Sure these two modes work well, but everyone wants some variety online. The biggest downside to the game is the lack of different modes online, which should have been dealt with before the game was released. The game still includes plenty of vehicles and even helicopters, which control well enough on the consoles. Modern Combat provides a good experience that has a lot to offer the typical gamer. The actual online play is solid and smooth, but nothing that hasn’t been done before in the Battlefield series. Now these two are also probably the most popular online on the PC, but it would have been nice to have seen more to the games online play on the consoles. Now one of the biggest downsides to the game is that it only has two different types of modes to choose from online - Conquest and CTF – both of which feels similar to each other.
On the PS2 you can have up to 24 players online, which is very impressive for a console. Sure the single player mode isn’t overly long, but it was enjoyable while it lasted.Įven though this game is on the consoles the main draw of any Battlefield game is the multiplayer, which is very much true for Modern Combat as well. The game really does a great job of allowing you to be very involved in your battles, and it really feels like you have a significant impact on the outcome of the battles. Similar to the previous Battlefield games, Modern Combat allows you to really enjoy all the different types of soldiers in the game. The ability to hot swap adds quite a bit of strategy to the game. The single player experience is not all that long, but it is entertaining from start to finish. I loved this idea and got so used to it that when I played other FPS, I wished they had this in their game. Let’s say you see a tank coming up, you can then switch to an engineer if he is in the line of sight to take out out. Basically what this allows you to do is switch between players on the fly.
What is neat about this game is the ability to hot swap, which has never been done in a FPS before, but I could see it becoming very popular in years to come. Basically you go through this single player game with one thing in mind, taking out your opponents. This time around, Modern Combat actually offers a typical futuristic political storyline where the world is in chaos, mainly focusing on China in this game.
Well let’s start with the single player portion of the game, which can be considered really the most insignificant portion of all three PC games. So the big question is, is the game up to the challenge?
Well now the series is making the transition to the console, which means the game may have to alter its focus to both single and multiplayer, instead of just multiplayer. And just this year Digital Illusions releases Battlefield 2, bringing back plenty of the past glory to the PC, with amazing visuals and solid gameplay all the way around the board. Then came the Battlefield Vietnam, which felt more like an expansion to 1942 and didn’t receive as high of praise as the original. Well let’s take sometime and talk about the Battlefield series, which began as Battlefield 1942, which is one of the most popular first person shooters to play online today.
So were they up to the test? Read our full review to find out! Gameplay
To be honest, I was weary when I heard Digital Illusion is porting their Battlefield series over, as they have a tough time in recreating that PC-feel on the console platform. Well there are so many games on the PC that you just never though you’d see on the consoles.