I'm going to jump right in and say it, I love the Battlefield franchise. They've perfected a style of multiplayer in which it is primarily a team game, but a single exceptional player can still rise up and become the deciding factor in any given match. They've never really offered much in the way of single player experience and I for one haven't missed it, their games warrant their purchase price simply with their multiplayer design alone.
The current iteration, Bad Company 2, obviously isn't the full bodied Battlefield we've enjoyed in the past but I still find myself jumping in for a game or two whenever I have the time. There's cheaters, you can't lay prone, the voice chat doesn't really work, but it's still Battlefield. It's certainly not their greatest release, but the fun is still there under it all.
Their greatest release is coming at the end of the year, if you believe the hype. What hype it is too, just look at this stuff.
Now if that doesn't get you ready for some Battlefield, nothing will. But wait, that's the single player? That's not how I remember Battlefield. That looks more like something else...
But it's fine, DICE always deliver with the multiplayer goods, if anything it's better if they include a full fledged COD style single player, it just makes the purchase a more complete package.
Then the info starts to trickle in, those bloody location specific DLC exclusives. Buy it from Gamestop you get an extra gun, buy it from Amazon.com you get different outfits, buy it from Walmart and the Hummers are replaced with horses. Obviously these aren't the real exclusives, you'll have to go to a real game site to find out what those are. Now I shouldn't have to tell you, I'm Australian, I don't shop at those stores, I don't know where they are (Well, I know where Amazon.com is...). But they do the same thing here, they divide those location specific DLCs between the retailers in our country, like GAME, EB Games, Big W, Target etc. Now in all honesty how much can they really get out of Australian retailers in this initiative? We're not the USA, we're not even the UK, our video game market is minuscule compared to the world market.
But who cares right, small location specific game changes, how does it effect the game? It doesn't, it just divides up what's already on the disk on release and only makes certain parts available should you have the access code. I just don't like the trend, if it comes on the disk, it should be included in the (already sizable if you're Australian) purchase price. If you want to add stuff to the game later, make me download it, that way I don't mind paying the extra and I don't mind if I miss out.
But forget all that marketing crap, it's still Battlefield, you've just got to push through the tough, noisy EA exterior and get down to the juicy DICE centre. Once we get the game and we're playing it, it'll be just like we wanted it... right?
He changes to English, stick with it. Watch around the 2:00 mark. Good, you done? Moving on.
If you haven't had the time to download and try out Project Reaility you really are missing out. It's basically the greatest example of what a community who loves your game can do for a game as it ages. To stand there in your red shirt and say that the community who made that is too stupid to mod with your engine is outrageous. Shame on you red shirt man. I don't care about your tactical light shooting, you just insulted me.
Wow, this got kinda long. Am I going to buy and play Battlefield 3? Yes I am, I think in the same way that I can ignore all the parts of BC2 I don't like and still enjoy it I will be able to do the same with Battlefield 3. I just hope this is as far as it goes. Battlefield 3 will obviously sell well enough to warrant another sequel, I just hope by that point it's still Battlefield we're playing.
Thanks for reading
- Gibbo
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