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split-screen co-op review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

with shooters, I only play split-screen Co-op games with a friend - stuff like Halo and Wolfenstein. This game has a mode that lets you pick 1 of 5 maps, choose your difficulty level and whether you want to be the good or bad guys. You each command a 3-man team. AI is pretty good and the game is more difficult comparatively than Halo. The maps are pretty varied and fun. Definitely worth 20 bucks.

Tired of all the hype and BS.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know, I am sick of all the hype about this game by a bunch of weenies that don't seem to know real combat, real weapons or realism of any sort beyond what they see on their TV screens.

This game is not the authentic real life war on-the-battlefield war game that all the geeks are hyping and signing the party line the company puts out.

I bought two of these games after reading the reviews and I have to say that you people don't know what you are talking about.

There is pseudo-realism and that is about it. Sure the maps are close, the look and sounds of the weapons are close and even the dialog is about right, but that is about as far as it goes.

These games fall down severely on the accuracy/authenticity in several key areas.

1.Ludicrous restriction on the tactical options available to the soldiers and the squad leaders. Some of this is bad level design, some of it is probably trying to make up for the limitations of their AI, and some of it is just plain dumb.

2. Ridiculous limitations on interaction with the environments. You cannot open doors or windows. You cannot climb fences. You cannot use the wire cutters that every paratroop carried. You cannot go under a normal barbed wire fence, which thousands of hunters do several times a day in america.

Barrels and crates don't blow up or even move when hit by a tank. You can't even climb over a low wall that some other men just went over.

Perhaps most unforgivable of all, you cannot go into a prone position or crawl. You know, the stuff they teach everyone in BASIC TRAINING!

3. The gunsights are ludicrous. The amount of creep even in a crouching position is ridiculous. If I was that shakey I'd head for the retirement home.

4. Terrible path blocking and object collision detection. Quite a few times when I had a perfect view of a target and as perfect a sight picture as you would ever want I could not hit the target no matter how many rounds I fired. In real life I would have put a round through both ears of my target.

5. Absurd size of the weapons relative to your field of vision when zoomed in. Come on folks this is ridiculously UN-authentic. There is a reason for the open sights on fast action weapons like the Thompson and other SMG weapons.

6. Really stupid scenario designs. There are several instances where you are put face to face with tanks and no tactical options except to run for enemy panzerfausts. Making this worse of course are the level designs that force you to follow a relatively linear and restricted path to said anti-tank weapons. This is completely ridiculous.

7. Poor level designs. Too many places you cannot go or step when you should be able to. Places you cannot jump over or crawl under where you should. Only in EIB do you get to even blow holes in the hedges with the TNT that all paratroops carried as part of their standard pack during that theater of operations, and then only in key places and one whole scenario.

8. Situational awareness mode. Give me a break. This is supposed to substitute for the advance study done by the troops? It's not even as good as a raw topo map dump. You are chained to camera angles around key points and there are no indications of any significant type for changes in elevation and quite often the terrain features are faded out due to the choices made for the camera angle.

9. Another limiting factor is that you cannot issue movement commands to a location you know is there but are not lined up on directly yourself and you had better be on the side away from the enemy when you issue the order. This could have been easily fixed by using some option to issue commands while in situational mode, especially if that were better done.

10. Lastly the much hyped authentic tactics. Authentic, sure, in a very introductory and watered down way, severely limited in permutations, applications and variations due to all the other limitations of the game.

By the way, I am both a veteran and an experienced programmer and I am highly disappointed with this game on both counts.

If this is the latest in realism then it shows what a sorry state the gaming industry really is in. Of course I still haven't seen AI in a commercial game yet that matched up to what I saw undergrad programmers doing in college during the 80s. We deserve better and it's not that hard to do. It's time we stopped allowing these companies to hype this stuff up like it is so great when it's all fluff like pretty pictures and sound.

Oh, one PS. The AI cheats. You can observe how the enemy becomes magically aware of things completely out of the blue, such as someone being behind them, not moving or firing, and behind cover. This is inexcusable.

WTF is up with nubes?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

These people that are telling you that this game is not fun are taking away from your gaming experience. I am a 15 year old guy from ohio that can beat this game on authentic. This is fairly simple for me since I have had it since christmas of 05 and have beat it 6 times now. These funsuckers make themselves look like idiots by telling you that they cant enjoy a game without in your face, dont have to work for it action. Yes, you must use a flanking system in this game. This is not hard. Lets grow a brain...buy this game.

I should get some prenup for this...

your duty as an american!! (if your american)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Continuing the most historically acurate and fun as hell world war II franchise, Earned in blood is a fantastic first person shooter. With all the best aspects of of a great gaming experience brothers in arms goes 1 step further and throws you out of an airplane into a world of real heros that suck you into the action.
A few people with ADD might say that it doesn't have enough action; but if you listen to the monolouges and cutscenes, you will be sweating and gasping for air from intensity.

AND! its the only game where you can control your whole friggin squad and beat the S#%T out of those damn nazis. but don't be fooled. an upgraded enemy AI program means you will have to be at your best if you want to move your support team from behind the church, where they are pinned down by morter fire and a hail of lead to flank the panzer thats coming to raze that church to the ground!

There are a few minor gripes but i won't waste your time. The biggest problem is that my eyes fell out after not blinking for 2 weeks. ohh, and my finger was shot off. but such is the cost of war.

well worth your time and money.

2 for the Graphics.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The Graphics are amazing, however the ai's are very hard and the game itself is way to hurried and very unfun. not a good game.

worst possible game ever?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 46
Date: November 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

ok here my "TRUE REVIEW" :this game is beyond whacky-when you shoot an enemy there is no reaction!I stood face to face shot at least 1o times all hits/but they dont react?!!!!suppressing fire ruins the whole thing,you must"suppress"every idiot before they can be shot(total stupidity at best)also confusing health meter am i hurt? cant tell how badly hurt.got perfect victory level 1 so what!level 2 so dumb turned off game PERMANNENT.and that is the truth.not even worth renting.peace out jp

Brother's in Arms: Earned in Blood

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Wow, am I the only one that doesn't like this game besides Jeff Peterson? It sucks! I am a new gamer so when I bought my X-Box in Jan '06 I bought this game based upon what I had heard. I agree with everything he states. Suppressing the enemy to kill them? The movement of my guy is slow, firing at enemies is like spitting in the wind; don't know where the bullets are going to land, and shooting at the enemy fact-to-face doesn't kill the enemy. Also, it takes a ridiculous amount of time to learn this game. I like high-learning curves on games, but this is stupid. One last thing, the game offers a story-line to follow like a movie. If I want to watch a movie, I'll rent BIA but I am too impatient to play a video game and to watch a story line at the same time. I get on X-Box to play!

Maybe I don't like this game because I like COD: Big Red One because that game offers immediate, high-gamer action.

I bored easily with BIA: Earned in Blood. The graphics however are an 11 out of 10.

Rent this game before buying and find out if you like it.

Authentic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my only exeption for realistic war games. Anything else is boring crap to me.Antways, on to the game itself:
I must admit, i got this for Christmas, but never played it, largly due to my brother playing it nonstop, and me playing the Warriors non stop.But, last night, i popped it into my Xbox and before i knew it, i had beaten the first three levels!This game is pretty fun so far and is very intense.get it!

Good game for Two people

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was a little predictable but was good for two player action. The graphics are not all that great however its cool that you can play on either side of the countries.

Best WWII game out there!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love shooter games mostly WWII games.... i also play paintball which is the closest thing to war you can get and this game is the closest thing to real life plus its an awsome story line because it says its a true WWII story

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