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Upon the completion of the final installation in Gearbox Software’s acclaimed trilogy, I have quite a lot to say. Not a lot of it is good. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway was released on PC on October 8th, 2008, and takes the protagonists of the previous games (who for review purposes I will now name) Matt Baker and Joseph ‘Red’ Hartsock directly into Operation Market Garden, the ambitious offensive planned by the…
This review follows my review of Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, which you can view on my profile. It also accompanies my review of Max Hastings’ Overlord, coming very soon on Goodreads and my Review site. Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood is everything a sequel should be and more. Despite this it still presents some disappointments in key areas. While it still learns quite a lot of lessons from its predecessor,…
This review, and the review of it’s sequel, Earned in Blood , are written in lieu of finishing Max Hastings’ Historical Piece Overlord , which gave me advanced insights on top of my existing knowledge regarding the combat during the Battle for Normandy. The first Brothers in Arms title, Road to Hill 30 , I finished earlier, in early January, and I timed my playtime of Earned in Blood to coincide with finishing…
