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We're already looking forward to Battlefield 3
Just a few big maps in Bad Company 2 would have made all the difference.
Written by Steven Williamson, 12 March 2010
Despite the rant that's about to follow, we do love this latest evolution of the Battlefield series. The more we play it though, the more we long for the sort of colossal maps that PC gamers who played any past Battlefield game will be familiar with - 64 player epic battles across some memorable and huge locations.
We also enjoyed the single player campaign, but it's clear that it was created with console gaming in mind, playing host to a gameplay structure that caters toward the Call of Duty audience, rather than the Battlefield fans of old. That console-like feeling translates over to the multiplayer too, which now caters for 34 players across much smaller maps than Battlefield 2 and way tinier maps than Battlefield 1942.
PCGZine Issue 60
For our latest Battlefield 3 coverage, click here to download PCGZine Issue 60 for free.Conquest mode is designed for large scale battles, but here the gameplay has been streamlined into a more action-orientated experience with fairly compact maps restricting the flow of an epic large scale battle. DICE obviously understands that as console hardware gets better, the PC audience is dwindling and it needs to cater for the console crowd. That's no excuse, however, not to includ just a few maps that give us the room to properly go to war. If that were the case we'd be totally satisfied with this latest Battlefield expereince.
Jump into a helicopter and you're confined by boundaries. It takes hardly any time at all to zoom from one end of the map to the other. Actually staying in a helicopter for a long period of time is practically unseen because the tightness of the maps barely gives you any room to manoeuvre and escape before an enemy that you've just killed respawns and fires a rocket your way.
Battlefield 1942 transformed the series for PC gamers, but multiplayer in Bad Company 2 takes it one step back, and the lack of modding support doesn't help at all. Roll on Battlefield 3 we say, in which DICE has promised BIG things for the PC crowd - - let's hope so.
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