Montana Fragfest

Tell you what, I’ve been a fan of the Battlefield series for a long time. Didn’t play much 1942, but I’ve played the HELL out of Battlefield 2 and loved every minute of it. As you all may know, I also happen to love Team Fortress 2. These reasons are why I was so excited to hear about Battlefield Heroes. With the announcement of an expanded public beta yesterday, I couldn’t help but sign myself up and give it a review.

The Good

The game look great. Very stylized (like Team Fortress 2), good sounds, great models. I like the “gain points to buy new items” aspect, because it encourages players to play consistently to buy and keep better weapons. Besides the pilot there are two extra seats on planes, and by seats I mean you sit on the wing and shoot at people.

The Bad

The game has no focus. The loss of the mini map makes you feel like you are just one guy running around a field. The weapons dont’ feel like they do damage (except to you, of course), and you feel thrown into a game with no teamwork whatsoever. My favorite ability in the Battlefield games was the ability of teammates to spot enemies for you. They have removed this from Battlefield Heroes and without this it is VERY hard to find snipers (and trust me one good sniper can just wreck a spawn) or let your pilots know where enemy planes are. There is also no voice chat or commander, which makes it TERRIBLY difficult to coordinate a team.

The vehicles are TERRIBLE. When flying a plane you have no clue where the other planes are and no seeming way to gain an advantage on them. The tanks just seem silly and without the mini gun for the driver there seems to be no good way to kill infantry with it.

The sounds get annoying QUICK. They tried to make the sounds as cartoony as possible, but I can only hear the sad trombone sound (only much higher pitched) so many times before I want to choke myself with my mouse cable.

The Ugly

As it stands right now, I would pass on this game. It just feels too disconnected. There is no teamwork and therefore it’s just another run around and shoot things, only this time you are stuck in a cartoon.

Play the game as the scout alot, eventually you will get enough achievements to unlock it. Yeah! It’s that easy!

The truth is the scout achievements ar the hardest to get. Half of the achievements involve the damn sandman, so how are you supposed to get achievements to GET the damn sandman? Well there are a number of them and the best way to get them is to go into the scout achievement setting and click “Add to HUD”. That way you can watch your progress on the achievements and hopefully be knocking out heavies in no time.

For the record, I firmly believe getting achievements genuinly (i.e. NOT farming) and I have yet to unlock the sandman. The scout is even my second-most played class! Keep it up, eventually you’ll unlock ‘er.

5. The Audience – It seems as a whole that PC gamers are usually mature. You see quite a few more whipper snappers playing the consoles these days. That is okay, I like to surf different crowds. You know, hop on Xbox live and pretend to be 16 then go to the Montana Fragfest TF2 server and be an angry 40 year old. This age gap is very apparent when on Xbox live when that DAMN 12 YEAR OLD WONT SHUT THE HELL UP AND QUICK SCREAMING INTO HIS HEADSET ABOUT “PWNING” AND TALKING SMACK ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. PC gamers just talk about getting drunk and/or stoned and still kicking ass on the server.

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