Medal of Honor Heroes - multiplayer hands-on

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The only 16-on-16 battlefront that you can take anywhere

So the interface is a little junky and the game does chug when too many people get on the screen at one time, but the sheer intensity of 10-15 people breathing down your neck is intimidating as hell. Then when you drop the team-based playtime and go for an all-out deathmatch, it's all up in the air. We're not sure if the numbers ever truly hit 32 total, but let's just say the body count after each skirmish was shockingly high.

Aiming was generally pretty easy, strange controls or no - our only trouble with combat was the butt-in-the-face bludgeoning moves that didn't seem to connect well at all. And what's with the superhuman soldiers? Making it fun for a videogame is one thing, but once you shoot a guy in the face three times with a shotgun, he needs to go down.

We left the battlefield confident in Heroes ' ability to deliver a solid online performance. It's not the smoothest scrap around, but you can't argue with the sheer number of bullets flying past your brain. You'll get your chance to defend or destroy the world on October 24.

Brett Elston
Brett Elston

A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE.