Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway
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g4m3rof1337
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I'm on my phone, but the pictures still look great. I watched the HD trailers earlier, and it looks great.
I'll probably get it later tonight, after work.
I'll probably get it later tonight, after work.
i haven't played any of the games that came earlier in the series for more than 5 minutes, so the squad control gameplay was more or less new to me. the best way i know how to describe it is sort of like an improvement on gears of war. in fact, the whole game feels like an improvement on gears of war, and i thought gears was incredible. obviously the scenery, objectives, and characters have all changed to WW2. i might as well go ahead and get the graphics out of the way, and say they are gorgeous. which they truly are, and it runs smooth even on my lowly 8800GT.
the gameplay is a strategy/FPS hybrid where you control squads in addition to yourself, and ideally you use them to suppress fire while yourself or another squad carries out a particular objective. playing on the more challenging of the two difficulties available from the get go requires use of cover and covering fire... run out in the open for more than a second or two and you are a dead man.
one scenario I particularly enjoyed involved myself, an assault squad, and a bazooka squad trying to move on a position in a town being guarded by an MG42 in a tower, in addition to Nazis on the ground. what I had to do was make the assault squad lay down suppressing fire on the MG42 to keep him occupied while I moved the bazooka squad into a position to blow the tower to hell. we are running from cover to cover trying to make it to a certain position, all while hell is being unleashed by the assault squad behind us, when out of nowhere a Nazi ground squad pops from behind cover and starts unloading a wall of bullets, which kills everyone in my squad, and myself. the entire scene felt incredibly cinematic and satisfying.
what makes the game stand above the rest is how seamlessly the control over the squads fits into the action. there is no fumbling through menus or memorizing numerous buttons, you simply use tab to select a squad, and right click to execute a command. the game automatically zooms out to give you a more panoramic view of the battle, and based on where you click, it automatically assumes what command you are intending to give. and 99% of the time, it is right.
after playing for a while I have decided that I really, really like this game. which isn't easy for me to say because i usually enjoy ripping games apart limb by limb even for their most minor flaws.
the gameplay is a strategy/FPS hybrid where you control squads in addition to yourself, and ideally you use them to suppress fire while yourself or another squad carries out a particular objective. playing on the more challenging of the two difficulties available from the get go requires use of cover and covering fire... run out in the open for more than a second or two and you are a dead man.
one scenario I particularly enjoyed involved myself, an assault squad, and a bazooka squad trying to move on a position in a town being guarded by an MG42 in a tower, in addition to Nazis on the ground. what I had to do was make the assault squad lay down suppressing fire on the MG42 to keep him occupied while I moved the bazooka squad into a position to blow the tower to hell. we are running from cover to cover trying to make it to a certain position, all while hell is being unleashed by the assault squad behind us, when out of nowhere a Nazi ground squad pops from behind cover and starts unloading a wall of bullets, which kills everyone in my squad, and myself. the entire scene felt incredibly cinematic and satisfying.
what makes the game stand above the rest is how seamlessly the control over the squads fits into the action. there is no fumbling through menus or memorizing numerous buttons, you simply use tab to select a squad, and right click to execute a command. the game automatically zooms out to give you a more panoramic view of the battle, and based on where you click, it automatically assumes what command you are intending to give. and 99% of the time, it is right.
after playing for a while I have decided that I really, really like this game. which isn't easy for me to say because i usually enjoy ripping games apart limb by limb even for their most minor flaws.
Danda
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Kornowski
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It's amazing! I can't agree more with the cinematic style you were talking about. I was playing the game with 4NGU$ last night, there was an MG42 nest that we were trying to destroy. We were stuck up against this farm house, with bullets wizzing past our head, pinging off the wall, throwing up dirt on the ground. Equipped the Thompson, and fired off a hail of bullets into the MG's general direction, then told my assault team to join me behind this farm house, I turned around to see them pegging it towards me, just as the MG opened up again, fence was flying through the air, grass and dirt being throw up, too. It was awesome!
Check the screenshot thread!
Oh, Dustin, Go to the options when in game, then go to interface and turn everything bar the crosshairs off, it looks AMAZING! Also, it's so much more fun, not knowing exactly where the enemy are and if they're suppressed or not!
Check the screenshot thread!
Oh, Dustin, Go to the options when in game, then go to interface and turn everything bar the crosshairs off, it looks AMAZING! Also, it's so much more fun, not knowing exactly where the enemy are and if they're suppressed or not!
magichater
New Member
I might get it for hubby he likes that sort of game!
russb
New Member
I had the game and after loading went to play it and got this message come up BIAHH.exe has stopped working,tried 4 times no joy.
Went on their site forum for some advice and found a lot of people were having the same problem.
Sent it back to Amazon and ordered a different game.
Went on their site forum for some advice and found a lot of people were having the same problem.
Sent it back to Amazon and ordered a different game.
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