A game that I randomly bought second hand at a garage sale has stunned me in the amount of quality in this game. BIA: Hell's Highway is a brillaint and yet challenging game as it tells the story of the 101st Airbourne, specifically the tale of Sgt. Baker, leading of I company.
Despite being 3 years old, the game's graphics are decent, especially for today's times, the storyline very enthralling. While the vocal work could have been done a little better, the gameplay follows this up, especially with the realism in it. A headshot, or even just 3-5 simple shots anywhere and you are dead. While this can be difficult and frustrating, the game has many save points, so that if you do die, you only go back a few steps. What also makes this such a challenge is that you, the leader of a company, has to control and lead specific parts of the squad. Starting out with one at the start, and ending up with three nearing the end of the game. In the mist of battle, you must keep the enemy suppressed, make sure you are behind strong cover (As wood and hay will eventually break away) and also make sure your men are safe behind cover, in the right places and are not too far out of ear shot to recieve orders. And you also have targets to take down. 88's, sniping teams, rescue missions, each becoming a challenge of speech, accuracy and wit very quickly.
This brings to the bad points.
While the game does have multiplayer, I was lucky enough to find at least one game every few days for a week that I tested this game. While the gameplay was interesting and the multiplayer sides were strong enough to support an Australian to a Mexican gamer, the game seemed to lack slightly. Graphics turned to a mush of colours blended together and the audio became scratchy and hurtful.
Other than this, the game brings realism to the genre of FPS and has a captivating gameplay. For an older game that many people would avoid for more recent titles, I would seriously offer this game to be played by any gamer, experienced or not.
Out of 10, I gave BIA: Hell's Highway an 7.5/10
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