Brother's In Arms for PC

[bacon333]

I'm still wondering why this game got such high ratings? It's one of the most boring and frustrating games I've ever played.

First of all, I've gone through about half the game (waited for it to load most the time). I've gone this far and I still don't see what the fuss is about. The AI is stupid, they always run into bullets, there's no prone mode, and all you can tell your squads to do is suppress and move. There's no hold command or prone or formations or anything.

This and fullspecwarrior is a horrible copy-cat of freedom fighters (which was very enjoyable).

Graphics aren't all that great, sounds are eeehhh, storyline didn't wanna make me get into it (and I've watched the entire band of brothers dvd), it always autosaves when you're almost dead and when you've already lost all your squads just to take another freakin' 5 mins to load to the checkpoint where you're freakin' at 1 health bar and waiting for them to kill you over and and over again and load over and over again until the words "heal and reload" show up so you can freakin' get your health and squad back and complete the damn mission.

GRRRRR I HATE THIS GAME.

 

[homercles337]

I agree. I have no clue why this game got such great reviews. I didnt bother to even finish the thing. Were you really supposed to care about your troops?

 

[Bar81]

Yeah, overhyped as hell. Besides it being buggy as crap, it was just weak gameplay wise and the whole tactical combat thing was a silly gimmick.

 

[Slick5150]

I really tried to like it, but ran into those same frustrations. REALLY long load times, repetative gameplay, etc... I only made it through a few missions before I gave up

 

[ryanv12]

The graphics are okay and the sound is mediocre (no 5.1, what?), but I can live with that. The gameplay was okay. I didn't have long load times at all or anything like that, and I didn't find it all that frustrating, but a lot of the times the game is just sort of boring. There were only a few moments in the game where I became totally immersed in the action - like the d-day landing and the battle at hill 30 especially. I think the biggest problem to attribute to this was the fact that the world often seemed completely empty except for your squad and some Germans. The single player campaign is good for about 1 or 2 runs and I played it twice, but I dont feel like playing it anymore.

However, where this game really fails is in its multiplayer. 4 players max, only one type of gameplay, horrible user interface (they don't even tell you the pings of servers), complete lack of mod support meant that there is no community for the game, and it means it got uninstalled from my system and many other people's systems after the single player.

I wouldn't have given it such a high review, something more along the lines of average - 7.5

edit - I would mostly attribute the problems to the fact that this game was developed for the Xbox and PS2 in mind and put little consideration into most PC's capabilities. The graphics, the sound, the multiplayer, the lack of NPC's in the missions were all meant to get it playing on consoles.

 

[KB]

hmm, perhap I don't play enough games, but I thought it was great. I am a big fan of the BoB series and thought it was preety close to the movie. The graphics on the peoples faces were very good. The sound effects were great too, like when a grenade goes off right next to you and your ears starting ringing. The gameplay used realistic WWII battle tactics. It was the first WWII game that made me glad I wasn't in WWII because of how difficult being a squad leader can be in a firefight. And load times were not as long as Far Cry. Oh well, to each his own.

 

[AnyMal]

Playing demo was enough for me. I won't be bothering with a full version.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I got extremely bored after the first 2-3 missions. Basically, it was just this over and over:

1) Approach enemy troops
2) Provide covering fire
3) Flank and kill
4) Repeat

 

[Insomniak]

I'm through with World War 2. Once Battlefield 1942 came out, everyone else should've just quit.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
Once Battlefield 1942 came out, everyone else should've just quit.

I'd agree with you if all I cared about was multiplayer. But after playing BF for thousands of hours online, I had a great time playing the single player missions in COD and COD:UO.

 

[jjungman]

I loved it. But I can see why a lot of people would not.

 

[microAmp]

Only reason I could think it would have high ratings is it seemed to introduce something new to the FPS style games. A bit of strategy, the whole flanking and maneuvering, etc. But really, a couple of other games have done this, which slip my mind at this time.

 

[flashbacck]

I agree. I regret buying it.

One thing about the load times. For some reason, turning off vsync reduced load times dramatically.

 

[igowerf]

I'm playing through the game right now and I agree that's it's a very frustrating game, but the gameplay style is also how I happen to play a lot of games so I actually happen to enjoy it. I tend to repeatedly reload levels just to figure them out and find the best approach.