Typical WWII shooter with awesome controls, but lack of online for the Australian version really hurts it.

User Rating: 6.5 | Medal of Honor Heroes 2 WII
I have been waiting for this one game for a long time now. Finally, a good FPS with a decent online for the Wii. Well, now its just your average, run of the mill WWII FPS with no online. In case your thinking that I've gone of my nut, EA has decided to cut out all online multiplayer features in the Australian version of this game. This really brings the game down. I played through a couple of campaigns and I wasn't surprised at anything I was doing. Shoot Nazi's, take and hold buildings, plant explosives, the whole boring 9 (?) yards. I've done everything they asked me to do back in the original Call of Duty.

Graphics:

The environments did look nice, but the guns looked really strange, kind of smooth and not very realistic, Eg the thompson. Some blood would've been nice to see but of course that was lacking, not even some splatter or spray when I shot them. I also noticed that some of the enemies I shot down simply fell beneath the surface and that isn't what you want to see. You either want to see them lying there dead for the duration of the mission, or at least stay there and then fade away, not fall into an invisible hole. Overall the graphics were nice but a bit bland and a lot could be improved on.

Gameplay:

It's a WWII FPS, so if you were expecting something new and fresh and different from all the other WWII shooters there are, then you are extremely mistaken. As I said earlier everything I did in it I did back in Call of Duty. It's just another WWII shooter and without online, its a boring one at that. EA, I'm severely pissed at you right now.

Controls:

Most Wii games that are ports have tacked on controls that are buggy and don't really work. However Medal of Honor Heroes 2 uses the wiimote to its full capacity. I did enjoy some of things I could do, but some things were pretty useless. The melee, which involves thrusting both wiimote and nunchuck, is impractical. In Call of Duty 3 melee was the down arrow button, and it would've been great if they used that. Zooming in and out of the sniper rifle was awkward by tilting it, but the tilt feature was put to good use in procedures such as setting explosives. My main problem was the sensitivity of the wiimote. I set it up so its as sensitive as possible but I found that it was still dragging along and it took too long to do quick turns and aim at enemies that are shooting you.

Overall:

Your standard, run of the mill WWII shooter that happens in France, who would've thought. No online brought this game down from a standard WWII FPS with a decent online to a boring, stereotypical WWII shooter with the same type of gameplay in Call of Duty. EA, get your **** together. This isn't good enough.