Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway Comments by Ellie Gibson

Hasn't it been aeons since this was first announced? O.o Anyway I'm glad I divorced WWII games as we've been having too many of them over the past five years.

Is it just me or do Gearbox (well, Randy Pitchfork - which sounds like a cornish farmers excuse to Accident and Emergency) come off as pretty arrogant sometimes?

I always remember them refusing to take any responsibility for the apalling Halo Pc port, and in particular one of their guys slagging off a section of Call of Duty (UO - the bomber bit) as historically inaccurate (when it, er, was). Sometimes seems that they focus a bit on slagging the competition more than their own game (albeit not so much in this interview).

This guy seems pretty modest.

I saw this on GamerTV the other day - they showed a guy being blown up in slow motion - as he flew through the air I thought - wow that looks amazing - and just as I thought that his arm passed straight through his head as if it wasn't there.

Which is a double bummer as it is a pet peeve of mine - when arms, heads, legs fingers, hands etc - look almost real - and then the gun floats in the hand - or hand has a constant "action man" pose - no matter what angle the gun etc; or arms an hands passing through things, or swords passing through hair without it wavering.
Or helicopters flying over smoke without moving it.

They aren't deal breakers by any means - but they don't exactly help in the immersion - still, better to have it running at a decent frame rate than at one frame per second with all of the above sorted!

He likes the word 'hardcore' doesn't he......?

wow, way to have too much faith in what is clearly going to be, at best, a mediocre game. and everything looks like its made of plastic

Another WWII shooter...

THERES ENOUGH.

I think I officially lost interest in this game about a year ago, I'm amazed they are still planning to release it.

This looks utterly staggering.

Hopefully, the SP campaign runs for ages.

Hardcore!!!!

Seriously, loved the first 2 games, looking forward to this one!

So the game hasn't been cancelled then as rumours were suggesting?

Still I'm far less excited about WWII games these days and this game seems to have gone from being amazing looking 12 months or so ago when they first demoed it to being merely "OK". Not really sure whether I'm interested in it anymore to be honest, I guess I'll see what the reviews make of it and check out the demo (if there is one). I hope they fix the ghastly tearing I saw though in the last video from a few months back. Commonsense suggests that they should but this is an Ubisoft game so commonsense kind of goes out of the window with their games... :?

I really like the look of it to be honest - plastic or not.

It looks just how I imagine it would if Pixar had have been asked to produce and render it the same time that Toy Story came out.

Now the fact that it maybe looks plastic - is for me offset by the fact that if real-time graphics are close to the point of 12 Year old film renders (clearly not at the same resolution) - real-time graphical quality of that shown in The Matrix rendering is only 4-5 years away on a home setup.

I love computing as it one of the few things where you really do not know what the future will bring - the evolution is awe inspiring. I am writing this after reading the Spectrum story on EG and just playing Assassins Creed.

While unsure about Assassins Creed at the moment - you can't argue that in the few short years between the SNES/Megadrive to PS3/360 - no other pastime has changed so radically.

Heh, this has been around for bloody ages.

Pretty sure it was supposed to be released in the first half of this year aswell. Still looks great but not stunning like it was when I first saw it.

Pretty sure it was supposed to be released in the first half of this year aswell.

Think you can think the joys of Ureal Engine 3 for that.

Seems like I've been waiting for this longer than the actual war took.

So, going to slip.

Excuse me Mr. Pitchfork, would you mind climbing out of your own arse?

"Brothers in Arms introduced this new type of squad combat game mechanic".
Well, Only if you ignore Full Spectrum Warrior, Brute Force, The Conflict series and probably more.

"Can [Baker] accept and overcome that burden so that he can move forward and continue to lead the men in his squad who have survived?".
I should think so, seeing as he's being controlled by me, and I don't give a shit if one of the squad dies because I know I'm PLAYING A FUCKING COMPUTER GAME!!

I like the way he also says "there is no World War II game that comes close to the graphics and art quality of Hell's Highway". Not confident enough to compare to others from outside the WW2 genre Mr. Pitchfork? Thought not, you just sit there and compare yourself to old CoD games and MoH:Airborne. Not much competition then, I'd say.

And is it just me or do all of his answers sound like a HARDCORE sales pitch(fork)?

Looking forward to this... I know its another WW2 game but they do a really good job of taking the basic cover fire an flank mechanic and turning it into a fun polished game.
I loved the last ones.. .wish they'd hurry up. Whats the ETA anyway?

i wont be buying another WWII game for a long long time... and it's not Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway that will change my mind about that. Not to mention that i recently bought COD 4 for my PS3 and it's amazing. The next big shooter's for me will be Killzone 2 and SOCOM for the Ps3.

Hm... destructable objects you say. Wooden fences and sandbags can be blown up, but if Fritz 'n Co hide behind a small stone wall, BIA's bazooka won't hurt them at all.
It looks good enough to eat, but once you look beyond the pretty graphics, this is anexact copy of the previous BIA games.

Oh well, Battlefield Bad Company hits the shops in Februari. That's offers real destructable enviroments. So all BIA: Hells Highway is left with, is it's story. If that's any good, I may pick this up, if not, I'll put in a few more hours of Bad Company online.

/goes back to play COD4 online

Februari?! Has a new month been invented?

I think this looks great even if it is another WWII shooter. Setting aside, the core tactical gameplay is what makes BIA fun and destructable environments add to the immersion and strategy.
I'd love to see the same idea applied to the Gearbox Alien game with you commanding colonial marines against hive-minded xenomorphs.

No new month: it's Dutch for February. Either that or a typo.

It could be a clever reference to BIA:HH partially being situated in the Netherlands!

Note for randy - Make the old xbox games backwards compatible for the 360! (or ask microsoft nicely) to drum up some excitement. I'd quite like to play them, but sold my xbox pretty quick once i saw which way the wind was blowing...
Must admit, definitely intersted by this, the concept seems pretty strong compared to most of the shooters I've played recently, which have been far too straightforward/linear/not tactical...

Looks promising, but for the love of all that is pure let us turn off that hideous slow motion grenade feature, its just jarring, both in terms of gameplay and themeatically. Its not the sodding Matrix, its not a rag doll tech demo, it just breaks the suspension of disbelief utterly. Whats the point in accuratley modelling a town in Holland perfectly and walking the battlefields with soldiers who were there to make the experience as convincing as possible just to blow the ambience in a tacky way like that.

Nice screenies.... Hmmmm... Looking forward to the review.

What a load of absolutely insufferable hyperbole.

Darren, I'm pretty sure that Ubisoft/Gearbox spoke up almost immediately to debunk the cancelled rumours.

Pull yer head out!