Indeed, there are other welcome allowances to realism, as the game often offers you the chance to revive fallen comrades at the end of each level, as long as they’re critical to the game – very useful when you’re as rubbish as me. Still, it’s preferable to a more realistic system where your guys would be out of action if they were hit once or twice. Yes, it’s useful to know the status of your squad, but I would have preferred something a little more elegant. Sadly, certain things can lift you out of this mindset normally the appearance of gaming staples like health bars popping up for your men as they get wounded. Throw in a few blood effects and some great sound and you have a gaming experience that can truly be described as immersive. It’s extremely frantic and throwing rushed orders about a battlefield can be panic-inducing. Indeed, the word authentic is thrown about a lot these days (as much as the debate over whether a pasty games reviewer can truly call a war game authentic), but I’d imagine BIR:EIB would certainly fit the bill. AI can be frustrating at times, but when you lose a man, you more often find yourself blaming your orders and tactics. This feeling of squad attachment is strengthened when you realise how smart the men in your squad are. It helps to form a sense of attachment that really stays with you throughout the game. They all have different personalities that shine through in cut scenes and during the game itself. Unlike other games this squad is far from a faceless bunch of cannon fodder. The story runs in parallel with the original game, and is narrated through flashbacks for the most part, introducing squad mates, superior officers and others. Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood focuses around Joe ‘Red’ Hartsock (who is played by your good self) and his squad who undertake various missions as part of the paratrooper campaign in Normandy. I’m getting ahead of myself though, so first let’s put things in context. The first thing that strikes you about the game is how effortlessly the strategy elements blend into something that looks exactly like a standard FPS – you’ll be firing out orders in no time.
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Being the second game in a series certainly puts any developer in a stronger position, and it seems Gearbox have a very refined product on their hands. It’s clear that Gearbox have a very exact vision of what they wanted from the game and have put it together in an extremely slick fashion. There’s a certain quiet confidence that oozes out of BIR:EIB from the moment you first start it up. So, having not experienced the first game in the series, it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I approached Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood. I think that’s one of the reasons why I never get on that well with historical shooters, never mind a strategic historical shooter. When it comes to first-person shooters, you can’t beat a good laser gun.
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