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Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway

  • 22-09-2008 1:16pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭


    Does this come out Friday? Anyone getting it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Mikeyt086


    Yes it does come out this Friday, i havent really seen anything that would make me buy it, i reckon ill stick unitll COD:WOW.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Mikeyt086 wrote: »
    Yes it does come out this Friday, i havent really seen anything that would make me buy it, i reckon ill stick unitll COD:WOW.

    Yeah, it's a shame it's not coming out for another 7 weeks. This may be a good renter – the last ones didn't have much replay value.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I'll be getting it. Thought the last one, Earned in Blood, was absolutely fantastic and played completely differently to the rest of the generic WW2 games out there. The fix and flank tactics and the scripting made it far more realistic and strategic than most other FPS games. I've a feeling this will be great but will unfortunately get totally dismissed by the Call of Duty crowd who expect another dumb action shooter and get a completely different beast.


  • Moderators Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭Azza


    I played through the original Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 and thought it was pretty good shooter overall. Gameplay was decent and thats the main thing, graphics where solid for the time.

    Two major gripes where very annoying load times which seem to take for ever to load certain levels. But the most annoying thing was that the damn characters where so cliched and the dialogue so forced it just made the characters deaths which where mean't to be profound, moments you actually thought oh thank god I don't have to here that twat drone on again by his horrid poetry.

    I breifly played the sequel but it was pretty much the same, felt more like an expansion. I hear the A.I of enemy soliders was improved but the friendly A.I got stupidier.

    Having seen videos for the third one they don't look overly impressive, very standard looking. Does not look like its going push the genre foward or anything but then again few games do.

    Undecided on getting it. I'll wait to see what the reviews are like for it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Road to Hill 30 was a bit contrived but the storytelling was far better in the second one, really had a Band of Brothers feel to it and the interview story telling mechanic was very well done. There's some parts when the main character doesn;t want to talk about the events that happened and they are handled extremely well, not what you would expect from your usual videogame.

    Thought the enemy AI and friendly AI was greatly improved in the sequel as well. The enemy kept moving position and actively trying to flank you instead of just sitting in the one place waiting to be flanked. Being actually able to aim your gun was nice as well :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭Spunge


    Does the sequel still have those big circle clock things for telling if the enemy is taking cover or whatever. Kind of breaks the immersion for one of (i thought) the more realistic WW2 shooters


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    It does have them but it also has the option of turning them off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Q_Ball


    There's a brothers in arms double pack containing the first two games coming out on Wii, also this friday iirc. I'll probably pick that up before I get this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭FreeOSCAR


    Probably be a solid rental for me.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    pc release of this has been put back a week.console release date remains the same,this friday.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    7/10 from eurogamer. Main put downs are that the graphics aren't great and it can get repetitive. Still think I'll get it, enjoyed the first two.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    what platform you gonna get it for?


  • Moderators Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭Azza


    Just read Eurogamers review and seems to confirm my suspicions of a solid if unspectacular FPS.

    Put downs where not just that it was repetitive (which nearly all FPS games are) and not that pretty from a graphics viewpoint. Its was also that the desctructable enviroments where limited and the story like I thought about the first game was overblown and forced. They also mentioned the AI seems to struggle with path finding at times.

    The lack of weapon sway makes seems like a strange decision, I liked that about the first game.

    Mutiplayer seemed pretty standard.

    Just looking at the wikipedia page and the reviews seem roughly consistent with Eurogamer.

    Eurogamer - 70%
    TeamXbox - 81%
    Official Xbox Magazine U.S. - 90%
    Computer and Video Games - 79%
    Video Gamer - 80%
    PC Gamer UK - 85%
    PSM3 - 70%
    Game Reactor - 70%
    IGN - 7.6


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Probably a try before you buy if you haven't played the earlier ones. The lack of sway with the weapons seems strange as well. Sniping enemies in the original was really very difficult, itmeantyou have to flank in most cases to get a better shot.

    Not sure which platform I'll get it on, I'll probably see if it's region free on 36 0 and then see if the PS3 version is cheaper on playasia.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    The original BIA games were great, and a nice change of pace from the one man army type of run n' gun FPS's. Ill definitely be getting this, not sure if ill go for PC or 360 tho.
    The sad thing is this is destined to be about a million times better than COD:WAW, but will sell about half as much while people scramble for their latest generic 'em up unlock filled 'ive got a new rocket powered grenade and am a level 50 sergeant major general' multiplayer ****fest from COD.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Did anyone buy this?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    grizzly wrote: »
    Did anyone buy this?

    I got it on the 360, it's decent enough, i keep trying to do too much myself and sucking. When you get your squad to do most of the work it becomes easier but less fun to play. The graphics aren't great at all and the AI leaves a lot to be desired on occasion. I would say it's a short enough game (judging on the achievement list) and there'll be little to no replay value. I didn't try the multiplayer yet, but I probably won't bother as it's not the greatest judging on feedback so far (i'm not too big into online gaming anyway)

    I'd give it a 7 out of 10


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I got it on the PS3 and I'm enjoying it. It's not the greatest game in the world, but it is fun. Like Bombleswizzum said, I keep trying to do everything myself and get killed. Once you use your time it get's easier (but can still be tough).

    My main gripe is that it's a carry on from the story of the other games, and since I don't remember what happened in them, I've no idea what they're talking about in this one.

    I think the GFX are pretty good. They're not up there with Crysis or Far Cry 2 etc, but they do the job. There's some great set sequences and it can get quite frantic at times when you're being suppressed by multiple MG's.

    7/10 seems about right. If you liked the previous games, you'll like this. If you missed them, then you might want to rent it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    thoroughly unimpressed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Thought it was a great game myself. One of the games of the year for sure and a lot better than a few of the critically more successful titles this year.

    Great narrative, good combat = Great game!


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 52,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I thought the narrative sucked donkeyballs. Very cliche and trying too hard to pull on the heartstrings. Maybe if they bothered with some character development we would have cared.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I got this for the Pc today,I'll give it a bash over the weekend maybe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    Got the PC version, absolutely love it. Fantastic game, best ww2 fps by a long chalk IMO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    Id wait for operation flashpoint before this even...which btw looks unreal from the early review ive seen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    humanji wrote: »
    I got it on the PS3 and I'm enjoying it...............

    ........I think the GFX are pretty good. They're not up there with Crysis or Far Cry 2 etc, but they do the job. There's some great set sequences and it can get quite frantic at times when you're being suppressed by multiple MG's.

    Hold on, how can You compare a PS3 version to a PC only game like Crysis or Far Cry 2 which isn't even out yet :eek:

    Has anyone played this on pc? How are the graphics? If it only looks ok on 360 like Bombleswizzum says I'd be convinced it can only be total shíte on pc


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Hold on, how can You compare a PS3 version to a PC only game like Crysis or Far Cry 2 which isn't even out yet :eek:

    Has anyone played this on pc? How are the graphics? If it only looks ok on 360 like Bombleswizzum says I'd be convinced it can only be total shíte on pc

    I completed Hell's Highway this weekend, a decent game, nothing spectacular but fun all the same, graphics imo are decent and game runs smoothly on my rig, Gameplay was decent a bit bit easy on vetheran (Easy on pc to get headshots, prob not so much using controller), game was very short, started playing on friday after college, finished yesterday, it deffo wasn't bad though

    7.5/10-Would be more if it lasted longer

    Nick


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Cheers, thats a better review, I might just get this.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    0ubliette wrote: »
    Got the PC version, absolutely love it. Fantastic game, best ww2 fps by a long chalk IMO

    have to agree with you,if the other ones are this good,I may have to buy them,heres a cool pic of a kraut with half his leg blown off :):cool:



    BROTHERSINARMS-1.jpg


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    BROTHERSINARMS-2.jpg


    and heres another cool pic,Im playing this with gtx 260,how do ye think it looks?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    looks good, but I game @ 1920x1200, any chance of a higher res pic?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    The highest res I can get is 1650x1050

    BROTHERSINARMS-3.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    BROTHERSINARMS-2.jpg


    and heres another cool pic,Im playing this with gtx 260,how do ye think it looks?

    looks sweet, how are you taking screenshots tho? Fraps or something? i cant find a proper screenshot key, i just use the print screen key and paste into paint :rolleyes:

    page stretching ahoy:

    65501825ib0.jpg


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    0ubliette wrote: »
    i just use the print screen key and paste into paint :rolleyes:

    thats excactly what I do as well,and then I copy it in photobucket and upload it here,although from seeing your image,I see your using image shack?im gonna consider using that now seeing as photobuckets biggest resolution is 800x600.nice pic though,what card you using?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    thats excactly what I do as well,and then I copy it in photobucket and upload it here,although from seeing your image,I see your using image shack?im gonna consider using that now seeing as photobuckets biggest resolution is 800x600.nice pic though,what card you using?

    Yeah its annoying, i might just use fraps to take screens in it or something. Im using an evga 8800 GTS 512. Runs the game without a hitch, even in the most intense sections. Tho i did try to force 2xAA in the nvidia control panel and it ****ed my FPS


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    0ubliette wrote: »
    Yeah its annoying, i might just use fraps to take screens in it or something. Im using an evga 8800 GTS 512. Runs the game without a hitch, even in the most intense sections. Tho i did try to force 2xAA in the nvidia control panel and it ****ed my FPS

    what does 2xAA do?thats still a very good card,some more pics for ye,these are head shots,when you get a headshot,its goes in slow motion which is cool.

    BROTHERSINARMS-4.jpg


    BROTHERSINARMS-5.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    nice shots man, im glad i went with the PCversion mself as id heard the console versions look crap and have texture pop in.
    AA is anti-aliasing, its what smooths out jagged edges in graphics. It goes from 2xAA up to 8xAA or so, makes things look alot smoother but comes at the cost of performance!


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    look at this poor chap


    BROTHERSINARMS-6.jpg


    Im glad I went for the pc version too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Wow, those screenies look great, I dl'ed it last nite ;) gonna install it and have a go myself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Ok, had a rip at this and I'm sooooo glad I didn't buy this. I didn't really like the older ones in the series and this ones even worse. Its a very bad console port which is crap on pc, not impressed at all with the graphics either. 3/10 Poor

    Edit: Just for another opinion I let my 9yo son have a go, just to see if he wanted to install it and he also thought it was complete muck and he'd play anything. So I'm not alone here in my slating


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭0ubliette


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    Ok, had a rip at this and I'm sooooo glad I didn't buy this. I didn't really like the older ones in the series and this ones even worse. Its a very bad console port which is crap on pc, not impressed at all with the graphics either. 3/10 Poor

    Edit: Just for another opinion I let my 9yo son have a go, just to see if he wanted to install it and he also thought it was complete muck and he'd play anything. So I'm not alone here in my slating

    Well if a 9 year old hates it, it must be arse :rolleyes:
    Let me guess, you were expecting a call of duty clone?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭BKtje


    Thought it was great fun. Really enjoyed using my squads to supress the enemy then flank them with my assualt squad from one side and me from the other.

    Played it on veteran and i think i died twice and that was more from stupidity than difficulty so not a hard game (will try realistic sometime) but thoroughly enjoyable. Finished it over three days.

    I'm also a COD fan so the two not mutually exclusive.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Despite what people think,I personally think its a great game,very different from the other ww2 shooters out there,its a breath of fresh air,Ok so the AI Aint great,hopefully they'll release a patch soon for that,but other than that I like it,have to get my hands on the other two games.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    Soby wrote: »
    Id wait for operation flashpoint before this even...which btw looks unreal from the early review ive seen

    Well your a patient man then! Correct me if i'm wrong but I thought OFP2: Dragons Rising is due for release in March 2009?!

    I reckon that will be the game of the year next year though, and can't wait for it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭Myxomatosis


    It runs like an ass.

    A sure sign of a badly ported / written game is when you get the exact same FPS on the lowest settings as you do on the highest settings.

    Longest and most cringe worthy introduction to a game I have ever seen. I think they went a bit overboard on the whole God bless America emotional soldiers thinking back on their youth running through corn fields with toy airplanes bollox.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    0ubliette wrote: »
    Well if a 9 year old hates it, it must be arse :rolleyes:
    Let me guess, you were expecting a call of duty clone?

    Na, didn't expect a COD clone, but I expected something a bit better than this, this was just awful IMO. I was looking for a game to pull me away from Clear Sky for a while as its very long, Warhead did this but was 2 short, this didn't even last an evening. Guess I'll have to wait for Far Cry 2 but I'll keep going at Clear Sky for now.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,083 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    BROTHERSINARMS-7.jpg


    think im nearly finished it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭BKtje


    A sure sign of a badly ported / written game is when you get the exact same FPS on the lowest settings as you do on the highest settings.
    Or that you got a bottleneck somewhere where your gfx card is able to handle the highest settings but the cpu (or whatever) struggles.

    I never tried it on low settings as i ran the game beautifully with everything enabled so can't comment one way ro another.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭Myxomatosis


    B-K-DzR wrote: »
    Or that you got a bottleneck somewhere where your gfx card is able to handle the highest settings but the cpu (or whatever) struggles.

    I never tried it on low settings as i ran the game beautifully with everything enabled so can't comment one way ro another.

    Exactly, the fact that it is so CPU intensive shows that it's a bad port.

    It's similar to an N64 game running in an emulator. If you were you write an N64 game from the ground up specifically for PC you would be able to run it very smoothly with very little hardware requirements. Where as an N64 game running in an emulator needs a fairly powerful CPU because the code isn't running on it's native platform.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    Help:First
    Tank mission
    ..Where is the last flak gun(8 of them)..it says its on the walkway according to my map but i cant see it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Soby wrote: »
    Help:First
    Tank mission
    ..Where is the last flak gun(8 of them)..it says its on the walkway according to my map but i cant see it?

    Bring up the map and look for
    a flak gun with an orange background - that should be it


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