The action doesn’t last very long either, with the WWII era campaign being done and dusted in no more than five hours, and that’s with some fairly annoyingly placed checkpoints that force you to replay sections over and over again should you die. The biggest let down is the size of the levels, which are pretty small and result in each level feeling a little like you’re playing on a set rather than in a real location.

Heroes 2 is more reminiscent of the Medal of Honor games on the PlayStation 2, which while dated today is acceptable on the Wii. Still, is the game itself any good? Although a long way from the modern FPS experiences you might have become accustomed to on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, this latest Wii effort from EA isn’t bad and benefits from being quite fast paced and action packed. With some persistence you can get pretty good with the Wii Remote controls and they really are a big step up from Vanguard. Given Metroid Prime 3’s rather excellent control scheme it’s disappointing that Heroes 2 didn’t follow suit. Aiming without the lock-on takes things in the other direction, with targeting becoming really tricky.

Sadly this is only available on the game’s lowest difficulty setting and doesn’t allow you to aim within this locked on zone, so the game essentially becomes nothing more than pressing Z and then holding fire down.

You use the Nunchuck to move and the Wii Remote to aim, but the key is how you can lock on to enemies using the Z button. Anyone who played the awkward to control Medal of Honor Vanguard on Wii will be pleased to hear that Heroes 2 features a completely reworked control scheme. Is it another FPS for Wii owners to get excited about? Now, considerably later than it arrived in the US, Wii owners have Medal of Honor Heroes 2 from EA – a game that tries to be both a first-person shooter and a light-gun shooter. Then Metroid Prime 3 came along and re-wrote the rule book on Wii FPS control, bringing with it hope that the genre could have success on the Wii. Early in the Wii’s life I didn’t have much faith in the Wii Remote as a tool for good first-person shooters.

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