First, the good news: the new Brothers in Arms 2 is generally a major improvement over its predecessor, liberally borrowing both the first-person perspective and richer color palette of Modern Combat: Sandstorm, plus other 3-D graphics tricks found in both Sandstorm and N.O.V.A. The result is a World War II shooter that places you in European, Pacific, and North African/Arabic surroundings—often with a lot more color, for better or worse,…