X-Box - Fight Night 2 and Brothers in Arms

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 7, 2005, 1:31 pm

I grabbed both of these games over the weekend and both are worthwhile.

If you liked Fight Night, you'll enjoy FN2. Haymakers and cut men are the main additions along with the wobble camera when a boxer is about to go down.

Cut men allow you to move around your fighter's face fixing swells and cuts in between rounds. The effects of cuts and swelling are real time and you can see it during the fight.

The graphics are improved and the instand replay, super slow mo's right after a knockdown are nice.

I played Muhammad Ali and lost to a featherweight so I suck. (In Fight Night I could work those featherweights with Ali!)

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Brothers in Arms

Yet another WWII game...but it's the best one yet and that's saying something with all of the WWII games that have come out recently.

Brothers in Arms follows your character in the 101st during the Normandy Invasion. The game uses squad tactics which are very easy to learn and use. It's a first person shooter with the ability to go into battle view mode which allows you to observe the battle field and plan maneuvers in order to flank your enemy etc.

I know with all the WWII games out, this one probably doesn't seem too interesting but it's the best...if you're going to get one, this is the one to get.

The game starts you out slowly and adds one soldier to your squad to let you familiarize yourself with giving your squad commands. The tactics part of this game is outstanding as you can direct your squad to lay suppressing fire on the enemy while you flank them.

The commands are given via left trigger which pulls up a ring of commands. Battle os pretty straight forward with weapons in two modes...fast moving and slow moving sniper or site mode for more accurate shooting. You can also take control of various fixed weapons like machine guns.

The graphics, sound and story are the best yet in any game. I read up on the making of the game and they had an 80 piece orchestra do the score. The voice acting goes very well with all of the actual weapons that were fired, bushes rustled, etc to get all the sound effects for the game which come from the correct direction as you spin around.

Your character isn't a superhero. It only takes a few hits to bring you down which then requires you to start at the last saved spot.

I've done fairly well so far. I've lost the guy assigned to my squad a few times but that's because I used him to charge the position as a distraction while I ran around and took out the enemy. Victory at any cost!

The story is M17 or whatever so there's plenty of cursing, people throwing up and blood etc.

It's worth a look.

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » March 7, 2005, 7:48 pm

I think you mean "Brothers in Arms" right? I've been calling it Band of Brothers too.

It looks really freakin cool and I need my WWII fix until DoD:S is released!

noel · Post by **noel** » March 7, 2005, 8:07 pm

As soon as it's available on PC, I'm grabbing it. I hear really good things about Brothers in Arms.

Erolz NTurnet · Post by **Erolz NTurnet** » March 7, 2005, 8:18 pm

Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to pick this up too. Multi-player action!!!

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noel · Post by **noel** » March 7, 2005, 8:23 pm

Lol.

This just in: The next big thing will be co-op FPS games.

That is all.

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Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 7, 2005, 8:37 pm

Erolz NTurnet wrote:I think you mean "Brothers in Arms" right? I've been calling it Band of Brothers too.

It looks really freakin cool and I need my WWII fix until DoD:S is released!

Oops, yep, Brothers in Arms. I'll correct that : )

This one : )

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platfor ... hersinarms