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Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 | 
 enlarge | From: UBI Soft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 5991
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Firepower Bundle
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 51206
Model: 8888322061
UPC: 008888322061
EAN: 0008888322061
ASIN: B00069BV7G
Release Date: February 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | real military tactics intuitive | | • | real soldiers featuring a cast of more than 20 characters | | • | innovative multiplayer players command three-man AI teams in a battle of wits and skill to accomplish exciting objectives | | • | Historically accurate, detailed battlefields, events, and equipment recreated from Army Signal Corps photos, Aerial Reconnaissance Imagery, and eyewitness accounts | | • | Command 3-man teams in innovative battles of wits and skill |
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Product Description
Brothers in Arms is the only first-person tactical shooter set in WWII. It takes you into the uncensored realitt of military history. You become Sgt. Matt Baker, a squad leader committed to completing his mission and bringing his men home alive. Guide his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers as you're immersed in the historic 8-day Normandy invasion; As you play, you'll face difficult choices where you'll weigh the good of the mission against the lives your fellow soldiers - your Brothers In Arms.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 30 more reviews...
 horrible April 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
worst game of all time game very bad A.I slow very boring NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING compared to the Call of duty series those are great games. this game try's to be dramatic and be emotional. yey not. do not buy DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!!!!
weak October 19, 2007
I was expecting a challenge, realistic graphics, and voice acting. I got none of those things. the game was ridiculously simple with sub par graphics and terrible voice acting. I was dissapointed. if you like games like medal of honor or call of duty, you know what a real war game is. this is not one of those games.
 Tired of all the hype and BS. March 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 It's just like you're there November 25, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is very well done. Unlike the 'Medal of Honor' series which is just you versus the entire German army, this game really puts you there, in stunning realistic detail, in charge of two fire teams and occasionally a tank for support. The story follows a small unit of the 101st airborne in the days after the Normandy invasion of 1944. The story is rich, the AI and graphics are amazing, and your comrades actually do help you suppress and defeat the enemy, registering many kills of their own. The story draws you in. You will care about your men and may feel you want to start missions over if you lose your men.
The Germans are smart. They use cover when you are suppressing them. They try and flank your position. They'll toss grenades at you. Often they try to catch you in a cross-fire. They charge when they think YOU are suppressed. You have to be cautious. Don't just go charging in like Rambo or you and your men are dead.
You can use your tank for mobile cover to protect your men and rely on its awesome firepower. You can sneak up behind a German Panzer Tank and drop a grenade in the cockpit while your teams distract it. You can use one fire team to suppress an enemy while you take the second team around to flank him and take him out, which will be your primary tactic during this game. It is excellent.
WARNING: This is WAR, and there is a LOT of cursing and some blood spatter. This is as realistic as it gets without actually being there. It is NOT for young children. Mind the 'M' rating.
This Game is Awsome !!!!!!!!!! September 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved playing this game. I got it for my 14th birthday. Ive passed it on hard and working on authentic. The only bad part about the game is it dosnt get intense enough through the middle levles. But in the first and last level it is extremely intese, with guys dying all around you and blood and gore all over. half the time its so scary you dont know up from down! It makes it very realistic, graphics are awsome, and the gameplay is sweet. You control a WWII soldier named Matt Baker. You are a paratrooper jumping into normandy. But one twist in the story is that there is a mis-drop when your plane gets shot down all but one survives and you are standed and lost behind enemy lines with thirteen men under your control.
Im Glad I finally talked my mom into buying me an 'M' rated game
Put it this way, THE GAME IS WORTH YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!
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