| Developer: EA Canada | Publisher: Electronic Arts |
| Release Date: November 6, 2007 | Also On: PSP and Wii |
Medal of Honor returns for its second outing on the Wii and PSP this November in Medal of Honor Heroes 2. Each system is getting a game built from the ground up specifically for them. The two games will both share similar level design and 32 player online multi-player, with the major differences being graphics, controls and the Wii has an extra game mode not found in the PSP version.
The PSP version of Heroes 2 is controlled using the analog stick with the face buttons aiming for you and the right trigger firing. Pretty much, if you’ve played the first Heroes, you will have Heroes 2 down out of the box. The major difference that I can tell from my short play session is that Heroes 2 feels more like a console single-player experience. The first Heroes almost felt like an offline multi-player session with a storyline.
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 for Wii will start you off on the beaches near Normandy and on the way into the French countryside and towns. You use the Wii remote and nunchuk to control the action, but you can also use the soon-to-be-released Wii Zapper for a new mode exclusive to Wii. There won’t be split-screen offline multi-player, but the online action is where you will want to be anyway. It will take place using EA Nation, instead of the friend code system that Nintendo uses with their first-party games. EA Canada has included Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag as game modes.
Unlike any Medal of Honor before it, Heroes 2 on Wii has an Arcade mode, which is basically a rail shooter akin to Virtua Cop or Time Crisis, but set in World War II. The only thing you control in this mode is a cursor on the screen using the Wiimote. Aiming the cursor, you fire with one button and gesture to reload your weapon. It’s that easy. The whole idea of the Arcade mode is to make the game accessible to anyone. Arcade plays through the same single-player missions, except on rails. This mode is compatible with the Wii Zapper, which comes out November 19.
If you were a fan of Medal of Honor Vanguard for Wii earlier this year, get ready for an even better experience. The folks at EA Canada have built this game specifically with the Wii in mind, using the Wii Zapper for the Arcade mode and EA Nation for online multi-player. The PSP is equally impressive, with up to 32 players online and the eight levels from the Wii version on a smaller scale. Look for Medal of Honor Heroes 2 in early November 2007.
