Saturday, February 5, 2011

Battlefield Play4Free

                Battlefield Play4Free is a free to play massively multiplayer online first person shooter or MMOFPS for short. The game is developed by the EA team (the same people who brought you Battlefield: Bad Company 1&2). The game is derived from Battlefield 2 and is going to be a game where people can play a great MMOFPS game for free of charge. The game is still in early beta, so there are still various bugs and glitches. The game play is similar, but less complicated than Battlefield 2. The game features 2 playable factions. With those factions come an array of weapons and vehicles, such as the aek-971 (assault rifle) and the T-90(main battle tank). The game is set to release later this year in EA’s “Play4Free” franchise. The articles are written by the Battlefield Play4Free developers as players are prohibited from speaking about the game outside of the forums. The articles on the website briefly explain what the game will be like. The developers have not released large amounts of information due to"Users Agreement".

                Even though this game is still in beta, it is always growing. The game went from having 9,000 players at one point in time, to 25,000+ players. This game will set the stage for other MMOFPS game as a result of the maps being enormous, as the vast amount of vehicles that players are able to control. The developers at EA are working hard to uplift this game out of beta. Many people are eagerly awaiting their chance to experience this game.

                I am somewhat worried about the number of hackers that will ruin the game. Forum users have already started complaining about the numbers of cheaters and exploiters that are resent in the game. The developers of EA use a security system known as Punkbuster for Battlefield Play4Free. PunkBuster is known to do a bad job with denying hackers of cheating. I hope that in the near future (before the games release) that the developers upgrade to a different, more powerful anti-hacker system. If they do not, this game may be filled with the vile people we call hackers.




No comments:

Post a Comment