Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is a video game that consists of 7 releases
Reviewed on Sept. 30, 2008
A unique blend of battlefield tactics and first-person shooting make Hell's Highway more interesting than its familiar WWII trappings let on.
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The 6th installment in Ubisoft's World War II Brothers in Arms series is scheduled to be released on the anniversary of Market Garden, September 23, 2008 for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. A limited edition contains a 6" figure of Sgt. Matt Baker, a book, collectible case, and other swag.
Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway tells the story of Operation Market Garden (the largest airborne operation in human history) through the eyes of sergeant Matt Baker. The game is a first person shooter, but with an emphasis on strategically controlling your squad to provide covering and suppressing fire while you attempt to flank the enemy.Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is the 3rd installment in the Brothers in Arms series of video games. The player takes control of Sergeant Matt Baker, a soldier of the 101st Airborne Division, during Operation Market Garden in the late stages of World War II. It was released on September 23rd 2008 on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, and was later released on PC on September 24th 2008. The game has many new features, including the returning ability to command a squad. The game also introduces new specialized units (Bazooka and Machine Gun teams) with their own advantages and disadvantages. The bazooka team, for example, can destroy enemy structures, cover, and parts of buildings while the machine gun team is excellent at providing suppresive fire. The game uses a unique first person perspective, in which the camera is placed within the head of a third person model. It is the first Brothers In Arms game to feature a cover system, and to also feature full body awareness.
General Features
- Brothers in Arms - Next Generation: The classic, authentic, squad-based combat series explodes on next-generation hardware, offering unprecedented graphics and features.
- New story, new setting: Join Matt Baker, Joe Hartsock and the rest of the 101st Airborne Division in Operation Market Garden as they fight to open the infamous Hell's Highway in a daring bid for a quick end to the war.
- Live the life of an enlisted man: Get orders from HQ, go on patrol, spot the enemy and set up a devastating ambush. For the first time, finding the enemy before they find you is part of the challenge.
- Unprecedented character design: Lifelike characters look, talk, move and think with incredible realism. Game characters interact with the player and each other like true brothers in arms, trading ammunition, helping wounded allies and civilians, working together to man team-operated weapons, and more.
- Rich cinematic experience: As the squad leader, you interact and get to know the soldiers under your command. Each character has his own distinct personality, unique story and background, and grows throughout the game.
- Powerful units under your command: Players can use or command arms teams - machine gun crews create intense fire, bazooka crews destroy buildings and tanks, and assault teams suppress and flank the enemy.
- Play your own way: Players can choose to use their squad to execute a tactically elegant flanking maneuver or charge in with guns blazing.
- Destructible cover: Keep your men moving and choose cover wisely - modeled using real physical properties and behaviors, weapons will damage, dent, scorch and destroy the world around you.
- Completely new multiplayer experience: Fight major multiplayer battles with dozens of players on each side, combining all other intensity and accessibility of Deathmatch with the squad-based gameplay that helped make Brothers in Arms famous.
New Features
Cover System
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway is the first Brothers In Arms game to feature a cover system. This allows the player to take cover behind walls and objects
German soldiers taking cover behind a fence
Action Camera
The action camera is small yet welcome new feature to the Brothers In Arms franchise. An action camera sequence occurs when the player gets a headshot or an explosive kill from a grenade or tank round. The camera zooms into the enemy or enemies that are killed with slow-mo enabled and shows them get their limbs torn off which an excessive amount of gore.Tactical Map
Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 and Brothers In Arms: Earned In Blood both featured a "Situational Awareness" system which would allow the player to quickly spot flanking positions. The previous system was basically an overhead screenshot of the area. This system is replaced by a simple tactical map in Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway. This system is similar, but it now contains historical recon reports and how many recon and kilroy positions you have collected. It also shows the position of all German units nearby as well as the location of your current objective.Health System
In single player, the game uses a unique "Threat Indicator" system instead of the conventional Health bar or Regenerating Health seen in other shooters. As you take fire, the screen will turn red and blurry, indicating that you are being shot at and you have an increased chance of being hit. In multiplayer however, you have the standard 0-100 numerical health indicator. You start out with a heath number of 100, and as the player gets hit the number lowers, once the number reaches 0, the player is killed.
Plot
You take control of Sergeant Matt Baker, a squad leader that, through months of combat, is starting to ask himself the question "How many lives is one 
Matt Baker screenshot from a battle
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway takes a strong look at Matt Baker's relationships with his squad and how he copes with their deaths. Baker often faces hallucinations which contain ghosts of his former soldiers who were killed under his control; we often see him talking to Pvt. Legget, the radioman killed in the attack of Normandy.
Many scenes in Hell's Highway focus around the "cursed" pistol which Baker is in possession of and has the words "For Matthew, Brothers in Arms"
Matt Baker holding the "cursed" pistol.
Limited Edition
The Limited Edition of Hell's Highway contains a 6 inch Sergeant Matt Baker figure with 13 accessories, a 32-page Brothers in Arms First Edition Comic Book, a full color map of Operation Market Garden, a code for two special multiplayer characters and special packaging.System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP/Vista
Processor: Pentium D @ 2.6 GHz or Athlon FX-55 Equivalent
Memory: 1 GB
Hard Drive: 1 GB (or enough to make it fit the system)
Video Memory: 1 GB (or enough to fit the system)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Extra Assessories: Keyboard & Mouse, DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP1 (only)
Processor: 2.6 GHz Dual-Core (3 GHz for Intel Pentium D 925)
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 8 GB free hard disk space
Video Memory: 2 GB
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible (DirectX 9.0 or 10.0)
DirectX: 10
Extra Assessories: Keyboard & Mouse, DVD Rom Drive
Xbox 360 Game Installation
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway requires 5.2GB of space to install on an Xbox 360 HDD.Reception
Reviews for the game have generally been good. Critics praised the game's voice work, story, and portrayal of the grittiness of World War II. However, the multiplayer aspect was received poorly and a few bugs here and there hurt the overall score. The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 versions both hold a score of 76/100 on Metacritic while the PC version has a score of 79/100.
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Sept. 23, 2008
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| Aliases | BIAHH |
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ESRB: M
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BBFC: 15
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