Brothers In Arms (3): Hell's Highway Scans [PC/ PS3/ 360] [Archive]

Borys

04-10-2006, 03:37 PM

Now this is something you don't see everyday: Belgian gaming magazine PlayerONE (http://www.playerone.be) has put some lovely Brothers In Arms 3 scans from its own issue on its own website. You can read the article (it's in... Orcish!) and see the shots by following this (http://www.playerone.be/playerone/be/news_details.php?id_news=5737) link.

The are also other scans flying around showing much better pictures but since they are from a US magazine (namely PlayStation Magazine (http://www.psmonline.com/)) you have to search for them for yourself.

http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/5112/bia13aj.th.jpg (http://img418.imageshack.us/img418/5112/bia13aj.jpg)

The characters look kinda...cute?

Sazime

04-10-2006, 05:55 PM

Hahaha. PlayerONE. Fantastic.

aversion2k

04-10-2006, 06:01 PM

The characters look kinda... shitty?

netcraazzy

04-10-2006, 06:05 PM

Why do some of the images look so hazy? Is this some sort of graphical effect or just crappy scans?

aversion2k

04-10-2006, 06:13 PM

Why do some of the images look so hazy? Is this some sort of graphical effect or just crappy scans?

I'm sure its bad scans...although it could be some awesome next gen effects!!

Magnanimous Gnome

04-10-2006, 06:19 PM

RainOfTerror

04-10-2006, 06:38 PM

It's in Belgian? Wow, congrats Borys, you just made up a new language ;P

FYI, in Belgium they speak Dutch and French, Dutch being the national language.

netcraazzy

04-10-2006, 06:43 PM

Oh great, ANOTHER WWII shooter, ANOTHER Brothers in Arm game - just what we needed! I take it this is going to be a yearly franchise? I barely realized the first game was out before the second hit. Way for Gearbox to actually make their own game for once (albeit an entirely uncreative one) and then milk it to death in no time.

I agree. The WWII shooter genre just does not excite me any more. I absolutely loved MoH AA on PC but couldn't muster the enthusiasm to even rent COD2 for the 360. The fact that developers have to work within a narrow historical context only adds to the problem. You can only invade Normandy so many times.

sflufan

04-10-2006, 06:46 PM

It's in Belgian? Wow, congrats Borys, you just made up a new language ;P

FYI, in Belgium they speak Dutch and French, Dutch being the national language.

I think you mean Flemish and French :)

hund_

04-10-2006, 07:14 PM

just because there has been a rash of crappy ww2 games doesnt negate the genre;) i love cod2's no health pack approch.

this looked good
http://www.playerone.be/galleries/images/XB2BIARM3/Screenshots%20Editor/bia4.jpg

Gamefreaks

04-10-2006, 07:22 PM

I agree. The WWII shooter genre just does not excite me any more. I absolutely loved MoH AA on PC but couldn't muster the enthusiasm to even rent COD2 for the 360. The fact that developers have to work within a narrow historical context only adds to the problem. You can only invade Normandy so many times.

Well there's actually plenty of other big events from WW2 that could be translated into a game. Not all necessarily 'great' victories either. I imagine that trying to surive battles like Dunkirk or Dieppe would be pretty hardcore. Has there been one game that dealt with the Italian campaign? But I agree, they really do need to stop milking D-Day.

bean19

04-10-2006, 07:27 PM

My problem with WW2 shooters is that they are prescripted and are thus just semi-mindless but beautiful extensions of previous games.

Brothers in Arms actually innovated on this concept and delivered new gameplay with squad combat tactics. My only problem with this is that I don't really enjoy it personally, and I think one innovative original quickly becomes derivative when your sequels fail to innovate. Hopefully this one will move the franchise forward as the original moved the genre forward.

What I think I'd really like to play in the WWII era is a game that places you in the role of various Brittish spies. Combat levels are infiltration and exfiltration with optional stealth tactics or run-and-gun and the other half are spy levels that have only minor bits of stealth gameplay maybe sneak past a guard, but mostly all about using gadgets and behaving in-character or gaining trust, etc. (lots of minigames required, I have a whole design doc in my head for various tasks).

AntB

04-10-2006, 08:13 PM

Can anyone PM me the link to the good scans?

AversionFX

04-10-2006, 08:22 PM

Why do they continually disappoint me with WW2 sequels!

The Iron Weasel

04-10-2006, 08:23 PM

I for one am a WW2 junkie so I'll definatly be picking this up.

ezra

04-10-2006, 08:26 PM

Is anyone else really tired of WWII?

RainOfTerror

04-10-2006, 08:30 PM

Actually sflufan, no .. Flemish is not a language, it's a dialect much like American English, or Australian are not really languages, but geographical representation of where they are being spoken.

Flemish is spoken in Flanders, but it does not exist as a language, the national language in Belgium is Nederlands, aka Dutch, or to be 100% correct, AN, which stands for Algemeen Nederlands.

Deadend

04-10-2006, 09:00 PM

Those screenshots are missing an essiential part of the Brothers In Arms experince...

BLOOM! WHERE IS MY BLOOM EFFECT!?

megaman

04-10-2006, 09:08 PM

Can anyone PM me the link to the good scans?

me too. thanx

megaman

04-10-2006, 09:10 PM

And wonder why nobody has brought this up yet..but the game's looking great!

Blue

04-10-2006, 09:30 PM

I think someone needs to step up and make a Civil War FPS. How much more heavy would the tension be when it takes you twenty minutes just to re-load?

Guy Mariano

04-10-2006, 09:31 PM

The characters look kinda... shitty?

Umm..then what does a good in game character look like because your sure as hell not playing a game with better looking ones right now.

BenN1ce

04-10-2006, 09:35 PM

Not really sure if these look better but here ya go

http://forums.e-mpire.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5320&d=1144181259

http://forums.e-mpire.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5325&d=1144181497

http://forums.e-mpire.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5324&d=1144181417

http://forums.e-mpire.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5323&d=1144181388

http://forums.e-mpire.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5321&d=1144181312

aversion2k

04-10-2006, 10:14 PM

Captain Awesome

04-10-2006, 10:15 PM

WW2 didnt even last this long...

UnderHero5

04-10-2006, 11:19 PM

I think someone needs to step up and make a Civil War FPS. How much more heavy would the tension be when it takes you twenty minutes just to re-load?
http://www.bgmod.com/
Not quite the Civil War, but as close as we'll get right now (Revolutionary War). It's a mod for HL1 and HL2. Obviously it doesn't take a realistic amount of time to reload your guns, for gameplay's sake, but it does take a good 10 seconds or so between shots... which doesn't sound like much but is when you've got 10 enemies standing in front of you.

Oh, and sorry for the derail... (not really).

On topic. I didn't like the previous BIA games so I have no interest in this one. I do have to agree with people saying ENOUGH with the WW2 games.
Though I've been saying that for about 3 years now. No end in sight.

Fyd

04-11-2006, 12:42 AM

uff ufff another shooter, getting bored playing this games, cant finish cod2, its sucks a lot, if hl2 AI was bad, cods .... scripted...no comments...

swegamer

04-11-2006, 01:23 AM

Why are you saying it looks bad? Come one people, its next gen. It -should- be looking like Barbie World. That's what next gen graphics is all about. Everything getting a plastic coating.

Achilles

04-11-2006, 01:30 AM

http://www.bgmod.com/
Not quite the Civil War, but as close as we'll get right now (Revolutionary War). It's a mod for HL1 and HL2. Obviously it doesn't take a realistic amount of time to reload your guns, for gameplay's sake, but it does take a good 10 seconds or so between shots... which doesn't sound like much but is when you've got 10 enemies standing in front of you.A good soldier back in those days could probably do a round every 10 seconds, I wouldn't say that's particularly unrealistic. I was talking with a designer friend of mine a short while back about the viability of doing an FPS from that era, and being a total historian he actually came up with a lot of really cool game mechanics that I wouldn't have thought of dealing with the technology and small unit tactics of the time.

Sazime

04-11-2006, 02:03 AM

those links dont work (or maybe its just me)
You need to be a member to see then. Yeah, too much effort for me too.

phantomhitman

04-11-2006, 04:03 AM

still looks good enough for this ww2vg vet (vg is for video game, I would have been killed long in ww2 due to no health packs or cheat codes).

GunnyMo

04-11-2006, 06:36 AM

Oooooo another exciting flankfest! Yay! Flank and suppress. Flank and suppress. Flank and suppress. Wash, rinse and repeat.

mpsmith

04-11-2006, 06:39 AM

What sucked about this franchise was that you were so inaccurate. Even with the ironsights it was random as to whether you hit someone or not. It just got old fast... And I didnt even play the first one to completion.

Magnanimous Gnome

04-11-2006, 07:41 AM

Why do they continually disappoint me with WW2 sequels!

Because you touch yourself at night. :mad:

YoungAlCapone

04-11-2006, 10:32 AM

I'm not a huge FPS guy to begin with, but I enjoy a good one. I also think that the WWII genre is beyond spent, but really enjoyed CoD 2.

I haven't really liked Brothers in Arms from the start though. The accuracy seemed way too random and headshots just dont seem to register.

I am not really impressed with the graphics either though, everything looks really fake. I understand that everything is using better textures and great new next gen effects but everything looks just plain artificial. Like plastic or some shit.

Umm..then what does a good in game character look like because your sure as hell not playing a game with better looking ones right now.

The characters look like dolls. There are definetly better looking character models out there and have been for sometime, try Half Life 2.