Medal of Honour: Airborne

There are, unsurprisingly, a number of video game series about shooting, killing and war. Before this became the absolute norm, though, there was one series that stood head and shoulders above every other attempt because of its evocative and personal take on the tragedies of war. That series was Medal of Honour. Or Medal of Honor since it was made in America. The series features innumerable games across a multitude of systems but one of the more experimental, and one of the best, entries came on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360: Medal of Honour: Airborne.

The game allowed players to choose their own insertion points into a level by being dropped in via a plane and a parachute. It sounds simple, but given that FPS levels are usually linear in nature this change up was revolutionary, and not something that’s been attempted since. It meant players could tackle the level and the objectives in any order that they wanted. This freedom of choice needs to come back to FPS games.