I'm on a Highway to Hell
By Blinck 1 Comments
Lady's and gentlemen, here is Sargent Blinck once again to report you the latest news from the war frontier.
PREVIOUSLY ON BROTHERS IN ARMS - After fighting all day long, seeing the lives of many of my men fading away into a worst place, eating tree roots in order to survive and doing "biological necessity's in the woods" me and the rest of the soldiers finally got some rest. How ever as I was falling asleep I could hear Han Solo's voice in my head saying "I have a bad feeling about this". And then it happened, our village got under attack by reckless mortars, crazy nazis and fire! And as me and my squad stood there watching that village burning and going to knock on hell's gate we knew something had to be done...
So I had 2 missions at this point, kick some nazi ass and try to find and rescue one soldier of my squad that got away from us in order to save a lady he met earlier in the city ( ok, in order to get laid).
We advanced into the city in flames and started to kill every enemy soldier we saw! This level was great, the ambience of the city was amazing with everything in flames and little sparks in the air. So yeah, the level design in this game is awesome!
I kept advancing through the city until I saw the member of my squad with the lady running away, persued them into a house in flames, and once I steped into the house I got an awesome and amazing surprise that I have never saw in videogames ever before...the roof near the door cracked open obstructing the way for the rest of my squad! And there I was...all alone in a freaking burning house. This was actually an odd part of the game, I had to literally run away from the flames that were consuming the house. I obviously died something like 4 times before I got the path right and did it in the right time. I got to a window and then the game turned into a cut scene where you could see your character jumping and breaking through the window in ultra slow motion, it was cool but boring at the same time since it was really REALLY SLOW motion...anyway, he fell into a water river.
Into the hospital
Next thing I know, I wake up on the border of the river near an Hospital only with my fatheful pistol....and yes, with my clothes you pervs!
I was all alone and my objective was to eliminate the german patrols nearby. As you might know, this game works with a cover system. This cover system is pretty cool and works fine most of the time, but specificaly on this level it was pretty stupid. The only place I could take cover was behind this small trees....I was taking cover on one of them while trying to shoot the guys IN FRONT of the tree, it was all going well until I saw another patrol coming from the left side, and I thought to myself.. "Great, I'm about to knock knock knock on heaven's door"..
Anyway after I took out the patrols something happened but I'm not gonna tell it because it might be a spoiler.
So I finally got into the hospital, and let me tell you, this is one of the best levels i've seen in this kind of games, the level design is amazing, the use of light is superb, the lack of sounds is great. This was a really immersive level, it looked more like a F.E.A.R. game then a WW2 game, but it still had that "war is going on" feeling. At this point my character was getting a bit crazy, so sometimes he saw things moving and stuff, it was pretty scary, but really awesome. I couldn't take my eyes of the screen at this point, it was all so immersive, it was amazing, it was like finding nemo or something, or playing poker with Jesus.
By the way, at some point in this level a man comes out of the door burning in flames, screaming in pain. Good moment. Sick. But nice never the less.
It's raining Nadzis! Hallelujah it's raining nadzis!
After the level of the hospital was completed there was a long cut scene to get you more into the story of the game which is pretty cool, with much mistery and romance. Forget the romance part.
The next scenario was once again on a village occupied with german troops, but this time there were 2 new factors: Rain, and Tanks.
Once again in this level I noticed some lack of intellenge from the part of my bazooka squad when I asked them to shoot the tank.."SQUAD HIT THE TANK".. "YES SIR, ENGAGING THE ENEMY"....yeah right...
Since they were such noobs I decided I needed to do things for myself so I took some rambo pills and runed in the direction of the tank and sticked a bomb into the sucker, then ran away while listening to the sweet sweet sound of a tank exploded by your own hands.
You just shoot everything you see without any remorse or mercy whatsoever! You are superman on drugs!
After completing this level I finally got to the part where you get why they called this game "Hell's Highway", but that report goes for the next blog entry! I've uploaded many images of this levels I just talked about, so, if you are interested go take a look at them!
Now I have a war to win.
Take care.
Sgt.Blinck
Over and out