The game I'm currently playing is Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway . I haven't tackled an FPS in a very, very long while, and my expectations for this game were quite low. It's set in World War II again (and there sure are a lot of games out there with that setting) so I wasn't expecting to be so impressed. A few missions in, a lot of things struck me about the single-player mode: - The presentation is very, very cinematic . I didn't play the older BIA games at length so it was a bit difficult for me to understand sometimes what the characters were talking about [they reference the past games a LOT] ....but the storytelling style that the developers employed for the cutscenes make watching them feel very engrossing. I guess this must have been the best way for the developers to differentiate their game from the other WWII shooters out there. - A big part of the single player game involves giving out orders to specialized squads of troops (in the first few missi...