Revolutionary AI system: Allies and enemies use the standard operating procedures of fire and maneuver to flank and kill their foes. Real soldiers: Featuring a cast of more than 20 characters, each with a unique personality, appearance, and style. Real military tactics: Intuitive and easy-to-use squad controls appeal to both the hardcore and mainstream gaming audience. One of a kind: Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30 is the only first-person tactical shooter set in WWII. Matt Baker and his squad of 101st Airborne Paratroopers were scattered over the French countryside.Īs the story unfolds, you must choose between the success of your mission and the lives of your men - your brothers in arms.īrothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 will immerse players in the historic, eight-day invasion of Normandy - with unparalleled imagery, authenticity, sound, and gameplay. Set during the famous airdrop before the invasion at Normandy, where Sgt. Readers should seriously consider giving its relatively comprehensive digital release a thorough listen.Based on a true story. While not particularly original, it is impressive from a thematic perspective and benefits from breathtaking performances from the FILMharmonic Orchestra and Choir. Overall, the Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 is recommended for those who enjoy war film scores. The score has a chance to really breathe throughout the presentation here making it quite an engaging listen, especially in the "Reunion Theme". Also worth noting is how Harwood takes smaller motivic ideas and slowly builds them into extended thematic statements. It tends to appear in stronger dissonant segments of the score sometimes moving wildly out of tonal territory ("Objective XYZ") which is made possible because there is time for Harwood to unleash these sounds before returning to more accessible thematic writing This orchestral style is used break up the more traditional post-romantic dramatic writing as the score progresses allowing for tension to be created in these scene set ups. "Night of Nights" manages to maintain a big Hollywood sound with an overlay of dissonant ideas of intriguing bell lines that bear a resemblance to the like of Messiaen of Dutilleux. These feature some intriguing orchestral choices in themselves. Roughly the opening quarter of the tracks are variations on this martial style.Įach subsequent track takes on a different interlude in the game itself. There is more room in these tracks for the composer to grow his ideas more, often in the span of three to four minutes. The main theme which follows continues in this same vein with Harwood's music making for a an equally moving experience. The opening march could easily be mistaken for many of that composer's other emotional patriotic concert works or scores. The soundworld of Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30 inhabits that of Saving Private Ryan managing to all but match the slow build up of the big emotional moments of John Williams' music. The Brothers In Arms Road to Hill 30 Original Soundtrack was an exclusively digital release, but incidentally the most comprehensive of the series' album releases to date.
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Gearbox's popular game series, Brothers in Arms, received a revisit musically in 2008 when Sumthing Else re-released the music from the first two installments of the series dating from 2005.