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Medal of Honor Heroes for PlayStation Portable
Medal of Honor Heroes for PlayStation Portable brings the historical shooting series to a handheld system with fifteen missions across three campaigns. You play as Jimmy Patterson in the Netherlands, John Baker in Italy and William Holt in Belgium. Each officer leads a team during battles in the Second World War. Missions combine primary objectives with secondary tasks: obtaining documents, destroying defences, liberating villages and reaching a safe exit while enemy soldiers guard their positions.
The controls divide movement and aiming between the PSP's analogue stick and action buttons. Rifles, submachine guns, grenades and heavier weapons require different ranges and rates of fire. After a mission, the game evaluates completed objectives, accuracy and eliminations. Silver requires the primary and secondary tasks; shooting performance also counts towards gold. Higher ratings increase your rank and unlock uniforms that can be used in Skirmish and multiplayer.
Skirmish lets you play against computer-controlled soldiers without a network and uses the multiplayer maps for short, self-selected battles. The original release also offered local ad hoc play for up to eight PSP systems and online matches for up to 32 participants across six game types. The official EA servers have been closed since 11 August 2011, so online participation is not promised. Campaign and Skirmish remain fully playable from the UMD. For local ad hoc play, each participant needs a PSP and their own copy.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Medal of Honor Heroes uses the standard PSP controls and is playable without an extra accessory. Campaign and Skirmish are stored in full on the UMD. Local ad hoc play supports up to eight PSP systems and requires each participant to have their own game. The official EA online servers for matches with up to 32 players have been closed since 11 August 2011 and are therefore not offered as a working feature.
Manual
Medal of Honor Heroes for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Medal of Honor Heroes
EA Canada developed Medal of Honor Heroes specifically for PlayStation Portable. Electronic Arts released the European edition on 24 November 2006. It was the first Medal of Honor game designed for Sony's handheld. Rather than introducing one new leading character, Heroes brought together three familiar figures from earlier entries: Jimmy Patterson from Medal of Honor and Frontline, John Baker from Allied Assault: Breakthrough and William Holt from European Assault.
The fifteen missions tell missing episodes from their service in Italy, the Netherlands and the Ardennes. The campaign was supplemented with a ranking system, medals and unlockable uniforms. EA also built a separate Skirmish option around the maps and rules of the multiplayer component. This allowed PSP owners to set up short battles even without human opponents. The combination of story assignments and customisable skirmishes accommodated both longer and short play sessions.
For 2006, the scale of the wireless play stood out in particular. Eight players could join locally through ad hoc and the EA Nation infrastructure of the time supported matches with up to 32 players on fifteen maps. Six rules ranged from ordinary battles to Infiltration, Demolition and holding positions. EA ended the official online features on 11 August 2011. That does not change the content on the disc: campaigns, ratings, unlocked equipment and Skirmish remain available offline. Medal of Honor Heroes 2 followed as a separate sequel in 2007.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Heroes 2 is the direct PSP sequel and follows OSS agent John Berg during the fighting around Normandy. It retains portable first-person action but uses one new campaign instead of three returning leading characters. The first Heroes offers fifteen missions in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium; the sequel refines the controls and builds on the same combination of campaign and wireless play.
Roads to Victory also tells three Allied campaigns on PSP, but alternates between American, Canadian and British soldiers. Medal of Honor Heroes uses familiar officers from earlier Medal of Honor entries and links mission ratings to ranks and uniforms. Both are Second World War first-person shooters; Heroes adds a free-form Skirmish and had larger online battles than its campaign-focused rival.
Brothers in Arms: D-Day puts more emphasis on tactical orders to squad members, covering fire and flanking during the invasion of Normandy. Medal of Honor Heroes lets allies fight alongside you but keeps the controls more direct and rates personal objectives, accuracy and eliminations. Both use historical European battlefields; Heroes spreads its story across three countries and offers separate Skirmish maps for quick battles.
Fireteam Bravo takes place in a modern military setting and uses a third-person camera, stealth actions and orders to a partner. Medal of Honor Heroes presents the Second World War from a first-person view and revolves around rifles, submachine guns and open firefights. Both offered extensive wireless play on PSP, but their period, camera perspective and emphasis on stealth are clearly different.
Battlefront II has large groups of soldiers fighting over command posts and alternates between ground combat, vehicles and space flights. Medal of Honor Heroes stays with Second World War infantry battles and uses mission objectives with medal ratings. Both contain offline battles against computer-controlled opponents alongside wireless multiplayer; Heroes chooses a personal first-person perspective and three historical campaigns.
