Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Comments by Christian Donlan

Looking forward to getting my hands on this!
I remember the original title having a pretty clever MP, commanding your own squad versus another player who commands their own squad. Enjoyed it!

Hopefully there will be some nice new intuitive MP modes.

"Michale Caine will be along in a bit."

That's what you think...

"we're the cavalry. It would be bad form to arrive in advance of schedule. In the nick of time would do nicely."

A Bridge Too Far. Still an awesome film that rivals all other WWII movies. Excellent actors (barring Gene's execrable Polish accent), awesome scenes, fantastic script - puts Saving Private Ryan to shame on many levels, not least that as a British film, it wasn't afraid to show more than one Allied nationality...

Is this fucking game still not out yet?!

/Interest long since lost.

Agreed with Triggerhappytel, wayyy to long for this game to be in development, no more interest. Besides, doesnt seem to do anything new or extra-ordinary, seems more like a cut down version of Gears of War

A cut down Gears Of War you say?
Because playing a hulking grunting space marine fighting lizard men had sooo much depth and complexity to it didn't it?

"one team-mate got stuck jogging against the side of a farmhouse"... tonight were gonna code like its 1999...

Lol this is nothing to do with Gears of War... crazy.

Yes i agree it has seemed to be in development along time. Got mine on pre-order for the Pc.

I'm so psyched for this. It's been in development far, far too long.

I'm a bit worried about the multiplayer though as they've dropped the excellent Skirmish mode from the second game and have been very reluctant to show it off. I get the impression the multiplayer has been tacked on at the last minute as an added extra, which is fine by me if the solo mode is up to scratch, but disappointing nonetheless.

Also people who say this "is a cut down version of Gears" or "not as good as Call of Duty" have clearly never played one of the Brothers games. They play completely differently to both these. It's nowhere near as arcadey as CoD and pointedly realistic, more so than pretty much any other console game I can think of even including Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.

One thing I'm hoping is that you can switch off the slo-mo zoomed-in mega-fun death-cam. For me it seems to defeat the point of having a "harrowing" game when almost every other kill is presented in a such a way that its designed to make people shout "Awesome!"

The slow motion effect does not appear very often in the build I played, so it shouldn't be an issue.

The MP is actually great fun. 20 players divided into squads, with a leader that can command and pull a map on so...

And the first reviews I have heard of is pointing towards the top quality stuff.

You can toggle off slow mo, as well as gore and bad language, crosshairs, also suppression indicators etc.

the slowmo sorta sapped my interest, "OMGZ LOOK AT HIS BRAINS FLY" is a bit to gears of war for my liking

Have you got a source for this toggling off the slow-mo death cam? That's something I can see grating on me a lot TBH.

is the gameplay still like the last games , where you target an enemy in the head and they don't die, it just goes towards wearing them down, if you know what I mean

i can't think of anything else at the moment than a horrible, dim fragment of my pre-enlightenment teenage years

JOHN OTTO, TAKE IT TO THE MATTHEWS BRIDGE...

When's that Band of Brothers game out?

Bodypopper

"A cut down Gears Of War you say?
Because playing a hulking grunting space marine fighting lizard men had sooo much depth and complexity to it didn't it? "

By cut down, I think he means lower quality, which is absolutely true.

Everything looks like its made out of plastic. Me want this game not :D

The presence of the slo-mo voyeurism stuff makes the game feel tacky to me, turn-offable or not, and undermines any aspirations for historical accuracy it might have. Shame as lots of the rest of it sounds like it has aspirations above other WWII shooters.

But cut down version I dont mean story-wise, I mean gameplay wise.

Face it, it uses the same engine and same cover mechanics, so its hard not to compare this with GoW. Comparing against CoD is unfair I agree, since CoD does seem a lot faster with more scripted events.

So the developers are selling this on a good story, destructible cover (a fence you can shoot down, wowww!!) and slow-mo explosions which already has been much subject of controversy. The only thing this game really adds is a bit of tactical ability, akin to Ghost Recon, but it remains to be seen if the AI is up to the job.

All in all, ill be surprised is this gets more than 7/10... The hype machine rolls on

+10 for mentioning The Sorrow and the Pity.

I am so inherently sick of playing as the flaming US Airborne and all this macho-cheesy 'we won it alone' bollocks.

@Talbot:

As an American, so am I. I'm hoping there's a fair amount of British presence in the story, as Market Garden was primarily a British affair. I understand that they stuck with the 101st here, though, as the franchise is historically-based and they're following the same unit as before. The American weapons lend themselves more easily to suppress-and-move tactics anyway, so it'll make sense from a gameplay point of view.

And to people comparing it to Gears of War...what the fuck? Honestly, enjoy your sci-fi on-rails shooter and let us enjoy our compelling, (hopefully) intelligent tactical shooter. These games are far more realistic than Ghost Recon (if you'll recall, GRAW 2 had you play about a third of the game as a supersoldier completely on your own) and aren't trying at all to be like GoW or CoD. The cover feature is just implementing a more rigid gameplay mechanic that the original already had. Instead of just crouching behind a wall, now there's a cover system. It's not even being billed as anything "revolutionary", it just makes the game easier to manage.

Cabbadgecase how many wars have you been in then?

This game is well long awaited but i still look forward to it! Cant wait, and hope MP is awesome.