| Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (PS3) |  | From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 229
Platform: Playstation 3
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210331144
ASIN: B000FNA2BY
Release Date: September 26, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
After a successful tour of duty on the current gen consoles Brothers in Arms returns in the ultimate WWII squad based shooter, set during the closing months of the war as you take part in the crucial Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. The lowdown:
Although there were many astonishing looking games at the recent E3 event this was for most people the most graphically amazing next gen game seen so far. The levels not only look near photorealistic but the game world is huge and almost completely interactive. The gameplay works in the same basic way as before, with an easy to use onscreen cursor enabling you to direct your men with a single button press. New movement types now exist though, allowing you to specify stealth or patrol postures depending on what you’re doing and how fast you need to move. The only problem is the enemy have the same abilities and their artificial intelligence is advanced enough to make proper use of them. Most exciting moment:
Not only are the enemy intelligent but they’re also well trained, reacting just as a real German soldier would. They’ll hide in doorways, ambush at road junctions and even, in one memorable encounter, hide behind a washing line – where your only warning is from a Dutch civilian at a window above. Since you ask:
Everything in the game is as realistic as possible with streets and house copied exactly from photos taken at the time, while all weapons and vehicles are modelled to work exactly as they did in real life. The bottom line:
The most realistic WWII game ever – in terms of history, tactics and graphics.
HARRISON DENT
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Don't buy new for 35 buy second hand, thats all its worth. November 14, 2008
I certainly agree with the first review above. It is a dated game. The trailers make it look great but shows no resemblance. Ubisoft get your act together.
The biggest anticlimax ever!!!! November 2, 2008
Considering the amount of time that this game has been in production and the hype over the past few years, I was expecting great things. As a fan of the original games in this series, I purchased an Xbox 360 primarily for this game.
However, that was almost 3 years ago. During the wait, I burned out 4 Xboxes and eventually defected to the PS3 camp.
When the game was finally released, I had it pre-ordered from Amazon. It arrived on launch day, and within 10 minutes I was thoroughly disappointed!
The game sends you down a corridor - you have no choice in the direction and very little opportunity to explore. From the original preview video's released for this game at E3 etc I got the impression that I'd be given an entire town to explore looking for aa guns, with subtle clues along the way to help. No! Just a corridor, with Germans popping out predictably every few seconds.
I can only jump over some of the cover - furniture, railings and other items can't be negotiated by this elite trooper! I thought game designers were beyond this in latest gen games.
AI of Germans + Allies alike is diabolical. Why would anyone hide behind a white picket fence in a gun battle, not even moving to protect themselves as its being shot up?! The control system has become more fiddly in that during a gun battle the screen moves around and if you try to instruct your men to attack something you can inadvertantly order them to suicidally charge the enemy. In old versions of the game, I seem to remember that they'd refuse if you told them to do something stupid - not in theis version though. Countless times I've tried to order a fire team to surpress a machine gun, only to see them charge at it!!! It only ever ends one way!
Destructable cover? A major selling point of this game. Have they played Battlefield: Bad Company?? BIA is pathetic in comparison.
Disappointingly, I sold Bad Company to fund this purchase. Ubisoft and Gearbox should be ashamed for releasing something so half baked after all of the hype. The bar was high after the original games, but this doesn't even come close.
Big mistake. Fortunately, Far Cry 2 has come out and life is good again!!!
- I've sold the game now and got the lowest resale price for a game yet (and I sell all of my old games). Game quality is reflected in the fact that retailers such as Amazon are already having to drop the price considerably!
 Good fun October 29, 2008
Brothers In Arms Hell Highway, is more of a tactical game as opposed to the COD series, which is a shoot 'em up. Although good, COD rarely gives a true feeling of war as you run around aimlessly at times. BIA is very different to this, the enemy, are intelligent and will take cover and in Authentic mode they will try to flank you, so a bit of awareness does help. The cut scenes are great, no matter what the above reviews say, once watching the cut scenes you do genuinely feel bad when a comrade bites the dust because of the personality these cut scenes give to your squad, COD fails to do this and to me, doesn't give a real "feel" of war, which you should expect when playing a war game. Overall, if you're a more "sophisticated" gamer, buy the BIA series, tactical awareness does help. By the way this is a bloke writing the review, just on my Mums account.
 Band of Brothers October 27, 2008
I never bought this game myself and from what I read in reviews of previous BIA I wasn't going to but my long suffering girlfriend did buy it and I thought it was great. Yes it has it's niggles regarding the fact you can only go certain areas etc etc but I found this a great game. The AI of the troops is good and at first the controlling of your squads is a pain but it sure is satisfying calling in your bazooka boys to take out a MG42 position and I NEVER got tired of the slo mo pieces with bodies blowing in half, legs blowing off or just getting that head shot spot on.
Having seen band of Brothers it made it easier to be immersed in the storyline and for a change I actually enjoyed the cut scenes.
To sum up it's a great game and if you like WWII then you should enjoy this game, I was a little disappointed it came to an end and just wanted to carry on killing the Nazis!!
Best bit ; coming up from cover and getting a perfect head shot
Worst bit; the fact your character can decide he doesn't want to stay in cover and get his backside shot off!!!!
Good but not great October 23, 2008
I have recently completed BIA and read several of the reviews and can understand the mixed feelings. I have always been a fan of the Brothers in Arms series and enjoyed the genuine innovation and tactics of the original PS2 games - but feel in some ways they are still superior to their PS3 counterpart.
On reading some of the reviews saying "a poor shooter" "not as good as COD" etc these individuals are missing the point - it is NOT a shooter, and is not in competition with the likes of COD, Medal of Honour etc - so I will review it on what it should be based on - how it performs as a strategic action game and how it has improved (and not as the case can be!!)
This game will never find a place in the hearts of shooter-junkies and I don't think it will ever try, but this is also where it sometimes fails, as if it is strategy-orientated game - in some place it is not as good as its predecessors.
One area which does need to be addressed again as has been raised by many was the build-up to its release. When a games' release date is put back and back, you would hope this is to perfect the game, and there were plenty of impressive teaser-trailers leaking into the internet that looked frankly very impressive and a genuinely innovation-laden move foward to the series. But after a long delay when finally released, I was dissappointed that through playing through the game patietly - I failed to find at least 80% of the footage I had seen in the trailers - yes, developer would argue not everything will find itself in the final game but this much impressive content missing was a huge let down I felt somewhat short-changed when I completed the game. It actually did not end up coming across as the genuinely innovative game that we were all expecting.
Looking at the game itself - yes the graphics are not cutting edge - but they are not terrible either - there are plenty of nice touches, lots of attention to detail, the colours can often be a bit too bright and sharp - but as a balance, effects such as fire, explosions, water, movement all look sharp and there is plenty of atmosphere. On the whole the gameplay is intuitive and fluid, succesful strategic assaults and flanking are still very rewarding - but agian there is not much new here - in fact less than before - you can't lie prone any more, you can't melee attack (which was often missed) you can't order your squad to assault(rush) a position anymore(would've helped), and you can't order a tank as part of your squad(again really missed!)
Unfortunately too much emphasis has been put on flashy displays such as slow-mo head-shots, and dismemberment of limbs - which was a silly trade off - effects vs strategic options. The new units bazooka and Machine Gun are good fun though and do offer broader options in support for your squad - you never bore of a bazooka shell screaming over your head and destroying a particularly stubborn machine gun nest!! There is lots of narrative about story and the characters - but if you haven't played the other games, this will mean nothing to you. Although the game is all about teamwork, there were, for me, just too many "go it alone" sections - which were long, drawn out - and has probably alienated the aformentioned "shooter-fans" all the more as they prob think this is the direction the game is trying to go in and not doing it that well.
I think because of all the misleading trailers - my biggest gripe is the slightly underwhelmed feeling I got when I completed it (and have not been in a hurry to play through it again) The game starts off really well, its exciting to follow the story starting off, and playing with the new squads and blowing stuff up and looking agape the first few times you literally blow people apart, but thats only for the first 1/3 of the game. For the rest its just the same over and over, slight variety of weapon you carry and squad you command in slightly different terrain. The last couple of levels in the dunes was the only time full effect of your command of a squad really falls into place and is an utter delight - but the last level is a boring and dissappointing finale.
All in all though I have been a big fan of the series - and in some ways the predecessors are better - more tactical options - less graphical sheen. A lot of fans like me though are going to feel a bit mislead as to the finished article and rather short-changed over all. Ubisoft really need to listen to the critcism here and make significant improvements to a fundamentally good but as yet nowhere near a great game
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