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Just got meself a copy of BiA: Road to Hill 30 fresh from the Motherland, and let me tell you something, IT SUCKS.

Gamespot gives it a 9.0, but Gamespot can kiss my ass. The game was the most boring shooter I've played.

So, here's my review.

The Good:
You can order your squad to move to a specific location, follow you, and lay down suppressing fire. They are smart enough to take cover when shot at.
Fire suppression: all enemies can now be suppressed, making them sit whimpering behind cover.
The graphics are officially kickass.

The Bad:
The game is so frigging linear. You can't jump over a fence if the game doesn't want you too. You can't break a fucking window to get at the enemy! You can't open a door. You can't do SHIT.
The firefights with the enemies consist of the same routine over and over again: order your squad to lay down suppressing fire, flank the enemy, kill them. I have just described every encounter with the Germans in the first 5 levels.
Speaking of linearity, the enemies sometimes spawn right before your eyes. I have crossesd the street, killed some germans shooting at my team, and guess what, a kraut heavy machinegun just appeared on the street I just crossed the second I killed the krauts. BLEARGH I have quit the game in disgust.
Speaking of disgust, THE BODIES DISAPPEAR. That's right folks, the bodies disappear after a minute or so.
The team is useless. You still have to kill 90% of the enemies on your own.
The "personalized" stuff consist of a brief monologue about some character before the chapter starts. BO-RING.
Oh, btw, you can't save the game unless at a checkpoint.

There is just one moment in the game that I truly enjoyed, and that is when I shot up a roomful of Germans:

But that's the only exciting thing that happened in 5 levels of the game. Kind of tells you how interesting that game is.

Oh, btw, you cannot move those chairs. How's that?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

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Yes, its a wonderful, immaculately modelled replica of a corridor shooter set in an realistically modelled French countryside (assuming of course that there are only 2 types of hedgerow, 3 or 4 types of house and 1 option for progressing through a level.

Its sucky on so many levels.

Good things however:

1) Impressive AI - they really are good most of the time.

2) The feeling you get when you assault helpless infantry with a Sherman

3) Multiplayer. Its fun as hell.

Overall though, this game is not nearly as good as it should have been. And the bloom. My god the bloom.

Is it better than RO, yes/no. It looks like ass on those screenshots.

Kinda a shame SP games are getting MORE SP-ish, though, with lame Splinter Cell style levels (l337zor Sam Fisher, stopped by a five foot broken pine paling fence) and preset 'encounters'. Game designers should stop trying to write stories.

Ah, yes. I'm sick of WWII games, but my brother and best friend keep coming back for more. This game is indeed utter crap.

*friend comes in my room with plastic bag*

Me: "What'd you get?"

Friend: "Brothers in Arms. Can I use your PS2?"

Me: "If it works." *blows dust off and boots up PS2*

*twenty minutes elapse*

Me: "So..."

Friend: "Yeah, it's shit. I'm taking it back tomorrow, wanna come?"

Darth Raptor wrote:Ah, yes. I'm sick of WWII games, but my brother and best friend keep coming back for more. This game is indeed utter crap.

*friend comes in my room with plastic bag*

Me: "What'd you get?"

Friend: "Brothers in Arms. Can I use your PS2?"

Me: "If it works." *blows dust off and boots up PS2*

*twenty minutes elapse*

Me: "So..."

Friend: "Yeah, it's shit. I'm taking it back tomorrow, wanna come?"

Lucky you. The store I got it from is thousands of miles away in the motherland. Oh well, at least it was only 3 bucks.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

This game was quite hyped here. Luckely I developed a natural resistance against hypes