Customer Reviews
Brothers in Arms- Earned in blood - By: Xbox 360 gamer, 08 Jun 2007 
Earnedin blood is most definetly the most realistic, & most enjoyable ww2 game ever created. I have played medal of honour rising sun, & frontline. I have played call of duty 3 also. They are, admittidly, both decent games, but neither comes close to Earnedin blood.
The realism is incredibe. Blood spurts from enemiesin a beleivable manner, & when you are hit, blood will spray across the screen from the direction of the shot. Mortar fire that doesn't kill you can knock you down, cue a 'ringingin the ears sound'.
The german AI is perfect.The enemy squads move to counteract your moves. They are intelligent & agressive, but not unbeatable. You will have to use a sreies of tactics to eradicate them.
You must:
Find them- carefully move into enemy terrotory, avoiding any open spaces where you are voulnerable. Then, after locating them, get you & your squads behind cover.
Fix them- The handy supression indicators, which can be turned off & on, show you how well you are supressing your enemy. If you use your self, & your squads, & put enough fire on the enemy, they will be unable to return fire.
Flank them- with your assult squad, move around the enemies postition, & movein to fnish them.
The skirmish mode is also a welcome & very fun alternative to playing the story missions. You can choose to play objective, ie- do a mission, or defence, where you have to hold out against hoardes of enemies. Splitscreen i also fantastic, boh co-op, & versus.
The weapons & weapon sounds are very Authentic, both for American nd German. The missions are detailed, & the Charctor are origianal & likeable. The main charactor, Joe Hartsock, i very interesting, with a great personality, which is unveiledin the stunning cutscenes that form an incredible story, & a PHENOMENAL game. A must buy, especially at these prices. Buy it- you will not regret it, or forget it when you eventually complete it.
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Awesome - By: Rob the brilliant, 29 May 2007 Great, great, great, fantastic, awesome, spectacular & great. All these words describe this game.
Some complain because it isn't much different from Road to Hill 30. That is RIDICULOUS. RTH30 was fantastic, how could you not want more of the same? The enemies are also significantly more mobile, making the game even more realistic & forcing you to a think through your tactics a lot more thanin the first game.
The difficulty people are having with headshots is probably up to being frustrated at missing, but sometimes enemies move just before you pull the trigger, & sometimes there may be the odd bug.
LOOK AT THE PRICE! BUY NOW!
Easily in the top 4 best games ever for xbox! - By: Mr. P. Lloyd, 19 May 2007 The first thing you have to understand about this game is that it's no fast paced shooter like halo. Realism is the order of the day - but that doesn't necessarily mean you don't feel immersed. On the contrary, this game(with the original large controller) is easily as engaging as halo.
The realism just sucks you in...from the hyper-accurate weapon sounds(made from live recordings of the original weapons) to the fact that you have to shoulder the weapon to get more accuracy. Just pointing the cross hairs on a target doesn't mean a kill with every weapon.
So much is taken into account when firing a weapon - the stopping power of the ammunition you use, whether the weapon is heavy & therefore is more prone to breathing wobble(kneeling here helps), to how rapid your rate of fire is (especially on semi-auto weapons). Even the'dispergence' of each weapon is taken into account. This is why some reviewers here are complaining about not being able to kill enemies, whenin reality it's the natural variancein accuracy of the different weapon types. Plus the fact you may be hitting them just not killing them (as is evidenced by the cries of 'I'm hit' by GI's when you play a german).
In fact, all you need to do to be adept at this game is just think how a weapon/situation would really be likein real life. Do this & you'll find the game respondsin the same way. (for example,waiting for your breathing to subside when firing the M1 garand, or only tapping out short bursts with the thompson M1 sub machine gun).
My only caveats are that you have to get hold of one of the original large controllers. They add so much to the experience & realism that even with my eyes closed & no volume, I can tell which weapon I'm firing.
Also the frame rate is noticable sometimes....which is a consequence of this game pushing the limits of the original xbox.
If you ever watched & enjoyed spielbergs 'band of brothers' series on tv, then you'll love this game.
firing blanks!!! - By: K. Osullivan, 08 Feb 2007 
I was really looking forward to tearing this disc out of its box & getting chin deepin some action for a weekend. Wifes out, Doors locked Pizza menu by my side & curtains shut.......perfect!
The sound ang Graphics imerge youin the mind of the creator when this game was being designed, you can almost smell the dank uniform you have on! Ambient sounds give you the impression your there & you do feel fear with every turn of a corner.
Then there they are...the Germans, they havent seen you...you take aim through your scope......bang! ahem!......bang! "it was a head shot & a chest shot!" Now they know where you are, you are firing & no ones getting killed.
Time to look around at your fellow soldiers & look for the one that swapped your live rounds for blanks. You can standin a good place, have a great shot, & empty 5 clips on the same guy & still he keeps bobing up & firing at you.....AND HITTING YOU! whatin gods name were they thinking when they wrote that in..."Lets make the Germans bullet proof"?
A game with so much potential & floored by this one teeny thing. If you have enjoyed the Medal of honour games......don't buy this you will be truely upset that you cannot enjoy the game, sound & graphics to it fullest.
so bad - By: Mr. R. Edwards, 08 Nov 2006 
This game is awful because
1 you are submited to hours of unnessisary cut scenes.
2 the graphics are appalling.
3 the tactics sstem is undeveloped & only slows down the pace of the game rather than adding depth.
4 no head shots- you can shoot the same guyin the head 3 times with a rifle & he still doesn't die its ridiculas.
