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Nightmare Fuel / Brothers in Arms

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  • The story starts out with your run-of-the mill seriousness, and even a few lighthearted moments. But let's face it. As Baker's guilt and PTSD starts to get to him, he starts seeing some pretty scary stuff. Like when the face of a child Baker rescued only to die in the next mission flashes on your screen, or when the battle field literally starts turning red and looking like the pits of Hell as you fight off incoming tanks.
  • Allen's and Garnett's deaths. Imagine leaving your friends under the command of someone less experienced, only to come back and find them dead or dying just mere minutes later. It's as painful and scary as it is tragic.
  • In "Five-Oh-Sink", the first Recon Point scene shows a Dutch woman being dragged away by German infantry, heavily implied to be a suspected Dutch resistance member or at least someone collaborating with them. Her corpse is then found by Baker hanging from the roof of the barn. Worse, is that this is a scripted scene, and Baker nor his squad can do anything to save her from this gruesome fate. The worst part? This event actually happened, according to accounts of a US paratrooper who fought at Son.
  • The Abandoned Hospital in Hell's Highway. Nothing Is Scarier indeed. And that's not taking into account being outnumbered, outgunned, and Trapped Behind Enemy Lines with only a handgun for firepower.
    • This is also the one of the first times Baker's hallucinations begin taking their toll. Objects begin moving by themselves and you occasionally hear or see hallucinations of Leggett stalking Baker. The atmosphere is so oppressive and creepy that the encounters with Germans almost come as a relief.
    • The rest of Eindhoven following the Germans bombing the place by surprise. There's several blocks either reduced to rubble or smoldering wrecks, dozens if not hundreds of Dutch civilians killed including Nicholaas and Peter in the chaos, and constant German patrols despite only liberating the town only a day prior. It's a claustrophobic, terrifying, and downright hellish case of Scenery Gorn.
    • The Shell gas station, as shown on the page image. It's pretty much a sign that things are going to go From Bad to Worse.
  • The level "Hell's Highway". There's vehicle fires about every other meter you advance, Elite Mooks in the form of members of the 10th SS Panzer Division, and dozens of corpses of British soldiers ambushed just ahead of you and your squad. It's pretty much Scenery Gorn as a level, and makes the bombed-out Eindhoven look much nicer in comparison.
  • Being the unfortunate victim of being caught in a Parachute in a Tree scenario. If you don't break your neck in the drop or drown in the flooded plains, there's being a Sitting Duck for waiting German troops, as shown in Earned in Blood's "Roses All the Way".
    • If that's not scary enough, there's your transport plane catching fire mid-flight and crashing, without the chance of jumping out. Fortunately for Baker and most of his squad, they manage to leave their burning plane before it can explode or crash save poor Muzza who doesn't even get to say anything or set foot in France before shrapnel from the flak shell hits him in the throat and he bleeds out before the plane can even crash. The same can't be said for a crashed C-47 you see a level later, though...

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