Get ready to get airborne! Medal of Honor Airborne is set to redefine the series and will change the way shooters are played. For the first time in a first person shooter, players airdrop into combat and land anywhere in an open battlefield. Conflict on the ground offers unprecedented tactical choice in vertical, open battlefields with a wealth of attack routes and flanking opportunities. Medal of Honor Airborne is the newest installment in EA's critically acclaimed Medal of Honor franchise, credited with pioneering the WWII FPS genre when it debuted in 1999. Airborne begins with one of the lesser-known campaigns of World War II. Starting with Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily, players will strap on the boots of a paratrooper in the legendary 82nd Airborne Division and jump out of a transport plane. As outlined in GameSpot's previous coverage, each mission will begin with a harrowing parachute jump. Other missions in the game include Operation Neptune, the airborne component...
In Airdrop #12, we gave you a preview of the audio team's research trip to Hondo, Texas. Now, you can experience the whole thing in this edition of The War Room, the Medal of Honor podcast.
To gather authentic audio assets for Medal of Honor Airborne, the audio team made a trip last fall to a small town in Texas. What was there? One of the most significant Airborne artifacts you could hope to find - a completely restored C-47 that actually flew in major US Airborne operations of WWII, including those featured in Medal of Honor Airborne.