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EA Announces Battlefield 2, Console Versions
Thanks to GameSpy for its interview with Electronic Arts exec Scott Evans regarding the official announcement of a PC sequel to the popular team-based FPS, Battlefield 1942, hot on the heels of the recent news of a separate PlayStation 2-based follow-up, Battlefield: Modern Combat. This title is "bringing modern-day warfare to the series as well as a completely new engine", and Evans notes: "Each side will bring military hardware to the battle appropriate to their nationality. For example, the Chinese forces have a really cool mix of Soviet and homebrew technology that much of the world knows nothing about." He ends by addressing bias concerns: "It's important to remember that Battlefield is politically neutral... It's not just a game about the U.S. versus a Middle Eastern coalition."
Maybe not, but you can be pretty sure that most of the mods will be.
Hey, if that homebrew technology is as tasty as eggdrop soup or Kung Pao Chicken then I'm ready for a wok on the wild side.
Desert Combat is a BF1942 mod built by a bunch of people that surpasses the gameplay of the original by miles. Since DC is so much better then vanilla BF1942 EA hired those people and now they are working on the new game. CS has the same type of history.
EA mentions the Middle Eastern thing because DC had the Americans fighting the Iraqis.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
EA mentions the Middle Eastern thing because DC had the Americans fighting the Iraqis.
:p
The Coalition of The Willing man... not the US. They just used the US flag.
What about Battlefield: Vietnam?
So in other words : "We're going to use the Chinese side to put outrageous ideas and weapons into the game and hope the public doesn't realize theres no such thing as a dual cannon tank that fires depleted uranium tank rounds or a light vehicle armed with a giant gatling gun mounted on it with unlimited rounds while maintaining unerring accuracy to shoot both ground and air targets."
After the 'arcade-y' feel of BF1942 and BF:Vietnam, as well as the completely unbelievable C&C:Generals I have no confidence in EA Games in making a down to Earth idea and implementing it into a game. (A USA fighter plane is unable to destroy a stinger site and gets killed by it no less? China using mass infantry but no paratrooper planes? A terrorist organization with enough dune buggies armed with rockets has farther range than a USA patriot missle launcher site? What next? A tank which can roll over twice and still come out alive?... Oh wait...)
Knowing EA, those bastards are probably looking for a way to charge for it.
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There are several nice features to BF-Vietnam that are not in DC. For instance, the helicopter controls are much improved for newbies in Vietnam, whereas it is almost impossible to fly them in DC (without lotsa practice). I think you'll see the BF-series moving towards DC, as my clan has since we discovered it. Doesn't hurt we're mostly real military and like shouting "Yalla, Yalla, Yalla!" at each other too :).
I'll admit also that the game isn't... realistic. There is definitely some balancing to be done, esp if they use DC as a basis for BF:2. Anyone been shot by a VSS lately? Yikes!
But I digress,
This is the second popular game I know of that features China as protagonist to the USA. The first being Command and Conquer Generals (ok, so Harpoon had scenarios with China too, but I did say popular and that was more wargaming).
Whilst I can laud the reality based imagination of the writers in finding the largest army in the current world, I don't like the way the lines in the sand are being drawn up.
We have already had Bush's Axis of Evil (not dictatorship or human right abuses but downright Evil), but it seems as though games are going to prep us for the next conflict.
In the Blue Corner, the US of A!
"Truth, Justice and the American Way"
Aircraft Carrier fleets in every major ocean just to make sure American Interests are "protected"
And in the Red Corner, we have China.
"Red China"
0 Aircraft Carriers.
Last Communist bastion so they gotta be "evil".
Huge Market though, think of all those consumers!
And into this we have a game prepping the minds of gamers into accepting that China will be next in line for World Domination, entering a real game of risk if you ask EA.
And this is politically neutral??
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It would really be nice if BFMC takes advantage of the current craze of the BF community and allows for a complete moddable game on the Playstation 2 (of course only if the player's computer has the built in hard-drive).
This would bring a first to the consoles: modification development for a console game. That hard-drive should be used for something, so how about making your mark known and actually allow us to do this?
Desert Combat was such a craze on the BF1942 engine, BFV is great on the PC, why not allow us to make our own modifications? What's the worse that could happen, the modification couldn't work and it crashes the system back to boot up? (well I guess something worse could happen; such as erasing the whole hard-drive or something of the such...).
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Here's a point to chew on: Would this Playstation2 port of BF be online?