The graphics in other World War 2 games has been very clear and sharp, and I must say that those graphics doesn't fit the war genre that well. Brothers in Arms (BiA) has some dirt and grain to the whole look, and it lookes much more realistic than other war games out there. The animations are also very good, and especially the character models are very good, they really look great. There is only one minor flaw in the graphics, and that's the lip-sync on your brothers in arms. It just doesn't look convinsing when someone is talking. But hey, everything else about the graphics are great, so you won't even bother noticing.
The sounds in BiA is awesome. The fact that the patriotic music is only in the menu and not while you play is pretty saticfying. There is no music playing in the background while playing Brothers in Arms. This may come as a surprice for big fans of games like Call of Duty where the music creates a very unike fealing. But without the music the thing becomes much more realistic, and you'll just sit there listening after suspicious sounds and so on, and it works very well. The voice-overs are allright. They sometimes suffers for bad acting and so on, but in overall it's good. The sound effects on the other hand is brilliant. They sound is very much alive, and together with shouting soldiers and grenade explosions the whole experience becomes very sharp and realistic.
BiA features a fantastic gameplay unlike anything else. The whole game kind of builds around the fact that they are brothers in arms. So if a man goes down, it's kind of sad, and you can hear you character (Sgt.Baker) getting frustrated and so on later in the game. This is actually one of the few things that the game doesn't do that well. It kind of gets a bit weird when we're supposed to get sad because an AI guy "dies", but it works just okay really, it's not a minus or anything. The gameplay in BiA is, like said before, fantastic. It's very realistic and the fact that your controlling up to two teams around on the battlefield works brilliantly. Your dead without them, and you're the one who's got to keep them alive by giving them the correct commands. The commands are very easy to understand, but pretty hard to manage 100 percent. You have to surpress the enemy, and flank them. And I can asure you that this gets pretty tough on the later missions. You also have the Situational Awareness View which allows you to look over the battlefield from a strategic view (like bird perspective). This allows you to see where the enemies are, and where you are of course. This helps you to think about the situation and makes it easier to know where to make your teams go and so on. Another thing that I love about this game is that it's almost 100% autentic to how the real thing was. The environments, weapons, tactics, and missions has been studied by Gearsoft to look as autentic as possible, and this comes as a big pluss. There are so many things about the game that I like. I can't mention them all, so I'll just say that this game is brilliant and I can recommend every World War or FPS fan to try it out.
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The game is very much like how it was on Normandy on D-day and the following days. The graphics are great. The sounds are very realistic. The Situational Awareness View is brilliant. The tactics are very easy, though very hard to manage 100%. The difficulty level of the game is high. You learn a lot about the D-day and World War 2, believe me.
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