Regular crashes and hangs have been recurring features of the series, and the games have often been just plain buggy.įor as long as I played Battlefield 2, for example, it had a bug known as the "red name bug." A simple thing: people on your team would appear to have a red indicator above their head, denoting that they're an enemy, rather than a blue indicator, denoting that they're friendly. When they have worked, the Battlefield games have provided unrivaled first person shooter experiences. My love of Battlefield has, however, always been tempered.
And in the newer games of the series, these maps have become important participants in the battle in their own right, with destructible buildings and scenery that mean that the structure giving you cover and concealment one second could betray you the next, crushing you beneath a pile of rubble.Īnd these enormous, complex maps have always looked gorgeous, thanks to DICE's Frostbite engine. Maps that take minutes to cross on foot, capable of sustaining multiple simultaneous skirmishes or huge multi-vehicular 32-on-32 battles. It has a wide range of vehicles, on land, sea, and in the air.īut more than anything else, Battlefield has enormous scale. It has an extensive system of persistent ranking and unlocks, to ensure that there are plenty of goals to aim for. It has a handful of game-modes, with the objective-based Rush, my favorite, particularly emphasizing its squad-based teamplay. It's class-based (after experimentation in past titles, the franchise now seems to have settled on four: the combat medic assault class, the anti-armor engineer, the sniping recon, and the machine gun-toting support), which means that everyone can find something useful to do, even if they're not the best shot. What's the draw to the Battlefield series? For a first-person shooter, the gameplay is rich and varied. But I sunk hundreds upon hundreds of hours into Battlefield 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and Battlefield 3. World War II shooters bore me-Hitler's firearms were totes imba, so if the games are authentic, the Germans get all the good guns, and if they're balanced, they might as well not be set in World War II-so I never played Battlefield 1942. Admittedly, I wasn't there from the start. I've played a lot of DICE's Battlefield over the years.
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