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 Member 1106 Level 23.57 Mar 2006 
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Battlefield: Heroes
 This game will be the first of EA's new "play4free" (see: Korean grindan gaem) financial model. It's set to launch in Summer 2008. Reading the premiere article in Games For Windows, EA stated that the sales for recent super high end games like Crysis just weren't enough to keep pursuing that model of PC game development. Instead, they've decided to take a page out of Korea's book (or perhaps the whole book) and make a free to play game that'll run well on pretty much any computer out there. They also stressed that their art design was determined before TF2's was revealed, and that they were most definitely not just ripping off Valve. Of course, they'll make their money off this game by offering cash-only items for players to buy, but they have also stated that these items will simply be convenience items and clothing items to customize your character. They won't be abilities or weapons that give players willing to shell out some money an unfair advantage over the penny-pinchers. In the article they announced 3 classes: covert, soldier, and heavy. No real specifics yet, but you can probably imagine what they do pretty well anyway. One of the more interesting features they announced was the metagame aspect, where there will be set periods of time that are a "campaign" and during these campaigns players will align themselves with one army or the other, then whichever army wins more territory gains an exp and money bonus . The game's website was pretty dead since they were holding all their info for the GFW article, but now they finally have a trailer video up, along with some dev blogs. Have a look for yourself: Battlefield Heroes » Play 4 Free, Cartoon Shooter — Coming Summer 2008 Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 1106 Level 23.57 Mar 2006
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the two controversial aspects they've announced for the game.
#1: No going prone anymore. You can still crouch, but even that doesn't give you an accuracy bonus. #2: Third-person view only. Although they have said that they might add first-person view later if enough people complain about it. How ya doing, buddy? |
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