Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway

Having read some of the other reviews I find myself needing to put my thoughts down.
I have been a PC gamer for years but last year bought a 360 to go with my new LCD telly. I have tended to avoid FPS games due to the fact I am proficient with a mouse and always found gamepad controls fiddly and awkward.
Having played and enjoyed the the 2 previous games on PC I decided I would take a huge gamble and get this on the 360 to see if i could handle it.

After a short while fiddling with the controls the whole thing became completely intuitive. Above all though I have never enjoyed playing a game through to its conclusion as much as this one.
There are many comments about poor AI and squads doing what they like,but in my experience the squads will do exactly as you tell them as long as you get your instructions right and don't give them stupid instructions. For example if you are in a building them don't wander miles from your squad before ordering it around or yes they will most liekly be killed as they try and find you. They don't know where you are and will stumble into enemy fire. If you are a short distance away they will reach you in one piece. For me this ups the immersion factor.
I am slightly biased in that I love WW2 games full stop, you can't beat killing a few Nazis for entertainment and the settings and weapons are for me the best.
Yes you could complete this game without your squads but for me the immersion factor is all important so using your squads in a sensible and tactical way adds to the fun immensley. The weapons feel right, I love the cover system, the action cam is brilliant, the bazooka squad is awesome.
I also liked the tank sections, yes they are arcadey but are great fun.
I loved the graphics to, again they gave me the real immersion factor.
Negatives. The story was Ok but the cut scenes sometimes seemed to drag on a bit and err thats about it really.
I can't wait for the next installment.
One final thought is that I have read a lot of comments about the WW2 theatre being done to death. Well I partly agree but only in that we seem the same parts of WW2 done over and over again, ie Normandy. I would like to see a FPS at the start of the war, battle of france for example, and more in the far east against the japanese (roll on COD 5). If we are going to stick to Normandy then lets have some different armies (British would be nice) and different equipment. Not all allied tanks were Shermans, lets have some Cromwells, Churchills etc. The germans had a huge vareity of equipment but all we seem to see are 88's and panzer IV''s.

Finally though if you love WW2 games and are prepared to play this properly and use your squads intelligently you will love this game. When completed you can then pick any of the missions to play all over again and try out differnet tactics.
Love it, don't expect the world and you will love it to.

I play a lot of Second World War games and this is a cracker. I looks great and is a change from the usually FPS WW2 games as you use a squad of soldiers to pin down the enemy and they flank them to take them out.

Can't wait for the next instalment.

Don't waste your money. Wait until it's in the bargain basket.

I agree with the BJ Hunt, Stefan and many others. Allied AI is shockingly poor. Enemy AI consists of bobbing up and down like one of those fairground games where you hit heads with a mallet. Game play is glitchy, for example; call your squad in when your in a corner and your stuck there until you order them away. Graphics not as good as I expected and jumpy at times.

The real kick in the B***s was theo online game; it's terrible. Get killed at the start and you spend the next 5-10 minutes spectating, and there's only one game type a hybrid capture the flag. Utter total cr*p.

I was really looking forward to this game and put up with the delay after delay on its release date. What a dissapointment. I'll hire or borrow any future releases to save me wasting my money.