Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is a WWII tactical first-person shooter by Gearbox Software and Ubisoft, released in 2008 for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It is the third installment in the Brothers in Arms franchise.

After the release of this game, the series would receive a trilogy of spinoff games developed by Gameloft (the first of which was a port of Brothers in Arms DS) for mobile phones; the game's actual sequel, which was teased by this game's ending, is currently being developed.

Plot
Months after the invasion of Normandy, 101st Airborne paratrooper Sgt. Matt Baker and his men take part in Operation Market Garden alongside the British 30 Corps. However, fighting the Germans was the least of Baker's worries...

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Even more cinematic and story-driven than the previous games, with a great and dramatic storyline that does a good job in exploring the horrors of war that many soldiers go through.
 * 2) Excellent voice acting.
 * 3) Introduces a third team, which uses either a deployable machine gun or a rocket launcher.
 * 4) Has a cover system. Certain types of cover are also destructible; you can even order your team to destroy them.
 * 5) Great graphics, at least by 2008 standards.
 * 6) Plenty of collectibles and extras that can be found by interacting with recon points or Kilroy graffiti.
 * 7) Nice soundtrack that incorporates the themes from Road to Hill 30.
 * 8) Maintains the same level of historical accuracy that the first two games had.
 * 9) You now have the ability to control tanks in both single-player and multiplayer.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) PC port has a rather lackluster mod support.
 * 2) Nowhere near as challenging as the previous games.
 * 3) The skirmish mode, introduced in Earned in Blood, is absent, making the game less replayable.
 * 4) Multiplayer is dead as of 2018, aside from a few private servers in the console ports that are barely populated.
 * 5) Weak AI that sometimes suffers from glitches.

Reception
As with the first two games, Hell ' s Highway has received positive reception from players and critics; however, of the three games, this one was the lowest-rated; the PC port has a Metascore of 79/100, while the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions have 76/100.