Today, on Oblivious Presents, The Captain hits 5000 posts and goes "On the Record". To celebrate the occasion, he brings you a game review. That game is...
Battlefield Heroes is new(-ish), free to play, class based third-person shooter by EA for the PC. Of course, it's cartoonish art style and character classes have drawn comparisons to Team Fortress 2, but this game isn't just a shameless rip-off trying to cash in on the popularity of Valve's masterpiece. They just happen to both be cartoony modern shooters. But enough of that, the internet's overflowing with it already.
Battlefield Heroes, art style aside, is just another average World War II shooter set in the batlefields of Europe. Except, it's not. Battlefield Heroes is not set in World War II, it just happens to be a war that seems to be occurring between 1939 and 1945. On lovely stretches ofEuropean coastline. Of course, those aren't those aren't the only differences between this game and World War II, the combatants are different.[img=inline_caption align='left' src='http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb//GamesRadar/us/Games/B/Battlefield%20Heroes/Bulk%20Viewers/PC/2008-02-29/Battlefield%20Heroes%20Screen%201--screenshot.jpg' height='200']
[img=inline_caption align='right' src='http://www.gamedrift.com/images/largemedia/battlefield_heroes_screen_3_png_jpgcopy.jpg' height='200']Instead of a conflict between the Allies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II] and the Axis Powers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers] the game focuses on two forces who, by complete coincidence, happen to bear certain similarities to those involved in World War II. These forces are called The Royal Army and The National Army. As the game's trailer so tunefully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u9xG09Ejk0] tells us, the Royal Army are fighting to defend their King and monarchy whereas the Nationals "Just want to win"
The game handles like any generic MMORPG, you stare at the back of your fully customisable character's head, shooting with mouse clicks and running with the keyboard. So far, so FPS. But the game also has a little hotbar at the bottom of the screen, used to change weapons, use items such as bandages and enable special character abilities such as the Soldier class's Grenade Spam ability which hurls between 3 and 7 grenades towards the enemy.
Although the game is officially "Browser Based", I mus warn you that this is a cunning lie, as you must first install the 2GB of game and patch it up before going back onto their website [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/] to click the big Play Now! button, which then starts the game up from your computer to run in a separate window. So your "I can run it on my laptop" idea probably won't work.
Now, the big question, if this is a free to play game, then how will the unstoppable, money grabbing behemoth that is EA be able to raid our collective wallets?
Simple. They're jumping on the micro-transactions bandwagon.
You want your character to look sexy don't you? Well you can't unless you buy Battlefunds [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/store/purchaseBattlefunds], which are points you buy with real money in order to buy cosmetic in-game items. Fortunately for us gamers on the cheap, EA listened to our whining during the development of the game and are not allowing real world wealth to influence the game world any further than looks. All weapons are bought with a separate currency called Valor Points, which are earned through playing the game and killing other players.
Overall, Battlefield Heroes is a well balanced game that I'd definately reccommend. You should give it a try and if you don't like it you haven't wasted any money. Giving you no reason not to.
[small]Battlefield Heroes [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/] was created by EA [http://www.ea.com/] and is available now on PC.
Average Retail Price: £0.00
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Battlefield Heroes is new(-ish), free to play, class based third-person shooter by EA for the PC. Of course, it's cartoonish art style and character classes have drawn comparisons to Team Fortress 2, but this game isn't just a shameless rip-off trying to cash in on the popularity of Valve's masterpiece. They just happen to both be cartoony modern shooters. But enough of that, the internet's overflowing with it already.
Battlefield Heroes, art style aside, is just another average World War II shooter set in the batlefields of Europe. Except, it's not. Battlefield Heroes is not set in World War II, it just happens to be a war that seems to be occurring between 1939 and 1945. On lovely stretches of
[img=inline_caption align='right' src='http://www.gamedrift.com/images/largemedia/battlefield_heroes_screen_3_png_jpgcopy.jpg' height='200']Instead of a conflict between the Allies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II] and the Axis Powers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers] the game focuses on two forces who, by complete coincidence, happen to bear certain similarities to those involved in World War II. These forces are called The Royal Army and The National Army. As the game's trailer so tunefully [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u9xG09Ejk0] tells us, the Royal Army are fighting to defend their King and monarchy whereas the Nationals "Just want to win"
The game handles like any generic MMORPG, you stare at the back of your fully customisable character's head, shooting with mouse clicks and running with the keyboard. So far, so FPS. But the game also has a little hotbar at the bottom of the screen, used to change weapons, use items such as bandages and enable special character abilities such as the Soldier class's Grenade Spam ability which hurls between 3 and 7 grenades towards the enemy.
Although the game is officially "Browser Based", I mus warn you that this is a cunning lie, as you must first install the 2GB of game and patch it up before going back onto their website [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/] to click the big Play Now! button, which then starts the game up from your computer to run in a separate window. So your "I can run it on my laptop" idea probably won't work.
Now, the big question, if this is a free to play game, then how will the unstoppable, money grabbing behemoth that is EA be able to raid our collective wallets?
Simple. They're jumping on the micro-transactions bandwagon.
You want your character to look sexy don't you? Well you can't unless you buy Battlefunds [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/store/purchaseBattlefunds], which are points you buy with real money in order to buy cosmetic in-game items. Fortunately for us gamers on the cheap, EA listened to our whining during the development of the game and are not allowing real world wealth to influence the game world any further than looks. All weapons are bought with a separate currency called Valor Points, which are earned through playing the game and killing other players.
Overall, Battlefield Heroes is a well balanced game that I'd definately reccommend. You should give it a try and if you don't like it you haven't wasted any money. Giving you no reason not to.
[small]Battlefield Heroes [http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/] was created by EA [http://www.ea.com/] and is available now on PC.
Average Retail Price: £0.00
[img=inline_caption src='http://www.pegi.info/en/index/global_id/505/img/ratXS/icon16.gif']
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