With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).
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Very Positive (151 reviews) - 88% of the 151 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 4 Oct, 2005

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Includes 3 items: Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway™, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30™

 

About This Game

With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).
Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood adds new features and game modes and builds upon the elements that made Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 a runaway success.
Featuring a new single player narrative, new multiplayer missions, an all-new cooperative style game mode, and new weapons and vehicles.
  • Next volume of Brothers In Arms - The award-winning WWII shooter returns with more of the action, story, and authenticity that has critics and fans raving.
  • New single-player narrative takes you beyond Hill 30 - Play as Sergeant Joe Hartsock and lead your squad beyond Carentan. It will be up to you and your squad to defeat the last enemy bastions and bring freedom to Normandy.
  • New cooperative Multiplayer mode - Take on the enemy with a friend by your side. Work together and utilize each other's squads or face certain death.
  • Unrivaled authenticity — Fight actual Airborne Infantry battles of D-Day accurately recreated under the direction of author, historian and Airborne Ranger Col. John Antal, using thousands of official photos, maps, After-Action Reports and eyewitness accounts.
  • New multiplayer missions - Taking online tactics to new heights, Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood offers more unique multiplayer missions.
  • Skirmish mode - Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood features an all-new Skirmish mode that allows players to take a tour of duty through a series of authentic and increasingly difficult custom combat missions.
  • New weapons and vehicles - Arm yourself with new weapons like the M3 grease gun, and command new vehicles like the M10 "Wolverine" Tank Destroyer.
  • More challenging and dynamic combat - Featuring close-quarter urban environments and a new, next-generation artificial intelligence system, Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood promises to take authentic military action to the next level.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 2000/XP (ONLY)
    • Processor: 1 GHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon (2.5 GHz Pentium IV or AMD recommended)
    • Memory: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)
    • Graphics: 32 MB Direct X 9.0c compliant (64 MB recommended)*
    • DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included)
    • Hard Drive: 3.5 GB hard drive space
    • Sound Card:16 bit DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card (EAX recommended; PC audio solutions containing Dolby Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)
    • Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 kbps upstream (128 kbps recommended)
    *Supported video cards at time of release: ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X series NVIDIA GeForce 4/FX/6 series (GeForce 4 MX not supported)
    These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Laptop models of these cards not supported.
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Overall:
Very Positive (151 reviews)
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Ghost22
( 5.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 5 July
This game is one of the best tactical WW2 shooting game, very challenging and difficult, wherein charging directly at the enemy will be the end of you. You have to think and come up with a tactic in order to eliminate the enemy, you can order your team to suppress the enemy while you flank. And you don't have health regeneration so good luck. Very intense and engaging, I like it very much. :)
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Daddy Long Dick
( 9.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 3 July
Very good game
Would gibe succ to devs
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NinjaBrian
( 1.5 hrs on record )
Posted: 2 July
I feel like a stormtrooper
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Pariclas
( 10.6 hrs on record )
Posted: 30 June
Classic
IMO the best BIA game made. Graphics are still pretty good and so are the sound effects.
The SP game is excellent, but can get a bit repetitve.

Buy it to the play co-op missions with your friends!

8.5/10
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The Meme Machine
( 4.9 hrs on record )
Posted: 25 June
I really don't understand why this game has such fantastic reviews. Even compared to the FPS games of its time it's terrible.
The gunplay is basically nonexistant. The aiming is terrible, the iron sights look like the designer smudged them by accident, and it feels as if 2 out of every 3 shots is a blank. You can supress enemies pretty easily though, since you don't actually have to hit them to do so. The only gun I enjoyed using was the scoped rifle, because every shot went where you aimed, and every shot seemed to actually do something when it hit its target.
This makes you think your job is to sit back and supress your enemies while you let your assault team deal with them up close. You cannot do that, because your assault team is guaranteed to run up to the enemy, miss all their shots, and then get immediately killed. The friendly AI cannot do anything besides distract enemies and keep them indefinitely suppressed.
The enemy AI on the other hand is wildly varied in its ability. If you are more than 10 metres away from them, they either don't shoot at you, or miss all their shots. If you get anywhere close to them, they will pop out of cover, and either continue to miss all their shots, or remove basically all of your health, which I will get to later. The best part is when you are sitting in cover, and a panzerfaust or mortar flies over your cover, puts you down to red health, and knocks you to the ground for an incredibly long amount of time. The only way to actually kill anything is to throw your useless bots off in one direction, turn all the enemies, and then fire wildly into their side with whatever automatic weapon you have.
Now we can talk about the health system. It's an old fashioned no-recharge health system, which is totally fine. The problem is that their is absolutely no way to heal. Unlike almost every other game in existence, there are no medkits or healing items at all. You get hit by one of those mortars or panzerfaust halfway through the level? Enjoy trying to finish the rest of the level without taking a single hit. Same goes for your bots. They get obliterated by a grenade early on? Enjoy trying to finish the level alone. Luckily, if you die enough times in a row, you can choose to restart from the checkpoint, which is likely 15 minutes back, and heal yourself and all your men.
This game does not deserve the reviews it gets. It's not a good realistic war game. It's not a good arcade war game. It's not a good game. The story is pretty good, if not let down a little by the weak facial animations and ocassionally odd voice acting, which isn't out of place for the time that this game came out. My verdict?
If you want a fun WWII Singleplayer experience. Play Medal of Honour.
In you want a good WWII story about US troops. Watch Band of Brothers.
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EURO|Jimmy/{BA}Jimmy Markou
( 3.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 May
incredible game one of the best games of WW2
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j0ny_brav0
( 12.9 hrs on record )
Pre-Release Review
Posted: 16 May
A Good Game.
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Saint Aaron
( 10.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 1 May
A great tactical FPS with a variety in content and quite challenging too. A great sequel from brothers in arms road to hill.

Pros:
Great game.
Good story line.
Tactical shooter (Control your men and flank if possible)
Great details/Atmosphere
Multiplayer/ ONLINE/LAN!!
Gameplay great
skirmish

Cons:
Graphical bugs.
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Deutscher-Kommissar
( 1.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 April
Nice game very detailed would certainly recommend to people,very fun game so far!
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Axelrad
( 7.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 29 April
Another great tactical WW2 FPS. Earned in Blood plays it slightly safe by retreading the events of D-Day, but shows them from a different perpsective with a slightly different cast, and also extends the actions a bit further past the first game. Other than that, it's the same great tactical combat.
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Most Helpful Reviews  Overall
32 of 33 people (97%) found this review helpful
Recommended
6.1 hrs on record
Posted: 25 February, 2014
After having played trough Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood I can say: These (3) games have a solid way of telling you what happened with the 101st Airborne squad. This game shows you the scenario's from Road to Hill 30 trough the eyes of Joe "Red" Hartsock. The game play is absolutely amazing and the immersion is phenomenal.

The enemies and the objectives in Earned in Blood are slightly better and harder, I really recommend playing this game on "normal" or harder difficulty to really get the developer intended experience especially the tactical game play.

If you have the time you should definitely play the games from the Brothers in Arms franchise. (9/10)

PS: For people with field of view problems this is adjustable in the "user.ini" file located in the game directory.
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31 of 33 people (94%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
Recommended
0.3 hrs on record
Posted: 27 November, 2015
I finished this game 6 years ago on DVD version but i only paid for it on steam to be able to post a review because this game worths it.

Gameplay Review = check my road to hill 30 review (both have same gameplay)

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Arashenstein/recommended/15190/

Story Review (No spoiler):

first of all brothers in arms is something like metal gear solid and you should play them in order to understand the story otherwise you understand NOTHING at all about the game. watching on youtube + reading on wiki and things like that wont help you have to play it yourself to find out what is going on. the order is:

1. Road to hill 30
2. Earned in blood
3. Hell's highway

there is no spoiler for you here but you need to know one thing about the story, brothers in arms starts like a normal world war II story, you play as a man called Matthew Baker the squad leader of 13 soldiers, 13 fathers, 13 sons, 13 families.... 13 is not a lucky number! in Road to hill 30 you start the game some where near france after parachuting from your shut down airplane and then after a few missions 2 of your squad members die mysteriously and then story focuses on this question "how they died?", there is another member in your team called Joseph Hartsock, the squad leader of the 2nd squad in road to hill 30, in the first BiA you do not see this squad you only hear about them and see them in cutscenes but there are in no missions. in fact they are in same mission area as you are but they are operating in differnet part of the map which you only hear about in cutscenes of road to hill 30.

In Earned in blood you play as Joseph Hartsock the second squad leader and you play almost all missions from Road to hill 30 but in the eyes of Joseph Hartsock, he tells you a secret story of what really happened back in road to hill 30 however the question about how your two squad members died back in Road to hill 30 still remains unanswered. this question will be answered in Hell's Highway, and prepare some tissues because that game will make you cry and makes you extremely emotional.
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29 of 31 people (94%) found this review helpful
3 people found this review funny
Recommended
3.4 hrs on record
Pre-Release Review
Posted: 3 October, 2014
Just like the first game in the series. More levels and another side of the D-Day story. Great game just like the first. I wish they would make an HD remake of this game.
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31 of 36 people (86%) found this review helpful
Recommended
1.8 hrs on record
Posted: 10 December, 2013
An amazing WW2 shooter, combines some rts element, ( sort of ) and the graphics par with the "middle ages" of pc gaming. i recomend it.
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22 of 23 people (96%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
541.1 hrs on record
Posted: 13 October, 2014
Hey not sure how many people out there at all play BiA anymore but it's still a huge icon that I'm in favor of. I reccommend this game!
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16 of 16 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
6.7 hrs on record
Posted: 11 November, 2014
Great game. If you haven't played the first one then pick that one up first. This is a continuation of the story from the first one. I had originally picked this one up on disk and played it a ton. Even knowing all the fights it still took me over 6 hours to complete and I literally ran though it. Thie first one took me over 9 hours running at the same pace. This series really stands out from the rest for presentation and story. It just makes me sad that they don't make games like this anymore.
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11 of 12 people (92%) found this review helpful
Recommended
7.6 hrs on record
Posted: 2 September, 2015
Earned in Blood, just like the other two Brothers in Arms games, has an amazing story.

The three games combined are simply the greatest WWII games out there. Call of Duty 2, of course, was amazing for the African campaign. But Gearbox hold the title for recreating very important battles in the Normandy region in France. I mean, if you've played the games, then maybe you've seen the extras where pictures show how much detail they put into recreating the villages in Northern France. It's very remarkable.

The story, you play as Joe Hartstock, Red, in this one. Maybe you remembered him in Road to Hill 30. Well, this game takes place alongside Road to Hill 30 as Joe is recounting his actions to SLAMarshall, a war documentarian, recording the actions of combat troops for the military. Throughout the story, Joe sees his friends get injured, change their attitude during the war, and some of them unfortunately die. But that's war.

The audio design is unreal. My dad walked by when I was playing and noted how realistic the sounds were for the rifles and panzers. The soundtrack, too, is amazing. Basically, I'm biased as hell as I already love WWII anything, but the strong character development, friendship, and tactical elements make the Brothers in Arms games some of my favorites.

9.0/10
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9 of 9 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
5.3 hrs on record
Posted: 17 January
Same as the first game, a very fun tactical WW2 shooter.
Cant think of other fps that made me to actually care about the men under my command.
Get the first one first though since they are both connected and you will understand the story better.
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9 of 9 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
18.9 hrs on record
Posted: 7 March, 2011
Earned in Blood can be treated as a direct expansion to Road to Hill 30. Using the same type of elements, EiB continuous the unique tactical-FPS that the Brothers in Arms series offers. EiB offers greater diversity in environments and has limited expansions in squad commands. If you own and enjoyed Road to Hill 30 then Earned in Blood is a must.
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8 of 8 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
6.9 hrs on record
Posted: 26 January, 2014
Broters in Arms: Earned in Blood is Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 with a different story. Nothing has been added or improved mechanic-wise, but at least nothing has been taken out or made worse. It's a nice little expansion pack, but for a sequel, it's hardly recommendable. But you will still like it if you liked Road to Hill 30, and haven't been burned out on it. It's also 2014, so price is cheap anyway.
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