Over the course of four or five hours and seven single-player missions, you'll go on to visit a port, a city, some sewers, a monastery, a village, and finally a base, where you'll have the opportunity to thwart yet another virtual attempt by Hitler to unleash his dreaded V2 rocket upon the world.Īlong the way, you'll carry out a range of routine acts. It's like 1999 (the franchise's inception and the start of the WWII gaming industry obsession) all over again. After a stylised, CSI-esque briefing in which a gruff voice informs you that you're going to be landing with the 5th Rangers, the level begins and there you are, by the sea with the same concrete bunkers, the same iron bulwarks, the same Nazis. To understand what we mean, you need only know this: it begins on a beach. The downbeat tone of this review has more to do with the game's lack of ambition than with any fault it might have. On a platform not known for its success in the first-person shooter genre, Heroes 2 is a surprisingly credible effort, with a comprehensive set of multiplayer options accompanying a solid by-the-numbers single-player campaign. Despite the series' longevity, however (and if you'll allow us a momentary diversion onto home console territory in order to make our point), it's telling that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is at the top of several 'game of the year' lists and Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is, well, just another Medal of Honor game. In a crowded sub-genre, no game has spilled more Axis blood than Medal of Honor. During WWII, military casualties are thought to have reached around 25 million, while virtual casualties in single-player and multiplayer gameworlds must top that every weekend. There are so many WWII games on the market now that we're approaching a point when it will take as long to play every one of them consecutively as it took for the war itself to transpire.
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