Well executed game play and visuals, but marred by lack of content and depth.
User Rating: 6.7 | Brothers In Arms DS DS
This is a well executed shooter, with impressive visuals, satisfying game play and controls that are about as good as you could hope for from such a game on the DS. However, for me, all those strengths only served to emphasize the major flaw in Brothers In Arms - its frustratingly brief single player campaign. Within 2-3 hours of my first seeing the game I had completed all the levels on Normal difficulty and the only reward offered up by the game was the prospect of playing through all the exact same content once again on a harder difficulty setting.
You could argue that there is some inherent replay value in the game due to the gold, silver and bronze awards you are given for your efforts on each level. However, I don't feel that those provide enough incentive to make you want to trudge through all the same, strictly linear levels multiple times, which you would need to do in order to get any lasting value out of the game.
In brief, Brothers in Arms is a very good, but in my opinion, fatally flawed game for the DS.
