One of the things that stuck with me was how your squadmates reacted when you died. They would shout and scream your name with genuine shock and desperation in their voices - all while the firefight countinues and the rain pours down. And I died alot lol

i wish they would make another brothers in arms. the gameplay was so crisp and realistic. I felt like I was in the movie Saving Private Ryan at some moments.

Hells highway actually stuck with me how realistic The damage inflicted on enemies is like when you use high caliber rifles from up close their limbs will fly off

Brothers in Arms is the only World War 2 shooter that understood that the "meta" of gunfights and tactics in the Second World de-emphasized precision and individual heroism. Rather, the "meta" of World War 2 was very much the need to apply overwhelming heavy firepower on area targets and follow up with mass assaults by large combined-arms formations. Not 3 or 4 guys. If you sent less than a Company to capture an objective, you weren't doing it right. It's not that individual achievement or precision was impossible before digital technology-but these things were not the norm-they were the exception. Only Brothers in Arms managed a "mode" or a configuration of gameplay that illustrated these concepts-and that's unfortunately probably why it's been forgotten. Because its shooter mechanics totally downplay individual empowerment and underline the *scale* of fighting in the biggest armed conflict in history.

Leggetts death is the most memorable thing ive ever seen in a video game

"Remember boys. Gimme three days and three nights of hard fightin, and you will be relieved!"

I remember a mission in this game where you had to take out the German mortar team. It was so hard lol. Still get flashbacks all these years later. I do think it was on highest difficulty though.

I really liked this game a lot, I’m surprised there was nothing else like it made. Hell let loose let’s me relive some of these awesome flanking moments!

YES! The beauty of using your squad to suppress the enemy while you took your assault element along the flanks. The 30 cal. keeping their heads down while it slowly chews up their cover. And then to finish the foe off you spring on them with the assault team they panic only to be cut down by the mg team when they break cover. It is so beautiful, the sound design is the greatest I've ever experienced.

When it comes to shooter games, I never quite enjoy the 'superhero' trope. The thing I love the most, is when you feel like you are just another soldier in a bigger war. You're not trying to win the war, you are trying to survive it. Older Call of Duty games still gave that feeling sometimes. I remember and I don't know if it was COD 1 or COD 2, there was a section in I think Stalingrad, where you started a certain section with 1 or 2 friendly soldiers and had to go through quite a few streets to get to the next bigger battle. The section was a few minutes long, probably not even lasting 5 minutes. But the friendly soldiers if they died, they were gone and you were on your own. I always loved trying to keep the alive, not by leaving them behind and clearing the level on my own, but by genuinely pretending to be working together with them. They weren't special soldiers, just carrying auto-generated names. But it felt like we were in this mess together. Brother in arms truly did it better than any other game. I've been wishin for a part 4 for a long time. Though I'm not so sure if newer generation has the patience for games like Brothers in Arms anymore. Or they just want over the top action.

Hidden and Dangerous 2 is also great memorable experience that I would recommend everybody

I love how like its not confirmed to be paranormal, you could just be losing your shit, and your squad by chance dies from holding the pistol, but it also could be cursed inlore, it makes it feel more real because it genuinely makes you wonder if its a cursed handgun or not.

Terry nailed it on this review. Brothers In Arms is the WWII video game standard that I didn't know I had when assessing other WWII games.

Dude I fucking hated when one of my men got killed. I would restart the mission. We all going home

Fan Fact. In road to Hill 30 when you give orders to Fire Team Matthew commands Allen once and then Garnett, and back and forth!

The 3rd person animations in this game are some of the best I've ever seen. The K98 is butter smooth.

Hell's Highway is one of the best games I rented from Blockbuster

so many good memories coming home after middle school and firing those bad boys up. I would love to see another entry in the series.

Played all of these on PS2/3 hundreds of times, these are my childhood. I have all 3 of them now on steam and still play them once or twice a year. I wish they would have continued this series.

Man I need more people to know about this BiA......in all of WW2 games I played this game really carved its place from my childhood...... Even replaying this to this day I still never get bored playing this

09:35 FYI each mission was based on real 101st airborne engagements, with the game developers using aerial reconnaissance photos, after-action reports, and location scouting in France to recreate historical operations down to the last detail. Every mission in the game was based on real life including the geography, which was a big selling point of the game upon release. Surprised you missed this major detail.

Hells Highway was a great cover based shooter. Good story, great gameplay. The sanetorium level was very chilling if im remembering the game correctly. Was shattered when they announced the 4th game.

This remains the series that I most want to see get a remake / remaster / sequel

We need a studio to bring this series back with a new group of brothers

I had the pleasure to work on a project that payed homage to this game. The mood that the soundtrack and the careful attention to detail creates around this IP is just wonderful. Best WW2 game series hands down.

God i miss this series. Thank you for giving it some love

One thing Terry, you kept referring to Baker company. Understandable with Matt's name but they were part of 502nd's Fox company in the first two games and the 101st's Recon platoon in Hell's Highway :)

This game series felt like an episode of band of brothers every time. Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood were absolutely chaotic, nailing the atmosphere of a firefight. The sheer amount of volume produced from bullets being exchanged in a skirmish was incredible. Glad I grew up with it.

100% agree with you Terry, the best modern ww2 series of its time! Story, tactics, atmosphere had it all.

Thanks for making this video, seems like these game have been erased from memory and completely forgotten but for me it was one of the most unique experiences I've ever had with a shooter and something that really left a mark. I'm still waiting the sequel to this great story

Band of Brothers just hits different....

I miss this series. I miss the multiplayer community I was part of with Hell’s Highway. Played Hell’s Highway multiplayer for a solid 2 years and then everyone just disappeared, which sucks. A very unique game series but I understand why Ubisoft didn’t continue this series. In the age of live service and cash grabbing, the final game couldn’t be possible. These games were meticulously made with passion and historical research. You really don’t see this level of dedication anymore in AAA gaming.

thank you for making this video.. i played all of these when they first came out and loved them..still have the discs to this day.. but then over time i forgot about them.. then after watching this, i remembered every part, aspect, and line from them and how important they were and how they made me feel.. i started yelling the lines when they came on screen in your video.. i felt like i missed these characters and stories..

These were the best years to work at gearbox all the historic extras and seeing the development team being able to actually go to these location in france also troy baker did a good job voicing baker

I always loved how at the beginning of RTH30 when Mac and Baker link up, they hear a noise of someone running behind a hedgerow, and we find out in EIB that it was Red and Doyle

I remember watching the "Inglorious Brothers In Arms" and just thinking WTAF! Very sad. I think Handy Pitchfork must have gone off the rails and lost the plot. The only thing remotely close to BIA was Hidden and Dangerous 2. However, Brothers In Arms is the benchmark for realistic World War 2 combat gameplay. (edit:typo)

I will say that Call of Duty 2: Big Red One did a similar good job of making you feel as part of the World War 2. You start out as nothing more than a private but part of a squad of what feel like real people. Only your squad leader is the one set up to die/no longer be around due to the prologue being in the "future" when you are now the squad leader. The deaths of the others feel impactful and not really seen coming, and as replacements come in you don't really care to know the new guys. Yeah, it still plays like a Call of Duty, but the writing was pretty good for the time and I think it overall holds up even now.

I remember playing this game when i was in middle school it was so much fun and it was a great introduction to the PS3 with amazing visuals.I did not know what quality game i played till i watched this video. Thank you so much for unlocking some of my core memories man.

Terry this is one of the best vids I've seen in a while. Thanks for putting this together. I enjoyed watching it.

Hells Highway slowmow killcam was so epic to me at the time

You never even mentioned the situational awareness mode! It is a huge and unique part of the series.

This is always been one of my personal favorites, mainly due to the fact that you can control your squads always love the game so much never understood why it didn’t catch on more. They need to bring it back.

Hell's Highway was an incredible game, and the Multiplayer was the only experience that peeled me away from Gears & CoD for a good while. Was a bit laggy here and there but when it was behaving it felt super rewarding to do well.

I have to agree i loved this game so much played it over and over such a shame we didnt get another one of these

ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME WITH A TRUE EMPHASIS ON FIRE AND MOVEMENT. I don't know if Hell Let Looses suppression is broken or intentionally nerfed but in recent videos I watched the suppression in HLL no longer makes enemy aim inaccurate. Nor does it produce blur or screenshake half the time if the bullets land in the dirt next to you or on walls/surfaces next to you. They really need to fix that because having a fire element to suppress and an assault element to move is the most fundamental thing a squad based ww2 shooter or any shooter needs. But especially a tactical shooter like HLL. EDIT - AND WTF WAS THAT BROTHERS IN ARMS 4 BS.

I absolutely loved this game,planning your mission taking your time,there hasn’t been any other game that has come close to it.

Man this game just randomly popped in my head 2 days ago and I thought I was the only one who remembered it and here you are in my KZfaq

The memory that sticks with me was the first time i threw a grenade and heard the awesome 'crack' as it exploded, i remember me and my mate looking at each other in awe 😂

I had forgotten about how much I loved this series.. made me reinstall it, I like that you didnt mention the curse of the pistol, I always found that a bit weird

Was in a mohaa clan in my teens. I'm actually a PC player at heart but don't tell anyone that Haha. I played the first brothers in arms but that was it. Great game. Thanks for reminding me what happened and showing the stuff after Terry. Loved the Team America gif, actually lolled.

I'm happy to see that this wonderful series is not yet forgotten!

Highly underrated game series! Good memories with my uncle playing this back in the day

This is one of myball time favorite games. Thank you for giving it the recognition it deserves

I always loved this series as a kid. To me it felt like a playable band of brothers and especially a child I loved it so much. I met to find them all again and replay.

An up-to-date version of brothers in Arms would be awesome 👌

As a former infantryman I've always enjoyed this series for it's accurate battle tactics. It kind of falls apart somewhat as you exist between the two fireteams, floating around trying to direct them. But that's only when the game sets up multiple bounds and expects you to move through them linearly. In reality fireteams each have a commander with a brain (hopefully).

Fun fact: in the ps2 version of Road to Hill 30, in the final scene where everyone rans trying to prepare to the german counterattack, you can hear Baker say that on september 17th they dropped on a little town called Arnhem, thus hinting the fact that a game about operation Market Garden would have been made

Hell's highway still looks great today. And plays as great too.

I bought it fot $5 in a marketplace, its a great game, and the story is god, baler having schizoid like mental health problems is something that you dont see often in a war story

I've been waiting for a Brothers in Arms sequel or at least a remastered version of the 1st and 2nd game; the last game was released 16 years ago...

Great video - keep doing content like this.

Such a great game. I remember just how epic it got when you were pinned down.

I have fond memories of Road to Hill 30. It was refreshing to play after the surge of OG ww2 CoD games. The squad mechanics were great and it felt very realistic.

See now you got me ready to break out my PS2 and play again!!!👍👍👍😁😁😁

I remember that people complained about the first game because of the fact they added real gun sway while aiming down sights that would depend on if you just stopped running or in a crouched position. The action in the game isn't over-top like everything else and was more about the story and characters. And you had to think when it came to controlling your squad in combat.

Liked the whole series but I got my start on the Xbox version of Road to Hill 30. I still have my sealed Matthew Baker figurine from the Hells Highway limited edition, back when pre purchasing actually got you something tangible.

Brothers in Arms was in fact inspired by Band of Brothers. I love that about the game series and was debating revisiting the games hoping they still hold up.

I remembered playing most of this game titles in ps2 as a kid back in the day and i loved it ,spend hours and replaying the game because i love it so much . 😊

I remember as a kid playing road to hill 30th demo. And the language barrier, smol kid bren and difficulty really humbled me hard. Since i guess i developed a love for tactics and slow pace gameplay

I remember when i was 15 at release day after school me and ny friends rushed to the store to buy it. I really hyped this game as it was such a good game for ww2 lover especially with the airborne

Solid Brothers review. Cheers. (btw...'Tom and Jerry' in the church tower. Both the Garand and Bazooka are included with the Springfield).

I always enjoyed this series a lot. Especially Earned in Blood on Xbox back in the day. I really love the hybrid FPS and TPS style those games had. It's really awesome. Rainbow Six Vegas, Quantum of Solace and Hell's Highway had awesome system.

I only really played earned in blood, but Red is my favourite character. I loved commanding every single one of my squad members. Even kinda liked Doyle, despite having to save him and the 82nd numerous times. I permanently lost a squad member in my earlier play throughs and really felt bad about it.

Fun fact: Road to Hill 30 was so historic accurate you can follow up the events of the game from Utah Exit 4 all the way to Hill 30 in real life Normandy. The section of the game Vierville-Dead's Man Corner-St Come du Mont is the most accurate since the locations hardly changed today. In reality you can see a change on the scenario after St Come du Mont. The tower of the city's church was hit by naval artillery fire after the liberation of the city, in Purple Heart Lane if you search the horizon you will see the silhouette of the church tower destroyed. It's in the opposite end of the highway leading to Carentan if i not mistaken.

This was a Banger of a series!

I distinctly remember the bonus missions where you played as the germans.

I always wanted a sequel where you commanded a platoon. I mean, squads don't really operate independently haha, ya know? It made sense immediately after the Normandy airdrop before everyone regroups but after that, it's silly. I don't think they're sending single squad or two out to accomplish missions. Just not capable enough. And it'd be SO cool to command 6-8 (depending on size they did if 4 or 8 or 10 men) of an entire platoon

I loved Hells highway, I remember looking thru the net to see if there was a button code you could push to mount that sexy 17 inch bayonet you carry on your pack the whole game, was such a tease lol but no melee so ig.

Really great job summarizing this entire series and highlighting all the things that separated it from the glut of all the other WW2 FPS games. Really wish this series would get rebooted. I'd even be happy if they did the exact same things with other eras, ie Vietnam or Afghanistan/Iraq. Just please don't do what they were planning to do with the over the top 4th entry that never got released.

Totally loved this series, been waiting to long for another game😔

This game was ahead of its time especially Hells Highway. Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising was also a game that I felt was ahead of its time following loosely to gameplay like this

Howdy Terrydactyl! Looks like KZfaq wanted Brothers in Arms to come back into the zeitgeist, both our videos resonated with so many people! Wishing you all the best, and hope all is well! Great video!!

i dont remember anything about MOH and COD games apart from the first dday mission in one of them, but i remember the characters , story, missions, and can still remember the voices. Thats how much more it felt like a real world. Fantastic game

Completely forgot about this game... Wow. I played it a lot and absolutely loved it.

There was also a version available for the psp too, mainly a mixture of missions from the first two games ( but I could be mistaken about that last bit ).

I remember playing Brothers in arms: Road to Hill 30 multiplayer back then with friends and it was really interesting gameplay because it was the same as in the single player campaings that you lead the small team etc.

Brothers in Arms and Brothers in Arms 2 are definitely the standard for ww2 infantry combat sims. Played it so much as a kid

7:50 medal of honor tunes under a brotgers in arms video .. nice lol

I didn't understand BIA when I got the first game in 2005, but after coming back to it a bit later, I was enthralled. I must have played each game at least 3-4 times over. Randy Pitchford really went off the rails doing that to BIA 4... And it's such a bummer they don't work on modern operating systems.

I’ve been on this boat since like 2010 or whenever it came out and my dad got it for Christmas we played it 50 times probably and it’s just a masterpiece

This series is easily the best WW2 game series of all time. A few other games would be cool for you to check out. First: Medal Of Honor: Airborne. Which is, I think, probably the best entry into the series. Second: Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Which is just an overall fantastic experience.

The multiplayer for this was actually pretty fun, as i recall. There was mission oriented gameplay. One that sticks out is one side having to destroy either AAA guns or Artillery positions and the other side defending it on a time limit. You would set the explosives and then have to protect the area long enough for them to go off. The back and forth gameplay with each person controlling a squad of ai was pretty ahead of its time, to be honest. I think something like this could work really well today if done right.

Hell's Highway is still very fun to play today, and aged really good

Agreed, would love to see another of these games.

I'd love to see a remastering of it, basically updating the details This was an iconic game series

Hello highway was the first war game I've played, my mind was blown on my first enemy Kia, I threw a grenade and everything was in slow motion and the guys leg blew off, it was dope, still fond of that memory I wish I could get the same feeling like the first time again

I replay this once a year it’s an absolute treasure.

Hells highway was my first experience with the series as a kid and a ww2 buff, I loved it. To me it was a perfect experience, even if it was a little imperfect gameplay wise. I wish they’d finish the series with a bigger budget, because the writing is top notch.

I bought the game in Steam all 3 series and I am back on nostalgic and loving it!

The closest thing is the Full Spectrum Warrior series which is also dead. This genre of game is one of my favorites and I'd love for them to make a comeback