The Battlefield series has always been to me an original shooter game to which there are none other to compare, the playing ground is much larger than usual and they have so far managed to include all sorts of vechiles you would expect without making the whole thing ridiculously imbalanced. Battlefields big step into the console universe is no different.
Playing online you are given 5 different classes to choose from, all more useful in some circumstances than others, a new addition to the game is a larger inventory which can be unlocked. Unfortunately this inventory in some ways destroys the ideal of team play which has always been a large element in BF, it does this by giving classes such as the sniper and heavy machine gunner means of annihalating vechiles by calling in missiles and mortars on them. And so now it is possible for 4/5 classes to destroy vechiles.
The new game mode Gold Rush gives the attackers the aim to destroy 2 gold crates which the defenders are defending, once destroyed defenders then fall back to their next 2 gold crates. This makes the game much more face-paced than your usual battlefield game as only a small section of the map is being utilized at any point in time, this helps give the easily distracted minds of a console gamer some focus on what they are supposed to be shooting at.In some of the maps it feels very much like COD4 due to the lack of vechiles, however still to me more enjoyable due to the ability to blow holes in walls!
About blowing stuff up, its *blooming great. If your in a tank you can roll over tree's and drive through fences, if someones trying to hide in a building you can just blow the building down! Awesome! Some dubiousness with the destructable scenery though, my knife appears to be magical, I can knife a door open, a fence down, a dude in half. And yet if I shoot at said door/fence/dude it takes quite some time to blow it down even with the M60..
Bad Company have now given us Conquest mode from previous battlefield series back! I thought this would be good news having enjoyed the previous series. Unfortunately the maps do not feel particulary suited to the game mode, and not many people online seem to know how to defend a point once they have captured it, therefore making one game go on for ever, perhaps it is not the gamers fault but the 30 point incentive they have of capturing a flag and nil of defending one.
Oh and I should say I bought this game being very excited about the single player which hasn't been included reaally into other Battlefields.Unfortunately it is as if you are playing online against a bunch of idiots on some different bits of terrain. The characters aren't actually very funny like I was tricked into thinking by watching the previews and your own character is basically that guy from Jarhead.
Overall when I am not lagging (as I have been HORRENDOUSLY the past few days) the Gold Rush game mode is very fast paced and enjoyable, perhaps in time conquest will be good and the single player is lame lame lame.
Playing online you are given 5 different classes to choose from, all more useful in some circumstances than others, a new addition to the game is a larger inventory which can be unlocked. Unfortunately this inventory in some ways destroys the ideal of team play which has always been a large element in BF, it does this by giving classes such as the sniper and heavy machine gunner means of annihalating vechiles by calling in missiles and mortars on them. And so now it is possible for 4/5 classes to destroy vechiles.
The new game mode Gold Rush gives the attackers the aim to destroy 2 gold crates which the defenders are defending, once destroyed defenders then fall back to their next 2 gold crates. This makes the game much more face-paced than your usual battlefield game as only a small section of the map is being utilized at any point in time, this helps give the easily distracted minds of a console gamer some focus on what they are supposed to be shooting at.In some of the maps it feels very much like COD4 due to the lack of vechiles, however still to me more enjoyable due to the ability to blow holes in walls!
About blowing stuff up, its *blooming great. If your in a tank you can roll over tree's and drive through fences, if someones trying to hide in a building you can just blow the building down! Awesome! Some dubiousness with the destructable scenery though, my knife appears to be magical, I can knife a door open, a fence down, a dude in half. And yet if I shoot at said door/fence/dude it takes quite some time to blow it down even with the M60..
Bad Company have now given us Conquest mode from previous battlefield series back! I thought this would be good news having enjoyed the previous series. Unfortunately the maps do not feel particulary suited to the game mode, and not many people online seem to know how to defend a point once they have captured it, therefore making one game go on for ever, perhaps it is not the gamers fault but the 30 point incentive they have of capturing a flag and nil of defending one.
Oh and I should say I bought this game being very excited about the single player which hasn't been included reaally into other Battlefields.Unfortunately it is as if you are playing online against a bunch of idiots on some different bits of terrain. The characters aren't actually very funny like I was tricked into thinking by watching the previews and your own character is basically that guy from Jarhead.
Overall when I am not lagging (as I have been HORRENDOUSLY the past few days) the Gold Rush game mode is very fast paced and enjoyable, perhaps in time conquest will be good and the single player is lame lame lame.
