Medal of Honor Heroes 2

 PSP
Metascore
69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 20
  3. Negative: 2 out of 20
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  1. IGN
    84
    Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is already a better overall effort than last year, though it adds in a ton of event gameplay and diversity in exchange for a relatively short single player campaign, and relies heavily on its online offerings.
  2. Gamers' Temple
    82
    Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is something that's a bit rare on the PSP, an enjoyable first-person shooter.
  3. GameZone
    80
    Short but satisfying, Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is an action-packed first-person shooter that handles it’s well enough on the PSP. Its few shortcomings are very noticeable but easily forgivable thanks to the solid controls, good campaign and excellent online multiplayer.
  5. Maxi Consolas (Portugal)
    80
    There’s a lot of intense moments in the single player campaign and the multiplayer supports 32 players. The PSP doesn’t have a lot of good FPS in its catalogue but Heroes 2 follows the same pattern of quality shown by the original title. [Dec 2007]
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  6. Armchair Empire
    75
    Medal of Honor 2: Heroes doesn’t really bring anything new to the table. However, like any good sequel it keeps what worked in the original and improves on much of what was wrong.
  7. GameSpy
    70
    Though it's hardly sufficient to make you forsake home console warfare for handheld ops, and the dollars-per-hour ratio would give any gamer pause, Medal of Honor Heroes 2 boasts enough polish and design acumen to be worth an expensive few days on the front lines for those who simply want another WW2 shooter experience.
  8. GameSpot
    70
    The solid single-player campaign is over in the blink of an eye, but a strong online component makes Medal of Honor Heroes 2 worth a look for anyone who enjoyed the previous game.
  9. GamesRadar+
    70
    If you dig that sort of thing, Heroes 2 offers plenty of challenge, level variety and enough Nazi shooting to satisfy anyone who can deal with the controls of an FPS on a PSP. And if you don't like them, this isn't going to be the game that converts you.
  10. Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK
    70
    So simple that it's actually a bit limited, despite a substantial multiplayer offer. [Christmas 2007, p.123]
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  11. VideoGamer
    70
    Those after a single-player experience will see all the game has to offer in a day, while online gamers will find themselves coming back to Heroes 2 for some time.
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  12. Pocket Gamer UK
    70
    In the unlikely case that you're a complete newcomer to WWII shooters, Medal of Honor Heroes 2 is well worth a look. However, it doesn't add anything to the series besides another reliably decent episode and a generous multiplayer game.
  13. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    70
    Stupid and, frankly, it's pretty good fun. [Jan 2008, p.113]
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  14. AceGamez
    70
    If you want to take on the Germans once again on your PSP then Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 is a good choice.
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  15. PSM3 Magazine UK
    67
    This is an action game with lots to get your teeth into, but you always feel reigned back by the fiddly controls. [Jan 2008, p.80]
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  16. Worth Playing
    67
    Playing an FPS on the PSP for the first time was a mix of fun action and occasional frustration, not only because of the controls, but because Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 offers a remarkably basic experience that hearkens back to the early days of shooters.
  17. Digital Entertainment News
    65
    Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 is just too little, too late, and released at the worst time imaginable. It is a game that was quite frankly doomed to be forgotten.
  18. Video Game Talk
    60
    The cramped controls, three hour campaign and an aged online component detract from an otherwise polished experience.
  19. 1UP
    55
    It's not that the game is terrible -- heck, it's not even bad -- it's just that it fails to do anything to claw its way out of mediocrity.
  20. GamePro
    40
    Graphics and sound alone can't save sub-par gameplay, however, and even the most staunch WWII shooter fan won't find much to enjoy with Heroes 2.
  21. Gamestyle
    40
    We suppose if you’re really into your WW2 shooters and unlike everyone else in the world has yet to tire of the setting then it’s possible that you’ll get some joy out of it. Everyone else need not apply.

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#44 Best PSP Game of 2007
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#17 Most Discussed PSP Game of 2007
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#41 Most Shared PSP Game of 2007

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User Score
7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 43
  3. Negative: 7 out of 43
  1. r0l0
    Jan 11, 2023
    9
    One of the best fps games of the psp if not the best,good story and gameplay even with the camera pad buttons movement it feels really good.
  2. JoJo2498
    Apr 25, 2021
    0
    Guns feel alright, controls are standard PSP shooter affair, and that's about it. Level design is dull, visuals are bland and somehow worseGuns feel alright, controls are standard PSP shooter affair, and that's about it. Level design is dull, visuals are bland and somehow worse than it's predecessor, probably because the colour palette. The game has random difficulty curb in the middle of levels, and is generally just all over the place with difficulty, enemy placement, and the sorts. It's very boring, tedious, and ugly. I would not recommend this to anyone, it's the worst PSP FPS I've played. Yes, Call of Duty and the Coded Arms games are very much better than this hot garbage. The game is barely even possible to complete, you are SWARMED with enemies on the last level, being shot form literally everywhere.

    You have been warned.

    Jo    … Full Review »
  3. Tip_Tank
    Feb 13, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Disclaimer: I played this game on a PS Vita and a PSTV, meaning I had a second analog stick, so my experience with the game would be quite different than someone who played it on a PSP using the face buttons. With that said, the controls are identical to the first MoH game and that’s a good thing. The ability to sprint, quick-look around, and lean around corners or a defilade to shoot are welcome features and impressively done considering the limitations of being on a handheld. The graphics are a highlight of this game and are a noticeable step-up from the first game, and, it could be argued, MoH: H2 is one of the best-looking games on the PSP. With that said, the game, for me, was a letdown. I was expecting more of the first game but with a boost in graphics, but it’s pretty much an entirely different game. Where the first game was more of an open-world, choose-you- own-path- to-the-objectives type of experience, this game was more of an on-rails, walk-in-a-straight line affair. Speaking of objectives, the first game had the primary and secondary objectives shown on your map, so you could choose which ones to go after and when but this game had the secondary objectives completely hidden. You weren’t told what they were during the briefing nor during the gameplay; you just had to stumble upon them as you went. I thought that was a dumb and unsatisfying decision. This game also felt more like a stealth game at times, and I’m not really looking for that experience if I’m playing a FPS World War 2 game. Also, the developers dropped the highly-enjoyable Skirmish mode, a highlight of the first game. Spoilers follow: My biggest issue with Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 was the ending. It just felt like a cheat and that the developers were intentionally being annoying and making it unnecessarily difficult. You are given a 5-minute time limit to escape the base you just spent the whole mission in. It would make sense to put a time limit on the game if you were trying to get out before a bomb you just set was about to go off or there was an inbound air strike or something like that, but there isn’t…you’re just given a random 5-minute limit for no reason. In your way are a series of unnecessarily slow-moving blast doors you have to activate and then wait for them to go down before you continue on. While you’re waiting, you’re treated to swarms of seemingly endless spawning Nazis that attack you from different angles. You will have to do the blast door wait and be attacked nonsense numerous times over as you continue to get killed or have the mission fail due to time running out. Once you get the patterns down and increase your swiftness and pass the last blast door, you have to make your way up a corridor out of the base where even more Nazis spawn and swarm at you. There is cover you can hide behind, but it’s not a good strategy as the clock is still running! You have to make it up that corridor and outside the boundaries of the base itself before the timer part goes away. But the game’s not over. Now you’re in a fenced-in courtyard with a couple of guard towers and more spawning Nazis to contend with. To beat the game, you have to go up one of the guard towers and then walk across a board to get you on the other side of the fence where you meet up with a squad of American soldiers who, for some reason, were there the whole time just watching you get shot at while you tried to make your way to the other side of the fence. That last ending part just made no sense. All the Nazis are focused on stopping you and are paying no mind to the Americans on the other side of the fence who are assaulting their base. The whole experience at the end of the game just frustrated me, from the unnecessary timer to the unexplainable boost in difficulty to having to try dozens of times to successfully escape to the fact it just didn’t make any sense…it just left a bad taste in my mouth and left me wondering why the developers deviated so far from the first game. The game looks great…but looks aren’t everything and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 is the perfect embodiment of that.… Full Review »
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