Revolutionary AI system: Allies and enemies use the standard operating procedures of fire and maneuver to flank and kill their foes.
Real soldiers: Featuring a cast of more than 20 characters, each with a unique personality, appearance, and style. Real military tactics: Intuitive and easy-to-use squad controls appeal to both the hardcore and mainstream gaming audience. One of a kind: Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30 is the only first-person tactical shooter set in WWII. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside.Īs the story unfolds, you must choose between the success of your mission and the lives of your men - your brothers in arms.īrothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 will immerse players in the historic, eight-day invasion of Normandy - with unparalleled imagery, authenticity, sound, and gameplay. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, where Sgt. Set just outside Carentan, it requires you and your squad to cross a heavily guarded field by throwing smoke grenades and running like hell.Based on a true story. The thrilling Cole's Charge is my favourite, though. There's the capture of Objective XYZ and Vierville, the Battle of Carentan, Purple Heart Lane, and the defence of the titular Hill 30. The maps were heavily based on real locations (Gearbox president Randy Pitchford jokes that gamers who learn the levels could go to Normandy and become tour guides), and most of your squadmates were real people (the actual Lt Colonel Cole won a Medal of Honor, for instance). There's banter about who would win in a superhero scrap ("All I'm saying is, logistically Superman would break Batman in half"), and queries about the enemy's eating habits ("What do you suppose Krauts have for breakfast? Sausage? Toast? A pint of cold blood?") Near the village of St Mere Eglise when one soldier storms into a farm with a little too much gusto, the man behind him chides, "Are you going to pay for that? You broke her damn gate!"įollowing The Four Fs example, Road to Hill 30 revels in authenticity. "Those you raise and those you raise hell with." With such bleak subject matter, it would have been easy for Road to Hill 30 to get bogged down in sentimentality, but the game scratches out moments of precious comic relief.
"Every soldier has two families," he says. He reflects on how one of his squad members slices a boiled egg into strips like a piece of ham, and how the childhood friend he used to set off bottle rockets with could be dead and he wouldn't even know it. Before each level Baker shares a humanising anecdote. While your men can't actually die in-game (at worst they'll get injured and sit out the mission), Brothers in Arms gives you reasons to care. It's a lot of responsibility – not only must you look out for your own life, but for the lives of others. Generally, you'll command two teams of three men: your fire team uses M1 Garands and Browning Automatic Rifles to suppress, while your assault team uses M1A1 Carbines and Thompson sub-machine guns to flank.