While Conquest and Breakthrough are great in their own right, it was Hazard Zone that seemed to have garnered the most amount of attention from the fanbase and rightfully so. This sort of adapt-on-the-fly gameplay makes Battlefield 2042 feel a bit more distinct, and which is something it could have used more of.
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The Plus menu adds quite a bit to the game and keeps the action well-paced and allows players to switch up tactics on the fly and gain an advantage depending on the situation. My bet is that over the course of the next few months, there is going to be a ton of great user-created experiences in Portal, which is going to be a major selling point for the game.Īs it currently stands, Battlefield 2042 has a couple of neat tricks up its sleeve, such as the Plus menu, which allows players to customize weapons and swap out attachments on the go. More often than not, party also because of the incredibly slow matchmaking, I found myself going back to Portal and playing Rush Bad Company 2. Portal lets players play certain modes classic Battlefield games such as Bad Company 2 (a personal favourite), 1942, and 3. Odd, because, for one, Portal is essentially you playing a bunch of games from the series’ past and not the game you just paid a whole lot of money for. The biggest positive working in Battlefield 2042’s favour is easily Portal – which happens to be one of the best ways to experience the game, which is also kind of odd. However, it feels like the lack of a campaign doesn’t really hurt the overall experience. Despite this, it is nice to have a little campaign around, even if it is just there to break up the monotony from the Multiplayer. Apart from Bad Company 2, I don’t think I personally remember any of the other campaigns, which might speak to their overall quality. For some players, the removal of Classes as the be-all and end-all of player agency in Battlefield is going to be a positive, while for others, it can dampen the uniqueness of the game and make it feel more like the average shooter with some hero elements.Īnother thing of note this time around is the lack of a single-player campaign, which could be good thing or a bad thing, depending on whether you liked previous campaigns. Previously, squads would often pick Classes that complimented each other and depending on their playstyle, but now, all Specialists are pretty much interchangeable except for the one special ability they have. Particularly, the game decided to do away with Classes altogether, as now all Specialists can now pretty much do everything and classes have become redundant altogether. Conquest is, by far, the most popular game mode as matchmaking in anything else seems to take nothing short of an eternity.īattlefield 2042 feels exactly how long-time fans might remember the older games felt like, and in some cases, they might even feel it has regressed a bit. Despite the overwhelming number of players on the field, the maps can often feel quite barren, which is why vehicles are not only recommended to traverse the playing field – but almost essential should the player actually make it in time to protect a sector. The new maps are exceptionally large and impressive-looking with plenty of room for players to cause all kinds of havoc – but for some reason, they feel emptier than usual.
2042 doesn’t really tinker with that formula all that much, except for a massive tornado that comes around every once in a while to literally shake things up. It has long been acknowledged that players go to COD for the fast, reflex-based gunplay, and small maps – while Battlefield players enjoy their gigantic maps with tons of options and a slightly more methodical pace to their action. Battlefield 2042: There are signs of a really good gameĭespite both being exceptionally popular AAA, first-person shooters, the audience for COD and Battlefield are somewhat distinct. Now that the game is out and I’ve ran around its various maps for several days, is Battlefield 2042 all of what the fans were hoping for? Not quite, at least, not right now.
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The past couple of releases in the franchise drummed up excitement, but not nearly at the level of Battlefield 2042, and long-time fans of the series are really rooting for this to be the game that they’ve been clamoring for, for years. The reveal trailer single-handedly dispelled any air of staleness around the Battlefield franchise and for the first time in years, the franchise felt like it was about to break new ground, but at the same time, it was also going back to a style of game that players are quite familiar with.įor the past few years, the franchise has always been on the precipice of greatness, but in some manner or the other, has always fallen short. There are good game reveals and then there are great game reveals, and on a different scale altogether is the kind of game reveal Battlefield 2042 had.