[First Impressions]Brothers in Arms

Biohazzard56 · 2005-03-03, 12:29 AM

Just got it today, ive gotten roughly 4 hours to play it. Im in the middle of D +2. D +2, basically means two days after d-day. The game takes place over the course of 8 days. Ill get to some of the highlights, first the presentation is amazing. The introduction to the game is amazing, ill try not to spoil the intro. The best part is unlike Call of Duty the D-Day drop is actually fleshed out.

Skip the next section if you dont want to see any spoilers.

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............................................................................................Landing in a tree with no weapon you spend the first hours of June 6th gathering mixed units and destroying various flak and gun implacements with a K98 and a Colt 45.

The in-game squad controlls are very simple, for example. I was easily able to sneak around with my fireteam and suppress a gun crew, while my light tank came down the main road .30 cals and its main turret blasting away. These gun implacements normally spell death for tanks, but since I had them well suppressed it allowed the tank to rip into them. If you navigate terrain properly you can create many of these cool moments.

I havent had a chance to try Multiplayer since the campaign has sucked up all of my time. Gamespy and IGN have already published their reviews and both have gotten Editor's Choice awards. Gamespy even gave the game a perfect 5 out of 5 stars. If you even have the slightest interest in World War II, you owe it to yourself to buy this game immediatley.

Jaged · 2005-03-03, 12:52 AM

Looks awsome. I assume you are playing the Xbox version? The pc version comes out on the 15th right?

Biohazzard56 · 2005-03-03, 06:35 AM

Originally Posted by Jaged

Looks awsome. I assume you are playing the Xbox version? The pc version comes out on the 15th right?

Yep Xbox, the game runs at a consistant 60 FPS. PC Doesnt come out til 15th.

Hamma · 2005-03-03, 10:37 AM

Another WWII game

Jaged · 2005-03-03, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Another WWII game

Its that, or a vietnam game. Aparently those are the only two interesting things to make shooters about...

Hamma · 2005-03-03, 03:42 PM

Or aliens, cant forget them.

Giovanni · 2005-03-03, 04:06 PM

Wait for it, I'm sure a WWI game will come out eventually.

Praetor · 2005-03-03, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Giovanni

Wait for it, I'm sure a WWI game will come out eventually.

That'd be good

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Jaged · 2005-03-03, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Or aliens, cant forget them.

Aliens and fantasy worlds seem to be mostly for RPG's and RTS's. The occational alien shooter does exist though.

Biohazzard56 · 2005-03-03, 08:07 PM

I dont mind World War II games as long as they are good.

BUGGER · 2005-03-03, 11:33 PM

I got hooked the first time I played CoD Finest Hour. I guess it was the intense action/doing nothing in the first 2 levels. The music also sets a good mood, and I like the slowmo when you get hit by something big.

I say we need a game just like Saving Private Ryan, the same to the last detail (Medal of honor: Whatever, I heard didn�t give too much umf . Like for D-day you should roll out of a boat watching everyone die in front of you, then you should make way up to the beach where the sand wall is and then equip your weapon.

Or there should be a game just on all the important battles of WWII. From Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima.

Biohazzard56 · 2005-03-04, 05:38 PM

WW2 Console Shooters generally suck when compaired to MOH:AA or CoD. But Brothers in Arms is almost perfect.

0Cob0 · 2005-03-04, 07:05 PM

A WWI game?

picture it...game starts in the trenches, some officer shouts charge, you run out of the trench and try to dodge mahcine gun bullets before getting slaughtered...

Alternatively, you man a machine gun, and see how many kills you rack up in half an hour of suicidal rushes towards you

Sorry, feeling war-weary regarding the Great War, just watched a documentary on the Somme...seriously depressing

ChewyLSB · 2005-03-04, 11:24 PM

Yeah, seriously, what other war are you going to make a game about? World War I was pretty much all trench warfare, and anything before that was still "Stand in a straight line and fire". So that just leaves World War II, Vietnam, modern day warfare, and future warfare. I don't know what you people expect, honestly...

Jaged · 2005-03-04, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by ChewyLSB

Yeah, seriously, what other war are you going to make a game about? World War I was pretty much all trench warfare, and anything before that was still "Stand in a straight line and fire". So that just leaves World War II, Vietnam, modern day warfare, and future warfare. I don't know what you people expect, honestly...

Something other then a run of the mill cut and paste FPS.