Brothers in Arms

[MajorPayne]

I bought this game the other day, and I am quite happy with it. It is realistic enough to be authentic, but arcade enough to be fun. I think it is a good game. What do yall think?

[wihadmin]

I bought it today as well. I like it. Definitely not a run-n-gun type of game. I had to do the mission, where you have to take down the poles in the fields so the Allied gliders can land, 3 or 4 times before I got it right.

[MajorPayne]

yeah me to, that mission was giving me all sorts of problems, but I finally got it.

[dbodenheim]

This game is ultra realistic, im only on mission xyz (like mission 2) and im getting my ass handed to be. You need to take the time to scope in what targets you've verified, from the feelin I get, the game is giving you the time to do that, its just that, well, you know me Im Jeff. If I dont clear a room of folks in 15 seconds I dont know what the hell to do. People that have played with em along time know what Im like, so you can imagine how Im strugglig with this. Also, I keep playerwise screwing up, Ill get a guy to take cover and provide supressing fire, and then Ill accidently tell him to assult what he was surpressing. Cpl. Joe vs. FG-42 heavy machine gun nest = dead Joe. Anyways, far and away a more realistic WW2 game then Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. I like Call of Duty though dont get me wrong. ( medal of honor is for turds)

[MajorPayne]

It's not quite as realistic as Red orchestra (Hell your gun can get shot out of your hand in that mod) but it is pretty realistic. The only thing that bothers me, is the aiming, I have shot many guns before, and I can keep them alot steadier than in this game.

[dbodenheim]

Has anyone played this game multiplayer yet? Will all the flanking and out flanking, how does it come off?

[MajorPayne]

It's ok I guesse, finding a server alone is a game in itself. The whole flanking works to some extent in multiplayer, but it is not nearly as important as it is in SP.

[dbodenheim]

This post is for players who havnt played this game yet. Feel free to post even if you havnt played it.

I just finished mission XYZ, this is the third of seventeen missions in the game. The mission requires you and your counterpart to take a village of Germans who havnt yet realized that the 502'nd has landed for the Normandy Beach invasions. So while ordering my counterpart to provide covering and supress the enemy ( this can take a few minutes to supress the enemy) and then flanking with my Tommy gun, I managed to kill about 15 germans as we worked our way through the village, and then rush the dining hall at the end and catch 4 of them eating. The mission ended with a little rush by germans shortly afterwards, kind of intense.

Why I posted this at all. When you finish a mission in this game you can unlock extras to check out. What I unlocked here brought me to tears, and I normally could give a crap about game extras. Let me explain. Ubisoft and Gearbox spent 6 months of pre-production photographing exactly what the 502'd did in Normandy during these initial 8 days. From buildings, to first hand account research, so and so on, get the picture?

It turns out this mission happened. Two men ( fucking heroes) were ordered to go into this village and clean it out. A sergeant and a private of the 502'd. ( wee morning hours of June 6th) Working meticuosly from the outside of the village and all the way through it, including a couple of FG-42 nests. for 3 hours , 1 surpressed enemies while the other flanked and unloaded with his tommy gun. Killing 30 germans not like the 15 the game throws at you. Then at the end they caught 15 germans, not the 4 the game depicts, eating breakfast in the dining hall, mowing them down they linked up with 2 other airborne and took on the final rush of 10 or so. Between the two of them they killed over 50 germans in a 4 hour period, and the kicker is.....they never spoke a word to each other the entire time.

I thought I was great after fooling around with this mission for a day and a half. But these two guys in reality took on twice as many as the game depicts, truly they are, the greatest generation. The extras include actual mission reports and such when you unlock them.

It wasnt when I finished the mission that made me almost cry, its the reality that set in that this actually occured.

[MajorPayne]

The authenticity in the missions is pretty spectacular.