Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (late review sorry)

Alright I was suppose to do this yesterday, but to be honest I totally forgot because I was playing the game =].

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is the most authentic World War II game to date. It is made by Gearbox and published through Ubisoft.

Storyline: First off lets get to know the story shall we? The story of Hell's Highway is about Matt Baker and his 101st airborne men. They are doing the biggest failure in WWII history called "Operation: Market Garden". If you do not know what "Operation: Market Garden" is then honestly go back to history class cause everyone should know about the biggest mission failure in WWII history. Anyhow if you played any of the other games you would understand the hell and graphic images Matt Baker has seen since he was promoted to lead men. He did not want it to happen it was put on him. The story is emotional and drama driven. It is one of those things where you will realize the horror of the real life soldiers of WWII. The story is honestly as simple as that.

Game play: The game play is a pretty basic aspect you could say. If you have played the other Brothers in Arms games you will be completely use to it. But this time there is a little something different. They have a whole new cover system where you can easily pop from first person and dig yourself into cover for a third person view. with this you can order your men very easily and at the same time keep yourself alive which is a key factor in the game. Also with the cover it is DESTRUCTIBLE! sorry I got carried away with it there. But yes it is destructible, so if you are hiding behind a fence and you think you are going to be safe well the jokes on you cause your not. Now you are asking what about all those MG42 Nest in the windows and such they always annoy me. What do you think I should do Gage? You know what you should do is order your Bazooka team to blow that mother Fu**** thing up! What they also brought to this game is authenticity and I can't stress how authentic this game is. The voice, character animations, cursing, blood, and gore makes them game as authentic as it is. This game is by far one of the goriest games I have seen. First off, this is a WWII game so if you want to be authentic then you have to have real soldier talk. These guys will cuss their brains out during cinematics depending on what is going on. Second, the character animations show the drama that is going on in their faces and body expressions. They will sound mad and look mad and everything like that. Last of all, I know this is the part you have been waiting for. BLOOD and GORE! Yup, Gage why would they be crazy enough to put blood and gore in a WWII video game. Well it is called authenticity. Gearbox wanted you to see what the soldiers saw as their own brothers and friends are getting limbs blow off and bodies ripped in half. They have something called "Action Camera". Action Camera happens whenever ever you pull off a certain shot or explosion. They never have a clean cut on the body parts when the camera happens. You will see bones, blood, brains, and bodies in half, fingers shot off and everything. This is what I have on gameplay. I think they did a wonderful job on keeping it authentic.

Multiplayer: Alright this is the part where its not as awesome. The multiplayer is what I like to call in "Beta Mode" which means it needs to be patched badly because it is laggy as heck. It would be fun don't get me wrong, it is just that with it being laggy and such it is just not something to look forward to. But then again you are buying Brothers in Arms why do you need multiplayer with such a dramatic and emotional storyline.

Graphics: The graphics are beautiful. It will have its graphical hiccups a lot, but when that hiccup is gone you are like "wow that looks gorgeous". When you play the "Black Friday" mission you will see why the game looks amazing. I mean the fire effects make you think holy crap I really need to put that fire out, o wait it is just my game. No lie you will.

Lasting Appeal: This game will stay in my collection for as long as I can think. This has a good amount of lasting appeal. This game is so hard it will make you wanna play the game over again just to go through the awesome storyline and the awesome gameplay. Though the multiplayer does upset you will love the single player the most of course.

Score: 9/10

You can find this game currently on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in Regular Editions and Limited Editions on both. PC Version to be in stock October 8th in both Regular Editions and Limited Editions.

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Reviewer

- Gage Grove