Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway Announced

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  crimson skies? : buzzbat
  • Thats what I'm thinking but with a focus on the ground forces. : baron calamity
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  It's a fair point that there are a lot of WWII games. However, WWII does really lend itself to games m : cipherbob
  • War games are never made to accurately reflect the way war was fought. First-person shooters even moreso... : Disco Cat
• Shooting single shot muskets is not my idea of fun. But I agree though, these WWII games are getting tir... : ijjz
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  I've always thought a WWI game would be pretty cool if you did it right. But, yeah, I'm getting tired of... : ColoradoCNC
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    WWI is the worst war for a game ever, perhaps not as bad as the war that lasted 6 mins (somehwere in Afri... : spdon
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      ww2 has also been "romantized" in a way through movies and other media where the heroic aspects of it are... : -efx-
      • yes but WW1 was a boring war (compared to 2) and pointless. A game would equate to popping head above tre... : spdon
      • Indeed. A good example of this romanticism is this quotation from Colin Powell: ...a noble war that pitte : cipherbob
    • Agreed. And it was probably the only War in which everyone agreed needed to be fought. On a side note... : coyoterys
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    I'd like to see a modern war depicted, myself. Perhaps a vague reference to uh..various...middle east oc... : joe.gonzalez
    • "Of course, when you tackle serious issues in a game, the aim is to lessen the "gamey" elements, making i : cipherbob
    • my nazi-simulator pitch: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=9122820 : 60days
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  See the thing is they make the ww2 games about ww2. I'd get way more jazzed if they used ww2 as the backd : algernoN8
  • Anne Frank: The Reckoning : SinistarX
• Actually I always thought the Korean War would hav ebeen good, but most people would say "Oh no not anoth... : mordaken
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  The world is not ready for a civil war FPS as realistic as BiA. Seriously. You think that would be fun... : jason bergman
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    all ww2 games now are the same thing with different spins. what about a first person sword game like obl... : vosttok
    • Cuz a sword swing battlefield would break down into button mashing. Not fun. : Edges
    • Isn't that a vague generalization? Aren't all FPS games the same thing with a different twist. Brothers... : cshedd
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  In terms of vehicles, setting and weaponry, WW2 is the only war that really leads to compelling and balan... : shabadoosa
  • Well sumarized. I completely agree. WW2 forever! : ann thracks
• My thoughts on this genre are as follows: World War 2 has pretty clear cut morality (for most people).... : el_bandito
• They make the games because there is evidently a market for it. I fucking HATE WWII games. I think they ... : Frosty3D
• when developers smell money in a topic they milk it until 10 of them go out of business making crappy kno... : thebigbeefsandwich
• Have you tried that Revolutionary War mod for HL2? That has got to be one of the most neat ideas on a non... : laidback
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  I'd love to see a shoter set in an alternate reality. Like Fallout... a Fallout shooter, but with an engi... : Judicator.Khas
  • Like the upcoming Fallout 3? : WaterSign

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• yes THANK YOU! pacific theater please. I want all the funky variants of the weapons used too! (m1 carbine... : supaslasha

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  BiA, unless they changed it dramatically for the sequel, is not "uber-realism". Don't confuse "shitty, ga... : Dslyecxi
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    Actually, what you are calling "shitty, gamey design decisions" are far more realistic and far less gamey... : beansniffles
    • That's what I meant. The default no cursor, super innacurate weapons, increased damage from bullets, supe... : Sturm08
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      I was more referring to Red Orchestra for having proper realism, but whatever. You're obviously touchy ab... : Dslyecxi
      • Are you not? You seem to have a fairly strong opinion yourself. : cshedd
      • There IS such a thing as too much realism...WW2 online anyone? : byorn
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        I'm not really touchy about a particular game, just touchy when people make comments like the one you mad : beansniffles
        • ^^ Well said. I completely agree. : Sturm08
        • Good post. Rational, well thought out. what are you doing here? ;P : cell9song
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    Just because you prefered the game mechanics of CoD over BiA doesn't actually make CoD more true to real ... : beansniffles
    • bia isnt at all realistic though, its more realistic, just like cs is more realistic than half life. : spdon

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  Epic didnt have good things to say about the Rev :( : warcrow
  • That's why I was worried as it looks like UE3 will be the middleware for the first generation or 2 in thi... : melkore
• Didn't they say that they were making a FPS with the UE3 engine for the REV? I think I found it in DSR... : Darkfox76
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  dude, the Rev is an Xbox 1...dont get your hopes up : byorn
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    Revolution is not an Xbox 1. That was just a FUD article. : Hatta
    • My bad...the Revolution has slightly better specs then the Xbox 1: http://revolution.ign.com/articles/69... : byorn
    • It pretty much is. : GeorgeB3DR
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    Then why do no games on the Xboxs look like games like Red Steel? : melkore
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      have you seen Red Steel running yet? There were fighters that looked that good. Red Steel might have tiny... : byorn
      • streaming ftw! : killer_pony
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  pssssst, noone is making games for the revolution, over : wendigo
  • this is true, calling a revolution title a mere 'game' is almost insulting. : pyide

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  I found COD2 to be the more generic and boring WW2 game. Earned in Blood is one of my favourite games of ... : marmite
  • ...on the xbox 360, I should say. : marmite
• wut? so we should change the IP name when a game evolves? : byorn

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• Yes, the Subsurface scattering is what gives the dude's nose in the screenshot that pinkish hue :D : scatti

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• The game would get pretty boring, imo. You only have a choice of a few weapons (suicide belt, AK-47, RPG... : Ride-My-Rocket

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• Yes, maybe. Seriously, what a waste of perfectly good pixels. : GreatGooglyMoogly

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  LOL @ the above post : datim
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    And it's 2009 project; Brothers in Arms: I-95 Corridor : frdranger
    • Grr damnit, wrong reply thread. Sorry. : frdranger
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      Or better yet Brothers In Arms: I-95 Pileup : Personal Jesus
      • and the plot thickens! : jarek99
• What most people don't realize is that Churchill was a major shareholder in EA, Activision, and Ubisoft. : Sturm08
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  informative this post. : chilln
  • I'm waiting for EA to get exclusivity rights to WW II. : ihya
  • exclusive rights...lol! : jarek99

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• I will assume that UT2k7 will be out before this one. : -efx-
• Gears of War : jake

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• I agree... : esp186
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  Yeah, I don't really care whether gamse are WWII or not. If they're fun then bring them on! : freshyk
  • I think that's where some of the complaints come from. It's less that it's a WW2 game and more that it's... : Disco Cat
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  i dont mind ww2 games that try and recreate some aspect of ww2, like this kind of does, but I hate ones l... : spdon
  • wolfenstein is fun though, because everyone there is super human, and can take 3 shots to the head befor... : vosttok
• Count me in as one of the folks that enjoy well done WW2 games. There's just something great about playi : SinistarX
• well said. : Silent Wolf
• not another I love WWII video games post.... joking! : conandan

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  I wholeheartedly agree. I did not buy BiA:EiB for that reason alone. And I really enjoyed Road to Hill ... : coyoterys
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    Good news everyone! http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=11962195 : cipherbob
    • Hotdamn cipherbob I could kiss you for that good news! Now if you tell me they'll released a revised ver... : coyoterys
    • My PC Gaming is back on the upswing! Now I wish I could trade my Chaos Theory copy for an non starf... : Skeez187

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  as they fight to open "Hell's Highway" in a daring bid for a quick end to the war. So was that really ... : voodoochildtm
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    Yup. It was called "Club Route" by the British. The American's later started calling it Hell's Highwa... : mikeyzilla
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      Damn.. should i be embarassed to know more about rock history than ww2 ? well.. comes with the professio... : voodoochildtm
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        Heh, atleast you asked the question. Most people are just here to take a shit on it. : mikeyzilla
        • Yeah.. But that's just natural.. what else can humans do best ? : voodoochildtm

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• i can't agree more.. very excited for this generation of gaming goodness : khroma