Let us have a standing ovation for EA. Congratulations! You take the same formula, update a few levels, and release it again yearly and call it new. Profit is your name, and redundant games are your, well, game. The demo of Medal of Honor Airborne was released last week, and having seen some clips from E3 leading me to consider that this game might be viable, I partook of said demo. Regret and remorse filled my soul. Why were we hyping this game? Picture this for a moment. We take a game which we have all played time and time again, that game being the game that is World War II. Take a gimmick such as parachuting into the action, remove a sense of direction, leave some glaringly odd omissions, and you have Medal of Honor: Airborne. What could very well have been the most interesting additional to World War II based games has turned into bad mayonnaise. No one wants bad mayonnaise. What you will find in this title is the traditional Medal of Honor game play, but now your levels are more box shaped, and you can sort of choose your beginning point. That all sounds interesting on paper, but once you try it, you just see how much of a lack of direction this gives you the disservice of experiencing. Goals are wonderfully varied, bombing AA gun after AA gun, and the AI is terribly stupid. I guess back in World War II, enemies frequently broke enemy lines, ran through gun fire, and closed in on your position to melee you. That wouldn’t even be that bad if the melee atacks did a considerable amount of damage, but they don’t. They aren’t even worth using. So who cares? This game is about guns after all right? I guess, and strangely enough, you won’t find a reload button. I suppose we didn’t reload our weapons back in World War II until our clips were depleted. There goes tactical confrontations. All in all the game isn’t terrible, but it is just too EA for my tastes. Too few improvements over titles of yesteryear, coupled with very strange game play choices make for a forgettable experience. The mathematics of gaming success, right here, on The Sparking Wiggles.