Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2008-09-26
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.co.uk Review

In a nutshell:
After a successful tour of duty on the current gen consoles Brothers in Arms returns in the ultimate WWII squad based shooter, set during the closing months of the war as you take part in the crucial Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.

The lowdown:
Although there were many astonishing looking games at the recent E3 event this was for most people the most graphically amazing next gen game seen so far. The levels not only look near photorealistic but the game world is huge and almost completely interactive. The gameplay works in the same basic way as before, with an easy to use onscreen cursor enabling you to direct your men with a single button press. New movement types now exist though, allowing you to specify stealth or patrol postures depending on what you’re doing and how fast you need to move. The only problem is the enemy have the same abilities and their artificial intelligence is advanced enough to make proper use of them.

Most exciting moment:
Not only are the enemy intelligent but they’re also well trained, reacting just as a real German soldier would. They’ll hide in doorways, ambush at road junctions and even, in one memorable encounter, hide behind a washing line – where your only warning is from a Dutch civilian at a window above.

Since you ask:
Everything in the game is as realistic as possible with streets and house copied exactly from photos taken at the time, while all weapons and vehicles are modelled to work exactly as they did in real life.

The bottom line:
The most realistic WWII game ever – in terms of history, tactics and graphics.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway brings the critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and sound, new cutting-edge gameplay features and a completely redesigned online component. Delivering on the franchise's compelling story, unrivaled authenticity and intense squad-based action, Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway drops you into Operation Market-Garden, the largest airborne operation of World War II. Lead Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division as they fight to open "Hell's Highway" in a daring bid for a quick end to the war.

Customer Reviews

Great Gameplay and Storyline
Excellent Game, I wasn't sure about it at first but i was very surprised when i played, graphics are average but the gameplay is great which can be a bit difficult at times but makes it more of a challange and the storyline is excellent. You really need to have some knowledge of the previous Brother In Arms games to know whats going on at first, but if not you will still get into it. I hope this review was helpful.

A Disappointment...
If buying this for the single player game, then you will feel your money is well-spent. An excellent and challenging game, in veteran mode, that closely follows historical events.

If you are into online multiplayer, then forget it. There are no leaderboards, no scores, no ranks, no awards, no spawning - if you die, you spectate. Not my idea of fun online gaming.

As for the spectacularly destructible environments - where are they? Just fences and a few other wooden items. Hmmmmm...

Five stars for the single player, one for the online. I'll be very kind and give it three stars overall.

Rent it for the single player.

Buy Battlefield Bad Company if you haven't already. A very good single player game with great humour, excellent online play and a massively destructible world. In my opinion, one of the best games around.

Big Improvement!!
Being a massive fan of the Brothers in Arms series i was excited to find out that it was coming on to the PS3. I had high expectations for it bearing in mind Ubisoft have had alot of time to learn from the mistakes or Call of Duty and MOH Airborne. As always i did not expect to get the normal FPS situations on Brothers in Arms, due to its more realistic and complex approach to the WW2 Genre. The gameplay in this game is brilliant. You find yourself on a number of occasions just wanting to pause the game and work out how your going to flank the germans. The controls can take abit to get used to, especially when you are used to the COD4 and MOH buttons, however like everything once you get used to it their is no problems. Only reason i have gave this 4 and not 5 is because of the sometimes rubbish visuals. It seems they focused alot more on the stone walls than actual surroundings such as windwills and gliders. Overall a great WW2 Shooter which has excellent gameplay however lacks the visuals and graphics of COD4.