While itвЂ™s easy to get jaded by the setting (and the game might as well be called Band of Brothers: The Video Game) youвЂ™d be foolish to write the game off just because youвЂ™ve seen the setting before. Matt Baker and his squad of American Paratroopers where the first game left off with you and your squads this time heading into Nazi occupied Holland for the ill fated Operation Market Garden.Д¬lick to enlarge - fighting at night is very atmospheric Hell's Highway picks up the ongoing storyline of protagonist Sgt. Both developers are trying to show us that thereвЂ™s still ammunition in this genreвЂ™s magazine yet, it seems.ДЇor those who donвЂ™t know, BIA:HH follows on from the 2005 Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 which came as a real breath of fresh air to the FPS genre by championing authentic WW2 squad based tactics in place of the traditional run and gun one man army gameplay experience thatвЂ™s typical of most shooters. Yet this year weвЂ™re seeing two popular FPS franchises once again returning to the summer of 1944, with Treyarch polishing up Call of Duty 5 and Gearbox parachuting in with Brothers in Arms: HellвЂ™s Highway. There were only so many times we could parachute into Normandy or re-capture Stalingrad before the whole setting started to feel old and stale, and while the occasionally superlative game managed to make the setting seem fresh and entertaining again, with the arrival of the FPS juggernaut that was Call of Duty 4 we thought weвЂ™d seen the last of the World War 2 setting for a while at least.

It looks like weвЂ™re due for something of a World War 2 game renaissance this winter following the avalanche of apathy that had begun to greet the genre following massive over representation in the last few years. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Publisher: Ubisoft

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