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Their
finest hour
Brothers
in Arms: Road to Hill 30
X Box
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Brothers
in Arms: Road to Hill 30
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The
game: It’s the night before D-Day, 1944. The soldiers of
the 101st Airborne Division are about to be dropped into Normandy
behind enemy lines. You are Sergeant Baker, the leader of your paratrooper
squad, and you must push hard to ensure you fight and survive through
eight harrowing days that will define history, and unite you forever
as brothers in arms.
The play: A first-person shooter that proves war is about strategy,
information, manoeuvre, bravery and the willingness to give all
in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
Both your allies and enemies use fire and manoeuvre to flank and
kill, which translates to you having to keep a high situational
awareness, using “Situational Awareness” mode, which allows
the game to be paused for you to view the battlefield in a 3D unrestricted
rotating view.
Every step over different terrain has a sound effect and the rattling
of your equipment changes, depending upon what you are carrying.
Bullets whistle by from right to left and even bullets hitting the
dirt sound real.
The controls are simple and easy to adjust to, allowing rapid play
for both the hardcore and mainstream gaming audience.
The terrain: Historically accurate and detailed battlefields,
events, and equipment have been recreated from US Army Signal Corps
photos, aerial reconnaissance imagery, and eyewitness accounts.
The scenery is genuine and it obliterates in realistic fashion under
different weapon effects, large clumps of dirt replacing trees and
bushes with bright orange flashes rapidly becoming incoming fire.
Your vision will become splattered with blood and dirt and if a
grenade detonates close by the screen goes white and an intense
ringing is heard as you slowly pick yourself up to resume the fight.
The experience: Multiplayer mode is a little different to the
traditional, with objective-based games in which players (up to
four) each command a team to achieve the objective – it’s
interesting and no-one stops you from all out carnage anyway, so
if that’s all you want to do then feel free.
There’s no unlimited ammunition and all weapons are authentic
to the time, but after a few minutes on the battlefield, all you
have to do is walk over to your recently departed enemy to continue
to battle his band of brothers. A good title, well worth the investment.
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Squadron Leader Nick Hogan
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