Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway Comments by Johnny Minkley

Still don't fancy it, but it's always nice to see something different, even if it is the same different as the last BiA.

Sounds good cant wait, anyone any ideas on the Required Spec for PC? Could get it on the 360 but I need an excuse to upgrade my PC. (So far Crysis and Spore are my only 2 reasons, could do with a couple more games!)

Been waiting for so long for this. I'm happy some developers havent given up on those of us who arent "fed up to the back teeth" of ww2 based games.

Yawn... Gears still looks better no matter what he says. After watching the video, the animation is awful also.

This better be good because im getting very tired of ww2 games....

Love it. can't wait...

I'm a huge fan of the previous BIA games and this one seems to continue the good work.

BiA has never been my type of game, but it sounds as though they have made an effort to differentiate it from other WWII shooters. I prefer to do the shooting myself and don't really want to control a squad but it sounds as though it could be good if that is your thing.

Too many war games on the Xbox 360. More games about fluffy bunnies plz.

+1, unless you don't mean it :P

Fluufy bunnies are awesome!

Tell me; how exactly does the "cant wait"-state-of-mind feel?

People abuse that phrase more than roflcopter these days. Idiots.

@Krelle
I am excited to play the game, to say that one can not wait for a particular release is to only emphasise how much one is looking forward to it. idiot.

PC has the visual edge.... yes but what spec? this kind of comment is so lazy and really rather irrelevant. I'd much rather have a good solid console 30fps on my 40" lcd than a no doubt prettier but jerkier 19" pc v ersion - I realise a lot of you have super optimised pcs with big screens - but I havn't!

another ww2 shooter for the pyre

that shopto pre order advert is a bit much dont you think?!

Needs more russian front or alternative perspective games, getting sick of playing as the Americans in Europe all the time.

Boooooooooooooooring

Terribly sorry, but I agree with the "period nazis":

Yawn.

Yet another WW2 game, set in another part of the world that will end up looking, how shall I put this, "generically european"... (see: CoD2, CoD3...)

While the squad system looks good, I can't help but feel that so much more could have been done with different subject matter. And it would definately have fixed the woeful innacuracy of the period's weaponry...

Why not make a WW2 game set around a different viewpoint? Something kind of strategy game based around the women of the war, creating munitions and procuring rations? Oh no, wait, if it doesn't have real-time weapon switching and a first-person perspective it doesn't sell (see: Viva Pinata...)

@Krelle:

How, pray tell, does one exactly "abuse" a phrase?

Before calling people idiots, I might respectfully suggest you take extra care not to look like a moronic ass youself in the process. Although it is pretty amusing to those of us looking for a chuckle.

WWII shooters are boring, but they're boring because every damned game suffers the same stupid constraints as every other.

Why can't I climb? Why can't I leap over that two foot lawn fence or dive for cover? Why can't I kick in that door if I want to? Why can't I shoot one of my allies in the back of the head? Why can't my tank drive through that building? Why do enemies infinitely spawn unless I advance? Why I am doomed to walk this horribly contrived invisible rail to reach some arbitrary objective? Why do explosions not destroy anything? Why is everything so horribly scripted? Why is everything played out like a cheap ripoff of Saving Private Ryan (or Band of Brothers)? Why am I invariably playing US marines? Why am I invariably fighting in Northern Europe?

It's just a horrible lack of imagination that kills the WWII shooters not the historical period. The funny thing is every now and again a game appears which does advance the state of the art. For example Hidden & Dangerous 1 & 2 may have been slightly flakey but they had squad based tactics, stealth, deception and open levels with a wide latitude for strategy and a wide variety of missions. How is it that a ground breaking games like that can come and go and here we are on suffering the same stupid limitations in games five years on?

drxym,

very true.

The genre seems to be very restrictive despite the subject matter being huge.

There are less complaints about games set in the modern era or near future even though there are far more of them. I guess more interesting things are done with their gameplay

Imagine a game like Operation Flashpoint set in WWII. Open battlefields involving hundreds of players and units.

I quite like BiA franchise, but meh, isn't the time now to try something being set in WWI?

Yeah. Trench warfare really gets the blood pumping!