Battlefield 3: PC Gamer Reports for Rumor Duty
Battlefield 3: PC Gamer Reports for Rumor Duty
Before serving you the latest rumors on Battlefield 3, you might be delighted to hear that version 0.7 of the critically acclaimed Project Reality modification for Battlefield 2 is out. No? Well then on with the main course: The latest issue of PC Gamer has a preview on the previously rumored fourth Battlefield installment (counting Battlefield 2142). Here's what they've gathered:
Our Spies tell us we'll soon see the announcement of Battlefield 3. This is great for fans of online shooting, long distance sniping, helicopter strafing and comedy tank antics. EA are tight-lipped for now, but here's what to expect.Modern Combat
The biggest question: when and where will it be set? We hear it's going to be modern-day, in a fictional war between NATO and the Middle Eastern coalition [MEC]. Consider the last game - a future of floating artillery and anti-grav platforms - a diversion. Most of the eight maps will focus on urban sites. We'd love to see a return of Strike at Karkand - a frenzied battle across an empty city.More Online
Since Battlefield 2, the team at DICE have picked up influence from MMO game. Persistent stat tracking and new weapons for experienced players will be present, but we're hoping for more. Expect to customize your soldier's appearance, armour, and weaponry beyond unlocks. Choosing a face, voice, tattoos, and badges would be an obvious start.Heavy Tech
In console land, they're already being treated to a new Battlefield game, Subtitled Bad Company, it's debut of the next-gen "Frostbite" engine. Aside from producing staggering draw distance that lets you pick off targets miles away, it's imbued with some serious deformation technology. Buildings can be blown apart, bridges burst and craters carved. Battlefield 3 will evolve that technology further.Class Act
Why mess with a near perfect set of abilities? Battlefield 3 won't alter the standard Sniper, Assault, Medic, Engineer, and Support class balance. Want a quick rev? Call for a Medic. Need a tank busted? Grab the Assault trooper and pray he's packed an RPG launcher.Guns, And More Guns
Every soldier needs a weapon, and Battlefield 3 will be chock full of firearms, 34 in fact, split evenly between the MEC and NATO. You'll have to work for the privilege of sporting the most powerful rifles. As well as weapons, you'll unlock armour, ammo, helmets and accessories.Play Together
The best feature of Battlefield 2. Sharing objectives and voice chat with friends as five-man squads. That's being extended, with squads able to join up to form a battalion - the perfect partner for improved clan support and ranked servers. Commanders can still order grunts to the front and supply them with ammo drops, radar pings, UAV reconnaissance and the occasional artillery strike.
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Have they even played BF2? Assault kit with RPG launcher? 5-man squads? Either I've been playing a different game, or they don't proofread their articles. ;)
Anyway, if BF3 is a BF2 without bugs and with a far larger draw distance and slightly better graphics, I'd be happy enough. If they throw in destructible terrain (I never want to see a tank explode again because it drove into a wooden fence...) and customisable appearance - gimme gimme gimme!
I won't buy any new Battlefield game because I was just too disappointed by the last games.
Don't get me wrong - Battlefield 2 was fun to play and looked great ... but installing drivers dedicated to one game ??
Battlefield 2142 was the biggest joke in history ... paying full price for a game that could have been made by a modding team in about the same time ? Never!
And the way they describe BF3 just gets to my head as follows:
"I got a great idea. Let's take exactly the same game, put a new graphics engine around it and sell it full price. We spend little money producing the game and get more money per sold game!"
No way DICE and EA ... I'm done with capturing lousy flag points.
And the customizing of players appearance:
Hell - make appearance totally random ... not customizable. You step on the battlefield, you die, you're dead, period. There is no coming back to the field as the same person. It just contradicts the impression of being on a battlefield.
Makes perfect sense to me, now that you say this.
Hehe, made me smile as well. it also sounds like a great way to develop a personality disorder. "Hey I'm a 200 pound bald russian....oh wait, I'm a slim black haired asian chick, ups...now I look like someone had sex with an alien..."
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