Battlefield 1943 has players playing as either the United States Marine Corps or the Imperial Japanese Navy with up to 24 players on mainly three classic Battlefield maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima; but after 43 million kills upon both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, an additional Dogfight only map called Coral Sea will be unlocked, while the PC version will be accessible during its release.
Like Battlefield: Bad Company, 1943 features the Frostbite Engine for its environmental damage. The game only features the series’ signature Conquest mode when released. Similar to Battlefield Heroes, 1943 only features three classes – infantryman, rifleman, and scout. The game also features a regenerating health system similar to the Call of Duty or Halo series.
Battlefield 1943 Review
Format: 360 (tested), PC, PS3
Release: Out now (360, PS3), September (PC)
Publisher: EA
Developer: DICE
Only in videogames could World War II become synonymous with madcap levity. DICE’s Battlefield series has toughed its way through many eras of combat – historical, fictional and futuristic – but it was always its origins in an erratic, barmy depiction of WWII that offered the kind of joyful chaos that EA now wishes to recapture in Pacific’s downloadable, multiplayer shooter. And it has – to a tee.
Pacific is a masterfully pared-down version of Battlefield’s class-based teamplay – each side trying to wrest control of spawn points from the other while the ability to reinforce those positions ticks down with every casualty. This time, however, there are just three roles available to the player – loosely defined as close-range, mid-range and long-range – and, as with Bad Company, swapping between them is as easy as looting a kit-bag from a corpse.
What the game’s loadout has lost in depth of customisation it has gained in balance and immediacy – secondary weapons ensure that no class is helpless, even when forced out of its comfort zone. Self-replenishing ammo also turns out to be a great idea, ensuring a breakneck pace and ironing out the intimidating knowledge differential between beginners and veterans. The need to locate supplies or quickly come to terms with a complex class system are tossed away, promoting happy, impulsive experimentation. No one will sit grimly contemplating the benefits of tank combat over an aerial assault – they will simply choose: ploughing through fences and sandbag defences, smashing the corners off buildings as enemies scrabble to land a grenade beneath the tracks. The alternative is never less appealing: soaring way into the crisp Sega-blue sky before angling the nose directly down, ejecting and rocking gently to the ground beneath your parachute while watching your craft spiral, screaming, into an enemy bunker.
The settings are returning favourites from the original 1942, and it’s not hard to see why their previous versions propelled Pacific’s forebear to such success: DICE has used the natural restrictions of these islands to dispel any confusion over where to go, funnelling the player between dazzling blue seas and sandy shorelines. And yet neither do they feel cramped – the level designers exerting expert control over the flow of play.
Three levels provide for the conquest gametype familiar to the series, while another, Coral Sea, is pure air combat. Variety has always been Battlefield’s defining feature, and drawing out a single facet of play will not be to everyone’s taste – but its place on the matchmaking rota is optional. Even with only four levels, the game is a more than generous serving: for less than a quarter of Bad Company’s release price, this is the choice cut of its better half – multiplayer. And this is a yet more pacy, extravagant affair, tapping directly into the whims of the player who just wants to cover a plane in det-packs and plough it into an aircraft carrier. Strategy is subordinate to a sense of fun – and you wonder if that’s what the series needed all along. A perfectly sized, expertly crafted romp, Pacific gives other download games their marching orders.
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Battlefield 1943 Overview
Battlefield 1943 has players playing as either the United States Marine Corps or the Imperial Japanese Navy with up to 24 players on mainly three classic Battlefield maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima; but after 43 million kills upon both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, an additional Dogfight only map called Coral Sea will be unlocked, while the PC version will be accessible during its release.
Like Battlefield: Bad Company, 1943 features the Frostbite Engine for its environmental damage. The game only features the series’ signature Conquest mode when released. Similar to Battlefield Heroes, 1943 only features three classes – infantryman, rifleman, and scout. The game also features a regenerating health system similar to the Call of Duty or Halo series.
Battlefield 1943 Review
Format: 360 (tested), PC, PS3
Release: Out now (360, PS3), September (PC)
Publisher: EA
Developer: DICE
Only in videogames could World War II become synonymous with madcap levity. DICE’s Battlefield series has toughed its way through many eras of combat – historical, fictional and futuristic – but it was always its origins in an erratic, barmy depiction of WWII that offered the kind of joyful chaos that EA now wishes to recapture in Pacific’s downloadable, multiplayer shooter. And it has – to a tee.
Pacific is a masterfully pared-down version of Battlefield’s class-based teamplay – each side trying to wrest control of spawn points from the other while the ability to reinforce those positions ticks down with every casualty. This time, however, there are just three roles available to the player – loosely defined as close-range, mid-range and long-range – and, as with Bad Company, swapping between them is as easy as looting a kit-bag from a corpse.
What the game’s loadout has lost in depth of customisation it has gained in balance and immediacy – secondary weapons ensure that no class is helpless, even when forced out of its comfort zone. Self-replenishing ammo also turns out to be a great idea, ensuring a breakneck pace and ironing out the intimidating knowledge differential between beginners and veterans. The need to locate supplies or quickly come to terms with a complex class system are tossed away, promoting happy, impulsive experimentation. No one will sit grimly contemplating the benefits of tank combat over an aerial assault – they will simply choose: ploughing through fences and sandbag defences, smashing the corners off buildings as enemies scrabble to land a grenade beneath the tracks. The alternative is never less appealing: soaring way into the crisp Sega-blue sky before angling the nose directly down, ejecting and rocking gently to the ground beneath your parachute while watching your craft spiral, screaming, into an enemy bunker.
The settings are returning favourites from the original 1942, and it’s not hard to see why their previous versions propelled Pacific’s forebear to such success: DICE has used the natural restrictions of these islands to dispel any confusion over where to go, funnelling the player between dazzling blue seas and sandy shorelines. And yet neither do they feel cramped – the level designers exerting expert control over the flow of play.
Three levels provide for the conquest gametype familiar to the series, while another, Coral Sea, is pure air combat. Variety has always been Battlefield’s defining feature, and drawing out a single facet of play will not be to everyone’s taste – but its place on the matchmaking rota is optional. Even with only four levels, the game is a more than generous serving: for less than a quarter of Bad Company’s release price, this is the choice cut of its better half – multiplayer. And this is a yet more pacy, extravagant affair, tapping directly into the whims of the player who just wants to cover a plane in det-packs and plough it into an aircraft carrier. Strategy is subordinate to a sense of fun – and you wonder if that’s what the series needed all along. A perfectly sized, expertly crafted romp, Pacific gives other download games their marching orders.
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