| Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway (PC) | 
| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £34.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 430
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: military-action-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
EAN: 3307211614277
ASIN: B000FN7JKG
Release Date: October 3, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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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 8 more reviews...
 not Hidden & Dangerous December 1, 2008
D. C. BROWN (West, west cornwall, on the very edge)
Nice graphics, shame about the game play. It still feels as if it is on rails. I could not make sense of the story line, probably because I did not care too much about it. What was the point of the bit that involved running through a burning building?
The hospital part was almost silent hill; for a few seconds, then just got boring, walk down corrider, hide behind sofa, shoot germans, walk on a bit, repeat, etc. I was hoping for something like Hidden & Dangerous.
Overall not bad, but wait until the price comes down.
 pedestrian November 24, 2008
J. Humphries (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I hoped this would be a supplement to CoD but I'm afraid it don't cut it (at least not compared to CoD4), and the game does seem to be several years behind in terms of execution.
Game play is totally linear with single paths through most maps - very minor variations in a couple of places but you are otherwise herded by ridiculous barriers. Only specific things appear to be jumpable.
Interactivity is dismal; you can't shoot anything much other than enemies (the "Sam Peckinpah" slow-motion gore-fest which pops up occasionally on a particularly accurate long-range shot is, admittedly, rather cool) - a few bits of wood maybe. Try to shoot your own side and they remain unscathed. You can't pick stuff up or kick anything....you can't even jump other than the aforementioned occasional fence hurdle.
I couldn't be arsed finishing it but by the time I'd given up I still hadn't got to shoot a bazooka. A couple of forays in a tank-which-can't-drive-over-very-much does not make up for a lack of variation in weaponry. Howabout maybe a sniper gun or summat to relieve the tedium a bit..?
But really, the most irritating aspect is the dreadful, cliched, tedious, pointless, dismally scripted and executed cut-scenes, which are almost all un-skippable...one after the other in some places. This ain't a movie (and if it was, noone in their right mind would pay to see it).
The Problem with Narrative November 18, 2008
Snogun
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The progress of this series reminds me of the `Medal of Honor' franchise, which began with two excellent Playstation titles, but then changed for the worse when it moved to the PS2, becoming pre-occupied with narratives of heroism, with bugles and flapping flags, a pre-occupation which has overtaken exciting gameplay as the signature of the series. `The Brothers in Arms' games have always had narratives, but in earlier games the focus on individual characters was offset by really challenging level design - later levels in these games were chaotic and extremely difficult on the default setting.
In this game levels on that medium setting were not nearly as engaging or difficult and were interspersed with long cut scenes that developed a backstory which was as confusing as it was unconvincing (the variety of facial scars and accents did nothing to convince me that I was dealing with a group of `individuals'). Instead of building upon the game's unique combat system and the believability of its environments the developers have tried to push the idea of a narrative into which all the action of game fits.
In so doing they have ignored the historical narrative which made the earlier games so satisfying: to understand what it must have been like to stand next to a Sherman tank and feel the earth shake as it fired its main gun; or to understand why it was that German 88's were so feared by the Allies, especially when they commanded high ground. In the earlier games the developers were meticulous in bringing facts like these, the `real' narratives of WW2, to life; in this game those narratives have been sacrificed (tanks are now ridden a la COD and 88's are about as threatening as a garden hose) for a made up story about a gun or a coward or something.
A huge dissappointment.
A great game November 13, 2008
prince (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
No doubt great gameplay, great graphics, got Far Cry 2 at the same time & hardly played it, online side is pretty poor & the worst part for me is how short the game is, I hardly get a chance to play & yet completed it in what seemed only a few visits to the pc, great game so 5 stars for fun but very short so only 3 stars overall.
Long cinematic scenes that really did my head in, they start, you can go to the loo, make a tea, eat your dinner, come back & it will only be halfway through one, yawn, if you port a game to pc at least give us the option of to watch all that or not. Same thing did my head in playing Assasins Creed, no need for it.
 Joy stick playable November 13, 2008
Mr. Terence Gwilliam (maidstone, united kingdom)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am sincerely hoping someone has a heart and can help me. I suffer from MS and find games using keyboards difficult. Can you play Brothers in Arms with a joystick/Gamepad if not can someone recommend a great game similar to this one
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