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Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood
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Manufacturer: UBI Soft
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: UBI Soft
EAN: 0827307932342
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: This sequel to Brothers In Arms - Road To Hill 30 brings back the action, story, and authenticity that had critics and fans raving
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Label: UBI Soft
Manufacturer: UBI Soft
Model: 8888512615
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: UBI Soft
Release Date: 2005-10-04
Studio: UBI Soft
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This sequel to Brothers In Arms - Road To Hill 30 brings back the action, story, and authenticity that had critics and fans raving
New single-player narrative as you defeat the last enemy bastions and bring freedom to Normandy
Cooperative Multiplayer mode - Take on the enemy with a friend by your side, working together and uses each other's squads to avoid certain death
Missions and battles accurately recreated from real U.S. Army photographs, maps and post-action reports
Unique multiplayer missions and improved online support on PC and consoles - featuring an all-new Skirmish mode that follows a real tour of duty
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Editorial Reviews:
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Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood is one of the most incredible World War II shooters around. Meetthe men of the 101st Airborne and Sgt. Joe "Red" Hartsock. You'll lead him and his squad of paratroopers through some of the most intense missions of WWII as you fight for the liberation of Normandy. Arm yourself with new weapons like the M3 grease gun, and command new vehicles like the M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer More challenging and dynamic combat, featuring close-quarter urban environments and a new, next-generation artificial intelligence system
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not much of an improvement over the Road to Hill 30
Comment: Earned in Blood, not Brothers in Arms 2, just Road to Hill 30 and beyond... as Sergeant/Corporal Joe 'Red' Hartsock.
Well, everything such as graphics, sound, and gameplay is pretty much the SAME. I didn't notice much difference in those fields. A few new weapons have been added, the M3 Grease gun, and the FG42, WOW BIG DEAL. The FG42 is fun to use, the M3 is boring, except you only use them in a few levels of the campaign. Some of the old characters come back, while your squad is a bunch of guys you didnt meet in RTH-30. New abilities like magically recieving ammo from your squad, and talking to them by pressing 'X' have been added. You guys act like the guys in Hill 30, swearing, arguing, and just talking. Instead of the 'briefing' of every level being a sort of narration by the main character, its become aa SLA Marshall interviewing Hartsock, not as interesting, but a bit more informative than Bakers telling. The game is just as hard as Road to Hill 30, unless you found it easy, but its not as long, its got more scenes where your just watching. And instead of creating bakersdozen as your profile name to recieve cheats, you should enter '2ndsquad' instead, same cheats. There are a few new vehicles in Earned in Blood, and there is some more variety given theres Urban combat, a wasteland of rumble where you experience 'closer combat' and get to take out some tanks on the way. More fun times to kill Panzer tanks! And sometimes they give you a stash of panzerfausts to take out several PANZER TANKS. A new mode, 'Skirmish' has been added, its just 5 levels of different objectives to choose from, I found it similar to multiplayer, except longer, you can also co-op in Skirmish. Everything feels the same, just some new goodies added, and this time... the cover is a helmet! It definatly earns the M rating because it has all the blood, violence, and curse words from Hill 30... unless you dont care.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best WWII game out there!
Comment: I love shooter games mostly WWII games.... i also play paintball which is the closest thing to war you can get and this game is the closest thing to real life plus its an awsome story line because it says its a true WWII story
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Summary: Tired of all the hype and BS.
Comment: You know, I am sick of all the hype about this game by a bunch of weenies that don't seem to know real combat, real weapons or realism of any sort beyond what they see on their TV screens.
This game is not the authentic real life war on-the-battlefield war game that all the geeks are hyping and signing the party line the company puts out.
I bought two of these games after reading the reviews and I have to say that you people don't know what you are talking about.
There is pseudo-realism and that is about it. Sure the maps are close, the look and sounds of the weapons are close and even the dialog is about right, but that is about as far as it goes.
These games fall down severely on the accuracy/authenticity in several key areas.
1.Ludicrous restriction on the tactical options available to the soldiers and the squad leaders. Some of this is bad level design, some of it is probably trying to make up for the limitations of their AI, and some of it is just plain dumb.
2. Ridiculous limitations on interaction with the environments. You cannot open doors or windows. You cannot climb fences. You cannot use the wire cutters that every paratroop carried. You cannot go under a normal barbed wire fence, which thousands of hunters do several times a day in america.
Barrels and crates don't blow up or even move when hit by a tank. You can't even climb over a low wall that some other men just went over.
Perhaps most unforgivable of all, you cannot go into a prone position or crawl. You know, the stuff they teach everyone in BASIC TRAINING!
3. The gunsights are ludicrous. The amount of creep even in a crouching position is ridiculous. If I was that shakey I'd head for the retirement home.
4. Terrible path blocking and object collision detection. Quite a few times when I had a perfect view of a target and as perfect a sight picture as you would ever want I could not hit the target no matter how many rounds I fired. In real life I would have put a round through both ears of my target.
5. Absurd size of the weapons relative to your field of vision when zoomed in. Come on folks this is ridiculously UN-authentic. There is a reason for the open sights on fast action weapons like the Thompson and other SMG weapons.
6. Really stupid scenario designs. There are several instances where you are put face to face with tanks and no tactical options except to run for enemy panzerfausts. Making this worse of course are the level designs that force you to follow a relatively linear and restricted path to said anti-tank weapons. This is completely ridiculous.
7. Poor level designs. Too many places you cannot go or step when you should be able to. Places you cannot jump over or crawl under where you should. Only in EIB do you get to even blow holes in the hedges with the TNT that all paratroops carried as part of their standard pack during that theater of operations, and then only in key places and one whole scenario.
8. Situational awareness mode. Give me a break. This is supposed to substitute for the advance study done by the troops? It's not even as good as a raw topo map dump. You are chained to camera angles around key points and there are no indications of any significant type for changes in elevation and quite often the terrain features are faded out due to the choices made for the camera angle.
9. Another limiting factor is that you cannot issue movement commands to a location you know is there but are not lined up on directly yourself and you had better be on the side away from the enemy when you issue the order. This could have been easily fixed by using some option to issue commands while in situational mode, especially if that were better done.
10. Lastly the much hyped authentic tactics. Authentic, sure, in a very introductory and watered down way, severely limited in permutations, applications and variations due to all the other limitations of the game.
By the way, I am both a veteran and an experienced programmer and I am highly disappointed with this game on both counts.
If this is the latest in realism then it shows what a sorry state the gaming industry really is in. Of course I still haven't seen AI in a commercial game yet that matched up to what I saw undergrad programmers doing in college during the 80s. We deserve better and it's not that hard to do. It's time we stopped allowing these companies to hype this stuff up like it is so great when it's all fluff like pretty pictures and sound.
Oh, one PS. The AI cheats. You can observe how the enemy becomes magically aware of things completely out of the blue, such as someone being behind them, not moving or firing, and behind cover. This is inexcusable.
Customer Rating:
Summary: split-screen co-op review
Comment: with shooters, I only play split-screen Co-op games with a friend - stuff like Halo and Wolfenstein. This game has a mode that lets you pick 1 of 5 maps, choose your difficulty level and whether you want to be the good or bad guys. You each command a 3-man team. AI is pretty good and the game is more difficult comparatively than Halo. The maps are pretty varied and fun. Definitely worth 20 bucks.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good game for Two people
Comment: This game was a little predictable but was good for two player action. The graphics are not all that great however its cool that you can play on either side of the countries.
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