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Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (PC)

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Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: Windows XP
ESRB Age Rating: Rating Pending
Release date: 3rd October, 2008
Media: Video Game

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Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a completely redesigned online component. Delivering on the franchise's compelling story, unrivaled authenticity and intense squad-based action, Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway drops you into Operation Market-Garden, the largest airborne operation of World War II. Lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division as they fight to open "Hell's Highway" in a daring bid for a quick end to the war.

Next Generation. Granted with the excellence of Unreal Engine 3, the classic authentic, squad based combat series explodes on next generation hardware offering unprecedented graphics and features.
Destroyable Cover. Keep your men moving, and choose your cover wisely - simulated with real physics, weapons will damage, dent, scorch, and destroy the world around you.
Unprecedented Character Design. Lifelike characters look, talk, move, and think with incredible realism. Game characters interact with the player and each other like true brothers-in-arms, trading ammunition, helping wounded allies, working together to man team-operated weapons, and more.
More open level design. Discover the enlarged given choices allowed by next-generation in wide open level design.
Unrivaled Authenticity for a true WWII immersion. Experience the high tension of true battles from the historical Market-Garden Operation, and make your way through real locations of 1940s Holland. Fight alongside historic war heroes such as such as Lt. Colonel Robert Cole, Colonel "Bob" Sink or George Koskimaki.
Step into the Boots of a Soldier. Hit the dirt and get prone, rip grenades from your chest and hurl them at your enemies. See and feel the blast of nearby explosion

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Rating: - Annoying beyond belief
Just installed this and fifteen minutes in I've played for about two of them. The rest of the time was spent watching cut-scenes that you can't skip, long cut scenes.

They've taken a perfectly good series of games, of which I have bought both the original episodes, and made it as annoying as possible.

The screen turns red when you're in danger, only it's so damned red you can't even see the danger.

I finally got playing only to end up dead about three minutes in and then got another cut scene, "three day earlier". Apparantly I was playing through the end first, at least I now know that my character isn't going to make it. I dodn't bother with this cut scene, I've just come out of the game and doubt I'll bother going back in.

Feel very let down by this game. Needless to say, if they bring out another one, I won't be bothering.
Rating: - The Highway To Hell
BH HH: first of all this game is what war is like, it shows good graphics, good AI and also good team work. The game is set in September 1944 at the time of operation market garden in Holland, and you play as an American Sgt. Matthew Baker, in which you control machine gun squads, base of fire squads, bazooka squads and assault squads. In the game you come across German infantry (Machine gun squads, assault squads, bazooka squads and base of fire squads), Panzer IV tanks and 88mm guns (kill the crew to disable them). At times in the game you can play a tank commander (you play as an British tank commander not American)in which you control 1 tank and you have objectives to destroy. While playing the whole game you have to use cover or your dead, its not a game anymore its real, you don't have a health bar (you regenerate if you take cover) its more 2 shots and your dead. The game hasn't crashed once, works with Windows XP SP3 fine.

I will show the good and bad things about this game.

Good things:-
. good graphics (Texture on walls, shadows, soldiers, tanks and etc)
. good squad management (tell them to shoot a target, go to a position or suppress enemies)
. impressive cover mode (taking cover will change camera to 3rd person view, you can aim and shoot at the enemy, but you can't blind fire)
. an Impressive storyline (storyline with alot of cut scenes, still gets you into the story and see what happens to your comrades as you progress)
. different squads for different situations (use the right squad for the right job, eg. bazooka squad to destroy a tank)
. impressive gore graphics (blood on faces and body, heads, arms, legs blown off)
. WWII weapons very realistic (Colt 1911, Thompson , MP40, K98K, G43, Stg44, Garand, MG42 and etc.
. explosions very realistic (leaves crates in the ground)

Bad Things:-
. too many cut scenes (feels like the whole game might as well be a film)

in conclusion i think this game is brilliant took me a while to complete (5 days) and i would play it again but in a harder difficulty.
must be a buy if you are into fps and war games.
Rating: - One of the best
To get one thing straight, I only ever write reviews on here if I find a game absolutely stunning, or absolutely terrible. This one is the former.

I've played pretty much all of the Call of Duty's and this, in my opinion, is just so much better. I think that where it truly excells is the immersive storyline - it really makes you feel like you're there, experiencing what's going on, feeling what your squad mates are feeling. The cut scenes are absolutely fantastic. Sure, people may complain that they're too long and you can't skip them, but they really make the game what it is, a squad/tactic based shooter... it's not just you by yourself on a mission on your own like so many other war games you find.

I'll break it down into pros and cons:

Pros -
Graphically stunning. My girlfriend walked in and asked me what movie I was watching during one of the cut scenes.
Sounds are fantastic. You HAVE to turn it up loud ;)
Immersive, emotional story
Good squad-based tactics
Authentic weapons and military uniforms/equipment
Special effects are stunning. Mud/blood/rain water splashing on the camera are just great
Slow motion headshots and grenade throws

Cons -
Sometimes you get the feeling you've definitely shot someone in the head but they remain alive
AI slightly linear (as mentioned by someone before)
Multiplayer not great
Not many scaleable graphics options for those with lesser computers

I run the game on an E7400 at 3.6GHz, 4GB RAM and a 512MB 9800GTX+ card overclocked, and every option is on high including combined antialiasing and anisotropic filtering. It runs without a glitch, smooth as butter.

I was sorely disappointed when I completed this game, and very much look forward to the next instalment. Go and buy it.
Rating: - Brothers in Arms - a continuation!
Very enjoyable - more of what went before really - hence if you enjoyed them you will probably enjoy this. The cover system has been developed - don't know if it was really necessary myself but OK once you get used to it. Graphics have improved - not the best around at the moment but very nice. Expert mode is a bit lazy in its application I feel as they have just taken away the HUD in the main. Overall an enjoyable game, not much new in terms of game play, just a continuation of the previous story with added polish.
Rating: - Could not get running under Windows XP-SP3
Bought as a present - this game simply would not run under XP (SP3). I tried all combinations of compatability modes and scoured the web for advice from other people who had run into similar problems (I found quite a few). The support provided on the publishers web site was not helpful.

The only redeeming thing is that the Amazon returns department is second to none. Making the return couldn't have been easier, did not cost me anything, and my account was credited with a full refund.

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