Medal of Honor: Airborne, a first-person shooter video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts, was released worldwide.
The player character, Lieutenant Boyd Travers, is deployed as a paratrooper for Operation Market Garden to secure key bridges in the Netherlands.
Travers fights to secure and defend the Nijmegen railroad bridge against fierce German counterattacks.
Lieutenant Travers participates in combat operations to liberate the Dutch city of Eindhoven from German occupation.
Travers takes part in Operation Varsity, the largest single-day airborne drop in history, aimed at crossing the Rhine River.
The player advances with Allied forces to secure the eastern bank of the Rhine River as part of the final push into Nazi Germany.
Travers is involved in the final major battles in the Ruhr Valley, cutting off German industrial resources and forcing retreat.
The protagonist reaches and captures Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest mountain retreat, signaling the impending end of the war in Europe.
