A good game, but has some flaws and I dont feel as though its worth playing through more than once.

User Rating: 7.5 | Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway X360
I did not play the 1st two games in the series, but im an FPS veteran. This game has some great things that it does. The gore is fantastic, driving tanks is fun, the squad control is good, and you really feel as though you are in WW2 at times. The story is also quite good and I enjoyed the cutscenes. The action camera is also very neat, i just wish it would happen more often.

Now heres my problems with the game. The controls sometimes feel clunky, and sometimes sprinting can be troublesome. Another thing, tanks and cannons will always shoot at you first, and even if they hit you, you just have to hide until the screen isnt red anymore. Placing bombs on tanks and the guns is also sloppy, no animation or anything. Its obvious the team cut corners on some things. The grenades in the game are very difficult to throw them where you want to, and time consuming. Another thing is the fact that the game is too repetitive, you fight one battle youve pretty much fought them all. Use one team to suppress, and either you or your other squad to flank. Or you just sit back and try to pick off germans yourself. The game is just not that fun after a while.

My biggest complaint is that i never really felt as though i was in serious danger. When your in cover, you can go have a cup of coffee or to the bathroom and come back and you'll still be in cover, safe and sound with likely no changes to the battlefield. Enemies are just not threating as long as your in cover, pop up and shoot, and then hide if the screen turns red. It gets boring.

The graphics are also pretty bad sometimes, but thats not a big deal to me. They are good enough when they need to be. Sound is excellent.

After playing through the campaign once and experiencing the good story, I sold the game. Its definitely a good rental, but the game just gets boring after a while and after you beat it theres not much reason to do it all again. The last level is the best, so thats a plus.

Word of advice, the game is cooler with the suppression icons and stuff off, so turn them off in the options menu (authentic mode does this also, but you have to unlock that first).