PCGamer: "2005’s Battlefield 2 was an amazing game. Huge, 64-player wars on sprawling maps with every kind of vehicle. 2009’s Battlefield Heroes, on the other hand, was an interesting experiment. It was a cartoon shooter in which you created a character, rather than picking a class and team each time you spawned. You could buy new guns with an in-game currency that could be earned or purchased with real money."
"EA's free-to-play titles are shutting down in 90 days."
I always meant to check out Battlefield Heroes, but I always ended up turning back to Team Fortress 2. I guess I'm not the only one.
Such a good feeling to know a game I'm still playing 3 and a half years later is still making enough money to keep going for many years yet :)
Easy Studios - the other guys that make Battlefield games - have introduced the classic Battlefield game mode Rush in Battlefield Play4Free. The game mode is live as of this morning, ready to play right now.
Rush Mode, if you're not familiar with it, is an objective-based game mode in which players take turns defending and attacking points on the map. The defending team begins with 2 M-COM stations that need to be defended, while the attacking team is bent on destroying them. Attackers can either successfully plant charges on the M-COM stations or inflict enough heavy damage to put them out of commision.
First-Person and Third-Person Shooters quickly became one of the most appreciated subgenres in the free to play segment, offering the great quality usually seen in some triple-A titles. Better still, some of those triple-A games are gradually becoming free, such as Team Fortress 2 or APB: Reloaded.
Here is a great Top 10 of Free to Play Shooters for 2012.
Beta is so fun, but i haven't picked him for a while.
"The combat is functional and familiar – snipers camp rooftops, engineers blow up tanks, medics spam medkits and assault troops play team deathmatch."
Haha, I feel like firing up BF2 now all of a sudden.
Beta is decent... but, still a beta. It's going to be interesting when the game reaches maturity.
HAHA brings back old times of BF2 :) I remember throwing C4 on a humvee and riding it to an enemy infested area and jumping out, letting the truck keep rolling... then BOOM! lol never saw it coming.