Battlefield Dev Thinks Its Competition Is Getting Lazy

[Ajna]

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Sorry, yeah, I forgot about Modern Combat- that did have a singleplayer. It was still awfully linear though. The shifting soldier mechanic as actually pretty novel though.

I use Homefront and Flashpoint as an ideal rival for battlefield because the gameplay of each holds the same advantages over everything else- they are each in the same league of gameplay. Hell if we were only talking money, then COD would be the main rival of every single video game ever made, and that's not what we're getting at.

I never felt Modern Combat was linear (or at least, I never felt it was any more linear than any other shooter. And less so than most). And the shifting soldier thing was awesome (I think the called it hotswapping... Or something weird like that).

Also, I think COD is a rival for every game ever made. They'd all like to see a chunk of that change, certainly.

 

[Squilookle]

well at the very least hotswapping lives on in the Battlestations games.

From a money point of view, you're right, but most of the time people are talking about gameplay and not money. If I told someone that Animal Crossing's biggest rival was Black Ops, people would think I had a screw loose!