Medal of Honor Airborne is one of the more underrated MoH games. Very little linearity, allowing you to tackle whatever objective in whatever order you wanted.
European Assault did it first and imo, did it better.
My history with MOH is short. My first MOH was Frontline on PS2 and it was just plain cool. I got it after watching friends play it and realizing I hadn't played much shooters since Perfect Dark. The D-day sequence blew my mind and the rest of the game won me over with its music and atmosphere. Getting those drunk Germans to fight each other outside the Golden Lion in the lovely moonlight, wonderful. Just one of many great moments. I also found the sound of the dying cuckoo clocks in the mansion hilarious.
Next was European Assault and it was one of my favorite shooters on Gamecube. I bought it on a whim remembering that I enjoyed Frontline years before and because I wanted a new Gamecube game. And wow it was just awesome. Most of the levels objectives can be done in pretty much any order you want, you can find AI allies and build a small squad in most of the levels and optional (and mandatory) bosses with health bars were an unexpected but not unwelcome touch. I can not reccomend this game enough. I adored it.
I thought MOH music as a whole was sort of lame at first blush. In the menu you hear all this orchestral chorus and blaring trumpets and its a bit much but when you actually play the games and get into the stages the music just pulls everything together so well (at least in Frontlline and European Assault). One of my favorite tracks in Frontline was in Eye of the Storm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZv7PB_dxRI
European Assault had excellent music from start to finish.
The main theme got me right on start up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-uWmgOm9g
My last MOH was Airborne. It was a gift and one of my first PS3 games. I wanted to love it especially knowing it was doing the nonlinear thing again but every time I try to give this game a shot it just doesn't work out. The weapon accuracy is awful, the checkpointing is awful, enemies kill you from god knows where with no warning. The second level usually stops me in my tracks whenever I try to play this one.
I played the online beta for the first modern day MOH and it was okay but that's all the experience I've had with modern MOH. I might buy it and Warfighter on the cheap at some point.
Medal of Honor: European Assault is my personal favourite of the series, especially with the level that takes place in Russia & the music that's attached to it.
Up top. One of my favorite moments was in the first Russian level. I gathered up my three allies and we went for the enemy commander in the church. The music in the game loops around randomly and also based on what you're doing. Well the boss in the church was a real tough guy and he was shredding us. Right as most of my health was gone and my allies were also dying this really sad music swelled and I somehow bounced back, killed the guy and managed to save my allies lives with the last of my medkits. Good stuff. That was my second try at that level. I killed the commander before but lost an ally and I refused to finish any levels if my companions died.
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A was PC only - although, getting them mixed up is a common mistake. 