Battlefield 1943
Hey guys, Daren here to give you my written review of Battlefield 1943. So grab your fish, because your going to need some brain food by the time this review is over.
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The first thing you’ll notice is when you go to download it, it uses the demo as the base, and when you purchase it, it gives you a 6kb key to unlock the full game. So if your like me, and downloaded the demo, this will greatly please you. I literally had the game in a half a second. This was brilliant DICE. Good on ya.
When you actually boot up the game, you’ll notice an extra mode appears on the bottom of the screen called ‘Air Superiority’, that in it’s most basic form, is airplane only combat. The reason it doesn’t show up right away is because DICE made us work for it, and awarded it to us at the 43,000,000th kill. This was also a smart move, because it gave people more motivation to play the game, beyond Achievements and Trophies.
Ok, so let’s click on the option ‘Quick Match’. I feel that DICE should have named this option ‘Join Game’ because this is the only way to get into a public game, beyond joining a game your friends are already in. So we get into a game (not hard to do, just press the button), the map loads, and you press the button to join. Your then presented with the choice of three classes. Riflemen (who sports a M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle, attachable grenade launcher, bayonet, and stand alone grenades), Infantry (equipped with a Thompson SMG or a Sten SMG, depending on which team you are on, Rocket launcher, Wrench, and grenades), and finally the Scout (more like Sniper, but anywho, he’s got a Springfield 03, handgun (yes, my nerdy gun identifying streak has finally run out), combat knife or katana, and remote activated dynamite. Each class is good at something, and they’re names pretty much tell what it is. However, I’ve found that any class will work in any situation, as long as you’re clever.
Ok, time to launch your attack. On two of the three land maps you’ll start your assault on your Aircraft Carrier, and use various vehicles to gain access to the mainland. On one map however, (Guadal Canal) you’ll start on the actual island. This helps break up the ritual of traveling to the island.
You set foot on enemy soil, thick smell of gun powder, and loud booming of AA Guns make your ears hurt. Better take the safety off your Thompson, because you think you see a Scout sneaking around the concrete bunker. “Sniper in the bunker, take cover,” you say in your gaming headset. “Get a Scout up here, we need to be able to move up.” You see your team mate runny up, a USMC Sniper. A bullet flies from the bunker and hits him in the head. He falls to the ground, his pack remaining where he stood, this body disappearing after a few seconds. ‘Dang it!’ you think to yourself. You click the right stick, bringing your solder into a crouching stance. Ok, ready, GO! You bum rush to your partners pack and press a button on your controller, replacing your weapons with his, leaving yours in the place of his pack. You click the left stick and sprint back to the rock you where using as cover, bullets whizzing past your head with excellent sound effects. You get back to cover and click the right stick again. You waste no time pulling out your Springfield 03, bring up the scope, and click the right stick yet again. You stand, and aim a bit to the left. You step right, throwing off your enemy, and putting your reticule directly on your opponents head. ‘Bingo’, BANG.
That was but a sample of the dramatics that happen of the battlefield, of Battlefield 1943. There really isn’t much more I can say, beyond the graphics are good, the sound is perfect, the gameplay is balanced, and this game is amazing. It’s a 8/10, docked a few points only because of minor lag here and there, and some occasional yellow and black patches that flash across the screen. Bravo DICE, I hope you have enough money now to make Battlefield: Bad Company 2 even better.
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