List Price: £49.99
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Manufacturer: Ubisoft
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Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: Video Game Brand: UBI Soft EAN: 3307210331144 Label: Ubisoft Manufacturer: Ubisoft Manufacturer Minimum Age: 132 Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 2008-09-26 Studio: Ubisoft
In a nutshell: After a successful tour of duty on the current gen consoles Brothers in Arms returns in the ultimate WWII squad based shooter, set during the closing months of the war as you take part in the crucial Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.
The lowdown: Although there were many astonishing looking games at the recent E3 event this was for most people the most graphically amazing next gen game seen so far. The levels not only look near photorealistic but the game world is huge and almost completely interactive. The gameplay works in the same basic way as before, with an easy to use onscreen cursor enabling you to direct your men with a single button press. New movement types now exist though, allowing you to specify stealth or patrol postures depending on what you’re doing and how fast you need to move. The only problem is the enemy have the same abilities and their artificial intelligence is advanced enough to make proper use of them.
Most exciting moment: Not only are the enemy intelligent but they’re also well trained, reacting just as a real German soldier would. They’ll hide in doorways, ambush at road junctions and even, in one memorable encounter, hide behind a washing line – where your only warning is from a Dutch civilian at a window above.
Since you ask: Everything in the game is as realistic as possible with streets and house copied exactly from photos taken at the time, while all weapons and vehicles are modelled to work exactly as they did in real life.
The bottom line: The most realistic WWII game ever – in terms of history, tactics and graphics. HARRISON DENT
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Guys Chill Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comment: Well what can i say!!!
i have read all of these shocking reviews and some (which this upsets me the most) have reviewed and said call of duty is more realistic!
hah! speak to any war veteran and they will say you cant run into a hord of japanese soldiers and bayonet them all to death without them doing anything because they are obviously worse then you at fighting!
BIA HH makes clever use of cover which you can use really cooly. You can order different groups of men to do different things. Unlike COD'S it isnt a one man show where you go running it blazing the place down. In this you must make use of your teammates and what they do.By ordering them around and telling them to perform different tasks it really is like being a commander of troops. With good weapons, and very good scenery. The game takes you to a variety of places and touches on an untold story of the airborne in holland. Yes, this game isnt perfect i have to be honest, the graphics are poor on the cutscenes in comparison to leeding games such as COD, however the story line is very good, i throughly enjoyed playing it and at this price you really cant go wrong!!! Customer Rating: Summary: A nice pick if you find it half price Comment: There's nothing much to add to what I read above, except my own feelings while playing it.
Graphics ain't that good, but gameplay is fine. The storyline is quite OK actualy, if you enjoyed the Band of Brothers series, which is my case.
In the end I absolutelly disagree to those that either say this game is the worst or that it is excellent. It's somewhere in the middle and if you manage to pick it under £20 like I did, it is preety much worth the money. Customer Rating: Summary: Don't buy new for £35 buy second hand, thats all its worth. Comment: I certainly agree with the first review above. It is a dated game. The trailers make it look great but shows no resemblance. Ubisoft get your act together. Customer Rating: Summary: The biggest anticlimax ever!!!! Comment: Considering the amount of time that this game has been in production and the hype over the past few years, I was expecting great things. As a fan of the original games in this series, I purchased an Xbox 360 primarily for this game.
However, that was almost 3 years ago. During the wait, I burned out 4 Xboxes and eventually defected to the PS3 camp.
When the game was finally released, I had it pre-ordered from Amazon. It arrived on launch day, and within 10 minutes I was thoroughly disappointed!
The game sends you down a corridor - you have no choice in the direction and very little opportunity to explore. From the original preview video's released for this game at E3 etc I got the impression that I'd be given an entire town to explore looking for aa guns, with subtle clues along the way to help. No! Just a corridor, with Germans popping out predictably every few seconds.
I can only jump over some of the cover - furniture, railings and other items can't be negotiated by this elite trooper! I thought game designers were beyond this in latest gen games.
AI of Germans + Allies alike is diabolical. Why would anyone hide behind a white picket fence in a gun battle, not even moving to protect themselves as its being shot up?! The control system has become more fiddly in that during a gun battle the screen moves around and if you try to instruct your men to attack something you can inadvertantly order them to suicidally charge the enemy. In old versions of the game, I seem to remember that they'd refuse if you told them to do something stupid - not in theis version though. Countless times I've tried to order a fire team to surpress a machine gun, only to see them charge at it!!! It only ever ends one way!
Destructable cover? A major selling point of this game. Have they played Battlefield: Bad Company?? BIA is pathetic in comparison.
Disappointingly, I sold Bad Company to fund this purchase. Ubisoft and Gearbox should be ashamed for releasing something so half baked after all of the hype. The bar was high after the original games, but this doesn't even come close.
Big mistake. Fortunately, Far Cry 2 has come out and life is good again!!!
- I've sold the game now and got the lowest resale price for a game yet (and I sell all of my old games). Game quality is reflected in the fact that retailers such as Amazon are already having to drop the price considerably! Customer Rating: Summary: Good fun Comment: Brothers In Arms Hell Highway, is more of a tactical game as opposed to the COD series, which is a shoot 'em up. Although good, COD rarely gives a true feeling of war as you run around aimlessly at times. BIA is very different to this, the enemy, are intelligent and will take cover and in Authentic mode they will try to flank you, so a bit of awareness does help. The cut scenes are great, no matter what the above reviews say, once watching the cut scenes you do genuinely feel bad when a comrade bites the dust because of the personality these cut scenes give to your squad, COD fails to do this and to me, doesn't give a real "feel" of war, which you should expect when playing a war game. Overall, if you're a more "sophisticated" gamer, buy the BIA series, tactical awareness does help. By the way this is a bloke writing the review, just on my Mums account.
