Commands are context-sensitive, so if you're staring at an enemy flag and issue an instruction, your comrades are told to attack if you're staring at your own flag, they're told to defend. There's also a squad command system, similar to Battlefield: Bad Company. Otherwise, for a total newb, it's extremely hard to get into asymmetric gameplay."
Now we've made it so there are two carriers and both teams are attacking the island, just to make things fair. "Wake Island used to be one team defending the island and the other team attacking it. Senior producer Patrick Liu tells me that the small team deliberately reorganised them symmetrically. Snipers blink - a well-judged stab of disorientation - into their telescopic sights and trace anyone daft enough to wander around out of cover bazookas eviscerate the arrogant tanks and the new bomber wings are repelled by anti-aircraft fire (another clever bit of balancing - rather than an unavoidable artillery strike, when a bombing run is called in from a special shack the team in the crosshairs now has a slim chance of repelling the onslaught).ĭICE has played around with these maps, despite their heritage, and the results appeal to old and new. Yet there really is a lot to it, just as there should be, and it's been tweaked smartly.
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You can always squeeze in more players," Liu says when we ask about the PC version. "We have designed the levels now with 24 in mind, but that's not hard-coded. Fighting seesaws between an airstrip at one end through trenches and over grassy hills past a lighthouse to higher ground at the other, and while all the vehicles are present and correct, it's an infantry war automatic weapons, bazookas, sniper rifles, pistols and - gloriously - katanas doing the best of the killing.
There are five control points on each map, like the one we're seeing today - Iwo Jima, after last month's reintroduction to Wake Island - and the European press gathered at DICE's wind-battered Stockholm headquarters have more difficulty negotiating the keycard door to the balcony than they do contesting the territory on the second map's thin, turbulent sliver of Ogasawara. But it's still Battlefield, and it still punishes you for pratting around. You pick an infantryman, rifleman or scout class and then choose where to spawn. There are facilities for private matches, clans and squads, and there are levelling and reward systems (Achievements/Trophies and a broader range of honours beyond that, although no unlocks), but for the majority of people approaching the game from scratch, it's a one-click process to start playing, and it's not difficult to understand what's going on.
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There's a tutorial this time - the first in the series, rather unbelievably - that introduces you to the concepts offline and then lets you practice in planes and tanks unmolested by hostiles. In a tank.īattlefield 1943 may be simplified - three maps, three classes, one objective - but the key word is accessibility, not casual. Italy's landed a biplane upside down on an anti-aircraft gun, and I'm stuck fast in a trench. Nobody's talking to one another - hardly surprising, since the guys to either side of me are Italian, French and Spanish - and once the landing craft hit the beach, we've all regressed by about seven years. Never mind Bad Company - welcome to Dimwit Company.
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