Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

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  1. The_D4RknesS
    Sep 7, 2022
    9
    the only problem with this game is the cutscenes that are long and you can't skip. A tactical game that reminds a lot of RAINBOW SIX VEGAS only in WWII and more violent. The coolest thing is when you kill someone in the grenade, bazooka or rifle fire, there is a slow motion showing the bodies being mutilated
  2. JrDouble
    Dec 11, 2022
    8
    Good shooter with interesting team mechanics. graphics are solid and story is quite good. I recommend this one for those interested in a WW2 FPS with an extra layer of mechanics for team control.
  3. hileger
    Dec 3, 2022
    8
    вот это отличе от ghost recon aw здесь правильно сделали простенькую тактику а там бяка,здесь история увлекает будто сам съездил на Сво
  4. WHITESIXOMAR
    Jun 5, 2022
    9
    Masterpiece. Hell's Highway improves upon Brothers in Arms Road To Hill 30 that changed the Military shooter forever. It was no longer about point and shoot, endless shooting galleries, or gunning down hordes of brain-dead enemies that rush to their deaths. Gearbox introduced concepts like fixing & flanking the enemy. We were used to looking at the map to check the current objective, andMasterpiece. Hell's Highway improves upon Brothers in Arms Road To Hill 30 that changed the Military shooter forever. It was no longer about point and shoot, endless shooting galleries, or gunning down hordes of brain-dead enemies that rush to their deaths. Gearbox introduced concepts like fixing & flanking the enemy. We were used to looking at the map to check the current objective, and we started using the map to check possible flanking maneuvers. It was totally refreshing.

    Hell's Highway is an impressive, highly emotional war story based on Operation Market. A Risky Allied effort to push into the Rhine and end the war sooner. It's an emotional story, with the squad leader and main protagonist Matt Baker suffering from PTSD while trying to come to terms with the loss of fellow soldiers during Operation Overlord.

    This last entry in the brothers in arms series is a total masterpiece, the gameplay mechanics, enemy IA, everything is improved upon the previous games. But is not perfect, your IA teammates do as you intend most of the time, but often place themselves in the line of fire, so you have to take the broken IA into account when carefully giving orders you can't just send them to that position you have to watch over them in case they get killed for getting in the line of fire. Battles become really hard, next to impossible, when you lose entire squads. The same goes for the Enemy IA, was really improved upon the last games, sometimes they would react to your flanking maneuvers like real intelligent combatants. But sometimes, especially indoors, they will stand still waiting for you to drop them. So the IA looks advanced and fitting, but sometimes broken. That's why I'm sticking with a 9 instead of 10 :)    … Expand
  5. Kotofon
    May 4, 2022
    5
    Тактический шутер от первого лица - Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway — рассказывает историю 101-ой десантной дивизии. Событие носит название «Голландская операция», и происходило оно в 1944 году. Во время масштабных и успешных операций союзников, армия СССР смогла прорвать восточный и южный фронт. Однако оккупированная фашистами Голландия терпела неудачи, и из-за этого проход союзников поТактический шутер от первого лица - Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway — рассказывает историю 101-ой десантной дивизии. Событие носит название «Голландская операция», и происходило оно в 1944 году. Во время масштабных и успешных операций союзников, армия СССР смогла прорвать восточный и южный фронт. Однако оккупированная фашистами Голландия терпела неудачи, и из-за этого проход союзников по Рейну был невозможен. Из-за этого фельдмаршал Фернанд Лоу Монтгомери спланировал высадку английских десантников за спинами противников, чтобы солдаты британской армии держали 3 моста в Арнеме, Эйндховене, Наймегене.… Expand
  6. gautamkumar633
    Feb 20, 2022
    8
    My favorite Brothers in Arms game. Had much better visuals than the previous BIA titles.
  7. Skystas65
    Oct 2, 2021
    10
    This game is really good, I played it so many times, the AI is really accurate, the gameplay is realistic, and the lore and cutscenes are one of the best comparing to every other WW II game, so it deserves a 10/10 and I cant wait for another brothers in arms with matt baker
  8. Alexx78
    Jun 11, 2021
    10
    First played this game shortly after the release of its DVD-version, passed several times. Before that, I had played the previous two games of the series. Now I bought it in Steam and passed it twice in a row. A fan of this series of games. I am waiting for the continuation, rumors about which appeared on the network.
  9. garygreen
    Nov 14, 2020
    10
    the best gameplay world war 2 i play better than battfield 2 and the last of us 2
  10. lastfox
    Apr 26, 2020
    7
    The third installment of the BiA series tries to go a little bit mainstream and tries to attract newer players. The game difficulty is definitely not as demanding as the two previous titles, only the graphics seem to be a vast improvement.

    I can’t shake the feeling that they were pandering to the MoH / CoD audience by ramping up the gore and violence. And there are some boring scripted    The third installment of the BiA series tries to go a little bit mainstream and tries to attract newer players. The game difficulty is definitely not as demanding as the two previous titles, only the graphics seem to be a vast improvement.

    I can’t shake the feeling that they were pandering to the MoH / CoD audience by ramping up the gore and violence. And there are some boring scripted stealth missions which is definitely taken out from the tired playbook from CoD.

    Same goes for the story, while the previous titles had a creeping darkness that slowly reveals itself, they still had a balance and felt grounded in reality (they were after all modeled after the great HBO show Band of Brothers). This time we're dealing with full on hallucinations/ghosts etc which feels again like trying to rip off other games ( F.E.A.R. & Bioshock) which is a shame since the BiA series had it's own identity that made it stand out from the vast amount of (tactical) FPS shooters.

    It's still a good game, regardless of these flaws, because the core mechanic of this game are still intact. Although most missions feel definitely more linear than the old games, which has something to do that the old game's maps were much more open and therefore there was more room for movement and different approaches.
    It’s definitely worth checking out.    … Expand
  11. AMBO
    Feb 17, 2020
    10
    10/10......................................................................
  12. S0pun
    Oct 20, 2019
    0
    Вот за это я ненавижу Юбисофт. Хардкорный тактический шутер превратили в консольные пострелушки с восстановлением хп и системой укрытий.
  13. EricDean
    Sep 3, 2017
    4
    Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is probably the most disappointing of the Brothers in Arms series. Sure it may not be as bad as the Mobile games but it doesn't have the excuse of being on a weak platform with touch controls. Hell's Highway should have been a good game. Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood did amazing things for the time, told a great story, had new and interestingBrothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is probably the most disappointing of the Brothers in Arms series. Sure it may not be as bad as the Mobile games but it doesn't have the excuse of being on a weak platform with touch controls. Hell's Highway should have been a good game. Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood did amazing things for the time, told a great story, had new and interesting gameplay, and the most intelligent AI I've ever seen. Hell's Highway on the other hand tells a nonsensical cliche story, has extremely watered down gameplay with elements that I can't even begin to understand why they were put in, and AI that serves as more of a placeholder for the squad you used to have.

    Let's start with graphics and sound design. This is probably the only good thing this game did and made me enjoy some moments. The guns all look and sound nice and the terrain is bright and colorful which works in a World War 2 setting. The game even takes some of the original audio clips from the first game to go through and show you what's happened so far and seeing some scenes from two of my favorite games remastered was nice. However, what isn't nice is some of the new voice clips. I don't know if it's just me, but some of the early scenes in the game have such poor audio quality when anyone talks. But this went away after a while.

    The gameplay COULD have been good, if it wasn't hampered but newly shoved in mechanics and poor world design. Sure, the map is pretty but small and corridor like. The finally added sprinting into the game which was a minor annoyance during the old series but I'd rather go back to jogging around constantly any day than have to deal with the HORRIBLE cover system. No longer are you hunkering behind cover manually praying the enemy doesn't hit you and every now and then standing up to return fire. No, now you run up to any piece of compatible cover, press q, and attach yourself to the wall and activate third person mode. This removes your ability to aim down sights. I say that again, in a series which is heralded as being the most realistic around you switch to third person mode and it removes your iron sights forcing you to either guess where your bullets are going or go back and re-enable the crosshair (which is turned off forcefully in authentic mode). I don't understand this. It makes the game SO MUCH WORSE. Sure you can still crouch manually behind cover but doing so will have enemies practically lock on to your skull and your screen with constantly be bathed in red as you aren't sure whether you are dying or just suppressed. The map design and AI are also garbage. A typical battle is you and your squad(s) standing at a location as waves of Germans come from the same few locations, run to the same cover, and die as you stand behind them. Then when you are done fighting in this little corridor you run through the German lines not into more Germans BUT INTO YOUR OWN MEN. The maps are small and a far cry from the old gameplay which had multiple avenues in which you could handle the mission, now your hand is guided to make sure you do the same flanking maneuver over and over again. It's boring beyond belief. I can't say much for the AI. It's stupid, and the enemy doesn't try to flank it spends most of it's time either running away when cover is destroyed, sitting around returning fire, or charging you. No flanking nothing, not that it matters. Your squad AI is just as stupid and in my experience fails to miss German enemies which stand around in the open.

    But the story, the story was so amazing in the earlier games. In Road to Hill 30 you marched your way through Normandy in a slog, and Baker was forced to harden himself and lead his men as **** hit the fan and his friends died before him. In Earned in Blood you get to see Baker deal with mental breakdowns and have to deal with taking the place of a fallen comrade as Hartstock. In Hell's Highway everything is just peachy. Baker no longer seems to really be bothered by the events of previous games and just continues on as normal. The men are no longer at all concerned with taking on the massive Wehrmacht but instead acts like stereotypical jock-esque soldiers. Who love to joke around. There is so much more I can say about how boring and stupid everything is but I'm running out of characters.

    Overall, Hell's Highway deserves a 4 out of 10, a few points for the graphics and sounds but everything else forces me to dock it points for horrendous gameplay mechanics and an awful story.    … Expand
  14. Pmc4life
    Dec 20, 2016
    8
    I loved this game and a 7.9 is reasonable. Levels design is pretty good but the environments are great. Story is also good and gameplay was great. But the worst part about this game is the squad. Seven people will take 2 minutes to kill one man. It's easier to do everything by yourself because your squad is God awful. Which sucks because this game has pretty good squad mechanics.
  15. RDaddy497
    Jul 18, 2016
    9
    Perhaps the most underrated WW2 shooter ever. Beautiful graphics, excellent game play, great level design, great voice actors, and of course amazing story line. This game definitely presents the horrors of WW2 the same way Saving Private Ryan did. I still do not understand why it fell short of being even an 8. The only flaws are the weak multiplayer and a weak last mission. Outside of thatPerhaps the most underrated WW2 shooter ever. Beautiful graphics, excellent game play, great level design, great voice actors, and of course amazing story line. This game definitely presents the horrors of WW2 the same way Saving Private Ryan did. I still do not understand why it fell short of being even an 8. The only flaws are the weak multiplayer and a weak last mission. Outside of that the game is incredible. A good 9.1/10… Expand
  16. TheHaloHobo
    Sep 10, 2014
    8
    One of the best World War II games I have played in terms of story. The characters are very real, however, from playing this game alone, you never truly get attached to them. The 3rd person shooter elements are solid, with a seamless transitions from 3rd to 1st person. The gameplay gets spiced up with some tank missions here and there, which is a nice break from the slow paced shooting.One of the best World War II games I have played in terms of story. The characters are very real, however, from playing this game alone, you never truly get attached to them. The 3rd person shooter elements are solid, with a seamless transitions from 3rd to 1st person. The gameplay gets spiced up with some tank missions here and there, which is a nice break from the slow paced shooting. Overall a very entertaining game.… Expand
  17. flixwito
    Mar 11, 2014
    10
    The story is awesome, although it's not as good as "Road to Hill 30" where you can choose the fate of your "brothers" (soldiers).

    And the graphic is great, especially the landscape and when scooping down. The cutscene is better than the game, though.

    The atmosphere is awesome, this game tells us that war isn't funny, it's a hell.

    100-th review btw :P
  18. PvtJackson
    Jan 23, 2014
    3
    ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLY TERRIBLE ! Ubisoft put aside all elements that made the two original Brothers In Arms unique. Moving spot when aiming down the sight used to be a challenge for players in order to eliminate targets, but now it is no longer a problem because Ubisoft completely removes it. Significant increase in graphics and model detail is far from enough to make up to the boring,ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLY TERRIBLE ! Ubisoft put aside all elements that made the two original Brothers In Arms unique. Moving spot when aiming down the sight used to be a challenge for players in order to eliminate targets, but now it is no longer a problem because Ubisoft completely removes it. Significant increase in graphics and model detail is far from enough to make up to the boring, short story and horrible gameplay which turned Hell's Highway into a literal bunch of ****… Expand
  19. 1DODGER1
    Nov 10, 2013
    10
    One of my favorite games of all time. I'm love so much WW2 thematic and this game is so realistic, story just outstanding and gameplay is great. Can't wait for next final part!
  20. dc42
    Dec 26, 2012
    9
    Played Dec, 2012 This game is definitely worth a better review then it seems to have gotten. With the over saturation of FPS games from huge companies, I decided to play a gamed I missed a few years back. I've played previous installments in the BIA series but never played this one. I have to say that it is a very refreshing game when everyone else wants to play COD with horrible stories.Played Dec, 2012 This game is definitely worth a better review then it seems to have gotten. With the over saturation of FPS games from huge companies, I decided to play a gamed I missed a few years back. I've played previous installments in the BIA series but never played this one. I have to say that it is a very refreshing game when everyone else wants to play COD with horrible stories. This game has a great story, decent combat but poor AI. However, it is an older game so the AI might not be on par with 2012 games but it's worth a play through. Only issues I have with the game is the poor AI (all you have to do is pick up a KAR98 and pick off their heads when they look from behind cover), and historical inaccuracy. But if you're sick of the COD type games nowadays give this a play through and you'll have some fun you wouldn't have expected.… Expand
  21. lasagnafeeder
    Jan 14, 2012
    9
    a solid package. great singleplayer, and a strong, tactical multiplayer side that still has people playing to this day. highly recommend to any fans of the rainbow six vegas series and realistic military shooters in general.
  22. GolovA
    Aug 7, 2011
    7
    As stated in the official reviews - depends too much on the previous games in the series to really get the story. Otherwise, a pretty good WW2 Shooter. The only issue i have is that the game is not optimized for CrossfireX Configuration, and was a pain ti play even with the V-Sync on.
  23. Forceflow
    Jul 26, 2011
    8
    The controls can be a bit clunky, but once you're used to commanding the squads, it's quite atmospheric. Story is a tad better than we're used in these generic WWII stories. Everything has an authentic feel.
  24. JonesR
    Jun 10, 2011
    8
    Gearbox Software is well known for putting out quality work. This game is no exception. Although the game mechanics are visibly older, it is a decent squad based FPS set in the WWII era. The story is quite immersive focusing on the bonding of individuals and the simple realities of war. The enemy AI forces you to use tactics and strategy versus just running and gunning. With a packageGearbox Software is well known for putting out quality work. This game is no exception. Although the game mechanics are visibly older, it is a decent squad based FPS set in the WWII era. The story is quite immersive focusing on the bonding of individuals and the simple realities of war. The enemy AI forces you to use tactics and strategy versus just running and gunning. With a package price of $10 for all three titles, it is a good value.… Expand
  25. Pripyat
    Jun 7, 2011
    1
    classic BIA is much better than this crap
    single player is too short,
    and multiplayer is **** **** there isn't squad command system(it's core of the game)
  26. BrowniePoints
    May 28, 2011
    10
    I absolutely loved this game. I loved hill 30, and this was amazing! The troops are a lot smarter and the game is simply amazing on all points. I would like to see the old, bloody difficult, shaky aiming like the old game. Other than that, I loved everything about and was extremely swallowed by the story line. I can't wait for the next installment! Please reveal it this E3!
  27. Firemom
    Jan 3, 2011
    10
    Very good game. Good story, gameplay. I **** love it. blablablalbalbla blalbalblabl al balblablabllb alblabllablablalb lablalblbalb lablalbalblalbalb just buy it :P
  28. JimCIII
    Sep 9, 2009
    10
    Again, great story line, graphics amazing compared to previous titles. Can't wait for the next installment.
  29. JohnnyV
    Aug 10, 2009
    10
    I had totally no problems running it... if you people do have to compare it to cod the cod series are way to short in gameplay cod - No story cod -is way to eays even at highest diff. bia is the first ( i think) fps that u can play WITHOUT crosshair! just like it would be. Good graps good gameplay really it's a f ing nice game.
  30. muratg.
    Jul 12, 2009
    9
    In my opinion, Brothers in arms:HH is in among the best military shooters. With amazing graphics and sound, the game really brings you to a virtual world in that you feel like fighting in a real war. Its squad base gameplay gives you opportunity to make some strategy during the battle. Commanding your squad is also very easy with single clicks. Compared to BoA: Road to Hill, the AI of In my opinion, Brothers in arms:HH is in among the best military shooters. With amazing graphics and sound, the game really brings you to a virtual world in that you feel like fighting in a real war. Its squad base gameplay gives you opportunity to make some strategy during the battle. Commanding your squad is also very easy with single clicks. Compared to BoA: Road to Hill, the AI of your squad mades and enemies were improved. I prefer this game to serious military shooter fans. Thanks.… Expand
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#39 Best PC Game of 2008
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#29 Most Shared PC Game of 2008

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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. PC Gamer UK
    85
    Grippnig small scale stories of WWII. [Nov 2008, p.84]
  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    80
    Infernally absorbing game with not only stunning graphics but also a compelling story and a reasonable amount of pathos. If all WWII games come this way we’ll never be bored. Be prepared for flying body parts and mutilated bodies - this game is not for sissies! [Oct 2008]
  3. Gamer 2.0
    82
    The fantastic storytelling coupled with an equally impressive score though will make you forget your grievances with the finished product, and there are just enough extras in the campaign to make completionists return a couple times to get them all.
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