Battlefield 4 The Story

While the main Battlefield series is not known for its kick ass campaigns I felt this one worthy of mentioning. It's not exactly a full review but a commentary of how it performed under the duress of a gamer. In all terms of the word it is not a worthy storyteller nothing as groundbreaking as say Spec Ops the Line. But it does serve its purpose which is give players a short romp and a sort of introduction to what is to be expected in multiplayer. It does a spectacular job at this. 9/10 times I found the story's level designs to much more engaging and dynamic than the multiplayer. There's more destruction and who doesn't love raw destruction on the big screen or in my case a 17.3'' screen.

The story was far more compelling than Battlefield 3 it has a sort of hidden political message that China is to be feared as the new enemy. However, I feel it pertinent to point out that this is my personal feeling and not necessarily representative of what the game makers were going for. I will say I didn't have as much with the story as I did Bad Company 2 which is by far my favorite storyline of the Battlefield series. It had more fun with itself and took it to a whole new more personable level.

Combat is generic, I will say that the AI has its moments sometimes it can be dumb as a rock or it can be the bane of the game that hunts you down and follows your around corners. It's not tough persay; but it's definitely more engaging than previous Battlefield AI who would stand up and let you shoot them. They duck and change covers, find flanks, etc..etc... They're actually semi intelligent at times. Other times you can walk right in front of them knife them in the throat and nothing will happen.

The character development isn't necessarily good in this one and we again have a faceless un-engageable protagonist. At the end of the story I didn't really feel anything for my squad either. which was a shame because the first few minutes of the game set the tone to be very emotional. All in all I'd say the Singleplayer Campaign didn't fail but it didn't make any grounbreaking leaps forward. Currently multiplayer is still buggy as hell so I have barely touched it.