Great Online Multi-player, Awful Single Player Campaign

User Rating: 6 | Medal of Honor Heroes 2 WII
The developers have done a great job using the Wii controls. The different gestures that are associated with different types of weapons feel natural and work good with the exception of one or two. The game supports 32 player online multi-player. Until a lot of other future Wii shooters support online multi-player MOH Heroes 2 will be king of the hill for a good while. Combine those two aspects and you have some solid gameplay.

If you are looking for some multi-player fun on the wii this game has it. You have your basic matches such as Death Match, Team Death Match and Capture the Flag. The servers are stable with little lag and rarely disconnect. You can always find some one to exchange bullets with, at least until the next Medal of Honor arrives.

The game falls apart in the single player experience. The campaign story is mediocre at best. It seems as though EA has ran out of ideas for WW2. The story is nothing more than an excuse to progress from one level to the next. There is nothing memorable or epic about it.

Unfortunately the enemy AI isn't very intelligent. In one of the levels my squad approached a barn from the rear so I decided to approach it from the front instead. The enemy AI is scripted to approach the barn from the front. Instead of them shooting at me they ran right by me to the back of the barn. Than they realized I wasn't there and ran back to their spawn point.

The least enjoyable feature is the arcade mode. In arcade mode your player automatically moves for you and all you do is shoot. If you want to play a fun rail shooter try Ghost Squad. Ghost Squad makes rail shooters fun by being exciting. In Ghost Squad your player is always moving, taking cover, peering around corners and other action sequences all the while you guess where the next enemy will pop up. In MOH Heroes 2 you are thrown into plain sight of a dozen or more enemies and have to shoot them all before they all shoot you.

If you are really into online multi-players then you will probably want to keep this game for longer than a rental period. If you want to play it for the single player campaign then you are better off renting it. There is nothing memorable about the campaign story that would make you want to play it again or even think about it.