There are sceptics among the Battlefield hardcore, but they should be converted when the demo versions hit around the time of the game's summer release on PC, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. It's enormous fun, but it still has me worried. Despite this, and the 24 players running around the Xbox 360 version we're playing on devkits, the frame-rate ping-pongs between 30 and 60fps. Propane blows holes in buildings, towers fall, and fences buckle under tank-tread - Christian was much more poetic. 1943 may be a download-only multiplayer shooter built for an impulse purchase, but as we noted last time it's also built on Bad Company's proprietary Frostbite engine, which means fully destructible environments - more so even than last year's physics-heavy console shooter. There's a lot of sniping in that level,' Liu says of it.Īnother distinctive facet is the technology itself. 'Guadalcanal is also a good blend of vehicles and infantry, but it's such a huge map and also has a lot of hills. Presumably if you pipe up again, Guadalcanal - the third of the maps, which no one has seen in its 1943 form yet - will be set at night under clouds inside Tim Burton's head, wearing a blindfold made of dried blood and mucus.

Apparently you all thought it looked too much like Battlefield Heroes, DICE's toonified third-person PC spin-off. One big tweak came only very recently, in response to feedback on the Wake Island trailer.

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