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 6/10 Very Good --- www.joystiq.com http://feeds.joystiq.com/weblogsinc/joystiq
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 72 days ago http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~3/289659242/
 Filed under: PC , First Person Shooters , Online , Casual click to enlarge
Producer Alexander Grondal said the team wants Battlefield Heroes to run on your Grandma's PC and -- with a sub-250MB download and the ability to run on Intel's anemic integrated video offerings -- we're sure it will. But that doesn't mean Grams is going to kick the Pogo crack pipe and be racking up levels in Heroes anytime soon. It's about as simple a shooter as you can imagine -- everything from the cartoon aesthetic to the streamlined controls reinforce the game's message: have fun -- but it's still a shooter at heart. It's a curious message coming from the same team that's been bringing the popular, and complicated, multiplayer Battlefield games to the hardcore shooter fans of the world. Has some of their audience grown up? Run out of free time? Still using the same gaming rig they built to play Battlefield 1942 in 2002? In our brief experience with the game at EA's Spring Break event in San Francisco last night, we were initially disoriented by the third-person perspective. Even though you see your character, Heroes doesn't play like a third-person shooter; it's an FPS through and through. A quick mental adjustment later, and we were running after enemies, grabbing flags, flying planes, and driving tanks. Gallery: Battlefield Heroes (5-13-08) Continue reading Joystiq hands-on: Battlefield Heroes ... |
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