Medal of Honor heads to PSP

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 August, 2006

With 32-player online modes.

Medal of Honor is coming to PlayStation Portable this winter with a new campaign drawing on familiar characters and the promise of 32-player online battles.

Borrowing a trick out of SOCOM PSP's repertoire, Medal of Honor Heroes will also offer a special customisable skirmish game mode in addition to a traditional single-player campaign.

The main idea will be to guide Jimmy Patterson (from Medal of Honor/Frontline) through a bit more of Operation Market Garden, Sergeant John Baker (Medal of Honor Allied Assault: Breakthrough) on a mission to sabotage German defences on the Italian coast, and Lieutenant William Holt (Medal of Honor European Assault) as he returns to the Ardennes Forest during Battle of the Bulge.

As you go, you'll unlock as many as 20 "classic" MOH characters for use in multiplayer, which will be made up of six modes set across 15 maps, with online "infrastructure" support for up to 32 players and eight supported through ad-hoc connections.

Heroes is being developed by EA Canada and EA Los Angeles, and you can check out some screenshots elsewhere on the site.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • Tomo #1 6 years ago

    Is this the first PSP game with online compatibility?

  • JohnnyWashnGo #2 6 years ago

    More shovelware for the PSP.

    /Sighs, picks up DS, trains brain

  • Zero Beat #3 6 years ago

    Funny trailer, builds the game up to be something really grandiose then.. oh. It's CRAPOLA!

  • space_ace #4 6 years ago

    the psx level of gfx reminds me of the original medal of honor, which is kind of charming...

  • Steroyd #5 6 years ago

    /rubs eyes

    the PSP can do 32 player online!!!

  • foxy2006 #6 6 years ago

    the psp scene reminds me of when i used to have to wear all my older brothers clothes.
    At least they were useful though.

  • Nobuo #7 6 years ago

    My God this's ugly. The fact it reminded me that the PSP is soon to have PS1 downloadables speaks volumes.

  • manic_mouse #8 6 years ago

    " More shovelware for the PSP.

    /Sighs, picks up DS, trains brain"

    Yes, because "Nintendo" and "shovelware" don't belong in the same sentence at all...

  • JohnnyWashnGo #9 6 years ago

    'Yes, because "Nintendo" and "shovelware" don't belong in the same sentence at all...'

    I'd say the same thing if the article was about a DS version of Pikmin. No company is perfect and I like both the DS and PSP.

    However, My stack of 20 odd decent DS games is pissing on my mound of 3 quality PSP games from a great height.

  • manic_mouse #10 6 years ago

    "However, My stack of 20 odd decent DS games is pissing on my mound of 3 quality PSP games from a great height."

    Exit is £12 in the Play.com sale, you should get it...

  • JohnnyWashnGo #11 6 years ago

    'Exit is £12 in the Play.com sale, you should get it...'

    Yeah, I have that one.
    Also LocoRoco and Tales Of Eternia.

    Will probably get Silent Hill Origins as well as I am a big fan, but other than that, there isn't much out there of any quality.

    Bloody frustrating it is. That machine cost a fortune and its making a better paperweight than a games machine :(

  • tiddles #12 6 years ago

    I wish this was more like Medal Of Honor: Infiltrator, with a Killzone: Liberation style camera - that would rock!

  • Zero Beat #13 6 years ago

    We need more Mahjong Nipples.

  • Rash' #14 6 years ago

    "Bloody frustrating it is. That machine cost a fortune and its making a better paperweight than a games machine :("

    I think the problem with PSP is that not enough of the games are original products. There are great games for the system (Locco Rocco, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Tekken, Wipeout, Luminus, GTA...) but not enough of them make you think that you're getting something significantly new from the device.

    I'm confident this will change as time moves on (just caught Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins review in Edge; looks awesome!!) but Sony really need to find a way of making the systems multimedia capabilities sing in an accessible and convincing manner. Otherwises the system will struggle to develop the market Sony had originally planned for the system.

  • AcidSnake #15 6 years ago

    @JohnnyWashngo
    Are you kidding? Pikmin would be perfect for the ds...although the 100 little freaks on screen at the same time might get confusing...

  • tiddles #16 6 years ago

    However, My stack of 20 odd decent DS games is pissing on my mound of 3 quality PSP games from a great height.

    It's not really fair to complete "decent" with "quality" though, is it? Perhaps you need to buy more PSP games, as the following are all arguably at least decent:

    Ridge Racer
    Wipeout Pure
    Everybody's Golf
    Mercury
    Lumines
    GTA: LCS
    Metal Gear Acid
    Metal Gear Acid 2
    Virtua Tennis: World Tour
    Loco Roco
    Syphon Filter
    Daxter
    Field Commander
    Tekken: Dark Resurrection
    Exit
    Tales Of Eternia
    World Tour Soccer
    Ultimate Ghosts 'n' Goblins
    Monster Hunter Freedom
    Me and My Katamari
    Pro Evolution Soccer 5
    Edited by 2 at 07/08/06 @ 19:53

  • MyPointIs #17 6 years ago

    ^ ^ ^

    Well put.

    I'm also sure that, in a year's time, he'll be back saying his stack of odd Wii games is pissing on his mound of qualityPS3 games.

    People change, but not that much, you see :)