I still love WW2 shooters, mainly because I haven't had the need to buy every single one released.

COD 5 and this are very high on my watch list.

Not to Hijack, but I'd also like to see a Full Spectrum Warrior for the 360.

I too am looking forward to BIA:HH. Everything I've seen and heard have been very positive. Should be a demo for the 360 pretty soon, no?

Oh yes, Full Spectrum Warrior for the 360 would be very cool. Had some good co-op times with the original on the X-box. (btw, I do believe that is on the compatability list. I've not tried it to see how it works).

I have to respectfully disagree there. The combat in the previous games suffers from horrible AI and the Suppress-Flank-F*ck mechanic completely ruins whatever fun is left.

Definitely. Those things I like, but unfortunately enemy behavior is about ten times more important in making the combat work.

I don't see this updated, but release has been pushed back to September. Also, perhaps you all are refering to this vid release, but I just ran across it and it is very cool. I hope a demo shows up in the next week or so (just wishful thinking. I've read nothing regarding it).

Vid:

http://tinyurl.com/6yghku

So the

Looks exactly the same to me. In other words, broken. They can talk about the realistic tactics all they want, but you can see the developer behind the wheel blatantly avoid making video-gamey/Rambo decisions even though they would have been far more effective.

New Video on the making of

So far this looks the best of what I have seen. They certainly are working hard on it.

I'll be waiting for the reviews of the final product for sure, but I am pulling for them.

It's funny how industry works. This video is two-three weeks old but for God knows what reason I've seen it posted yesterday by at least four mainstream websites, including VE3D which posted it when it first came and they obviously don't give a sh*t because they decided to do it again ;]
And by the way: I find approach on storytelling they talk about really amusing, this is pretty unusual for normal devdiary-PR fare.

I really can't wait for this. Love to get a demo soon. I'm reading the novel:
"Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway: A Brothers in Arms Novel (Brothers in Arms)". It's pretty good and has me excited about this battle again. I dug out my old DVD to start watching the movie, 'Bridge Too Far', again(!).

How so?

The idea that your enemies can be suppressed then flanked is realistic. The specific, gamey way that they have implemented this process is neither realistic nor fun. I don't have a time machine, but I don't think they have successfully recreated the actions of the enemy -- not even close. If they had, then the real Nazis could've been thwarted by a bag of kittens.

These enemies have no sense of self-preservation, territory, line of sight, or what is and isn't prudent while in a "suppressed" state. Their only purpose is to be shot at and die. You need an enemy that is capable of recognizing these concepts, and then the suppress'n'flank tactic becomes naturally useful to the player for the same reasons it would naturally be useful to an actual squad in battle. Instead, they provided the enemy with an "oh noes!" meter.

A player can choose to treat these enemies as a threat, and the result is something like an actual battle, but that's playing pretend. That's what's going on in the video above.

Yep. I'm turning crosshair off this time too, it was great.

Gearbox appear to be seriously upping the detail in their publicity - here's a long video which directly addresses concerns about repetitiveness with the old flanking mechanic, realism and playability. The line that got me most excited was 'it's possible to play through the entire game, commanding your squad, and never actually fire your own weapon'.

This, for me, is key in the realism argument. I enjoyed the first two BiA games a lot, because they, at least in part, reflected fire-team based tactics well. It was all about covering fire, moving in leapfrogs and so on. I was in the Territorial Army here in the UK for three years, and it definitely struck a chord.

It fell down however on some points - mainly that suppressing fire did nothing but cause the enemy to essentially become inactive, and if you sent a fire team in to take a position, at least one guy usually copped it. You still regularly reverted to standard shooter gameplay, because frankly you were a superman compared to your squadmates, and could assault and destroy two or three positions in a row while they sat at the side and sort-of-helped by plinking away at the enemy to keep their heads down. It looks like they've really fixed that here.

I'm not sure about the 'gore-o-vision' on display here (and thought the visible excitement on the part of the developers about it was kind of odd), as when combined with slo-mo explosions every few moments, it seems to make a deliberate (and largely artificial) spectacle out of death. In reality, a fragmentation grenade going off is a dull thump and a people falling over, not VATS-like body explosions. It'll be interesting to see if either of these features can be turned off (I'd imagine the slo-mo must have an off function, and the gore can be toned down). Personally, I'll be trying to remove anything that breaks immersion, as I have in the previous games, where I usually switch off as much as possible of the HUD, and I think both excessive 'look we have a physics-engine' gore and constant slo-mo zooms and pans will do both, and would improve the game by being minimised or turned off.

I'll be getting this for 360 soon. Meanwhile, Eurogamer posted 7/10 review which makes me kind of worried.