In its set up and execution, MoHH2 doesn't even try to be original. Here you play as OSS Operative John Berg, tasked with infiltrating Normandy and wreaking havoc on Hitler's secret plans. The main campaign mode hearkens back to the earlier Medal of Honor games, when you were a lone soldier moving through a linear battlefield. While the game content is merely serviceable, the controls are the best of any console FPS I've ever played, and they singlehandedly turn an average experience into a special one. I'm happy to say that Medal of Honor Heroes 2 has reignited my zeal for Nazi extermination. So every time a new WWII FPS comes out, it has to work that much harder to capture my attention. I've destroyed anti-aircraft guns, freed POWs, blown up bridges, captured villages, shot cattle just to see if they'd fall over, and pretty much every other thing you can do in the WWII theatre. I've stormed more beaches than David Hasselhoff. Simpson trial everybody's been there, done that. At this point, finding somebody who can approach a World War II first person shooter with a fresh perspective is like finding objective jury members for the upcoming O.
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