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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Comments by Rob Fahey

13 December, 2007

Oh no - this is the road to hell.

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charliemouse
13/12/07 @ 17:12
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"They won't charge at you screaming in German, or stick their heads up while your machine gun is filling the ear with whizzing bullets."

Well no, they wouldn't run at you if you'd filled their ear with whizzing bullets...

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bdc
13/12/07 @ 17:12
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I'm sorry but it looks rubbish. Games like this has got to stop.
kangarootoo
13/12/07 @ 17:17
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Care to expand?
omoshiroi
13/12/07 @ 17:26
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These are gaming forums Kangarootoo. Sweeping statements based on little or no information are the norm :)

squarejawhero
13/12/07 @ 17:27
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Anyone whose played BIA knows that they're actually very tactical, solid titles. In fact the only ones, apart from the Hidden and Dangerous, to really bring something original to the WW2 shooter game.

OK, less and less original with each passing iteration, but I get a good feeling about this one due to the solidity of the others.

/wishes for Hidden and Dangerous 3
bcolter
13/12/07 @ 17:33
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Sounds great! I'll be watching for the review!
Tonka
13/12/07 @ 17:38
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Hang ona minute. Has someone finally made an FPS set in the WWII?
About.Bloody.Time.
TagemandBagem
13/12/07 @ 17:42
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I've only played BIA on PS2 and while the graphics are pretty uninspired the gameplay and AI was exceptional. From the handful of video presentations I've seen of this so far it definitely looks promising even if it is set in a context that has been done to death.
Now the short quest to find out if this is coming out on PC.
skillian
13/12/07 @ 17:46
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Now the short quest to find out if this is coming out on PC.

The short quest to the top of the page? ;)
Vin
13/12/07 @ 18:07
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Good article.

This could be the best WWII shooter ever.
FooAtari
13/12/07 @ 18:26
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I really liked the first two BiA games. They were pretty different to CoD with the whole tactical aspect. It was all about getting covering fire down, flanking the enemy and it actually felt like your squad was of some use, unlike CoD, where you are pretty much on your own. And from what I have seen of this game I thought it looked pretty promising.
agparrot
13/12/07 @ 18:45
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/shoots rdexter.
Pulsar_t
13/12/07 @ 20:04
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Oh no - this is the road to hell.

Seems I'm the only one old enough to get that reference.. Chris Rea ftw!
Pulsar_t
13/12/07 @ 20:07
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And for the love of humanity stop talking about CoD as the best thing ever™. CoD1 did improve on the original MoH formula, but all its sequels are more of the same linear, heavily-scripted and predictable gameplay. It is old hat, yesterday.
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TagemandBagem
13/12/07 @ 20:10
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@ skillian

That's what I ment by short. It only occured to me that it might only be a console game while I was typing.
tl;dr, yay! it's coming to PC!
Dixons
13/12/07 @ 20:22
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I love the BiA games' small-scall, town-by-town, hamlet-by-hamlet approach to WWII, as opposed to CoD/MoH's loud, bombastic depiction.

The former seems more authentic to me, more tactical. The latter are just Hollywood crap shoots imo.
StormRider
13/12/07 @ 20:48
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Pity that Ubisoft has delayed it once again.

http://kotaku.com/gaming/ubisoft/far-cry...
smelly
13/12/07 @ 21:08
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"oh look.. i can point my cursor at something and pretend i'm shooting.... AGAIN.. "

Well i guess it's not a racer..
Rodigee
13/12/07 @ 21:18
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I wonder if there will be a 2v2 multiplayer mode like in the first two games. Each player ordered around a squad of three men for objective based combat. It was the freshest multiplayer experience since BF1942 but unfortuantly with a few months no one was playing it anymore...
Waldo
13/12/07 @ 21:22
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Hopefully they make this less puzzle-like and have bullets actually hit enemies when you're standing three feet away from them.
Apostle
13/12/07 @ 21:49
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"Shooting us Germans will obviously never get old :("

Hehe. :)

Wasn't there a game where you played as a German soldier in WW2, and fought against the allies? Or am I just imagining it? Something along the lines of Flags Of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima story telling.
Strac
14/12/07 @ 05:53
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What!?! No rushing and shouting "Mein leben!" when you kill them?!?
kissthestick
14/12/07 @ 06:30
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1st WW2 FPS game created?

im there.
Liggur
14/12/07 @ 09:02
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BiA is my favorite WWII shooter. Cant wait for this one.
Darren
14/12/07 @ 09:39
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Had this been released a year ago then I'd have bought it but with each passing month I become less and less interested. The earlier demo I saw was impressive despite the framerate issues but that was shown ages ago and these kinds of games no longer hold much appeal to me. Unless it is really amazing then I suspect I'll not bother with it. I did enjoy the first BIA game on the Xbox but never bought the sequel.
RedPanda
14/12/07 @ 10:13
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Woooo a WWII FPS! This might be a nice diversion from the zillions of games set in the boring old present day :)
gizmo
14/12/07 @ 10:27
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Fab captions on page 2!
spekkeh
14/12/07 @ 10:37
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Wow.. you call this 'unspectacular'? Maybe I'm biased, being from Holland. I really like how it resembles my everyday neighborhood. Personally I can't wait to lay waste to the city of Nijmege...er.. ze Germans.
Jheronimus
14/12/07 @ 10:51
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Yeah, the Dutch setting looks pretty cool, being a Dutchy myself.

And blowing up "Havana aan de Waal" can't be a bad thing?

Like the old saying goes: For the final touch, God created the Dutch :P
jimbo118
14/12/07 @ 10:53
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This one sounds a bit more promising, i never really listen to pitchford, he loves to spout the shit.

I can't believe you gave the original and sequel a 9 and 8, i would have given them a 7 and 6 respectively. The first one was probably the most over-rated and over-hyped game of the year. On pc anyway, it was terribly mediocre and repetitive.
Pulsar_t
14/12/07 @ 12:30
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Why is the Red Orchestra more mainstream? It's actually one of the few titles that advanced the genre. But the mainstream demands linear COD stuff. Gamers are to blame, surely?
BobsUncle
14/12/07 @ 13:02
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"Stranglehold? Same engine me thinks,"

I absolutely refuse to believe that Stanglehold was made with Unreal Engine 3. I simply couldn't continue with that game as I felt I was playing a PS2 title. Fuck me it looked awful. Splinter Cell was made with UE2 and looked miles better. Wankers. And it was just plain boring. Off topic at bit, sorry.
holy_bazooka
16/12/07 @ 15:17
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"It supports a lot more play styles."
sounds ominous.
/pray pray...

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