A renewed version of an old game, a game that might not do justice to the battlefield name
The gameplay is basically no different so there is not much to expect but of course the graphics have been ramped up for the new console. Single player still suffers most of the same problems as before. Enemies spawning on top of you, A.I still being for the most part unhelpful and borderline useless. The hot swapping feature from the old game is back which allows you to instantly transfer from one soldier to the next. This makes the game a tad bit more fun and it also can make battle easier as it makes handling different targets a breeze. For instance 10 paratroopers might be trying to land and you run out of bullets with one soldier so you switch to the next who will most likely not be reloading. That maybe one advantage but the hot swapping feature does add a bit more and gives the game a unique style. The arcade feel can make or break your tilt towards the game as if your looking for a serious FPS then this wont be it but if you tend to lean to more casual games this maybe for you. The decision of course all depends on the person buying the game.
The game rewards you for racking up kills and staying alive with one soldier in the forms of medals and achievements. This gives the game a slight replay value. The game can be frustrating at times because it tries to blend arcade style tactics with poised FPS techniques and it at some places doesn’t pull it off so well.
The mini-games unlocked via single player are a fun distraction which also reward you with stars that add to you official ranking. Ranking will be gotten to in a bit.
Now onto multiplayer mode, it’s quite good and makes up for the somewhat lame single player but it again is almost no different than the old multiplayer in fact even some old glitches return to this game. While the single player game is mostly a loud noisy battle that never stops the multiplayer experience is quiet which can be disorientating for new players.
Tactics that were used in the old multiplayer make there return here a.k.a double duck and shoot then move on. The game does have an ok newcomer system. As newbies are only pit with other newbies but the transition to upper-class at a seriously fast pace will put off many players. The medals needed to be won to advance can easily be done with a friend making medals unimportant.
This gives you nothing really to fight to achieve besides a higher ranking as you are rewarded no other way. Ranking up is fun to watch but after a while it get boring and for the most part uninteresting. The vehicles in both single and multiplayer modes are hard to control which forces players to adapt quickly to be able to keep up with other players. The game modes are two simple modes: Capture the Flag and Conquest.
In CTF it is exactly as it sounds you capture the flag from your enemies base and take it back to yours. This is the faster paced of the two modes as it boggles down the playing field but conquest is a quiet but large affair. Many times in at the start of a conquest game it can be loud and fun but it soon turns into quiet and long.
You must hold a flag under you control in an attempt to make the enemy forces lose their points but sometimes with no means of transportation and large maps it can be a little on the annoying side to move to a flag making things worse is getting there and failing to hold the flag making you have to repeat the process over again.
Unless you are with friends your human teammates usually stick by themselves which makes the game less team friendly. You will also see players sticking to certain types of soldier types instead of diversifying themselves. Also players tend not to explore different maps so unless you play constantly your unlikely to see all the very good maps the game has to offer.
The sounds from the guns are unnoticeable and many guns lack the power which is supposed to be backed up by the sound but this is not to say with all guns but more of them are geared towards unnoticeable. For example you could be walking around when you start getting hit from a machinegun not more than 20 feet away but you don’t hear the gun but only see the bullets and this can lead to confusion.
The game is very engaging but not very special and the new version feels more of a straight port than a revamped version. Despite these flaws the game still manages to pull of a solid shooter both on and offline.