Friday, February 06, 2009

Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway


Just picked up the latest installment of this cover based tactical shooter from Gametraders Indooroopilly. Good game. It purports to tell the story of American infantrymen from the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment during operation Market garden. Let's hope we get to see a Pole or Brit at some stage, they actually took more casualties than the Americans did in this operation. You basically have yourself and a squad that you can order around to suppress the evil, cardboard cut-out Nazis while you sneak around them and shoot them in the back. So far I've been impressed with the weapon modelling, the sounds are awesome, none of that annoyingly fake loud boominess. The MG42 is very well modelled, though I feel you shouldn't be able to run around firing it from the hip. Of course WWII is too loud for Sarah. God forbid that I make any noise retrospectively defending her freedom from evil Nazis.

If you like slightly more realistic (realistic compared to Quake) first person shooters like the Rainbow Six series, and WWII then this game is for you, especially if you have an awesome sound system. It's nice not being able to dodge bullets or take a shotgun blast in the face and keep going. Also, you can shoot the sheep.

1 comments:

Sarah said...

This game sucks. Any game with ceaseless shooting noises sucks. I am impressed with how the graphics look even on our slowly-dying TV. Still, Girlfriend Review: FAIL.