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Could be a good game if you were able to load it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 38 / 50
Date: November 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just bought my copy and found out too late that it will not work properly on your computer unless you have a cd-rom only drive. This seems to be due to the anti-piracy software that UBI have silently included into the package.

Also, if your cd won't work......As it seems that some have experienced, you have to write to UBI support and wait for them to issue the correct key.

Even if you do get past all that nonsense and get to what you think is the start of the game, you get an error notification or file not found message which directs you to the UBI webplay site. Once you get there, you can't play the game because of the software errors. All this and I downloaded the patch as well. No doubt this is due to the anti-piracy software in some way.

I for one am returning my copy for a refund. If I can't play it and I have an up-to-date top of the range machine then I'm getting my money back.

Save your money or buy another game!How they ever dared to put this on the market is beyond me. It shows very poor judgement on UBI's behalf.

Exactly the same as the first version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 34 / 51
Date: November 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Simply put...Earned In Blood is identical to the first Brothers In Arms game. It really is not different at all.

They put that StarForce antipiracy crap on the disk. Many computers really get screwed up by it too!!!

I actually kind of like the style of strategy and squad play found in BIA. I really prefer the style of COD but this game was actually fun. I just think this game falls short of what it could have been. That is one reason why I rate it only 1 star

Here is what I really do not like at all about this game and why I gave it 1 star.

1 - You get some level load freeze ups that will happen even on a fast system.

2 - ANNOYING, LONG and POORLY voice-acted cutscenes and storyline that you CANNOT skip past! Ughhhhhhhhhhh...the stupid, dramatic puss spews out for minutes on end and you just get so sick of it after the first few chapters you feel like muting the volume until it is over!!!! And I do hit my mute button! It is that bad and that boring!

3- Nothing new since the original came out. Basically, Ubisoft wants to rip you off for $50 more. I say it is flat out greed this time. If you played the original, your going to feel cheated. If you haven't...save some bucks and buy that in the discount rack!

UBISOFT has really become a huge disappointment to many gamers over the past 2 years. They were rolling along nicely. However, it seems like they have just stopped trying to work hard to provide an interesting product. They have resigned themselves to pumping out subpar games hoping you won't read reviews like this one.

Doesn't work with CD-RW or DVD-RW - needs CD-ROM!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 24
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this but had to return it because it needs a read only CD-ROM. The copy protection prevents it working with any sort of burner. I bought it retail and was only given store credit event though it does not work. UBI-Soft also does not give a refund if the store doesn't, even if the product does not work.

Stay away from this game - not worth the hassle. Demo looked good, but I could not get it to work, due to the copy protection.

Worst Game Ever????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 25
Date: December 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing FPS games since the early days of Wolf3D and Doom for DOS. This is absolutely the worst shooter I have ever had the misfortune to buy. The built in "strategy" scripting will give you a migraine. Unless you are right where the script wants you to be, you could empty 100 point blank rounds into your opponents head and they will then shout at you and kill you with one shot... while your moronic "AI" troops cry "I'm taking fire!"
Totally absurd and constipated game design. Can you believe there is not even a Run or Sprint key for movement? So you must creep at a snails pace through the "authentic" battlefields scripted for suicide. Buy Call of Duty (1 or 2).

wish it worked, and then there's the starforce....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just installed my copy and the game will not accept the serial number that's clearly printed on the manual. So I'm thinking of just uninstalling it.. Then I have to deal with removing the Starforce crap as well. What else needs to be said. BTW There are no support email addrs listed at their website.

BROTHERS IN ARMS EARNED IN BLOOD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME IS NOT WORTH THE FIFTY DOLLARS I SPENT ON IT. THE ACTION IS JERKY, SIGHTS ARE WAY OFF, INFO BOX'S POP UP AT THE WORST TIMES,ND IT TAKES SEVEN TO TEN ROUNDS TO KILL ONE GERMAN SOLDER. THE CARBINE IS USELESS AND THE YOU NEED A BAR OR MACHINE GUN TO STAND A CHANCE TO GET A HIT.

It COULD be so good.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: June 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Forget it! It has no "save game" except for checkpoints that are ridiculously far apart. If you get killed 90% of the way to a checkpoint, you have to do it ALL over again: clear the trenches, gun emplacements, bunkers, artillery emplacements, blow up the artillery, fight off several counterattacks - die once and back you go! The weapons have the worst accuracy of any game I've ever played if you don't include the ones at the local carnival. The online cheats and patches did not work and the ones by the "maker" don't fix any of the real problems. Otherwise the game is great. Kind of like a new BMW that has to go back to the shop every time you almost get to where you want to go.

This is why you should be able to return games

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm put in a very awkward position here. On one hand I hate to criticize this game b/c it is based on the real life story of solider in WWII. I am sure that it is authentic; I am sure war really is that confusing and difficult. But on the other hand it is a really bad GAME.

In real life I am pretty good with rifles and I really can't imagine crouching 10 ft from a German who is stading in the open, lining up my sights just right, firing off an entire clip and then watching the still very much alive and unwounded enemy get up and shoot me. This game suffers from a crucial problem... trying to replicate, in detail, an experience that few of us face. And I can guarantee you that not one of those developers have ever fired a rife.

Now please don't get me wrong, if that were the only glitch in the game it would be like America's Army (which was still great) but unfortunately getting the game to the point where you can determine that flaw takes a bit of ingenuity. May I begin by saying that UBISOFT has the WORST installer I have ever seen. Confusing and clunky is a nice way to describe it. Once you get it loaded, the tutorial is just horrible. It vacillates between assuming you are a grade A moron to assuming that you are a rocket scientist. Somewhere in between please.

Ok, so you get past all of that only to encounter a really clunky interface. The various command options you need for such a wide array of tactical directions and events is just not there. Instead of single use hotkeys you find that some things can only be controlled within a particular type of environment that they call "situational awareness". On top of it, hotkeys do multiple things, press shift once and it toggles a new fire team, hold shift and it recalls your fire team. So what happens is you risk recalling teams you just assigned cause you got too excited and mashed down that SHIFT key too hard.

Last but not least, I need to get up on my soapbox for a second. I understand why game developers want to make games non-returnable. I really do. But, the game developer then needs to GUARANTEE the title. Now I am stuck with a poor game that I paid 29.99 for and it will an uphill fight to get any of that back. Especially since the developer listed no customer service or tech support numbers anywhere on the packaging. That is one thing I will give to Empire Earth II, it may be a horrible game but at least the contact info is right on the box so that you can tell them how horrible it is.

Just so you don't think I'm a negative guy... I thought MoA, CoD, America's Army and their sequels were great. Brother's in Arms just really missed the boat on this one.

Waste of money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This, like the first one is a waste of money, glad I borrowed it from a friend. The problems persist like BIA RH30.

Your squadmates are retarded. They either can't shoot even at point blank range or run out into the open even after telling them to take cover at a specific point, the whole route planned out for their safety.

The player is rendered nearly useless with any weapon especially the M1 Garand(it's accuracy can still compete with or beat anything today,I know I own one), aiming down the sights you bob the weapon as if you were drunk. Shooting at the AI does little to help either you or your squadmates, the only time you get one is a lucky shot usually after expending an enire clip or two.

The sounds still suck and little ambient sound though more than the original which had almost none except for a few parts on some maps.

As the level difficulty goes up the AI gets even better but your squadmates get dumber.

The graphics, like the original are little better than MOHAA(which by the way is a good game).

The levels are bigger and at least they got rid of the stupid internal voice over of the main character, they went a better route by having the main character remember what happened, makes it more emotional that way, at least a good point. The urban combat was used to a greater degree, again better than the original, more vechicles and weapons again brought some more improvement but still could not save the game.

The idea of taking command of a squad is a great idea however UBI/Gearbox keeps screwing it up, hope they improve the idea in the next game or its strike three.

Say what you will about COD2 but the intelligence of the players AI, the sounds and the weapons are much greater than in this game. Improve the weapon/player problem and the players AI intelligence and the game's series could have been a great. Don't listen to the fanboys save your money.

A game to be avoided

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is an acceptable try at a tactical game, though a little bit of a "one trick pony" in that it is played by doing pretty much the same thing again and again - get a base of fire and flank the Germans.

UbiSoft's decision to use Star Force protection software is a major problem. Deleting the game leaves the Star Force crap in your registry. Using Star Forces "deletion" software, available from their site, leaves crap in your registry as well. You have to get it out manually and even then it may be too late - my Plextor DVD burner now no longer display the contents of any CD put in it. And, no, I have never had any disk copying software on my computer (and even if I had, wtf business is that of either UbiSoft or Star Force? And even if I had, how do they justify disabling one of my optical readers even after their game is deleted?). I hate to say it but I am no longer purchasing UbiSoft games, not until they get rid of Star Force.

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