Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™

With its unprecedented combination of authenticity, compelling story and squad-based action, the Brothers in Arms franchise has established itself as a benchmark for military action games, receiving the highest average review scores of any console WWII game to date (www.gamerankings.com).

Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™ is a action, world war ii and fps game developed by Gearbox Software and published by Ubisoft.
Released on October 10th 2008 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 966 reviews of which 844 were positive and 122 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood™ into these genres:

Action World War II FPS Tactical Military Singleplayer Strategy War Co-op Simulation Classic Multiplayer Shooter Realistic

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Requirements

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Windows

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 2000/XP (ONLY)
Processor: 1 GHz Pentium III or AMD Athlon (2.5 GHz Pentium IV or AMD recommended)
Memory: 512 MB (1 GB recommended)
Graphics: 32 MB Direct X 9.0c compliant (64 MB recommended)*
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (included)
Hard Drive: 3.5 GB hard drive space
Sound Card:16 bit DirectX 9.0c compliant sound card (EAX recommended; PC audio solutions containing Dolby Digital Live required for Dolby Digital audio)
Multiplayer: Broadband with 64 kbps upstream (128 kbps recommended)

*Supported video cards at time of release: ATI Radeon 8500/9000/X series NVIDIA GeForce 4/FX/6 series (GeForce 4 MX not supported)
These chipsets are the only ones that will run this game. Laptop models of these cards not supported.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Very good game, I like that it is a "tactical shooter" and not a classic "run and shoot".

Oct. 2024

Playing this game today makes you really question the direction gaming has taken. This game has heart. It was made by people who love what they are doing , and it shows.

Oct. 2024

Earned in Blood is an excellent continuation of Road to Hill 30. Gearbox increased the difficulty for this one, so don't be surprised if you die often. This is not your typical Run and Gun shooter. You're going to need to start using squad strategies to your advantage. I also recommend installing Rendroc's WarZone mod, which adds new squad commands, improved AI, and a variety of other features. Overall, I think it's a great game with an amazing story.

May 2024

Brothers in Arms is a great series, and many people overlook Earned in Blood. Many forget about it and many call it, "the worst in the series." But I disagree with these statements, as I think Earned in Blood is vastly underrated. In Earned in Blood, you don't play as Baker, you play as Red. The other 2 Brothers in Arms games focus more on Baker, but this is much more a breath of fresh air from that, as you get to learn about Red, who is a very important character in each of the games (especially this one.) Earned in Blood is somewhat a sequel and somewhat an expansion of Road to Hill 30. Earned in Blood uses the same engine, and most of the same assets, whilst fixing many issues and adding some new content. This game includes new weapons like the M3 Grease Gun and the M1 Carbine (this weapon was in the first game, but it was never given to you at the start of any mission.) There are also flak cannons that are something new to avoid and flank, and to destroy with bombs and tanks! Earned in Blood also has engine improvements, like better AI and MUCH MORE balanced and fair gameplay. Road to Hill 30 has a LOT of annoying mortar missions and sections. Earned in Blood does include mortar sections too, but these annoying sections are MUCH more tolerable, unlike in the first game. The gameplay and flow of Earned in Blood is much more enjoyable than Road to Hill 30, and there are less enemies with rocket launchers. In some missions you can even get behind an enemy tank and plant a bomb inside of it, this makes it much easier to kill a tank (when you don't have an ally tank or rocket launcher.) The locations and missions in this game are much more fun, and even include missions that add onto other missions found in Road to Hill 30. The mission (SPOILERS) "Bloody Gulch" gives another side to the final mission of Road to Hill 30, and helps portray a few characters better in the story. Speaking of the story, a lot of people say that the story isn't as good as Road to Hill 30's story, which is correct. The story of Earned in Blood is still great, just not as good as the first. But Earned in Blood gives many key details that are very important to the other Brothers in Arms games' stories. But even if the story isn't as good in Earned in Blood, doesn't mean that it's bad. The story is good, but don't go in thinking that it will be another 10/10 story, maybe a 9/10 or 8/10 story on this one. While Earned in Blood may not have as good as a story than the first, Earned in Blood has even better gameplay. I said before, that the mortar missions in Road to Hill 30 are painful, but the mortar missions in Earned in Blood are a LOT better, and much more balanced. This game also (sometimes) has little gimmicks for (some) levels. For example (kinda spoiler I guess?) The mission "Hedgerow Hell" has dirt walls that can be blown up, and you can choose whichever path you want to blow up. Yes, there are several paths in this mission to choose! And each path can be a better space to help eliminate a target. And the locations of many of these missions are much more interesting, like a small section in one level where there is a railroad station, and Earned in Blood gives more opportunities to suppress and flank enemies, like old classing Brothers in Arms. Even though on the surface many people say that this one is less important than the other games, YOU SHOULD STILL PLAY THIS! With all the stuff I mentioned throughout this review, please at least try this out if you have played Road to Hill 30, and if you have enough money!

March 2024

One of the best WW2 shooters from the 2000s, such classics. Unfortunately, it seems there is a problem running these games on newer systems; it doesn’t really like Win10 and it doesn’t understand new hardware. So keep in mind that you might not be able to play this before buying.

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4.99€

8.3

844

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Developer

Gearbox Software

Publisher

Ubisoft

Release 10 Oct 2008

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