There is much more to Dark Mirror after completion of the single-player campaign. Multiplayer is set out over both Ad-Hoc and Infrastructure mode. Another technology not used enough on the PSP, Game Sharing, will allow a friend to experience the (single-player only) game.

The bar has been set extremely high with Dark Mirror. Not just in single-player, but also in Infrastructure multiplayer. This game's online component rivals many Xbox and PC games. Dark Mirror supports up to eight players with full voice chat with a PSP headset. It also has clans, a buddy list, leaderboards, message boards and a mailbox. Some of these features were thought to be casualties of handheld gaming, but Dark Mirror keeps proving us wrong on all fronts.

The slick menu system from single-player is just as beautiful in multiplayer. Yes the menu system in Dark Mirror is beautiful. It is strait-forward, intuitive, and displays all the information you need.

Connecting to the online lobby is hastened by auto fill of your user name and password. This is small, but a welcomed feature, especially on a handheld. Navigating the menus here is done with the L and R triggers. The first screen, Join Game, shows a browser of all active games, connected users, and a message window.

As I write this, there are 266 players logged in with 37 games active. I have never seen numbers like this in a PSP game, especially considering this is not the weekend, and it is past the "wow" factor of a brand new release. The public beta test period of Dark Mirror no doubt contributed to this strong online following, as well as squashing any bugs.

Next in the menu is Host Game, where you are given a number of options. You can choose between five maps. The maps themselves are large enough to accommodate eight player firefights, but it would have been nice to have more. But the overall experience found online negates any shortcomings of map choices.

The obligatory Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch are here. You also have Objective, where two teams are trying to pull off the same mission simultaneously. The Objective games lead to some frantic play. Rounding things off is Rogue Agent, where only one player can score kills, the rest are just out to stop that person.