Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Publisher: Ubisoft

While it hasn’t been as successful as Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is still a fine game in its own right, continuing the Brothers in Arms franchise with the allied invasion of Holland during Operation Market Garden.

The combat is heavily squad reliant, with the players forced to use cover and covering fire to pin the enemy down and advance against their positions, with coordinated flanking tactics more important than pin point aim in achieving victory.

Running in the ever popular Unreal Engine 3, BIA:HH makes use of high resolution textures, destroyable cover and depth of field to deliver a highly detailed and convincing portrayal of wartime Holland. It's one of the most visually impressive Unreal Engine 3 implementations we've seen to date - a credit to Gearbox, the developers.

For testing we manually play through a section from the “Operation Market” chapter, with all in-game settings set to high. Unfortunately Unreal Engine 3 does not allow us to set anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering from in game. Anisotropic filtering was forced to 16x in the driver and anti-aliasing just isn't supported at all - when we tried forcing it in the driver, it made no difference to image quality or performance.





Hell's Highway is another title where CrossFire scaling isn't all that it could be and the GeForce GTX 285 isn't all that far behind the Radeon HD 4870 X2 again here. At 1,680 x 1,050 and 1,920 x 1,200, the factory overclocked Zotac GeForce GTX 285 AMP! Edition is actually faster than the flagship Radeon, but it then falls behind by about six percent at 2,560 x 1,600. The reference card is a further 7.7 percent slower than the AMP! Edition.