Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

[Baryonyx]

http://www.totalxbox.com/76500/sledgehammer-would-...

This sounds interesting. I'd love more games on the Vietnam War. Do I trust COD to get it right though? Their period history games were their best, after all...

[Racefan_uk]

My issue with the last three COD games for the multiplayer are the cluttered and enclosed maps. They've expanded the size of some of them, but they're so cluttered you can't see the other players or can't get a decent game without running around like a loon.

I long for the basic maps in MW 1 and 2. Using a sniper rifle on some of those maps was good fun. You use one like an assault rifle on the last three games. Disappointing. I debated getting Ghosts and actually quite like the offline game, but the multiplayer isn't anything like the draw the older games used to be.

I've never tried any of the Battlefield games, should I and which one to start (PS3)?

[Snubs]

Racefan_uk said:

I've never tried any of the Battlefield games, should I and which one to start (PS3)?

I'd recommend trying it. I'd been a CoD player exclusively for years and it was only when Ghosts was such a letdown that I bought Battlefield 4. In some respects it was a big step forward. For example, the maps were much bigger, the environments were destructible, there was a lot of equipment you could use, lots of vehicles, bullet drop and so on. Having not played any previous Battlefield games it was a lot to get my head around and could be frustrating at times when I felt like a liability. The enemy would be charging round in tanks/planes/gun boats and I'd just get annihilated, so the game felt very unbalanced. Once I'd figured out how to take vehicles down and unlocked the equipment to do so, i started actively hunting them out and realised that being successful in one of the vehicles was just as hard as being successful on foot if you were playing a good team.

But BF4 suffered from lag quite badly. A large proportion of my deaths came after I'd got behind cover. Bullet drop/lead was a problem too. I liked the fact that bullets didn't travel 'line of sight' from one side of the map to the other as they do in CoD. I also liked the fact that you had to aim further in front of enemies running across you. But because of the lag issue i found it hard to tell at times whether I'd missed a shot because my aim was off (which was probably the case), or because of a few frames worth of lag (which was what i blamed).

I'd also add that if you play a lot with friends then BF4 would be particularly good (it actively rewards tight and effective team play), whereas CoD caters more for the lone wolves.

They both play differently and which you prefer depends on what you want out of a FPS. But there's only one way to find out. I couldn't advise on which Battlefield game to get as I've only played BF4.

Ultimately, i found both Ghosts and BF4 disappointing on the PS4, hence my earlier post on this thread, and I'm putting my faith in Wolfenstien. My favourite FPS for online multiplayer has been Modern Warfare 2 (although unlike many others i enjoyed MW3 too).

HTH