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Should have been much more

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I agree with most of the reviewers who put 3 or less stars on this game. It's just not all there. Story mode is short and I too was not clear on what you need to do to earn a Gold medal in each mission. Even though you did what was required in a given mission you would end up with Bronze or Silver Medals. I FINALLY figured out that you needed to kill a "certain number" of enemy and achieve a "certain" hit percentage, but these are not given to you during mission briefings.

On-Line play via Infrastructure is truly horrible. There are only a handfull of games going on at any time and it seems like they are filled with cheaters or people using network lag times to become invincible. Opponents just walk right up to a heavily defended flag take it and stroll away back to their base as a whole platoon is raining fire on them. Or there are opponents who fire unlimited shells out of bazookas. Infrastructure is totally lame and because of these problems it is just not worth it.

Graphics are good though.

I really regret buying this game and will be selling it back to one of those re-sale shops. Don't do the same.

Just not good enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 18 / 35
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, I had been playing the excellent SOCOM Seal games and I decided to pick up Medal of Honor as I had hoped it would be another shooter of the same quality.

Nothing makes sense.

I'm playing green level (easy play, limited unlockables) because I like to play the stories through before going back and playing at harder levels.

You can't clear an area. You move in and clear a building, doing all the right things. There is no way into the building - but enemies keep appearing out of the building. There is no strategy - all you can do is move and shoot. The tactic that works this time will get you killed next time.

For some levels, the victory conditions are just not well laid out. I could not figure out that I had to hold a particular flag for 180 seconds - and once I did the level became overly simple, all you did was back into a tunnel and defend - this worked most of the time, unless multiple enemies were created at your rear.

Your own men jump in front of you - which is disconcerting until you realize that you can shoot through them.

Fragging is a mess - your own men are constantly fragging you - they throw grenades in random directions and if you are lucky you can kick them away. The only good news is that you seem to be able to take a lot more frag damage than the Germans.

The other disconcerting thing is that the German weapons are better than yours. Better mag sizes, (the Thompson has the small mag that holds 20, and the German equivalent holds 32. The BAR holds 10 and the German equivalent holds 30. But the shotgun seems to be the best for anything except distance work. In skirmishes I always want a shotgun - also, reloading the shotgun makes the most sense. So you are constantly picking up weapons and then killing people and running into fire to get the ammo that they drop - which, again, makes NO SENSE. But you have to do it.

Compared to the SOCOM US Navy Seals Fireteam Bravo game, the shooting is miserable. There is no target locking - you are aiming at the enemy by swiveling and strafing. Nothing you can do in a game makes any sense as compared to real shooting, but I've fired competition combat pistol and 3 gun matches and you mentally snap from target to target - so the whole concept of target lock and snap to different targets makes more sense in a simulation of the real world.

So: No real strategy, bad shooting, and the one thing that could allow this all to make sense, a good story line that you could actually play through, is also missing, because even at green levels, you can't figure out how to win the levels.

Buy the Seal Team Bravo game - when you get done with the story, you can play with others and frag to your heart's content - on the Internet if none of your friends have the game.

And in a way, I feel bad that the Medal of Honor is tied to this game.

I gave the game three stars because, well, it has not hung up yet.

So many things could have been done...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

EA just wasn't with it this time around. I'll start off with single player.

I'd have to say each mission is exactly the same, there's just no change. Everything is about holding a certain area, there's just no change. There's really only a few weapons worth using, and the physics just aren't there. If you are going to buy this game simply just for single player, I advise you to back away, even the average gamer can easily complete single player on the hardest skill level. I would have honestly only payed $10 for this game, it litterally took me only 1 and a half hours to beat, on two difficulties.

Now for the online...

Online isn't any better than single player. There's only about 100 people on a day comapared to SOCOM FTB2's 4000-6000 online daily. With 32 players, there's nothing more than lag. EA could have also made some different maps instead of taking them off of single player, in my opinion, that's just flat out laziness. They also could have created team deathmatch, and created an option to turn respawn off.

Final words: EA got one, and only one thing right. The graphics. Out of all the PSP games I have played, this has the 2nd best graphics. But honestly, graphics don't make the game, it's the gameplay that counts.

~Fellow PSU Member, PSPDude12345

So far not so good...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Right now I completed 5 boards and I am still unsure about this game.
The controls are hard on the hands. The game play is pretty bad - the guy you play moves around sluggishly and the AI is really bad. Overall movement is horrible. Graphics are outstanding and thats about it. Online play is pretty bad - everyone sluggishly moves around like drunks. TERRIBLE. The folks that give this game a 5 are nuts.
At this point I will attempt to finish the game and see if it grows on me. At 40 bucks wait and buy it used or rent it.
Don't believe the hype......

Medal of Honor: Heroes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is a lot of fun to play. The graphics are good and the action is intense. Yet, my greatest problem with this, and with a whole lot of today's games, is that it is way too short. Ten hours or less of game play to beat a first person shooter is far too short to make it worth the purchase price.

MoH on PSP

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just picked up a PSP Daxter bundle, with five more games (not including the game with the bundle), including this one. I was eager for some FPS WWII action and some godd multiplayer on the go. Sadly, this game doesn't rise above average.

First, let me start with the controls. This is how to do a FPS on the PSP. One uses the X, O, triangle, and square buttons to look around and the analog stick to move. The shoulder buttons are for zooming and shooting, and the d-pad is used to use medkits, reload, and cycle weapons. As you can see, every button is used to the fullest, and there is little room to do anything in the game but shoot Germans. Most of the missions involve capturing a post or picking up some secret plans, and then escaping. It would get repetitive, except for the fact that the game doesn't even last long enough to do that. I was on veteran (medium) difficulty and the game lasted 3-4 hours. Even on hero difficulty, it took less than six hours. It's not that the missions aren't difficult, but that they are too short. The longest one took was about fifteen minutes, and there were a couple I beat in three, leaving me with a sense of wanting much more. Your squadmates will constantly throw grenades and hit you, and with only one medkit, some of the missions would depend on finding another health pack.

Now, I have been a bit critical. However, there are many good aspects to the game. First is the controls. The shooting controls are tight and frantic, even on a handheld. They may take a bit to get used to, but they work extremely well once you do. The graphics are also very good for a handheld, probably in the line of late PSone, early PS2 games. The colors are bright, but it's hard to enjoy them when you've faced the same generic forest, snow, and open plain levels in other, better WWII FPS games. The multiplayer also holds up very well, and is extremely easy to set up. It would be tons of fun, but, sadly, few people are ever signed on.

All in all, it turned out to be only decent. It rehashed many themes done in previous games of the like, but it did rehash them pretty well, and provides some good shooter action on the go. Don't go in expecting too much, and you may want to pick this one up on the bargain rack.

This is what portable gaming is meant for!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

EA Games has pushed the PSP to it's limits with this game.The graphics are almost PS2 quality just a little bit choppy.And OMG,the 32 player online gameplay is un frekin bealeveable.It is like HALO 2 on xbox live and i have it for xbox 360 folks.This is free online play.unlike Xbox live which is $5 a month.Anyway buy this game at Ebgames or Gamestop and try it.If u dont like it return it.But 80 out of 100 people could not put this game down.It is only $40.That is kinda expensive but wait 2 to 4 months and u will get it for $30 or $25.Please try it.U will not be dissapointed.

Great Multiplayer!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The best part of this game is it's vast Online Community with thousands of players. It features 32 player multiplayer maps, and is very fun. The single player isn't real great, but it's good enough for when you don't have an online connection!!! MOH: heroes does a great job w/ controls on a PSP Shooter game, though there are some glitches in the game. Like, in single player, you can get shot through walls at time, and gernades take more than a few seconds to explode. Great pointless fun! Buy it if you have a Wireless conection, or if you don't get Syphon Filter.

a commendable portable shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like first person shooters, especially WWII-themed FPS, and you have a PSP, your options are limited. Fortunately, this soundly executed title fills the void well enough to be worth buying. The single player mode has some nice maps but disjointed missions and a fairly short campaign. If you have a friend with a PSP and a similar fondness for vintage weaponary, the multiplayer mode significantly adds to the replayability. The game does a commendable job of devising a usable PSP control scheme that, while not intuitive, is learnable and usable. Score it 4 out of 5.

Excellent game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although the campaign mode of this game is pretty short, it is intense and action packed. The multiplayer modes are amazing, and never get boring no matter how long you play. I got it from Target via Amazon for $19.99 and it was worth every dime. Delivery was excellent, and if you like FPSs you'll like this game alot, I guarantee it. The cons of this game are: short campaign mode, controls (tricky at first). However, there are way more pros, so I think that the 20 bucks was a bargain for a qualit game like this.

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