There are only three FPSs on PSP: this, Coded Arms and King Kong (which also had some bits where you played as Kong from a thirdperson perspective to balance things out). It’s obvious why – there’s only one analogue stick, nub, thing, and that means half the controls are then placed on the face buttons. This makes it really tricky to aim accurately and really defeats the point of playing an FPS.

For the single-player missions you take on the role of various soldiers you’ve played as before in previous Medal Of Honor titles such as Lieutenant Jimmy Patterson, Sergeant John Baker and even Lieutenant William Holt. Of course all you see of them is their hands and wrists and whatever gun their holding, but, sure, at least you’re totally ‘being’ them.

What your not being though is in anyway realistic. Most of the missions see you running in and heading towards the bright yellow arrows on the radar, though if you want to do the secondary missions you should head towards the blue arrows, occasionally shooting some Nazis in the knees. Because of the controls being wonky and the recoil of the guns sending your aim upwards it’s best to aim slightly above the Nazis boots – that way when the gun judders upwards, by the time the reticule is on their face, they’re dead.

Some of the missions require you to go to blow something up and then return to your starting point, others require you to capture flags by standing in front of them and other ones… no you just have to blow things up or stand in front of flags.

Heroes isn’t really about the single-player aspect, not when you can have 32 players online at once gunning the shins off each other. Just connect to the EA server and find a game. You can play the standard death matches and capture the flag ones, but there are a few newish modes to play. Hold The Line sees you and your team defending a piece of territory from your opponents, and Infiltration, which is really the same thing but in reverse. Demolition mode is better because you have to destroy key enemy buildings. There are over 20 characters from the MOH series to unlock and use as skins in the multiplayer and 15 different maps to make them run about on, plus all the old rusty weaponry you can imagine.

Tim Empey