World War II games are very common in today’s video game market and alot of them are good and bad this is the case with Brothers In Arms:Hells Highway for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 there are good and bad things about this game, but overall it comes out good.
In BIA you play Matt Baker and the game revolves around your squad and how everything in the game affects Baker.You can definitely compare this game to the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. An example is the way the missions are introduced and also the general tone of the game feels like the lost episode of Band of Brothers.
The Quick Hit Review
The whole hitting point of BIA is to literally put you in Baker’s shoes in every way you will learn things that you never knew if you’ve played any game in the series, and you’ll learn new things if your new to the series yourself. Another part of the game is giving the player total control and rewarding them for this. The tactical commands work out mostly with you sending one team a certain way to distract the enemy and commanding the bazooka team to turn those German’s into little bits of red sauerkraut. But there will be times when your soldiers will jump over objects when they can safely run around in it or just standing in the open and you will suffer for this. Some of the rewards said are the action cam kills in which you shoot someone in the head or have an explosion go on near them the action camera will slow down everything for a few seconds. The other reward is the gore, this game along with SoF:Payback is one of the goriest games for the next gen consoles. You will shoot some enemies from a distance and when you pass their bodies you can notice they lost a leg or arm, I shot someones hand off with a machine gun. Another example is a scene where you go into a room and peoples arms are off there was even a guy with a side of his stomach missing. With all of these good things I’ve said there are bad things about this game, the A.I in this game isn’t the best you will alot of times be able to take them out without having to use the tactical commands. The graphics in this game are bad in many ways there is texture pop-in all throughout the game and this game has that “look” of the Unreal Engine that was in games like Mass Effect, Blacksite:Area 51, and others. Maybe if this game ran on the source or even havok physics engine it could help when you can’t take cover behind certain things.
Pros
- GORE! GORE! GORE!
- Good Story
- Closest To Band Of Brothers Game
Cons
- Texture Pop-In
- Bad A.I.
- Some Places Can’t be used for cover
- Teamates make dumb mistakes
7.0 out of 10
I recommend this game to World War II fanatics, fans of Band of Brothers, and shooter fans.
And at least this isn’t a sci-fi shooter.
