Brothers in arms ™: Road to hill 30 has been released today (friday 18th) so i thought ide give a few comments on it:

I been waiting a long time for this game and been playing it all day

The good things - The character and enviroment graphics are really amazing, you really do get a good atmosphere of the surroundings and if you pump up the volume you fell as if you could be there. The weapons seem good, nice sounds and realistic sway. A nice little feature you find in the game is when you get stuck on a mission and therefore die after a few attempt you have the option to heal your team including yourself whch really does come in handy. Nice ragdoll effect and a bit of fun to blowing people up and also shooting someone leaves a nice bloodsplat on the walls

The bad things - Personally i think that this game has a terrible multiplayer, i was hoping it would be like call of duty but it far from it, you need to create an account with ubi.com to play, then the games are very small the largest i could see was 5/5 players . Ubisoft seems to make a big deal out of the AI but in my opinion there a bit dumb at times, like taking cover behind light posts and running into the open. I commented earlier on the weapons, although they are good i dont think the realism when you shoot people is very good by this i mean i find it does the same damage where ever you shoot them.

Still i think it worth getting but its far from what i expected, i think they really used there advertising well to make it better than it is, i was hoping it would be the next CoD but i think it wont get close in multiplayer!

rasta

Thanks for the quick review. I am certain it will help others decide if it's the game for them. I have run across this exact same problem before where I expect one thing from a game and get another.

We're having problems here with blue screens when quitting multiplayer (AMD 64s). Maybe there's a patch...need to check, but two different PCs with the same problem.

i will probaly not get the game because of the fact that cod has the best multiplayer ever. cod is nothing without mp, and it seemsbrothers in arms is nothing without sp? cod will continue to rock on neway....sp might get a person to buy the game, but mp will have them keep it

there is a patch version 1.2 you need it to update problems .. they relaesed the patch before the game :S check the bia website

the exact name of the patch is

Code:

brothers_in_arms_1.02_us_uk

just incase you want to search for it :)

Thanks, yeah, installed the patch but still getting a BS 'o D when existing the app.

Time to go whine on the UBI site I guess.

Brothers in Arms would be too chaotic with 10 players either side. The MP was made for small scale squad combat. As it is, you get 20 player aside battles with 4 humans controlling an AI squad of 4 each. And TDM on this game would suck. It would just be Tommy gun whoring.

I'm loving the MP. Knocks CoD's head off with a mallet then bashes the corpses with a rather large stone. It's that good.

And the single player is just excellent. Don't get me started on some of the stuff you have to do.

Oh dear it seems the prophet really is lost. It dosn't decapitate cod with what is essentially an over feed hammer and so there is no corpse to bash with a stone, pebble, rock or even fossil

The moment i saw that this game was comming out i was going to buy it no matter what. It dosn't live up to what i hope it would be, but it does live up to what i expected it would be.

Its sp has some really good aspects. The importance of suppress and flank is great and also the fact that you can have a fire fight between 15 or 16 guys without anyone getting hit for quite a while is a very realistic touch. Theres no running through the level guns blazing enabling the mappers to make quite small levels (at least the playable areas) without making the levels feel cheep or you feeling cheated.

The characters still were not as deep as i had hoped but they did a far better job than any other ww2 game so far (we ARE getting there)

It was great to finally have a game played along a narrative timeline and not jumping from week to week or country to country and the locations did feel complete. It is a pitty that the enemy ai are not that realstic to kill (to many shots to knock them down)

Swearing was a nice touch. Alot of games shy away from bad language becuase it narrows their potential audience but it adds a lot of intensity to a situation

This is the sort of game i would propably play after watching saving private ryan or band of brothers but not generally for fun

A hybrid of cod and bia would be great. 70% cod and 30% bia. Hopfully thats what the ww2 fps genre is slowly moving to wards. It would be great in terms of realism and fun

Huge battle scenes, no health packs, a wide variety of weapons, realistic amounts of ammo, a great multiplayer, intresting and important characters, beautiful enviroments, realistic tactics

On another note the new metal gear solid is great, im not much of a console gamer but i make the odd acception. It impressed me that it actually makes you feel abit at the end, were not talking green mile standard but its a damn good effort, i think games with a well written story and indepth characters are the future, games that make you care and make you think, oh and games where you get to kill stuff

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I will buy BiA soon, I love the batlles of WWII especially Normandy, so this is probably a nice game for me I also checked all the developer movies, and I can understand some of you find it too bad that the mp isn't like cod, but you don't have to compare it with cod because it was the developers goal to make something like this, something else then already was done.

I like that, else you always have more of the same and I think it is good to have more variations in gameplay we already have cod with a great mp so why another one again with same principe...