A DS technical achievement. But is that all?
The controls are of a mixed bag. They work. They work well. Most of the time. The thing that really does no favours to the game is changing the aiming sensitivity. The default setting is slow, annoying and downright infuriating. Actually playing the game is similiar to Metroid Prime Hunters. The D-Pad is used for movement, the touch screen is for aiming, turning and selecting the various weapons and grenades you acquire. Shoulder button L is used for firing. It's pretty easy to get to grips with. Until you get into battle. Firing, aiming, changing weapons and reloading weapons is a total nightmare to start with. It's just a cluster mess. You can always reload automatically after firing all your bullets but it takes a surprising amount of time to reload compared to YOU doing it. The cover system is good though, running into a wall or hedge instantly puts you into cover. You can also shoot from the corner of a wall, and that's pretty exciting and exhilirating to do.
Yeah, yeah. Brothers In Arms DS looks the business. It's a fantastic looking game with set pieces and destructible environments galore. The game does take a few hits in certain places however. The game's framerate is extremely choppy and your main avator is poorly animated, especially sliding over cover and reloading. There's no pop in, but the environment sort of does this gradual reveal of the terrain. I have to admit though that this is less annoying then pop up. I just however can't fault the game's graphics as a whole. The sound effects are great, with bullets ricocheting and explosions sound like real explosions. What voice acting there is is a very typical Americans in World War 2 scenario.
Brothers In Arms DS is a good game. It looks amazing for a DS game and overall the game plays well. The single player has three acts, each with 7 missions with various degrees of difficulty. The multiplayer is also pretty cool though the chances of finding someone with a copy of the game is pretty slim, I only managed to do thanks to my brother buying a copy also. You can do much worse than this game, but you can do much better. It's worth a look but be prepared to be a little angry with it as well.