I think it’s fair to say we are Battlefield fans on this site. I myself look back to Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 and find some of the best times I’ve had playing shooters. The Battlefield games are multiplayer paradises, and I find the team-based play and vehicles to be wonderful sources of many hours of amusement. Despite its track record of success, however, there are some reasons to await the next installment of trepidation. Here are some things you should look out for in Battlefield 4.
The Single Player Campaign
In past several years, gamers have decried the practice of shoe-horning multiplayer into single player games. Battlefield 3 did the opposite- adding single player to a traditionally multiplayer series. Unlike the Bad Company spinoff, the campaign in Battlefield 3 was beyond terrible. I can’t tell you how disappointed I was during E3 when Battlefield 4’s initial trailer was single-player only. Bad Company 2’s campaign is long in the review mirror, and EA’s recent history in FPS campaigns (Battlefield 3 and the two Medal of Honor games) is beyond spotty. Tread cautiously.
Levolution
How a name like levolution ever gains any traction in a board room is beyond me. I understand that you want to attract attention to level-altering destruction. I don’t think that you need to make up words to do that. That aside, I was really dis-satisfied with the destructibility in Battlefield 3. After you were leveling everything in sight in Bad Company 2, it seemed that far too much of the environment in Battlefield 3 was permanent. Here’s hoping that levolution lives up to its billing as a game changer. I miss watching half of a level come down (and the entire enemy team with it).
Launch Day
Look, I understand that getting a game to work on launch day is hard. It seems that really only the folks behind Call of Duty have mastered a smooth first day launch. EA has been notorious for bad first days. Remember SimCity? Remember the last Battlefield game? Or Medal of Honor? Those first few days have been an utter mess. If you were planning on taking off that first day and playing 12 or 14 hours of multiplayer, I have some news for you: things are not going to go very smoothly. And the reaction will be utter vitriol by a bunch of people who have forgotten the last few times launch day sucked. Do yourself a favor- skip Tuesday. Take Friday off instead. When the game works.
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