There's a vicious rumor currently circulating on a number of message boards that the Australian version of Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 is shipping without online functionality of any description. Forum users at various sites, including Aussie-Nintendo, PALGN, and NeoGAF, have all complained that the in-game menus completely lack an option to play online, while the game's box in Australia has neither the Nintendo Wi-Fi logo, or a mention of the title's much-vaunted 32-player online mode, which is available in other regions.
Just to further confuse matters, the game manual that shipped with the title in Australia reportedly does dedicate a whole page to the online mode. Frankly, we're confused, not to mention a little bit worried for our fellow Wii owners down under.
At the time of writing, EA has yet to respond to our request for clarification.
[Thanks, Peter!]
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2-07-2008 @ 4:26PM
andyl said...
You know, I kinda like "MoH: Heroes 2"...but I mostly bought it for on-line play. Without on-line multiplayer, the game would have held much, much less value for me...
For our Australian bretheren's sake, I hope these are lies!
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2-07-2008 @ 5:34PM
Stoo said...
I can confirm this as true... bought it yesterday when it hit the shelves on the recommendation of other reviews, and although it was late when I got home, I threw the disc in to make sure it was all working fine (in case I needed to return it) and no multiplayer option presents itself. It also seems that it is ONLY the Australian version, and not other PAL versions either.
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2-07-2008 @ 5:47PM
Directive0 said...
Wow. Thats pretty epic if true. Mad condolences to the affected parties.
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2-07-2008 @ 6:45PM
Archaic said...
So....import a PAL release from Europe then?
Why the hell the Australian market would've missed out, I don't know. Perhaps it's the crap that passes for broadband in this country. Bloody Telstra.
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2-07-2008 @ 7:19PM
ejamer said...
Wow... condolences to the Aussies, because online play was THE reason to get MoH:H2. Without that option, the game is fun but pretty shallow.
Hopefully EA will respond to let us know why this choice was made.
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2-07-2008 @ 10:51PM
mian said...
This is easily my favorite game, but no online makes it almost worthless.
What were they thinking?
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2-08-2008 @ 10:12PM
Microswirl said...
Don't worry, you're not missing much. Maybe I'm just spoiled by Xbox Live, but MoH's online mode kinda sucked. It was an extreme lag-fest. Everyone else in the game was just kinda floating around without moving their legs, sometimes teleporting 10 feet to the left or right while I fruitlessly try to shoot them. Lame.
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2-11-2008 @ 12:39AM
_GunneR_ said...
Eh, i wouldn't worry too much i have an imported version (I'm from Australia) and the online function works fine, i can't see why they'd remove it when it works just fine.
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2-12-2008 @ 2:25PM
midwestdem said...
This is unforgivable.
Let's review just why 3rd parties are failing on Wii. Here's a hint, it isn't Wii. It's the shoddy, gimped games.
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2-10-2008 @ 7:58PM
Phizzy said...
Yeah, that "No More Heroes" is utterly rubbish.