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Randy bigs up his Brothers.

Gearbox president Randy Pitchford reckons the visuals in Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway represent a "15-20 percent" leap over Epic's still rather foxy Gears of War.

Jabbering away enthusiastically this morning during a Ubidays demo of the WWII FPS, Pitchford justified his claim by pointing to the improvements both his studio and tech creator Epic have made to the engine since Marcus Fenix grunted onto 360 in late 2006.

"Hell's Highway is Unreal Engine 3, it's the engine that powered Gears of War," he reminded us. "Now since Gears of War, Epic's invested a lot in the technology and it's much better than what was in Gears. And we've worked a lot on this technology; so you're seeing fidelity that's about 15-20 percent higher than Gears of War."

Hell's Highway is the third instalment in the Brothers In Arms series, taking Operation Market Garden as its historical setting. It's out on 360, PS3 and PC this August. We'll let you know our detailed thoughts on the latest build soon. In the meantime, see if you agree with Randy's claims by checking out the brand new Hell's Highway footage direct from Ubidays.

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Psychotext #1 4 years ago

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Gears has 18.2% more awesome though.
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Ryze #2 4 years ago

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nice.
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Tejstar #3 4 years ago

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You wouldn't have guessed judging from the latest trailer.
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miiiguel #4 4 years ago

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what about "badassness" ?
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Inquisitor #5 4 years ago

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That's fantastic, is it actually ever going to come out though?

I've been waiting for this one for so long I'm almost beyond caring.
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bad09 #6 4 years ago

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it looks better but does it play better......

To be honest though Brothers in arms games never interested me after COD are they any good? I haven't been blown away with the footage I've seen of Hells Highway.
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zuljin #7 4 years ago

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@Tejstar
I think he was refering to Gears one. Not that it matters anyway, its a pretty stupid statement to make in the first place.
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neilka #8 4 years ago

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Yes, well done on bettering Epic's game by using engine improvements made by... er... Epic.
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andrewwd #9 4 years ago

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He said Unreal Engine 3 now looks 15 - 20% better than it did when Gears of War came out. Hardly the display of braggadocio that the headline implies.
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Gnort #10 4 years ago

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In Gears' favour, it has 100% less WWII in it than Hell's Highway.
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Prodigy_BE #11 4 years ago

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Dear Mr Pitchford.
You can blow a hole in the tower of the church, where the german machinegun guy is raining down bullets on you, but shoot that same rocket towards the rest of the church, the house next to it or even the small brick wall with another batch of germans behind it, and nothing happens.

And I you really want to make stuff realistic, drop the colored circles above the enemies' head. It looks stupid, takes away the surprise element and... well... you've done that a few times already. Suppress and flank is a good idea, using only that is kinda silly these days.

/continues waiting for bad company.
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penhalion #12 4 years ago

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Hell's Highway represent a "15-20 percent" leap over Epic's still rather foxy Gears of War.

Er not too difficult. You just have to add some colour and tone down the specular shader a touch to achieve that. For all of gears great graphics. Someone on the epic team needed to be brave enough to say stop to all the washed out palettes.
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BiscuitBase #13 4 years ago

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80% of statistics are pulled out of someone's arse
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jonthepymm #14 4 years ago

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Why compare yourself to a game that's 2 years old anyway? Or if so, why stop there?

2541% better graphics than JetSet Willy on the ZX Spectrum!
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bad09 #15 4 years ago

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@ jonthepymm

Oi! you leave Jet Set Willy alone!
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Fab4 #16 4 years ago

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Pity its taken 200% longer to make.
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jonthepymm #17 4 years ago

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@ bad09

Sorry 'bout that - but at least I wasn't claiming gameplay was better than JetSet Willy!
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bad09 #18 4 years ago

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@ jonthepymm

that's alright then but remember, the words "better than" and "Jet Set Willy" do not belong in the same sentence unless it's "Jet Set Willy" THEN "better than"
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jonthepymm #19 4 years ago

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JetSet Willy '20% better than Hell's Highway.'

Brighter colours, more lives, more variety in enemy types, more pickups, takes longer to complete and has more infamous attics than Hell's Highway will ever have. Already on wide release!
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bad09 #20 4 years ago

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@ jonthepymm

All is right again in the world, thank you...although I'd say 50%
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kestral #21 4 years ago

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we'll await if the scores are 20% higher too then.
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LetsGo #22 4 years ago

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Heared about this....

Apparnetly the PS3 version is 20% better while the 360 just looks like Gears.

This will get fanboys going for sure!
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septimus #23 4 years ago

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Wow, that trailer looked crap.

Animation of the main character is lousy compared to say, Rainbow 6 and the rest didn't look any where near as good as Gears.
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Tejstar #24 4 years ago

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@ zuljin

I was indeed referring to the first Gears. The latest trailer for this doesn't look anywhere close to the kind of fidelity that Gears exhibited (or maybe the compression rate of the Hells Highway trailer I saw was especially bad!)
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The-Bodybuilder #25 4 years ago

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It may look 20% better, but it's still a bloody WWII FPS.
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Darren #26 4 years ago

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Gears of War is over 18 months old so I'd hope a new game based on the engine looks better since Gears 2 certainly does.
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BadBoyBonner #27 4 years ago

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I'd be happy with the same fidelity as gears but with 20% or more increase in frame rate.
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superjag86 #28 4 years ago

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The latest gameplay trailer looks sweet...
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polaris70 #29 4 years ago

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I've been dissapointed in the Brothers in Arms games. But this one finally looks like it could have me buying it. It looks like a Ghost-Recon WW2 game and to me thats a good thing. The other games were clunky and awkward with a poor strategic element, but this looks like it could finally be going the more strategic route like GRAW. Pure WW2 FPS's are dead so maybe this more strategic route is exactly what the genre needs.
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Dizzy #30 4 years ago

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And 20% less than Gears 2.
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stoopidgreg #31 4 years ago

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" Hell's Highway looks '20% better than Gears' "

um, no it's not.
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Skurmedel #32 4 years ago

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He talks 20% more bullshit.
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MyPointIs #33 4 years ago

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At least, their press release is 20% funnier.
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bushwod #34 4 years ago

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My penis is 20% bigger than your penis!!!
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theindustrialone #35 4 years ago

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How does one quantify something subjective?

Mind you, if they can get rid of that godawful texture pop-in, that would be a significant leap.
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Marshall2008 #36 4 years ago

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I think that EPIC should sue the shit out of this clown for defamation. (thx JSPOOLE)

Even taking into account the resolution of the gameplay video it looks ropey as hell. Not to mention dull as dishwater.

Edited by 1 at 29/05/08 @ 18:27
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Bitkari #37 4 years ago

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This article is 20% more bemusing than the previous article.
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yagisencho #38 4 years ago

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100% less steroid abuse than Gears' protagonists.
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DAN.E.B #39 4 years ago

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im 20% more bored of the news section today.
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IneptPercy #40 4 years ago

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I believe there is a 20% over saturation of world war games and I can't be bothered...
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Xerx3s #41 4 years ago

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"Our game will look better than the game from the creators of the engine that uses the latest build which we can't use as of yet because we have worked with the engine..."

errr....
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Mudo #42 4 years ago

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Christ this game looks poor.
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Dr.Mott #43 4 years ago

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My shit stinks 20% less than yours.
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aidey6 #44 4 years ago

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i'm afraid to say that looks very dull, it did not help that it was a night mission on show, it seems very similar to the 1st one in the way commands are issued too,
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BenMiz #45 4 years ago

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OMFG listen to you GOW fan boy bitches.

Read the article with out your GOW glasses on you dicks. Epic and GB have invested heavily on the U3 engine and it is now 20% better 'fidelity' than what it was when GOW was first made. I don't see where it says its a 20% better game. Naturally its going to look better as the engine receives more TLC and I'm sure GOW2 will look 20% better than GOW.

Just for the record GOW blows dog, just like all the other stupid alien shooters out there. At least HH has a slight element of reality to it seeing its based on actual events.
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