Duty Caller: Roads to Victory

Thrusts players into the boots of an 82nd Airborne Division infantry soldier

Roads to Victory thrusts players into the boots of an 82nd Airborne Division infantry soldier, a Canadian First Army rifleman and an elite British Parachuting Regiment commando.

Featuring a completely unique set of challenges that include mounted machine gun battles, sniper encounters and aircraft attacks, as well as multiplayer warfare for up to six players

Roads to Victory looks the part by using the same dramatic situations and pacing that its console and PC cousins do. In addition, the game's audio effects are way too big for a handheld.

Activision has added a nice bit of value to the package too. Players can relive the 1940s as the United States, Canada, or Great Britain and throw themselves into 14 different missions that include bunker sieges, air battles, and full-scale invasions.

Instead, enemies run about the stage at full speed doing their own thing while you seem to be half a step behind at all times. Strangely, this doesn't create a problem of the game being too hard, but too easy as Amaze realized that players couldn't keep up and therefore made an auto-targeting adjustment that makes it close to impossible to miss. It's not unusual for your machine gun to be pointed to the right, while your bullets magically find their way to the guy flanking on the left. Plus, once you figure out that zooming towards a target in-between every shot almost completely guarantees a two-hit kill, you'll walk all over the Nazis like they did human rights.

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. Weaving a strong narrative has never been one of the strengths of the series, but the story here is even less engaging than usual. 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.