In both teammatch modes, the ancillary that assets the a lot of kills afterwards a defined time or frag absolute wins. The third gametype is an objective-based approach area players accept to abduction three aloof flags, agnate to the capital gamemode of Battlefield 2. The average banderole requires two soldiers to be abreast it, in adjustment to abduction it. The acceptable aggregation is the one who manages to ascendancy the a lot of flags the longest, afterwards a set aeon of time. There has been some criticism in the MOH association for the abridgement of a archetypal non-respawning "objective" gametype, of which abounding clans and aggressive ladders of Allied Assault are based around. While EA has not commented accurately on this gametype, it has been said that all apropos aural the association are noticed and those issues will be addressed with approaching patches.

Registration of an EA annual is appropriate in adjustment to play online. Server admins will accept the adeptness to set their servers as ranked or unranked in the future, about alone unranked is currently available. The best amount of players per server is 12 for the Xbox 360 and for PC accept servers, for committed servers the amount is accepted to be abundant higher, about has not yet been determined. Added maps and gametypes accept been slated for accession via downloadable content, although a date is unknown.

In an attack to barrier cheating in the multiplayer approach of the game, EA has included Punkbuster with Airborne, and said that they were investigating accouterment hooks for DMW as well.