![]() While the game play is basically the same it is over new territory and with new and unique missions that are both fun and challenging. Road To Hill 30 was definitely a great game and well worth the cost, Earned In Blood is no different. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. NVIDIAÃ?® GeForce(TM) 4/FX/6 series (GeForce 4 MX not supported) *Supported Video Cards at Time of Release Multiplayer: 56 Kbps connection (broadband with 64 Kbps upstream recommended) Peripherals: Windows-compatible mouse and keyboard Sound Card: DirectX 8.0 compliant (EAX recommended PC audio solution containing DolbyÃ?® Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)ĭirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included on disc) Video Card: 32 MB DirectXÃ?® 8.0 compliant (64 MB recommended) (see supported list*) Processor: 1.0 GHz PentiumÃ?® III or AMD Athlon(TM) (2.5 GHz Pentium IV or AMD Athlon recommended) Outflanking tactics were just a new concept in fighting and the men doing this new style of fighting were having to come up with on the fly and under fire.īrothers IN Arms: Earned In Blood has the same system requirements as the first with the only difference being the newer video cards that are supported. The whole basis of this command of units is squad based tactics that were developed during the initial conflicts of World War II. The game is played easily in first person with the usual weapons of World War II while the squad based commands are easily accomplished with point and click commands that order your men to where you point and concentrate fire by point and click with different keys. Even if you haven’t, all it means is Gearbox has gone to a great deal of effort to take a winning game and add to the excitement, confusion and feel of squad based first person action in World War II in a different and unique way. Even that one has different ground that you cover as in the first one you stayed in the trench and fought against troops coming at you while this game has you outflanking from a different direction than you came in on the first one.Ĭonfusing enough for you, well it shouldn’t be if you played the first game, Road To Hill 30. You get a few additional weapons to try your hands at and the scenes are totally different except for the one that starts out the same. The game doesn’t go over the same scenes or use exactly the same weapons either. This different perspective of the same time period and the same fight doesn’t get boring or repetitive and is unique and fun. ![]() In the first game you have Hartsock’s squad save your bacon at the time when you thought all was lost and many of your friends are getting hit from the overwhelming odds. ![]() The same scene from the first game is even different enough that it is fun to fight through, you save the first games group of soldiers by outflanking the huge group of attackers coming at them from the front as they hunker down and fight from a trench. The creators have come up with a unique way to add a sequel to a game without going over the same ground or rehashing the same events into boredom. Joe “Red” Hartsock, who also made a couple of appearances in the first game. Earned in Blood takes place at the same time as Road To Hill 30, the two weeks when the Airborne landed behind enemy lines in occupied France and is from the view point of another group of American soldiers. First person shooter combined with squad based tactics and easy to control units is the main fare of this World War II based PC game.Įarned In Blood takes off at the same time of Road To Hill 30 and if you played the first game one of the scenes will even look familiar. Gearbox Software and Ubisoft have continued their terrific real life story of the 502nd Airborne unit during the battles surrounding the Normandy invasion commonly called D-Day.
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