The squad supplied some half-hearted covering fire, while I took out the sniper (or avoided being stabbed) on the third respawn… And another thing: they always sodding bustle me through doors!” Yet the first thing to witness here is the traditional Hollywood-style campaign mode, replete with flashback mission gameplay that – surprisingly – never features the line, “It was carnage. Few other games reach the heights of pure slumber-crashing addictiveness, delivering genuine cooperative satisfaction, while still finding time to present periods of inescapable challenge and frustration that merely serve to add to the whole.Īnd while Battlefield 3 leading the charge from 2011’s Modern Warfare 3 release may be of anecdotal interest, veterans know they shouldn’t be considered rivals. To anyone with even a modest history in virtual online warfare, the name Battlefield carries a weight of expectation.
