Sales for Battlefield 4 are going to be explosive when it hits the shelves October 29th. For those who are not aware what Battlefield is, it is a Triple A first person shooter developed by DICE and published by EA. Fortunately, a Beta for Battlefield 4 was released on October 1st and will be available to everyone on October 4th.
The overall purpose of the Beta is to test the servers of the game for the final release, but who is to say that fans aren’t allowed to have fun with it too? The Beta gifts gamers with two game modes, Conquest and Domination, as well as one map to play with, The Siege of Shanghai. With the ability to handle 64 players on a PC and up to 24 on other consoles, Battlefield keeps the game dynamic with large battles and plenty of people to play with.
First impressions of the Beta are pretty much unanimous from all of its players– it looks like a really solid title. Aside from the minor lag issues, server strain and typical bugs found in a Beta, players have thoroughly enjoyed the time they have already invested in Battlefield 4.
The map is very large and has a options for players who like to think outside of the box. Whether it is taking a Wave runner from point A to point E, dominating across the map using a tank or a helicopter, parachuting from the top of the skyscraper, or advancing in a squad as mere infantry, Battlefield 4 is makes all of these options viable.
Battlefield’s major strength truly does come from its ability to allow the player to fight in any way they want, and still have fun doing it. The four playable classes: Assault, Support, Recon and Engineer help to vary the combat even further.
The new feature that Battlefield 4 puts into play is Levolution. An announcement from DICE states that Levolution is a feature that is, “changing the landscape in real-time with interactive environments that react to your every move, ensuring no two matches are ever alike.” This feature is hard to observe early on in a match and won’t even really be appreciated until after a few rounds. Yes, of course, all the buildings can be blown up and some actually fall down, but whether or not everything is part of the set piece and meant to fall or an actual building will take some time to figure out.
Battlefield 4 is attempting to prove that it is not just an ordinary shooter game, and has successfully done so in all of their installments. It does not follow a “Copy and Paste” standard that other shooter games follow; Battlefield pushes the boundaries, a quality that even the Beta is showing in its current state.
Battlefield 4 is a graphic, intense game, and will require a relatively high end machine to run in smoothly on max settings, next gen consoles will be able to do just that. The amount of action constantly going on with 64 players in one map is also enough to strain a machine.
There is plenty more positives that have not yet been reported, like weapon/vehicle handling, customization and much more. Battlefield 4’s multiplayer is so large that the only way for someone to understand how the game plays is to download the beta and test it themselves.
