It's really neat to play what's p much a simulacrum of the military shooter bonanza 10 years later. It also being the poster child for Battlefield "when it was good" also makes it cool to see where people were coming from back then, not that I'd say I agree fully.
It definitely has the sound and visual design of Dice's crazy engine with the smoke and building destruction that people and honestly including me soy out for. The banter between the main cast is pretty charming too, which considering the hoorah paint-by-numbers aesthetic this shit usually goes for (and my experience with Battlefield 3 is any truth of) is real refreshing. While the environments are kind of so-so now, there's spots of genuine awe with where the lighting hits.
It's just too bad and unsurprising that it's not any fun to play. Gunplay meets the job required of it but it's not real fun to shoot, and the mission design is really scattershot leaning p awful. There's a lot of moments where you'll have to walk forward without your squad and then get forced into an enemy ambush that can down you quickly if you're unlucky. Game's quite buggy too even with all the patches, and hit detection is very weird and inconsistent for whatever reason. That part might just be a PC-only thing cuz I couldn't find anything for the console versions about that. The level and enemy design is of course, nothing remotely to write home about, because there isn't much to talk about. It's a military shooter you have to be prepared to fight the same slice of enemies for 4+ hours that's kind of what you sign up for.
I can't speak for the multiplayer at all, one because it's kind of dead, and secondly because the online pass thing is so finicky now. Really dated itself fast with that huh?
Don't feel like I wasted my time, but I don't recommend coming back to it.
It definitely has the sound and visual design of Dice's crazy engine with the smoke and building destruction that people and honestly including me soy out for. The banter between the main cast is pretty charming too, which considering the hoorah paint-by-numbers aesthetic this shit usually goes for (and my experience with Battlefield 3 is any truth of) is real refreshing. While the environments are kind of so-so now, there's spots of genuine awe with where the lighting hits.
It's just too bad and unsurprising that it's not any fun to play. Gunplay meets the job required of it but it's not real fun to shoot, and the mission design is really scattershot leaning p awful. There's a lot of moments where you'll have to walk forward without your squad and then get forced into an enemy ambush that can down you quickly if you're unlucky. Game's quite buggy too even with all the patches, and hit detection is very weird and inconsistent for whatever reason. That part might just be a PC-only thing cuz I couldn't find anything for the console versions about that. The level and enemy design is of course, nothing remotely to write home about, because there isn't much to talk about. It's a military shooter you have to be prepared to fight the same slice of enemies for 4+ hours that's kind of what you sign up for.
I can't speak for the multiplayer at all, one because it's kind of dead, and secondly because the online pass thing is so finicky now. Really dated itself fast with that huh?
Don't feel like I wasted my time, but I don't recommend coming back to it.