Close-quarters encounters are made difficult thanks to the ineffectiveness of your melee attack, which is difficult to perform because it's mapped to the fire button. It can also be quite difficult to lock on to moving targets, and sometimes the buttons don't seem to respond. Some weapons have a very short lock-on range, and you've got to be super close to target an enemy soldier. With your weapon down, all you have to do is look in the general vicinity of an enemy to lock on to your enemy.
Because the auto-aiming function is forgiving, it's easy to use the face buttons to aim. You move with the analog stick, look and aim with the face buttons, raise your weapon with the left shoulder button, and fire with the right shoulder button. There are four different control schemes available in Roads to Victory, but the default scheme works well. There's a brief black-and-white newsreel clip that plays before each country's campaign and a short text intro before each level, but other than that, the story is completely nonexistent.ĭevelopers have had a tough time nailing down a solid control scheme for first-person shooters on the PSP, but progress has been made. Weaving a strong narrative has never been one of the strengths of the series, but the story here is even less engaging than usual. Over the course of 14 levels, you'll lead American, Canadian, and British troops into battle in an effort to rid France of those oh-so-pesky Nazis. Shooting down planes is the most fun part of the game.Ĭall of Duty: Roads to Victory follows the same basic formula established by previous games in the series. It's entertaining for a few levels, but it quickly grows dull thanks to predictable, uninspired gameplay and a smattering of game-crashing bugs. Chalk another one up for the "miss" column with Call of Duty: Roads to Victory. First-person shooters have had a hit-or-miss track record on the PSP, but for the most part, they've been misses. Medal of Honor and Brothers in Arms have already found their way to the PlayStation Portable, so it was only a matter of time before Activision's WWII-based first-person shooter series Call of Duty made the trek to Sony's handheld.
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