This shooter is billing itself as 'the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play'

Heroes of Valor - Announcement Trailer - YouTube

You want a sassy pitch for an upcoming game? Heroes of Valor is, per publisher Iceberg Interactive's press release, "the Battlefield Heroes you can actually play."

The third-person shooter takes place in a cartoonish World War 2 and—at current development—features four hero infantry classes with unique abilities, tanks, planes, and motorcycles. It has customizable battle rules, letting you tweak things like time of day, several game modes, and boasts of "intelligent bots that flank, fly, and fight with real strategy."

Developer Fancy Cat Interactive are making Heroes of Valor because they "found themselves waiting endlessly for a successor after [Battlefield Heroes] was taken offline. When none came, they decided to build it themselves."

You can find Heroes of Valor on Steam, where it's currently undergoing a playtest you can apply to join. There's not yet a release date for the early access version, but it intends to stay in early access for about a year.

Battlefield Heroes isn't a game that I'd have expected there to be this kind of nostalgia for, but the Steam forums for Heroes of Valor are filling up with comments excited about the appeal.

Kind of goes to show that even if it passed you by, any given free-to-play game was probably someone's mainstay, everyday game at some point. It's cool to see one of those crowds being catered to by enthusiastic developers.

Speaking of which, did you know that the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 community got their game back online? They did, and you can play it.

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Screenshot from an in-development build of Heroes of Valor — (Image credit: Fancy Cat Interactive)

Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.

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