Battlefield is afirst-person shooterseries by Swedish developer EA DICE. The franchise intends to live by its name and offer increasingly larger PvP battles and campaigns.
These games arefamous for their multiplayer shooter experience. It’s about vast maps, dozens of players, and vehicles to drive for a gruesome playthrough.
Almost every year, Electronic Arts releases a new title to compete against Call of Duty games. So far,we’ve seen XX Battlefield titles.
We’re also running down the dozens of expansions available. Some of these offer campaign content; others only add multiplayer content.
The Battlefield Series
Battlefield games focus on large and explosive multiplayer battles. Often, you play as part of a squad and require communication, strategy, and teamwork to survive.
Major elements include airplanes, tanks, jets, choppers, and other vehicles you may drive to battle.
Since the second entry, the series also records online stats for every player. So, you may increase your rank to receive weapons, weapon mods, and awards.
A class system is also prevalent in most Battlefield games. Each class has a different loadout (weapons and gadgets). It’s crucial to properly fill every role in the field.
Lastly, theseries introduced the Frostbite engine in 2008. The tech delivers destructible environments, one of the most iconic features in the series.
Battlefield 1942 – 2002
The first title in the sagadebuted in 2002 for Windows and macOS PCs. It was a multiplayer-only game, albeit a further update introduced a single-player mode, where players can enjoy the same features offline.
Notably, the game introduced theConquest game mode. Conquest is aboutcapturing control points spread across the map. Competing matches were delivering deathmatches andcapture-the-flaggame modes instead.
The class system delivers Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer options. Additionally, players could fly WWII aircraft, bombers, capital ships, submarines, aircraft carriers, tanks, jeeps, and APCs. They could also control anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, and artillery.
Battles happen on maps across WWII historical sites. These included Eastern, North African, European, and Pacific Areas. Lastly, there were two factions: Axis Powers and Allies. However, each map determined the armies involved. For example, a Japan vs. United States conflict played out on the Pacific’s Wake Island.
