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EA Unveils Two New Battlefield Games
Electronic Arts announced at New York Comic Con that the Battlefield series would be getting two more titles. Battlefield 1943 will be focused on multiplayer, and it's due out for download this summer. It will be available through the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, and there will be a PC version as well. A website has been launched for the game, and it contains a trailer. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is scheduled for winter, and it will be available for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 also. Details for Bad Company 2 are sparse, though one exec said, "... it takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante — more vehicles, more destruction and more team play."
"... it takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante -- more vehicles, more destruction and more team play."
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So what happened to that battlefield game they were going to release that would be free to play provided you watched the commercials?
Since it is not on the list of 2009 games, and I never heard much of it, was it dropped?
I thought EA and Apple had a deal of releasing games concurrently for both Windows and Mac?
I've been playing the Battlefield series of games in the PC since the original Battlefield 1942 (from 2002) and the progression from the earlier games to the later games has been:
- The more recent games have been released with more bugs than the earlier games
- Even though they started with more bugs, the more recent games have received fewer patches, fixing fewer bugs and often the patches added more bugs than they fixed
Certainly, for the later games on the series, EA seems to have moved most of the development team to new projects almost as soon as the game was out even though what was out in the shops and selling was pretty much Beta quality software.
This is especially insulting because this was happening at a time when the rest of the Software Industry was improving their track record of releasing adequately tested and finished software.
If you're planning on buying one of these for the PC, my recommendation is that you sit on the sidelines for one or two months, keeping an eye on the forums for report of problems with the games and checking if EA actually fixes the reported bugs.
"I wish people would stop buying games with the EA logo on them. The majority of the Battlefield games that I have played all look and feel the same, but with just a face lift and some lie about how they totally developed the game from scratch."
We "buy" movie stars after a face lift. Why not games?
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I played BF2 for quite a while, enjoyed it immensly with my flatmates, however, we also got pretty much the same kick out of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942. Same setting, same vehicles (minus the turbo charged buggy) better graphics
I didn't buy battlefield 2142 as the only thing that appeared to be different was the gimicky 'board the space ship and destroy it' mechanic. Now it appears with BF1943 they're going back in time, therefore there will be no spaceships and even that gimmick has gone.
Churning out the same game with a new graphics engine seems to be the trend nowadays with EA. shame really.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for being subtle.
BF: Vietnam, BF2, and BF2142 (did I miss any) failed to draw my interest. I did not like that Vietnam and BF2 were rip-offs of popular mods (not certain if 2142 was, as well). BF1942 and the expansion Road to Rome were very enjoyable, especially with friends. Bad Company offered an entertaining single player.
EA has always released rushed games with minimal support after release. The Crysis series is another good recent example of this.
"Battlefield 1943 will be focused on multiplayer"
That'll be a welcome change. Battlefield 1942 was way too focused on who got to fly the plane, shooting down whoever go the plane before you, trying to park a jeep on the plane to see if it could take off with it, trying to do a bridge loop in the Market Garden level with the plane, winding up as a tail gunner in a plane and shooting the tail out for sheer spite, and trying to stand on the plane while it was flying.
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I loved 1942,couldnt get enough of it. Then Vietnam came out.... played it for about 3 hours total... Never touched either since... But from what I do remember of 1942 some of the clips from 1943 looks like they are rehashing the same damn maps... Did I miss something? Is 1943 just a remake?
Yea, it's pretty audacious.
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Maybe they'll finally support non 4:3 resolutions.
Okay, so maybe it's not that easy to do, but my friends and I like to play with the bots. Good Co-op would make this easier to sell to my group. COD really missed the ball on this, and even though the coop on Battlefield vietnam and 2142 and 1942 wasn't that great, it still made for decent gameplay. Oh, and MORE MAPS, please!
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I played BF42 for years. When BFV came out, I played it up until BF2 came out. I played BF2 for a while, then walked away.
Guess where I went? BF42. Even though the graphics are outdated and the maps lack any kind of resemblance of terrain, it's been the most fun of any of the games.
The WWII mod for BFV was a huge improvement over BF42. The same game, but better. The only downside was the 3 maps. If BF43 is the same game, but with a better engine, I would pay for it. I just wish they would stop dicking around and put out a full blown version.
For the record, I hate EA. I hate the lack of patch support. I hate DRM. But BF42 was such a phenomenal game, I am willing to look past that even for 3 maps. Past that, I've avoided everything to date.
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I cannot believe this hasn't gotten coverage here and especially since it is a 'FREE GAME' provided by EA.
That is right, EA is testing a new market and they are introducing a free Battlefield game. They will make their money off the game by buying stuff in-game like addons to your character, but you cannot buy gameplay advantages like bigger/powerful weapons.
Not only is it free, but the hardware requirements are very low to the tone of even minimum XP requirements and this game will be a boom on small laptops.
This is very revolutionary in the PC gaming industry, hopefully other developers will take notice and try to follow this model. 'Free as in Beer? No. Free as in EA? Yes'
I have been a Battlefield follower since it came out as Operation Eagle was the original title, In fact if you look at Operation Eagle and compare it to Battlefield Heroes you will see a lot of similarities and stuff that should have been added a long time ago.
EA and the Battlefield team have a notorious history of missing items in-game, empty spaces on the menu where there should have been an item. Overall though the game has been great and you cannot beat the mid air dogfights that take place in BF1942.
... was that you couldn't talk to everyone on your team to get them all on the same page. When you only have voice chat with 3 other guys, it's hard to coordinate your efforts if two of your squad members decide to go off and do their own thing. The game pretty much requires a high level of teamwork in order to be successful on offense, because there's no deathmatch or slayer game type.
What we know about BF1943:
- Released for PC, PSN, and Live
- Supposed to cost about $15
- Only three classes (like Heroes), all of them designed to fight (no support classes)
- Auto-healing over time
- Unlimited ammo
- Only three maps
- 24 players (down from 64 in its PC predecessors)
In other words, in every single way - save possibly being able to knock down trees - inferior to previous entries in the series. Fuck you, EA. Fuck you.
"... it takes everything that players liked in the original and ups the ante â" more vehicles, more destruction and more team play."
More consumer restrictions with even stricter DRM!
As someone who really enjoyed BF1942, and still occasionally plays it these days, I think this is awesome news.
Take one of my favorite games, bring the graphics up to speed, add a couple extra bells and whistles, and charge a non-ridiculous price for it? Hell yeah I'm game.
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Let's be blunt here. I've rarely seen a FPS game in recent history that is so cheater ridden as the whole Battlefield series. I especially loathe what happened to BF2142, which was definitly my personal favorite. But it's simply unplayable. Invariably, you'll have someone who cheats and you can't do jack about it. Since it's simple abuse of game mechanics and bugs and no external cheat tool, no anticheat catches it.
Unless there's a reason to believe that the game is playable, especially with such a strong focus on multiplayer, I won't buy.
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