Brothers in arms hells highway sucks!

[cammy]

Oh guys, i posted this in the general games bit cause its out for ps3/x360 and pc

I dont get it? it looks terrible, lacks any "next gen" game dynamics, the animation is terrible, the textures are rubbish, the grass looks fake.

the voice acting doesnt match with the lips, and not to mention its crap gameplay.

when did this game become so bad after looking so good quite recently?

[WastedJoker]

It sucks as badly as your sentence structure :p

[cammy]

It sucks as badly as your sentence structure :p

sorry, i just typed it after playing BIAHH for a few hours, i can`t think straight, that's how bad it is.

[King Antonius]

It was supposed to be out in 2006.... that explain it?

[Sethos]

It was supposed to be out in 2006.... that explain it?

So they just decided to ruin the game completely in those 2 years :laugh: ?

[cammy]

So they just decided to ruin the game completely in those 2 years :laugh: ?

Yeah even if it did come out in 2006 it would still be a bad game!

you would think that when working on a game for 3-4 years would produce a great end product.

But no, obviously UBI decided to spend all their money on taking their employees to social paintballing events and forgot about making a good game.

[Srugie Veteran]

Yeah it really isn't as good as I thought it would be.

[Sethos]

Posted this in the PC section.

Check this out http://www.gamershell.com/news_32449.html ( Watch the stream in case you don't want to download ).

Back then the game looked great, everything had a very authentic feel and the game looked great. Today the game still 'looks' like that but everything is so scaled back! Special effects look like crap, towns consist of a broken house, a shed and 2 ft of fence. Every cutscene has horrible animations and as you said the lipsyncing is off. Doesn't feel like the built the game to look good and have great performance, feels more like they built the game to really good and just cut away things to get the performance on par.

[cammy]

Does anyone know what went wrong? seriously. lol

[Neo003]

Some of you will not like this but it's due to PS3 :huh:

?In previous ?Brothers in Arms,? we had farmed out the PlayStation versions to other developers who were PlayStation experts,? he stated. ?So we had to build up all that expertise in-house to understand that platform."

Creating a title for three platforms also appeared to take its toll, Cooke continued. "There?s just major hardware differences; you don?t know if your Xbox guy has a hard drive but your PlayStation guy does, and you?ve got 8 cores on this machine and 4 and a half on this machine and some PC users have?who knows how many??

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[Budious]

Some of you will not like this but it's due to PS3 :huh:

Sounds like a blame game of bad management. If development is really being set back that much due to PS3, it's going to be far more cost effective to drop the PS3 version, or to finish it after the PC and 360 version is complete.

[Neo003]

Sounds like a blame game of bad management. If development is really being set back that much due to PS3, it's going to be far more cost effective to drop the PS3 version, or to finish it after the PC and 360 version is complete.

That's what I was thinking.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Some of you will not like this but it's due to PS3 :huh:

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What a surprise!

:p

[cammy]

What a surprise!

:p

Yeah, thats what it was probably, they were playing way too many awesome games on the ps3 and forgot about making the game! :laugh:

[gigapixels Veteran]

Some of you will not like this but it's due to PS3 :huh:

I don't see a single thing there pointing to the PS3 being a problem.

If they couldn't handle working on a Playstation system they shouldn't have tried. They should have outsourced like they've done before rather than bring the quality down for everybody. It's nothing to do with the PS3, it's everything to do with poor management and poor development choices.

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Yeah, thats what it was probably, they were playing way too many awesome games on the ps3 and forgot about making the game! :laugh:

Yeah like...ummm...that one game....umm

Ah nevermind I'm sure I'll think of something..:unsure:

jk :p

[Digitalx]

well thats what you get when you don't follow the other games and buy this one you'll be disappointed. no it's not perfect but it's a massive improvement on the others. this games not supposed to be a next gen benchmarking game it supposed to continue telling the story of baker i'd say it doesn't suck but what were you expecting you should have looked at preview movies first and screen shots.

I enjoyed it and found it good and fine to follow the story with besides minor graphics glitch i ran into. I'm looking forward to the next game too.

btw it's made on unreal 3 engine so for anyone else expecting this to be some far cry 2 / crysis game it isn't and never will be a hardware pushing game it's always been an unreal engine game focused on the story and gameplay more then the graphics.

[Remysaus]

I loved hell's highway.. it doesn't deliver on all the stuff we saw in those vids a year ago, but still, if you're a fan of the series, it's very likely you will enjoy it.

[Coldgunner]

I loved it and will play through it again! Its not a straight shooter like COD or MOH and is not to be played in a run and gun style. Its probably got more in common with the likes of R6V. I'm disappointed there is no single player skirmish mode though. I doubt the PS3 was the problem, as we all know full well it handles UE3 superbly. Just a case of bad development, and delay after delay meaning it looked "dated" on release. I really enjoyed the squad controls and the game comes into its own when you play it on Authentic.

[Neo003]

BIA: HH is certainly wasn't your typical shooter, it had more dark side of the war than CoD or any other game. Story wise it was something new better than the original BiA, and overall game play was really good it's just the voiceover and graphics were so 2006.

[Ayepecks]

Demo is on Live now, I'll post my thoughts later.

[Ironman273]

I got turned off from the series when it was just: flank the enemy with your men, pick them off while they're fighting. Rinse, repeat.

[Rappy Veteran]

I have heard some really bad things but I still wouldn't mind giving it a whirl.

[Massiveterra]

I'm currently renting this game. Never played the old BIA.

Honestly I hated this game when I first got it. The controls really ****ed me off (ex left trigger is for squad commands and clicking the right stick is to aim). But the game really grew on me, and I say I'm into it.

My biggest complaint is that you can't command your squads using the tactical map and only can command your squad using the first person view. If this was a truly tactical game, I would think you can command your squad using the map, right? that would make it a great combination of RTS and FPS.

But they did a pretty good job in the tactical aspect. There were many times I had to replay a mission because my squad placement was just wrong.

I do agree that the place-and-flank gameplay does get old. And there were many solo missions, which I would think they wouldn't pay attention to so much if they market this game as a tactical shooter.

Also, I don't mind the graphics so much. It doesn't take away from the game IMHO.

[Ayepecks]

I downloaded the demo expecting a crap game from what was said here, but it really wasn't all that bad. Pretty well polished, interesting mechanics, and a good game if you're into the style of FPS it is. It's personally not for me -- I don't care for that type of FPS and I hate the WW2 setting, but it wasn't bad.