Brothers in Arms | |
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Genre(s) | Tactical shooter |
Developer(s) | Gearbox Software |
Publisher(s) | Ubisoft, Gameloft |
Platform(s) | Xbox, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS, N-Gage, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
First release | Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 2005 |
Latest release | Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War December 17, 2014 |
Brothers in Arms is a tactical shooter video game series by Gearbox Software, consisting of ten individual games. The core series consists of the first-person shooters Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (2005), Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (2005), and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (2008). The storyline is set against the backdrop of the liberation of Western Europe during World War II. It has mainly been released for Windows and MacOS platforms as well as sixth and seventh generation consoles and some mobile devices.
Game | Metacritic |
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Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 | (PC) 87/100 [1] (PS2) 82/100 [2] (Xbox) 88/100 [3] |
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood | (PC) 84/100 [4] (PS2) 71/100 [5] (Xbox) 85/100 [6] |
Brothers in Arms: D-Day | (PSP) 65/100 [7] |
Brothers in Arms DS | (NDS) 72/100 [8] |
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway | (PC) 79/100 [9] (PS3) 76/100 [10] (X360) 76/100 [11] |
Brothers in Arms: Double Time | (Wii) 45/100 [12] |
Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes | (iOS) 69% [13] [lower-alpha 1] |
Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front | (iOS) 83/100 [14] |
Brothers in Arms 3: Sons of War | (iOS) 60/100 [15] |
Developed using Unreal Engine 2, Road to Hill 30 was Gearbox's first game after a series of expansions and ports to other games, such as Half-Life. It received highly positive reviews from critics.
The second installment in the series, released about seven months after Road to Hill 30. Like the first game, Earned in Blood earned positive reviews, while the PlayStation 2 version received average to positive reviews.
First-person shooter game for the PlayStation Portable.
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