Battlefield 4 Review

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battle packs, Battlefield, Battlefield 4, DICE, DLC, EA, EA Origin, gadgets, game, guns, loot boxes, micro transactions, military, multiplayer, pc, PS4, rushed, shooter, single player, tactics, vehicles, video game, Xbox One

Playing this I thought it was okay, at least for the single player story. The story is about protecting a Chinese VIP and the ending of it all seems kind of dumb and it also has multiple endings. There’s also this scoring system where 100 points if you kill an enemy, 25 for a headshot, though if a teammate gets a kill it’s only 50 points. Which sounds contradictory for when you squad attack commands. Your enemies also seem more focused on shooting you than the rest for your teammates. Though the voice work is pretty good for this story as well as the guy who voices Irish.

The multiplayer at first felt rushed out the door from what I heard. Though I never pre-order games before waiting a bit for the reviews and stuff. Now with all the patches and updates, it’s better now. There’s this thing now in multiplayer called Levelution, where the level can change to add more challenge to the play though. This game was also the first I think to have loot boxes, or battle packs as they call it and they are basically booster packs for your online play. You can use actual money for these to level up quicker, though now today they feel more like pay to win and might encourage gambling at times. EA had this for Battlefront 2 and it blew up in their faces but that’s a different story for another day.

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Battlefield 1 Review

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Battlefield 1, Battlefield 4, Battlefield: Hardline, battlepacks, computer, conquest, consoles, EA, EA Origin, fun, hackers, multiplayer, pc, PS4, shooter, single player, trolls, video game, World War 1, Xbox One

Was a little hesitant at first with this game since EA Rushed Battlefield 4 and Battlefield: Hardline was pretty bad. This game turned out to be pretty amazing so I bought it on the Xbox One, PC, and PS4, as a way to compare and contrast. The PC version seemed okay just because the PC client EA Origin has a lot of trolls and hackers at times and you can report them, but EA doesn’t do much from what I’ve heard.

The console versions seem to be better and it feels like EA is paying more attention to the consoles than the PC people. The game starts out with a prologue that really puts you in the mood and what these people went through during that time. The single player campaign has about 5 stories across the was and they seem pretty short at times.

Multiplayer can be pretty big with Conquest being one of the highlights of the game. I also heard there’s this gap between levels 4 and 10 and you can pay actual money for battle packs now. Which are really just booster packs and a quick way to level up and get the better add-ons for weapons without playing the game as much.

Anyway, this is a pretty good game and is more about having fun than being historically accurate. If you do by this just get the regular one since the special editions feel like buying too much at times.