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[MyIS]Spawndemon
02-12-2008, 05:45 AM
GameDaily (http://www.gamedaily.com/) has posted up a new interview today with Ben Cousins, Senior Producer at EA DICE. Take a look:

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With in-game ad billboards appearing in recent retail copies of Battlefield games, some players were wondering if Battlefield Heroes would take the same route. GameDaily BIZ was assured, however, that this would not be the case, with ads only appearing on battlefield-heroes.com and in the game's menu with no ads during gameplay. The game itself, however, will draw on EA DICE's years of experience in the sub-genre they helped invent – with the ultimate goal of making Battlefield Heroes appeal to old and new fans alike.

"We've designed the experience to appeal to the core fans as well as new players," explained Cousins. "The classic Battlefield gameplay is very much retained, with infantry, land vehicles and aircraft fighting simultaneously in large open levels, an emphasis on teamplay and tactics and a sense of not being bogged down in the politics of war, but we've also been very careful to make the game as accessible as possible to non-core fans. The game is free to download and play, will run on a low spec desktop or laptop, contains matchmaking so you play with people of equal skill level to you, and the game itself is simple to understand and pick-up-and-play whilst also being possibly the deepest Battlefield game to date."

"In terms of visual customizations, the characters are made up of about fifteen different parts, all of which can be customized - heads, facial hair, helmets, jackets, boots etc," he continued. "In terms of gameplay customizations - the player unlocks new weapons, skills and abilities as they play, choosing specific character traits as they go, very much like an RPG. There are many hundreds if not thousands of combinations of different Battlefield Heroes soldiers, from a gameplay point of view."

To check out the rest of this new article, be sure to visit here (http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/features/ad-watch-ad-sponsored-games-enter-battlefield/71374/).

The_Eliminator
02-12-2008, 07:48 AM
When it said Ben cousins i thought it meant that AFL player :D

David Champion
02-12-2008, 12:30 PM
Man this is getting better everyday... :yay:

BIFF EXPLODER
02-12-2008, 07:34 PM
when DICE thinks outside the "EA box" they always come up with great stuff.

and EA did well by listening to them.

jake___
02-13-2008, 04:56 PM
This level of soldier customization is interesting. Will there still be standard classes? Or just one soldier that you can customize anyway you like?

That would be more fun. :)

sava700
02-14-2008, 05:43 PM
Regardless of Free, it still has ads in it and that to me is spyware.

Hard to say if this will take off or not.

iQu'e
02-14-2008, 06:58 PM
Regardless of Free, it still has ads in it and that to me is spyware.

So 2142 has spyware for having ingame ads?

As long as the ads stay in the menu and not in the game itself I'm fine with it.

BIFF EXPLODER
02-14-2008, 07:15 PM
So 2142 has spyware for having ingame ads?

As long as the ads stay in the menu and not in the game itself I'm fine with it.

alot of people were acting like the end of the world back then, very overreacting i've never had a problem with 2142 ads, i doubt BF:H will spyware-ize your machines to death :P

seoulspirit
02-14-2008, 09:56 PM
also in games for windows and probally the 1-up site

Hawkers
02-15-2008, 12:55 AM
I dont care, free = win (in my books)

The_Eliminator
02-16-2008, 08:09 AM
Regardless of Free, it still has ads in it and that to me is spyware.

Hard to say if this will take off or not.

there are no INGAME adverts.

The only adverts are on the site used to launch the game.

seoulspirit
02-16-2008, 08:43 PM
well there are inGAME ads but the funny one's you see like "whose legs are these? jessica abla's? 50-cent's? oli's?" and they said they'd be on tanks...idk how and or why though