YMMV / Medal of Honor: Airborne

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Apparently, Zero Punctuation thought flak towers were completely fictional.
• Demonic Spiders: The Panzergrenadiers, Nazi Storm Elites, and both sniper variants of the Waffen-SS and Fallschirmjager.
  • The former wield bazookas as if they were sniper rifles and are obsessively fixated on the player, which means you invariably get hunted down with Panzerschreck rockets as soon as they appear. And they nearly always appear in (at least) pairs.
  • The latter, however, are infamous for how just overpowered they are. In the first place, they are absurdly tough - if you think round or two to the head should kill them, you're wrong. They just lumber onwards like the Terminator. Even grenades need two solid hits to kill them. In the second place, they carry MG42 heavy machine guns which are usually found (both in-game and in real life) in static positions, making them essentially walking turrets with overwhelming firepower; and lastly, they aren't any less deadly in close quarters combat, and they can bludgeon you if you try and get up close.
  • The last two, the Waffen Senior Trooper and Fallschirmjager Sniper, will, like the Panzergrenadiers, focus fire on the player when presented a chance. Unlike most enemy-wielded weapons, their scoped Gewehr 43s can instantly deplete a single health bar in one hit, meaning that getting hit four times by them, especially on higher difficulties, is a death sentence. Normally, these enemies are rare and hard to come by, but in Varsity, the second-to-last level, dozens of them are defending the relatively open spaces of the Essen Industrial Area, where they can kill players in seconds.
• Disappointing Last Level: From a historical perspective, the final level is a departure from the historical accuracy the series was known for - while most people will accept that an Airborne assault on a Flaktürm (which never happened in real life) is pretty awesome, filling it with Wolfenstein-esque Storm Elites and more drab concrete and less Scenery Porn than earlier levels was a step too far.
• Fridge Brilliance: "What do you get when you cross a Nazi, and a cockroach? You get..." The Nazi Storm Elites, armored Gas Mask Mooks, who can take dozens of bullets and only flinch. What do people remember about cockroaches other than their appearance? The fact that cockroaches are hard to squish and thus very hard to kill. The game is spelling out which enemy type will make it's big entrance right from the start of the level!
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: One common complaint is the number of missions and the overall length of the game. Though considering that there were only a handful of times Airborne forces were parachuted in in Europe during World War II, this is sort-of justified.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Compared to preceding Medal of Honor titles like Medal of Honor: Vanguard, this game was praised for being a significant improvement in gameplay and graphics, especially with regards to the improved Equipment Upgrade system and level design.
• That One Level: "Operation: Varsity" is seen by many as the hardest mission in the game, no thanks to the huge number of Waffen Senior Troopers and Fallschirmjager Snipers scattered around the outdoor areas of the map. These snipers can deplete the player's health bars in 4 hits, capable of killing the player mere seconds after landing. The worst and longest part of the level, however, is the railyard where the parked enemy tanks are located, which is consequently also where the majority of the enemy snipers on that level are, in addition this is where the STG44 has completely replaced the MP40 so even regular mooks are more of a problem.
• Vindicated by History: If Steam reviews and Youtube comments are to be believed, a lot of people who have played this game will say that it's aged well. This is probably helped by the critical and commercial disappointment that was the 2010 reboot and its sequel.