Call of Duty: Roads to Victory

After completing the Medal of Honor:Heroes game, I moved to the Call of Duty:Roads to Victory game for the Sony PSP.  To my knowledge, this is the only COD game on the PSP.  Unlike the MOH, where you can only play as the US, here you can play as the US, Canadians and British in the Western front of WW2.

After loading, the graphics and sound effects are much better than MOH.  Like the first MOH game you have a squad of comrades with you to help kill the enemy and to guide you to the next part of the objective.  This I think makes the game a bit too easy because in MOH, you are as the human player is expected to find the objectives yourself.  Another feature it has is the auto targetting of your gun sight so you don't have to implicitly aim at the enemy.  I'm not sure whether this would exist on the harder level but it makes the shooting much easier. 

One good thing about this is the innovative level where you are a gunner on an American bomber on an airstrike.  You must go from gun to gun trying to shoot enemy 109's. This certainly adds another dimension to the shoot'em up.

All in all I would give this 7/10.

Sony PSP Medal of Honor:Heroes

Hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas, part of my celebrations involved completing Medal of Honor:Heroes on the Sony PSP. I had actually completed the sequal Medal of Honor:Heroes2 beforehand.  In my opinion this was quite a successful adaptation to the PSP.  Both games are set in the Western Front of WW2 and are first person shoot'em ups. 

The difference between the first and the sequals is that in the first game you have some comrades fighting with you but in Heroes 2 your character fights alone.  Another difference is that in the first game you can replenish your character's health by picking up health packs and medikits from fallen enemies. Whilst in the sequal there are no such things and you must take cover in order for your health to recover.

You can choose a range of arms including sub machine guns, sniper rifles, semi-automatic pistols and hand grenades.  Occassionally you are allowed to use heavy machine guns and even artillery pieces. 

The thing I like most is that you have to find your way to the objectives yourself, so there is a huge element of problem solving involved. 

Overall a very good shoot'em up and I will give 8/10.