Battlefield 4 - Announced

At the GDC event last week EA unveiled their heavily rumoured (see - ‘expected’) Battlefield 4 game. Powered by the new Frostbite 3 engine the 17-minute gameplay trailer showed off many new and old features for this modern warfare FPS.

The DICE made shooter is due to hit shores in autumn and has several options for pre-order already.

All pre-ordered BF4 games will automatically get you a Premium expansion pack – although the specifics have not been confirmed. There's a BF4 Digital Deluxe on Origin as well; this includes the base game and bonus in-game digital items as well as the premium expansion and the multiplayer beta access codes.

The trailer, titled ‘Fishing in Baku’, shows gameplay lifted straight from the Battlefield 4 campaign and starts with the evacuation of American VIPs from Shanghai. It follows the playable squad’s struggle to find its way back to safety.

The video sees the player, named Recker, trapped inside a sinking car with three of his squad mates. The demo then jumps backwards in time to show us how they got there in the first place.

EA are promising huge environments in their single player campaign and are introducing the change to direct squad actions. They will also be adding in player progress leaderboards to encourage ‘friendly competition’.

 

It looks lovely for a game so early in its production and is sure to set the bar once again for the modern warfare genre. I’m personally really hoping that this version of the franchise can reel in a few more players and take even more of the market share from the uninventive Call of Duty franchise.