N°9: Medal of Honor Airborne : Room by room

It's been a while since the last update, almost 2 months. Life kept me pretty busy, but here is for you: a shinny new post.

And today we're going to have some Medal of Honor.

This series started back in 1999-2000, on the PSX. It was one of the few FPS on the PSX, and due to its incredible ambiance and the "realism" of the AI, it became a renowned game. Circa 2002, MoH:Allied Assault definitely made the series incredibly popular

and praised for being awesome. Although the latest

entries destroyed the series ( modern stuffs ? in my Medal of honor ? WHY ?), in 2007, Medal of Honor Airborne was released.

Even if it suffered from the same defect as most of the MoH games between Allied Assault and the reboot, being ok-ish games but not unforgettable, Airborne kept an essential point of the MoH series: its soundtrack.

For those who have read this blog before, you'll know that orchestral soundtracks are really common, and are the easiest way to give a sense of epicness to the game. But the Medal of Honor series never faltered on this point: every of them had a grandiloquent, blazing soundtrack which perefctly fits the levels and conveys a lot of emotions, one way of another.

And the piece I've selected today...well. It's a piece you get to hear when it gets serious, and that brass ensemble coupled with frantic drums and strings conveys a sense of urgency. Mixed with the gunshots and explosions you hear in-game, it's literally screaming " move your ass bro! MOVE MOVE MOVE !" at you.

And it *will* get you deeply immersed in the game. In short, just a perfect soundtrack for parts with lots of actions.

See you later.
-Aliascent

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