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Brothers in Arms DS trailer, or, Holy God, that's running on a handheld?
7:59 PM on 06.09.2007, Aaron Linde 55 comments

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You guys remember when the ill-fated Resident Evil Game Boy Color port was announced, and the trailers and screenshots made us all crap our pants? I'm getting a similar pants-crappin' feeling watching this Brothers in Arms DS trailer, due out in August from Ubi Soft. Not every day that you see 3D games on Nintendo's handheld that rivals the PSP and, with enough liquor, might pass for an Xbox game. Just goes to show that all it takes is the right developer to really squeeze every last ounce of power out of some hardware.
 
I shudder to think what the Wii might be capable of in a few years. Sure, right now we're all making the same tired "lol PS2 portz" jokes, but who knows -- by 2010, we might be saying "wow, this looks as good as God of War 2". I know! Wouldn't that be wild? I keed, I keed -- s'just that with Summa gone, someone's got to find ways to slam the Wii in vaguely related posts, right?

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Arro's Avatar
Arro at 06/09/2007 20:04
For some reason, I had a big deja vu while reading this post. XD
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comradetrotskii at 06/09/2007 20:12
Thats impressive, frame rate is suspect though.

Are we using the touch screen to control cursor movement as well as selecting weapons and what not? I didn't really like that in MP:H.
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velcroman at 06/09/2007 20:12
that's incredible seeing how the DS has no dedicated 3D processing.
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Tron Knotts at 06/09/2007 20:14
Summa quit.

The DS is weirdly catching up to the Wii is graphics prowess. This comaprison of Spyro on the DS and on the Wii shows that.

3rd parties better stop half assing their Wii games.
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BFeld13 at 06/09/2007 20:17
That's amazing.
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flaakmonkey at 06/09/2007 20:21
im totally getting this game.
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Kayka at 06/09/2007 20:22
Looks like Call of Duty Wii ;B
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pretty ricky at 06/09/2007 20:34
I got this game and its great. Altho i'm finding it a bit easy, movement and shooting is good but the grenades are horrible think dragging upwards and a golf swing meter, I was very surprised by how cinematic this game is, the campaign is fun and the vehicle sections are a welcomed change of pace. My biggest problem with this game is lack of wifi play, there is only local! Brothers in Arms fans will be happy for sure.
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Milofo at 06/09/2007 20:40
Wait this is allready out?! How come I never heard of this game until today?
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Grimspoon at 06/09/2007 20:46
Framerate looks pretty awful, but otherwise halfway decent looking for a DS game.

Wouldn't go so far as to compare to PSP or XBOX (drunk or not).
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MaxVest at 06/09/2007 20:53
Agreed, it's a nice looking game. If you can find a gameplay video, the framerate doesn't look bad at all. There are some awkward camera and clipping issues, but it was pretty slick for a DS title. And voice acting, too!

Considering how warm my well-ventilated Wii gets in standby mode, I can only assume it's storing up graphics processing power in preparation to unleash some furious eye-candy. They'll tell us how at E3.
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TheBrain at 06/09/2007 20:56
Nice. Makes me wonder what something like the N64 was really capable of
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brainderailment at 06/09/2007 21:07
"Not every day that you see 3D games on Nintendo's handheld that rivals the PSP"

Clearly you haven't played much psp, but yes it looks amazing for the ds. Do you remember the video that came out recently showing the 3d capabilities of the GBA? it was like a really crappy ps1 game. Nintendo doesn't push graphics like they should. Damn you wii!
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SPJglitches at 06/09/2007 21:17
Simply incredible. This is the kind of game that might actually convince me to buy a DS Lite.
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TheStripe at 06/09/2007 21:26
Wait, it's not even slightly incredible that the GBA can do PS1 graphics? And the DS, despite having worse graphics kicked the motherfucking tail off the PSP in sales and library (while the quality is debatable, the quantity is not). While this doesn't mean the PSP is a failure by any means, it does mean the PSP is most certainly second banana in this generation of handhelds. Now that it looks like devs are starting to stretch out the DS and it's two CPUs, the PSP is becoming less and less attractive. I think this is evidence of Nintedo's ability to make effecient hardware that careful coders can take advantage of, just as certain gamecube games rivaled the best graphics on the Xbox. I think the wii is going to surprise some haters.
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majormauser at 06/09/2007 21:40
You have to be kidding me this is nothing like a PSP game


Just play ratchet and clank.....

What a lamo
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majormauser at 06/09/2007 21:41
Honestly you guys are amazed by this..... wow.
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Phist at 06/09/2007 21:45
"I'm the DS, bitch?!"

I'm dying to try this out.
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Mxyzptlk at 06/09/2007 22:05
I might actually break my "No more fucking WWII shooters" rule for this.
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BlindsideDork at 06/09/2007 22:10
Look I made this earlier!!! It shows pics and has a video of gameplay too!
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Aaron Linde at 06/09/2007 22:22
brainderailment, I'm practically the only guy on staff who does play the PSP, and yeah, this rivals the PSP.
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BlindsideDork at 06/09/2007 22:32
Also about my blog/post/link...it is gameplay and not snap shots, it is like a couple minutes of a level straight through!
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Oni at 06/09/2007 22:52
Wow. Considering that is playing on a DS, that's amazing. It looks great!

Just goes to show that when a developer really, really wants to try to squeeze every ounce of processing power out of a console, it can have very nice returns.
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Leaderz0rz at 06/09/2007 23:04
I still say the best looking for the PSP is Tekken. This does look amazing coming from a DS..lets hope this marks a future of more eye pleasing games for the DS. Don't get me wrong I love the DS without it being a graphical powerhouse but a little eye candy here and there never hurt anyone.
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ZMTToxics at 06/09/2007 23:19
Wait. Summa is gone? Where did he go?

Also, I happen to have a "friend"... with a ds rom cart, and i got to play this game (the euro version is on the internets stealin your nazis). It is infact friggen awesome. Not to mention the fact that theres real blood and tanks in the game, but theres real blood and TANKS in the game.

Real blood as apposed to the green blood in resident evil ds.
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ZMTToxics at 06/09/2007 23:23
Oh, I just read the good bye post. Because i didnt get to say good bye to him there, Ill say it now.

Wii love you. Rip.
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BlindsideDork at 06/09/2007 23:33
ZMTToxics....there is red blood in Resident Evil DS. You choudl be able to change it in the options...
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Aaron Linde at 06/09/2007 23:37
Sunami, wha? This isn't "o man the DS is going to bury the PSP lol", it's just impressive that the DS has a title that can compete visually with the PSP. The PSP will continue to have the on-the-whole prettier software -- this is the exception.
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ZServ at 06/09/2007 23:42
i put the european version on my R4- this game really isnt that impressive.
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Drift64 at 06/10/2007 00:29
Guys I did a crappy video review of this great game check it out:

http://khmerknightz.imeem.com/video/9yeMYeqm/brothers_in_amrs/
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zaqu at 06/10/2007 01:17
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Zhai at 06/10/2007 01:36
I already played it on my DS, and must admit, this is one of most ass kicking games on this platform. Although, in DS version u don't give orders, like on PC. Instead u r tanking all the time, and that's a lot of fun.
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fearian at 06/10/2007 08:15
title should be: 'holy crap this is on a DS?!' ... not handheld... remember that psp thing? yeah that could pull off alot better graphics methinks.
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TheStripe at 06/10/2007 09:19
I hate that any nintendo post brings out the jilted sony fanboys.
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deanhatescoffee at 06/10/2007 11:44
Looks awesome. On-screen blood splatter FTW!
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CatalystMan at 06/10/2007 13:55
The DS is crazy.
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midgar777 at 06/10/2007 14:15
I've been playing this :D I got it the other night :D It is very impressive for a DS game :D some of the features like throwing the grenades etc i really fun and sniping rocks too!
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Jark212 at 06/10/2007 16:47
Looks pritty damn good
now i need a DS
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dyslixec at 06/10/2007 17:10
Well I was going to purchase a DS in the next few weeks, this just sold me to purchase it sooner. I have both brothers in arms games on the PC and I love them to death, more then I do the Call of Duty series. I am in love. Hott damn.
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ANDYLOW at 06/10/2007 17:14
i wouldnt buy something from gearbox with destructoid's money.
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matt_dude at 06/10/2007 17:59
@TheStripe You got it in one.

To everyone else, all I can say is three words and two letters:

Grand Theft Auto DS.

Anyone?
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bobthecat23 at 06/10/2007 18:43
more like thatsw running the nintendo ds
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Ness at 06/10/2007 20:13
No way! That's impossible. O___o
And what the second screen does?
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Magesx at 06/10/2007 21:26
The horribly choppy framerate negates and graphics goodness.
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ZMTToxics at 06/10/2007 23:48
Don't buy it if you liked Brothers in arms more then Call of Duty, as it plays more Call of duty style then brothers in arms. There is 0 team management.
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brainderailment at 06/11/2007 00:07
I love how this quickly turned into a "DS PWNS PSP!" fest. I don't give a crap about the psp, I just don't think this looks that good. I'm sorry, but like I said earlier, this is impressive for the ds.
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jonny_foreigner at 06/11/2007 06:21
wow that came into work the other day and I wrote it off as being a bad idea... my eyes prove me wrong, it deserves it's place in the DS library.
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TheStripe at 06/11/2007 10:54
@ Brain - I think you're not quite correct in that assumption.

of 52 posts at the time of this writing

39 make no mention of the PSP:
8 are haters, like yourself, either just blasting the DS or saying how the PSP is OMGPONYZMEGAL3333t grafix.
4 are responses to the haters, by folks (including the author of the original post) just trying to say that the graphics really do rival the PSP from a fair and balanced standpoint.

And that last remaining reply, well, that was me, just stating how well the DS did in the sales and size of library catagories, relative to it's sony manufactured "competitor."

So since when does 5 of 52 posts constitute a "DS PWNS PSP" fest, especially when those five posts are fair and accurate?
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