Instead, plan on watching the framerate skip past you and swearing at the controls. If you do try it, don't expect much satisfaction from D-Day. That's not going to happen too often, though. Once in a while, if you get it just right, its fun to pull off that perfect flanking manoeuvre.
The tactical map view - which uses an overhead view that lays out the whole battlefield so you can split up your squad and pry loose a dug-in target - is a pretty cool idea. If the clumsy controls and glitchy graphics hadn't already killed it, there might have been some game left to salvage. That's bad news in a game where the main combat tactics require hiding around corners and ducking behind hedgerows. You can plant your gun sight right on a bad guy with what looks like a perfectly clear line of sight, but the bullet may still bounce off an invisible edge. Ubisoft Shanghai tried hard with the visuals, relying on the PSP version of Epic's Unreal tech, but they still couldn't patch up every gap.Ĭlipping is a big problem the edges of objects project out further than it appears that they should. "Twitchy" is a word that could get a lot of mileage when it comes to describing this game. The only way to smoothly circle around an enemy means relying on a twitchy lock-on control. "Advanced" is too confusing, splitting the look and strafe commands across the wrong sides of the controller. "Basic" is too limited, since you can't look and strafe at the same time. There are two pre-set control schemes available, neither of which work. The game clearly needs more buttons for viewing, advancing, and strafing, but Brothers in Arms uses those buttons for other things like squad commands and toggles for the overhead tactical map view.
The console games require two analog sticks to take care of movement, but on the PSP, you're limited to one analog nub. The game's main problem boils down to control, as in too much and not quite enough of it.
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