![]() ![]() These Allied paratroopers were supposed to secure the towns and bridges, and then follow a highway to cut into the German lines and end the war. The player resumes the role of Staff Sergeant Matt Baker during World War II’s Operation Market Garden, a plan for the Allies to drop two American and one British division behind German lines in Holland. Wait, who is who again? Who said what? Huh?īrothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway continues the storyline of a dozen or so characters under the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. It actually didn’t do too terribly – domestic sales on the 360 have almost hit half a million and domestic sales on the PS3 have almost hit a quarter million to date. What was kind of crazy was that the game went on sale for $20 at nearly every retailer on Black Friday, leading to believe that it totally bombed. Originally scheduled to be released in Fall of 2007, it kept getting pushed back until it finally hit in Fall of 2008. It continues the storyline, but was delayed several times and probably suffered a reduced number of sales because of it. Based on the timing, Gearbox Software probably kept working on the first game with an arbitrary point to separate the first from the second – angering fans.īrothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway was finally released in September 2008, about three years after the second game. Things didn’t help much either when the sequel felt more like an expansion to the first rather than a full blown sequel and was charged the heftier sequel price. First of all, while the original game was released in March 2005, the sequel was released in October 2005 – a mere 7 months after the first game. The sequel, Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood was released but not to the same acclaim that the first one garnered. It also didn’t hurt that it spent a lot of time developing its characters to give the game a “Band of Brothers”-like feel. Eventually the development studio would get its break with Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, the first of the Brothers in Arms games.īrothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 became successful due to a focus on strategy and tactics rather than straight up shooting for a FPS. This development team got started with expansions to the original Half-Life games before settling into years of porting various games from console to PC and PC to console. – confusing story and characters if you have never played earlier gamesīrothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway is the third game in the series from Gearbox Software. – short and lacks polish (talking without lips moving? come on!) ![]() ![]() – overhead map with good amount of information It doesn’t deliver enough in this day and age for a FPS shooter – especially a WWII one. At least, for me it did as I had no idea who half the characters were. The game’s squad-based management system gives it a little something unique in the FPS category, but its general lack of polish and reliance on having played the first two to understand this game’s story hurt it. To be honest, that’s not exactly a good sign as it means the game didn’t evoke enough feeling out of me (positive or negative) to want to write about it. I finished this game a little while back but never got around to reviewing it until now. ![]() In Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, most of your time will be behind cover. ![]()
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