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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Limited Edition Review
User Submitted Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Limited Edition Reviews
Date: 2008-10-09
great good game, yet...
Recently I was surprised to find brothers in arms hells highway limited edition on the shelf at my local retail store, So I grabbed a copy as I remembered the first long footage of baker and his boys finding and tackling those 88's.
The box gives you an action figure, a comic (was a bit surprised at that)
a playfull looking map and 3 leaflets with codes to unlock a gimmick in game, seems to be a pattern with accomplishments in FPS these last years, and off course the game itself.
The print on the back states that online activation is required yet when installing no keycode that comes on the booklet is asked for, in fact it even seems to run without a disk in the drive. Installing seems more like a screen of winrar as it seems to unpack everything from the dvd.
My guess is here that ubisoft delayed this pc release to disable the drm on the disk, that appears it could have been the same in the EA debacle which let you rent your purchased copy or make it a expensive coaster.
Still have to check my pc to see if my pc is securom free, just to be safe side.
This however does lead me to believe that the problem I have with my purchased copy is somehow related to this.
As the game does not allow me to create a user profile, with subsequent means ruling out any kind of saving of my game progress.. I'm waiting for ubisoft help on a solution to this problem.
The graphics are nice, even spectaculair in the rainy missions. (it's like starring in an episode of band of brothers)
I haven't seen any clipping sofar people reviewed in console versions and the sound is very good.
Overall game experience is very good and it's easy to be swept away if you want to star in your own band of brothers kind off thing.
It does a good job off delivering this, although some things brought me out of of that experience as the missions seem pretty scripted and the maps linear, destructable cover is very nice, yet at times it's missing out as some objects can withstand the biggest explosions while others crumble. On the other hand the maps are long and the firefights are great. the first person actor jump over objects shines and the voices all ad to the wonderfull experience
Somehow games these days are more hyped up then ever, unfortunately this product also seem to have it's share in it, as for some reason the 88 footage mentioned earlier appears to have not been actual gameplay and sad to say a lot of things shown did not make it into the game, however
the game has a lot going for it, the intense action, it superb sound and great firefights are quite good fun.
A good game, yet mine seems to have come with some flaws in the packaging. Which I hope will be resolved in the near future.
the rain in this game is truly amazing, the visuals do shine on these levels, despite a lot of things not making it into the game as seen on that long footage of the 88's it does pull off to be a very immersive WWII shooter with long hours of gameplay.
The multiplayer didn't appeal much as it was not up to par as the single player, for MP teamwork i will stick with BF2 reality mod as opposed to this one. maybe we will see a better one next time around.
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