OK SO WHO LIKES WORLD WAR 2 SHOOTERS?
definitely the two guys who are making
this game which comes out
in like five days there should be a thread on this
one of them is
Randy Pitchford and he is the really surreal guy who keeps talking about how cool it is seeing nazis blown apart in slow mo and the other is the very forceful slightly creepy
Colonel John Antal who keeps talking about the historical accuracy which i can totally get behind
SO
the end result is a
- schizophrenic,
- very pretty,
- surprisingly tactical first person schuter
- that is all about using cover and
- supressive fire and
- flanking and
- scaring the guys into retreat and
- demolishing cover to find ways around jolly old jerry and actual stuff like that because
- you will die in like one shot
AND it's all set in that whole mass landing in holland ("
operation market garden" as known to history ladyboys) so you can act out your massive futile "
bridge too far" fantasies
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YOU CAN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SENDING WAR VETERANS HOME AS LEGLESS INVALIDS
NOW WUD BE GUD TAIME TO RUNN BABIES
oh hey it's my house
MAGGOTS
the stars and stripes are blurred with the tears of patriots
TL;DR the setting of watership down, except it's a ww2 game (stop groaning) and it rules
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The Brothers In Arms game I played for PS2, Earned In Blood, had some frustrating issues. My assault squad liked to get massacred in spite of flanking pinned-down Germans. And whenever I went into close quarters, the hit detection made it a crapshoot whether Fritz would respond to having half a BAR magazine unloaded into him.
So I spent a lot of time sniping the jerries when they popped their heads up from behind low walls. Weird thing is, I could never tell I'd hit the target just by looking. But there was a graphical glitch, a slight framerate hiccup during the firing animation, when my shot had just eliminated a kraut. That's how I knew.
So I have NO IDEA if it's going to be any good. I loved the first two though.
I might have to start mugging old people or rob a bank or something like that.*
I also can't figure out if I want this for 360 (live + achievements but no HDMI) or PS3 (HDMI 1080p bitches). I'm leaning towards 360 because I'm an achievement whore and I'm not sure how much of a difference there REALLY is
*and by rob a bank I mean scrounge up 65 bucks legitimately
So I'm probably going to buy this game, since I loved playing 1 and 2. But one thing is worrying me, isnt this an Ubisoft/gearbox game? I remember the last ubisoft game I bought was Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and that was pretty dissapointing.
I also disagree with third person cover system in this game. If you were going for realistic, then you should've made it so its a 1st person cover system where you slide into cover and have to peek out all while in first person view
Pretty much this.
Another concern of mine was that there was/is no announcement of coop. The gearbox forums had a bunch of people ask about it and the standard reply was that there is none, I would have like to have seen that in some form. I enjoyed the last two enough to buy it regardless.
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Whats wrong with it?
I have yet to find/read about one thing wrong with the uniforms in these games. Gearbox seems to know their shit.
The flag patch on the right shoulder of US soldiers is supposed to be reversed.
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From my understanding, I don't think the U.S. started that until recently. In the pictures that I can find at the moment, when they DID wear flags they weren't reversed.
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and another (The real webster from band of brothers btw)
I hope I don't go to hell for hotlinking... or they switch it with porn or something...
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that I could slay the Hun for breakfast, lunch and dinner with no complaints. honestly, its in my blood... : )
I will slay you.
You must be one of the people who plays Day of Defeat or Red Orchestra AND ALWAYS STACKS THE GERMAN SIDE!!! BAAWGRH!!
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That is the single player campaign of Brother in Arms Hells Highway simplistically speaking. It doesn't get much deeper though.
Still enjoyed it but man, it just proves how completely tapped of all ideas WW2 is for shooters.
You're wrong. It's just that no one is willing to take the first step towards these forbidden ideas.
RENT.
The single player campaign is like an episode of Band of Brothers only with 3 hours of tedious bullshit right in the middle.
other than that, there is nothing here. if you want a squad based shooter get GRAW2 if you havent already.
ww2 is dead to me now. i just dont give a shit about carentan or market fucking garden.
It's a shame that this how most Western people think about World War 2.
I'll probably rent this.
All WW2 games really have going for them is an undeniable sense of immersion. You rip the camera out of the soldier's head and look around a corner and it kind of kills it for me. I'm a big sucker for games I can get lost in, like a good book.
Which is why you create the game differently. I can think of a few things that would instantly make a WW2 game more interesting and innovative.
What are you saying here?
I studied world war 2 for three years. let's rap.
As far as I can tell, that's what they've been going for with every game in the Brothers in Arms series.
Or perhaps the Battle of Kursk or The Vistula?
To CaptainK: They seem to have gone for a more run and gun or repetitive approach.
I'm hoping that they realize that some people aren't tired of of the genre (not saying that's a bad opinion to have) and continue on with this series through like bastogne and then end of the war
I haven't beaten it yet, I'm at the point where I have to open up hells highway.
Besides the shifty texture swapping it's not bad.
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The first (the tutorial level) was off the hook atmospherically-wise, really great intro!! And I love the sideplot with the gun!
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Yeah, I haven't heard much about that port, how is it / are they? I'm mainly interested in the controls, graphically I assume thye're the same as the old oXbox versions?
Korean War. I say a game set during the battle of Chosin Reservoir. But first a good movie has to come out about Korea, because WW2 games didn't get so massively popular until Saving Private Ryan.
Meanwhile, Eastern/Pacfic campaigns are much in need. As are "Real-Time Strategy" and "Turn-Based Strategy" WW2 games. Maybe even RPGs.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Been playing through Road to Hill 30, and the controls are decent. The dead zone in the center of the screen is a little bit large, even at the highest sensitivity, but there's also an alternate control mode that allows you to turn your aiming field with the analog stick, a la RE4 Wii. So far though, they haven't gotten in the way, and all of my deaths have been my own fault. There are three gesture-based controls: rotating the nunchuck in a vertical orientation to call your squad back to you, flicking the remote to melee attack, and flicking the remote to throw a grenade once you've chosen where you want to throw it. Everything else is a pretty standard Wii shooter control setup. The only thing I don't like is that the tactical overhead view is assigned to the 1 button.
Graphically, yes, they are identical to the Xbox versions. It was converted by Demiurge. They did the Mass Effect PC port, and design work for the opening of Bioshock. The port quality is pretty darn great.
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