My first impressions on BF4

Upon clicking the play button in the Origin client, Battlefield 4 opens through your preferred internet browser. This was slightly off-putting, as it meant that if I the player didn't have internet connection, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the game. When the website loads you have full access and management over your in-game soldier. This website is called battle-log, to me it seems like just a marketing gimmick, as it only really serves to clutter up the experience of entering a BF4 multiplayer game.

As anyone who has any prior experience with the Battlefield franchise will know, the games are not known for their singleplayer campaigns, but for the multiplayer aspect. This newest installment doesn't fall short in that department thankfully. Once I've gone through the website to join a multiplayer server, I find
myself on a tropical archipelago. The scene is not one out of a travel brochure however, the palm trees swing back and forth uncontrollably in the shrieking wind, as rain pelts down like missiles, and the skies grows ever darker. The Chinese and United States armies are fighting for control of the islands, for whatever reason I don't know and nor do I really care.

 I drop into the combat as a recon, equipped with a rifle, a pistol, a range finder, and a small amount of C4 plastic explosive. The map was small, smaller than what was normal, and the action was rampant everywhere. I sighted around the map through my scope, and spotting my first man, I fired a round at him. The shot was dead on and should have killed him, and awarded me with experience points, suffice to say this didn't happen, and I watched the bullet pierce hit him square in the face with no affect. So here lies the unfortunate fact of multiplayer game in an early stage. If someone can cheat they most likely will.

I watched through a burst gas tank as an enemy U.S. soldier crept up behind a friendly Chinese trooper. The attacker pulled his knife and went for a knife kill, just in time though the Chinese soldier turned around so the knife caught him in his flack vest. The circled each other, both trying to get behind the other. The Chinese soldier lunged towards the enemy, but not fast enough. As the U.S. soldier was about to plunge his knife into the friendly, I took a wild shot through the wreckage. The lucky shot sped through the air and caught him below his right shoulder blade, piercing his right long. He fell to the ground unable to breathe, and the Chinese soldier moved on from him.

My final impression is that BF4 is a well optimized and good looking game. The moment I just described was extremely cinematic one, and I didn't have to exaggerate it to make it sound so exciting. The only problems that the game has in its current stage our the bugs, players becoming bullet shedding titans really takes away from the game. These things can be expected in an young game, so with time BF4 will only get better. Overall I would recommend this game to a friend, and I myself am very pleased with what DICE have done with this newest franchise installment.