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Different take on the WWII first-person shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this game is great. It brings to the table what the first game in the series introduced, the ability to command additional AI units. There is a lot of additional strategy involved (i.e. flanking, suppressing fire, armor units, etc.). The gameplay can be somewhat difficult at first, though, and certain missions, or sections therein, are extremely difficult to overcome without taking gratuitous losses.

Still, this is a rather unique game in the AI on both sides (US and German), and becomes a very fun challenge to get through. I also found it's replayability to be higher than some. Instead of fanciful 'you-versus-the-Axis' shooters, this one requires trust in your comrades, tactical prowess and a slight amount of heroism on your part. Almost a 5-star game.

WOW...Just WOW!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game the other day already playing the first one. I brought this one home and started playing and it tottally blew me away. Anybody who likes shooting games should get this game. It has awesome graphics. There is all a-lot more missions in this one.

This is a must buy.

Enjoyable in small amounts

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The original game in the series (road to hill 30?) is not too different from this sequel, so the review applies to that game as well. The core concept is the use of 1 or 2 squads (depending on the mission): a fire (support) team that's to be used to suppress an enemy, and an assault team to be used to move closer to the enemy and finish them off. It is a 1st person game, so you're free to run around and do whatever you want. This makes it a cross between "Full spectrum warrior" with suppression indicators and an enemy that hides/sometimes flanks and "Ghost Recon" in which you're directly involved in the action.
This idea is initially successful and the game enjoyable, as it gets you used to gradually improving enemy AI and the use of your squad tactics. However, the game ultimately becomes more of a logic puzzle in which you must figure out where to place a squad at each moment. And though they tend to find some cover when under fire, the sqaud members can often stand out in the open long enough to get mowed down, which means you often end up with 1 or 2 other team-mates to help you out. Sometimes it gets more intense with running and gunning, leap-frogging, etc, which adds some freshness. But mostly, it seems to become the stale logic puzzle. So it only seems to be enjoyable for short amounts of time.
As a final note, there are missions in both games in which there is nowhere to use the two squads you've been given; they just get mowed down if you try. These points drag the game down as you play them over and over trying to understand how you're supposed to go about things, without going off on your own and sniping enemies behind cover (and thus defeating the point of the game).
Overall, I enjoyed both games as rentals, but I wouldn't buy them.

Great Sequel to Road to HIl 30

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Many people who buy this game might instantly put it down after five minutes because they say they "die too much" well thats because your an idiot who dosent no how to play the game. This is a tactical shooter which means you cant just run out into the open and kill every1. This isnt like medal of honor where you can slay 50,000 Nazi's with your small sub-machine gun. NO! You actually have to think things out and decide where to place your squad. I think this game is great, if fun, challenging, and they have a sequel on the 360! Overall if your an MOH or COD fan try it out and see how you like it it has a completely different feel from the run n' gun type games

Not worth a dime

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a joke.Especially compared to ANY of the Call of Duty or Medal of Honor. What were they thinking? You spend more time giving commands than you do in actual combat. Not worth the time or money.

BEST SHOOTING GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

ok this game is fun. u have to watch ur soilders and not make some stupid commands like telling ur soilders to attack a turrent. also u can just run to a whole bunch of germans and expect to kill everyone turst me u would die. also its realistic theres no aimer inless u aim. when u get to close to a grenade but not close enough to die u fall to the ground. this game is fun and worth the money and when u beat it a tear drop will come from ur eye cause the game is over. also they added a new game mode skirmish mode u can be a german or a american on that u can do objectives defent and tour of duty or something like that and that is not easy too.

BROTHERS IN ARMS 2:EARNED IN BLOOD(BIA2:EIB)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my first World War II game and i like it.
Its good nearly (but not quite) great.if i had to rate it out of 10 it would be a 7.9/10.
I have heard of Medal Of Honor and Call Of Duty but never played them nor have i played BIA:Road To Hill 30(BIA:RTH30).
I had the choice between Call Of Duty 2:Big Red One(COD2:BRO) and BIA:EIB and i went for BIA2 because i heard its the most authentic WWII game plus its got strategy rather than "Run-n-gun" that MOH and COD uses,not that i`m good at "tactical shooters" they are just more challenging.
I`m good at First and Third Person Shooters(FPS & TPS).
the BIA series are obviously set during WWII but are true-stories from what i heard,and is not actually linear like that Vietnam game(ShellShock:Nam 67) as your comrades can actually die during battle and it affects the story,there is no way you can run of a complete a chapter(mission) on your own as the German soldiers never fight alone either unless their comrades get gunned down but sometimes they just try to run away if this is so.But sometimes i`d feel like positioning my troops and run of a head on my own and hog all the action but my soldier dies quick.The command contols are confusing!
ubiSoft don`t make many if not any "run n gun" games at all so if any shooter games comes out expect it to have tactics or stealth mixed in.
Another reason i didn`t get COD2:BRO is because its only a semi-sequal(to COD:Finest Hour) not actually a proper sequal which means it could be short-the FULL COD2 sequal(just simply named Call Of Duty 2) is not out on PS2 only X360 and PC,and possibly PS3 soon.But still in the future i wish to get COD2:BRO,But i gotta finish this game first and wait a while-the games HARD even though i am on NORMAL difficulty.
I reccomend this game if you like shooters/Tactical shooters or FPS`s,or even if you are looking for WWII games this is worthy.
I paid 35 pounds for it,UK money(NEW obviously i never by USED games over the price of 25 QUID).

Reccomended:YES-only to shooter/WWII fans.
Age ratings:in USA its M so 17+ or in UK it is 16+.
Violence:Yes,gunnings and fighting.
Bad Language:Yes sometimes throughout the game.
Blood/Gore:Uh-Huh,there is blood but no serious gore.
sexual/nudity content:gladly NO,there is nothing like this.
discrimination:I don`t think so.
fear:No nothing is scary in the game.

seeya.

Very Deceiving!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

WARNING! This is not a true first-person shooter! The screenshots may look cool, but DO NOT be fooled! This is more like an RPG if anything. Instead of running around blasting the crap out of the Germans, you have to babysit the dumbest A.I. characters in the world. While you're busy trying to command the idiots to take cover, you've already been shot in the head.

Brothers In Arms: EIB Review **** 4 Stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lets start off by saying this is not like the first one, it may seem like it but the story is 100% different you play sgt. hartsock, and in the beginning you talk to a guy about what happened at road to hill 30, and what happened those three days and what not. Now i played the first one i have it and i say this game is much better in every way because its improved on the ps2 then the first some game reviewers say that this is a mediocre and stuff like that!, but it is good only thing wrong with it is the framerate kinda is a pain in the butt, for instance when your in a fight with alot of people it gets really slow and then fast and slow, but the biggest pain of the framerate is when you pause the game and get back to playing it, it really is slowww!, just probally 3 seconds of slowness nothing big. But it is a pain though. Graphics are really good not nearly as good as road to hill 30 but its still enjoyable!, sound isn't as good as the first one too but it is still good without a doubt, let me tell you why i think this, because when you play hartsock and when you press down it isn't as loud as when you played baker in road to hill 30! voice acting is still up there but hartsock is not passionate as baker when he says stuff like surpress those enemies, really loud like yelling loud, like i said voice acting is really top notch both good in this and the other, but this one i preffer just because i like this one overall. Gameplay in EIB is excellent! i love it its more easier too shoot enemies more steadier shooting.... and much better war fights too, missions are awsome all are good "my personal faves are all amercians part 1 and 2" just because its lengthy and the burning city "st. sauveur" looks really good by far it will take you along time to get to those missions but getting cheats will allow you to have all chapters!, overall its really good i really recommend it too all WWII fans or BIA fans too "Like me" its not even close by being the same as the first people LISTEN TO THE STORY CUTSCENES because you will know that this is three days before red actually met sgt. Matt Baker in the first game if you buy it have fun! its really cheap to i'm from Canada and its only 29.98$ at wal-mart and the first one is cheap too over here its 18.98$ at wal-mart.

Graphics 4/5
Sound 4/5
Framerate 3.5/5 sometimes in big war fights it gets slow and also un pausing the game too!
Gameplay 5/5

Difficulty: EASY/VARIABLE!

Overall: 4/5 stars

Its a good game story is excellent a must buy

Not what I hoped!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If wasn't the worst i've played but I expected so much more from Ubisoft after the awesome game Farcry. As far as BOA The graphics were great, AI's are intelligent and the use of squad tactics was cool but playability was lacking. The enemy always know where you are and seem to be able to shoot through things you cant, sorry no hiding in this game. Your troops on the other hand are not the most intelligent. Most of the time the tanks cant even figure out where the enemy is and will expose themselves to fire without reason. Weapon aiming is extremely poor, even when you use it the bullets go where they want. The one thing they kept from Farcry was the predetermined save feature which was the only thing in Farcry I hated. If your looking for WW2 action, stick with Call of Duty.

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