
And I’m glad I did: Brothers in Arms presents a compelling take on World War Two that I don’t think could be achieved in any other medium.Ī case-in-point: there is a sequence in Band of Brothers where our hero, Winters, is asked to destroy a fortified gun station on D-day. My patience was wearing thin, however, I knew several people who swore by the series, so I stuck with it. But I’d rather watch the real thing than play an imitator. The cutscenes – in the beginning, interminably long – have perfected that Band of Brothers tone and feel, and even the musical theme appears to share the same first few intervals. The first ten minutes of Hell’s Highway had me seriously tossing up asking its creators if they shouldn’t just have just applied to work on The Pacificinstead.

There are few games that have struck me as wanting to be a film as Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway.
