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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.

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.

Tired of all the hype and BS.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know, I am sick of all the hype about this game by a bunch of weenies that don't seem to know real combat, real weapons or realism of any sort beyond what they see on their TV screens.

This game is not the authentic real life war on-the-battlefield war game that all the geeks are hyping and signing the party line the company puts out.

I bought two of these games after reading the reviews and I have to say that you people don't know what you are talking about.

There is pseudo-realism and that is about it. Sure the maps are close, the look and sounds of the weapons are close and even the dialog is about right, but that is about as far as it goes.

These games fall down severely on the accuracy/authenticity in several key areas.

1.Ludicrous restriction on the tactical options available to the soldiers and the squad leaders. Some of this is bad level design, some of it is probably trying to make up for the limitations of their AI, and some of it is just plain dumb.

2. Ridiculous limitations on interaction with the environments. You cannot open doors or windows. You cannot climb fences. You cannot use the wire cutters that every paratroop carried. You cannot go under a normal barbed wire fence, which thousands of hunters do several times a day in america.

Barrels and crates don't blow up or even move when hit by a tank. You can't even climb over a low wall that some other men just went over.

Perhaps most unforgivable of all, you cannot go into a prone position or crawl. You know, the stuff they teach everyone in BASIC TRAINING!

3. The gunsights are ludicrous. The amount of creep even in a crouching position is ridiculous. If I was that shakey I'd head for the retirement home.

4. Terrible path blocking and object collision detection. Quite a few times when I had a perfect view of a target and as perfect a sight picture as you would ever want I could not hit the target no matter how many rounds I fired. In real life I would have put a round through both ears of my target.

5. Absurd size of the weapons relative to your field of vision when zoomed in. Come on folks this is ridiculously UN-authentic. There is a reason for the open sights on fast action weapons like the Thompson and other SMG weapons.

6. Really stupid scenario designs. There are several instances where you are put face to face with tanks and no tactical options except to run for enemy panzerfausts. Making this worse of course are the level designs that force you to follow a relatively linear and restricted path to said anti-tank weapons. This is completely ridiculous.

7. Poor level designs. Too many places you cannot go or step when you should be able to. Places you cannot jump over or crawl under where you should. Only in EIB do you get to even blow holes in the hedges with the TNT that all paratroops carried as part of their standard pack during that theater of operations, and then only in key places and one whole scenario.

8. Situational awareness mode. Give me a break. This is supposed to substitute for the advance study done by the troops? It's not even as good as a raw topo map dump. You are chained to camera angles around key points and there are no indications of any significant type for changes in elevation and quite often the terrain features are faded out due to the choices made for the camera angle.

9. Another limiting factor is that you cannot issue movement commands to a location you know is there but are not lined up on directly yourself and you had better be on the side away from the enemy when you issue the order. This could have been easily fixed by using some option to issue commands while in situational mode, especially if that were better done.

10. Lastly the much hyped authentic tactics. Authentic, sure, in a very introductory and watered down way, severely limited in permutations, applications and variations due to all the other limitations of the game.

By the way, I am both a veteran and an experienced programmer and I am highly disappointed with this game on both counts.

If this is the latest in realism then it shows what a sorry state the gaming industry really is in. Of course I still haven't seen AI in a commercial game yet that matched up to what I saw undergrad programmers doing in college during the 80s. We deserve better and it's not that hard to do. It's time we stopped allowing these companies to hype this stuff up like it is so great when it's all fluff like pretty pictures and sound.

Oh, one PS. The AI cheats. You can observe how the enemy becomes magically aware of things completely out of the blue, such as someone being behind them, not moving or firing, and behind cover. This is inexcusable.

Not anything like the xbox version, grossly bad.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had played the xbox version at a friends house and we played for at least 6 hours. Thats how addicting it was. So after many months on break (since 6 hours was a lot) I decided to play it again, but this time I wanted it for my PS2. This was probably the worst game I've ever bought. The graphics were terrible, on dark levels you can barely see the characters, and theres no way to make it brighter. When you shoot an enemy dead he disappears instead of falling (so with the flash of the gun shooting you can't really tell if you killed the enemy or if they ran off). You can only control one squad in multiplater (I didn't even try single player). Theres lag in skirmish, it's like in slo-mo. Many other visual and gaming effects aren't even there. I'd compare it to a very bad Nintendo 64 shooter. I've owned the game for one day and I'm about to make a trip to the local gaming store to try and resell it. Bottom line, if you own an xbox this is a great game but the PS2 version is like a completely different game, that isn't good. !DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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