Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love Battlefield series but this is horrible, here's a sincere review: Graphics: 9 out of 10 on this one. If you have the right machine, the graphics are amazing. Bar none. They did a great job with textures and DX11. You will need to cough up some money for a good card, however I have tried the Beta with a 2 year old card and it still looked fantastic on medium or low settings. With GTX590 (which I have) or the more powerful Radeon GPU this game looks amazing and runs smoothly. Singleplayer: 1 out of 10 on this one. Horrible. You would think a top tier company like DICE/EA would be able to produce an enjoyable campaign. The AI is horrible, EVERYTHING (i'm not kidding when I say this) is a scripted event. No freedom to do anything, a huge step backwards. If you played Halo back in 2001 when it came out you will remember it for how dynamic each fight was and how it was never the same when you played it again. In this game every time you replay a mission the same enemies pop out in the same places and the NPC's do the exact same movement and move to the exact same positions. It's just depressing that its 2011 and a game from 2001 showed significantly better AI and much more freedom to work with. You clearly have to stay within a certain area and can't explore levels. The destruction of environments that Frostbite 2.0 promised is completely missing in the campaign. This is incredibly disappointing, Bad Company 2 had better environments and a better Single player. The single player boils down to a show off of great graphics and no playability or fun factor involved, If you've watched the trailers and demos of the single player then you have basically seen the majority of all the cool events that happen and when you play it you will realize its the exact same clip with little to offer in terms of freedom its a scripted movie guys, albeit a very pretty one. You don't get to use any vehicle other than the tank in the campaign, the awesome F/A 18 Superhornet scene looks amazing but it is basically you as a copilot not flying or maneuvering. All you get to use are the 'E', '1','2', '3' and 'X' key and look around with your mouse. It's really really depressing. Multiplayer: 8 out of 10 on this one. The multiplayer has always been great on Battlefield. Large maps, vehicles and great weapons make for a great amount of content to play with. If you have the PC version you get the benefit of up to 64 players which make multiplayer very very different on PC vs Consoles. Let's be honest this game is meant for the PC, it is still fun on consoles but you really should get it for PC to get the dynamics of 64 players working for you. If you bought this game for the multiplayer then you made a good buy, there's a catch though. That catch may be the biggest deal breaker of all time. You have to use EA's Origin client to play the game. Here is a complimentary review of Origin below: Origin: 1 out of 10 Origin is annoying, doesn't work right all the time and not being able to host your own server is really bad. I get it. EA wants to get a slice of Steam clientele and revenue right? The truth runs deeper. EA wants to control dedicated servers because they want to DLC the crap out of this game and all other games. They are trying to keep the mod community away from creating much better maps (although the ones on there are great now) and content. You probably will not see Project Reality or any great modded version of this game on PC because EA doesn't want it to happen. If they can't charge you a price for DLC then they rather control all of it and only allow you to purchase a map pack every once in a while. It's really sad where the PC gaming trend is going. Origin itself is very buggy its unnecessary. I feel bad for the developers of this game because I know they are talented and wanted to make a great game, but EA wanted them to make money not a great game so they made a cheesy campaign and completely messed up the online system. You can't play the game unless you're online because guess what, Origin is used to launch the campaign, the coop, and multiplayer. I can't imagine that the developers for this thought this was a good idea, they knew it was going to be bad. But what can they do, they have a job and families to feed. Closing thoughts: I really think this has a great multiplayer but everything else is lacking and making it hard to enjoy the multiplayer (or get on it because Origin being so bad). I'm crossing my fingers for them to release it on Steam with a built in Server finder and dedicated support and open the game up to the mod community, but I think thats very very wishful thinking.