What Cooperative Modes Exist In Brothers In Arms: Hell'S Highway?

Question

For fans of squad-based WWII shooters, is the Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway co-op campaign any good, or is it just versus multiplayer modes?

Cely Roxas Hernandez · Answer

While that is a video game question, it’s not normally in my realm of knowledge. Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway was a single-player, squad-level, tactic-all-the-time kind of game, where you gave orders to a team of AI-controlled troops through a ‘tactical pause’. This kind of set-up and story might be transposed to a different setting to explore the tense, forced alliances of a brotherhood in a gritty, hard and often unpleasant world. There’s a good story for you in The Devil’s Scars (The Road Devils Motorcycle Club 1), where an ex-Marine is forced to work with an outlaw motorcycle club to stay alive. The resulting story explores the uneasy, even fractious, relationships of the forced brotherhood.

Colin · Answer

It’s rare for us to praise the co-op in a game over the single-player, but the various ‘modes’ for playing ‘Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway’ cooperatively are largely based around tactics rather than shooting, which is great. There’s the online co-op campaign which allows friends to play through the main single-player story and even fill the various squad roles, and then there’s a series of objective-based co-op/skirmish modes that are designed with multiplayer teamwork in mind.

Reusing the story levels for the co-op playthrough, a number of the maps have been tweaked for the multiplayer game with altered spawns and objectives for greater emphasis on tactics and strategy. Players can also create their own rules for various game modes, such as survival-based sessions where players must hold out against endless hordes of enemy troops in a pretty classic ‘horde mode’ style of gameplay. Overall, for fans of tactical third-person shooters where communication and strategy are crucial, ‘Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway’ offers some top-notch co-op experiences, particularly in the more intense, free-for-all type situations where a single, well-placed smoke grenade or pinned enemy can vastly alter the course of a fight.

Orion · Answer

I’ve included a quick and honest take at the cooperative gameplay found in Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. There are two main areas of co-op that this game offers up. First, there’s online co-op for all of the campaign missions that allow for up to 4 players. These would be fantastic for some good ole’ fashioned story-based co-op along with some great tactical teamwork that’s required to take down tough enemies. The second area would be for smaller objective or skirmish co-op matches that are supposed to be played over and over again by teams of players.

The limited offerings of co-op play are locked to squad-based tactics. If you have a few close gaming friends and prefer to work together as a team rather than complete solo, then co-op is your ticket to immersive fun.

Mia · Answer

Playing through the ‘single-player’ content with my bros has really allowed me to get into the meat of ‘Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway’ and the cooperative gameplay is focused around playing through the single-player content but with a team. The online co-op campaign allows for two players to tackle most of the single-player missions, with each player controlling their own fighting man and thus providing their own unique insight and view of the action. The focus on simulating real-war is still here, with all the components that go into making a good suppression-based, flank-and-fire-based, squad-commands-based game still intact.

These co-op matches can range from simple objectives on specific maps to full blown survival/skirmish scenarios, sometimes even with waves of enemies. The developer even included a tool for community members to create their own co-op skirmishes, giving fans even more game modes. For longer matches, live matchmaking and AI controlled players (bots) can be summoned to help complete the game. And believe me, moments of incredible tactical fail result in side-splitting hilarity, such as that time I got half the team wiped out by hiding behind a corner and getting flanked.

Reese · Answer

Playing Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway with a friend is a casual experience too. The online co-op is set up to mirror the single-player missions, so you and a friend will be fighting together as a squad in a couple of breeds of missions. I play these a lot, since it is easy to jump in and then have one person providing suppressive fire while the other moves. Attempting to reenact some of the more textbook scenes is pretty fun too.

Additionally, there are special cooperative mission types which are mostly smaller in scope, designed for repeated play, and that reward the player more for playing as a team rather than trying to be a great individual shooter. Even now, there are community hosted servers with custom co-op missions on them that are a lot of fun to play in when the official Brothers in Arms multiplayer has very few people online.

Danicka Harris · Answer

Disappointed it wasn’t campaign co-op. The whole thing has to be played through by one person first, which is an arbitrary barrier to entry for co-op. While co-op is fun in the end, it loses some of its spark when you’ve already played through the entire story and every enemy encounter in the game, in a very specific order, for story reasons. Co-op is really only worth it’s weight if you both loved the single-player and just want an excuse to replay the game for more combat or to show off some of the environments and their set pieces to each other.

Maria Cox · Answer

My buddy and I spent a weekend playing co-op in this. While the game is a lot of fun, it’s also very unforgiving. We spent about a weekend trying to complete the ‘Market Garden’ mission. We failed it about 10 times and each time it was because one of us got pinned down by enemy fire separately from the other. You have to use the game’s tactics, it won’t work just to press block and mash shoot. But when it does work, it’s very rewarding. I also have to say that the AI squad members are very good in single-player and it’s quite hard to do their jobs when playing co-op with a human. It’s a great co-op experience for masochists who enjoy WWII tactics games.

Becky Schnell · Answer

Unlike most co-op modes, the Two Player Mode doesn’t hold your hand. There is no bonus health or ammo for two players playing together. The challenge is genuine and Failure is very common, especially in the early levels. You’ll have to learn from your mistakes in each wipe-out and try a new approach. The process of trial and error is a big part of this game’s appeal. If you enjoy challenging co-op gameplay that you can learn and master with practice, then this game is for you. But if you prefer co-op as a means to experience a more casual ‘power fantasy’, then you may want to avoid this game.

anaeveordas · Answer

Co-op play at Battalion Warp  Enemy Contact exposes the strengths and weaknesses of enemy AI, particularly when it comes to suppressing and flanking individual players. However, pitted against two teams of human players playing co-op in full co-ordination, the patterns of enemy AI can be easily exploited. In fact, players can use enemy AI in order to bait them into a crossfire and then proceed to kill them in a particularly grueling kill zone. Learning how to do this becomes a fun little game in itself, a fun tactical puzzle that can be solved by you and your friend playing through a particular section of the game. It is a completely new experience for the Battlefield series.

Carla Michelle Adams · Answer

Co-op is played exactly the same on the graphical side but plays with a different atmosphere. While single-player is played in an intense and serious tone, co-op is played in a chaotic and fun atmosphere with friends. It is fun in a different way and creates memories that the scripted single-player story could not. These memories are not of Baker’s journey through the story, but of your own silly, tragic and triumphant moments on the battlefield. The value of co-op is also unique.

Jason Havilah · Answer

It would have been great to have a competitive versus mode for this content, as it would be an absolute blast to play this as a single player controlling US squads, against another player controlling German fireteams in the same maps. But as a co-op only piece of content, it does what it sets out to do very well within the confines of the narrow scope it operates within. It doesn’t overpromise anything and delivers exactly what it said it would – a series of missions and tools to play them with. I had a great time playing through this with my friend, playing as co-op squad leaders in Hell’s Highway for a couple of weekends.

What Cooperative Modes Exist In Brothers In Arms: Hell'S Highway?

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