VGA performance: Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (DX9)
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
Hell's Highway, another WWII shooter some might say. But in reality the setting of war is really just a vehicle for Gearbox to tell the storyline of a Band of Brothers led by you, Sergeant Matt Baker, as they deal with the madness and consequences of war. The game tells the story of Operation Market Garden in the country where yours truly lives, in the Netherlands (aka Holland). It's about the besieged journey from Eindhoven to Arnhem where tremendous battles were fought.
Exactly that road, Highway 69; the road from Eindhoven to Arnhem was later nicknamed: Hell's Highway.
One of the most impressive details is that the area of Operation Market Garden was completely reconstructed using historical documents and images. It's uncanny to see and experience the design of 1944 Holland. Even now in 2008 you can still see striking similarities from our country. Street signs, building structures, clothing and even the clinker bricks on the roads dispense a true authentic mood. This reviewer is Dutch, so what level would be more appropriate than one of the starting levels, in a field in the Netherlands, moving towards a large windmill ahead of us. Lots of geometry is to be found here, and in fact one of the more complex scenes to render for the GPU. Yes, welcome to Holland.
- Texture Quality HIGH
- Shadow Texture Quality HIGH
- Shadow Detail HIGH
- Vsync OFF
I still play this game quite often as I like it very much. Looking at performance we see that the game is not really an issue for most graphics cards. Mainly due to the fact it does not support in-game AA. That drives performance upwards.
The 4890 Toxic Vapor-X keeps surprising me. The sheer clocks on that thing really work out well and even at 2560x1600 we can play the game perfectly comfortably.
Back to the VGA chart. 1920x1200 with the above mentioned settings. The card is even surpassing a reference GeForce GTX 285, absolutely staggering performance.
Mind you that everything is always relative, we are testing a pre-overclocked Radeon HD 4890 and there are many pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards as well.
