[Review] Battlefield 4

[Murad]

Title: Battlefield 4

Developer: DICE

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Players: 1-24 players (online)

Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

Genre: First Person Shooter.

 

It is not for less because one of the most impressive FPS that has been seen is already on sale, which launches a new graphics engine and gives us a taste of what

we can see in the new generation of consoles.

Battlefield 4 is the sequel to Battlefield 3, but as has always been the case, the stories are not related. On this occasion, history will take us to China, the great empire that is in chaos. We will take the role of Sergeant Daniel Recker, a member of a group of elite soldiers belonging to the Tombstone Squad made up of Clayton Pakowski (Pac, Marine Combat Rescue), Kimble Graves (Irish, Sergeant Major) and William Dunn.

This squad will be in charge of stopping Chinese Admiral Chang who is planning a coup in China, if not, the Russians will back him and a bigger war could start. With this information, the USS Valkyrie (the ship where our factions are housed) heads to Shanghai. The Tombstone squad is sent on a covert mission in the city to extract a group of VIPs. Relations with China are somewhat strained after the US has been implicated in the assassination of Jin Jie, the future leader and voice for China's peace. Chang has canceled the elections and martial law has been declared. Both the US and Russia are positioned off the coast of China and the situation is rapidly escalating like a powder keg about to explode. Will we be able to stop this catastrophe?

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Many people have had the bad taste of the campaign in the last installment, but this time I assure you that the linearity of the story mode has ended up giving us more freedom to make decisions. A short but concise story where they show us from how to play to how to drive various vehicles, one of the most attractive points of this game. In addition to leaving behind the coldness of characters giving them representative features, surely you will fall in love with one of them.

In the campaign we will no longer be a soldier, now we can give orders for attacks and although artificial intelligence is not entirely good, the truth is that they will help us kill enemies while we shoot or advance. This point gives it a bit of freshness with respect to the previous one where we had to do everything ourselves and our teammates did nothing about it.

The version we are reviewing is the PlayStation 3, so the graphics are not as impressive as those of PC or the new generation. But despite this it looks improved. The effects of lights and textures give us an impressive view in open stages such as in the forest and even in the sea with the solar flares that blind our view, in addition to that thanks to the new Frosbite 3 engine it allowed them to take the next step with the destruction of objects in the environment. Everything is practically destructible (with some errors such as indestructible cars) but if in Battlefield 3 we were excited about a building falling, in this fourth installment we will be stunned to be killed because a structure was destroyed with a grenade in places that before we could be within except.

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I have always said that Battlefield is a purely multiplayer game and the campaign they added to it will not let me lie as it helps us a lot to practice for the online mode that is full of players from all over the world ready to fire the trigger.

In multiplayer there are different modes, which we will explain below:

Conquest

The conquest mode is the classic mode where we must control territories, the more we control the greater chance of winning we will have, everything is based on working as a team and not letting the enemy take our already captured bases or take away the bases that they have already captured.

TCT: Extermination
One of my favorites is the extermination mode where basically you just have to kill and kill enemies, the team that has achieved the most casualties is the winner.

Eradication

The funniest and most hectic mode DICE has ever invented. This is a new mode where we have large maps, each team has its base and a bomb appears randomly on the map. The teams will compete to get hold of the bomb and install it in the enemy barracks.

Assault
A beastly mode where large maps are used to the maximum, where we will see all kinds of vehicles and wholesale destruction. The objective is for the attacking team to destroy two MCOM stations using bombs in two different places on the map. The defending team has to prevent this from happening before running out of comebacks. If the attacking team is successful, two more MCOM stations will appear farther away on the map. Assault Mode continues until the attacking team has destroyed six enemy MCOM stations or when the defending team has finished with the enemy's respawn tickets.