MoH Heroes fires off a clip

[wraggster]

While the grown-up desktop-dwelling Airborne might be grounded for many more months, the pocket-dwelling PSP edition known as Medal of Honor Heroes is getting closer to its objective with every passing day. So to while away those weeks of waiting between now and its 17 November launch date, why not indulge your irises with the clip concealed by the movie tab above?

A click there will reveal just how this, the first PSP version of MoH, trawls through the series' history to create a greatest hits of its Brylcreemed warriors and weapons. But, while you reprise the roles of Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson, Sergeant John Baker and Lieutenant William Holt, you also get to see a whole host of new locations and levels including Holland and Italy.

And continuing this mixture of the old and the new, there will be a 32-person-strong online option that at the same time allows you to collect and unlock 20 classic characters from the games many variants and versions.

But plenty of new features have also been packed into the 15 missions and maps so there is an ad-hoc WiFi mode that allows eight gamers to jump into quickfire battle or to join in a 16-aside deathmatch, if you have a nearby PC to use as a game server.

Screens Here (http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/psp/game/news/article.jsp?sectionId=1006&articleId=20061101151932468082&releaseId=2006080893511687056)

[the_eternal_dark]

32 person multiplayer? This game is a buy.

[Broadus]

... November 17?
I've already bought the game. A lot of people have already bought the game, from what I've seen on gaming sites, and from the amount of people playing online. It was released in October 24th or something, wasn't it? Or is it being released later in Europe, maybe?

Just so everyone knows, this game can only really mean something to you if you can play online. In fact, if you like playing online, then you NEED to buy this game!

Single player modes consist of the following:
- The single player campaign, which is just the multiplayer maps with very small amounts of AI enemies, around three AI allies for the player, and some objectives scattered around. Because there are very few enemies to fight, the single player campaign gets really old really fast, but AI teammates at least improve on it a good deal. There are no scripted sequences or dialogue.
- Skirmish mode, which is a free-for-all multiplayer battle against a maximum of sixteen bots. This can be really fun, but you're limited to free-for-all deathmatch, no team deathmatch for Axis versus Allies fun, so it can get old after a round or two.

Ad Hoc is just multiplayer with a limit of eight players. Not too exciting, unless you have eight friends with eight PSPs and eight copies of the game, as most games are more fun when you're playing with people you know, but the levels are huge so you'd spend most of your time trying to find eachother. A co-op mode would've been nice, since the single player was just multiplayer maps with AI.

Though offline isn't really that great, online is PERFECT. If you like multiplayer first person shooters of any kind at all, you'll love Medal of Honor: Heroes like you wouldn't believe. It's the best FPS portable multiplayer you could get.
Lag-free with thirty-two players, cool characters to play as (you have to unlock most of them in the single player campaign), and plenty of gametypes. All of the weapons from Medal of Honor: Allied Assault are in Heroes. Except for the Springfield, which is replaced by the Enfield.

It seems that the creators put every ounce of their effort into making the multiplayer, and hardly tried with the single player at all. Which is fine with me, as there are plenty of good offline games for the PSP (none are FPSs), but SOCOM is the only other online TPS/FPS for the PSP that would be worthy as a console or PC game, and that game is loaded with auto-aiming galore.

They say that you can unlock twenty characters from old Medal of Honor games, but what they don't tell you is that these characters are just the generic soldiers, like the British soldiers from European Assault, and the Navy guys from Pearl Harbor in Rising Sun and Pacific Assault. When they said classic, I thought they meant recurring Medal of Honor characters like Manon Batiste. Well, she'd really be the only recurring character besides Jimmy Patterson.