Stand Electronic Arts placed in the most prestigious place of all Electronic Entertainment Expo – Immediately at the entrance to the largest southern hall, and Battlefield 4 – In the most prestigious place of this stand. Entering the hall, the visitors first of all saw the ranks of computers that were leaving into the distance – sixty -four pieces, a square eight to eight. Two large screens poured over them, which showed exclusively the “commanding regime” – the developers themselves controlled it.
Every day, computers were occupied by thousands of people who want to try Battlefield 4 in action and fight among Shanghai skyscrapers. I was among them and I.
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If not prohibited, then it is allowed
– Igromania? – the girl asked for a round counter. – Now!
Rumming a little on the computer, she nodded and solemnly issued me the blue-black special pass of Media/VIP. He gave the right to extraordinary access to all EA shows. The press with such passes was built in separate queues, and the case with them was noticeably accelerated. Given the fact that the shows usually began only every half an hour (and even an hour), it was not at all superfluous.
► Why Shanghai? Firstly, it's beautiful!
True, with Battlefield 4, everything turned out to be much easier: a huge amount of computers and ten -minute sessions of the simultaneous game greatly simplified everything. But the game was already going on, and they put me on the wall of the pavilion to wait. In ten minutes, I managed to take a breath, change the batteries at the camera, disassemble and put it in bags, look around and even spread a few words with a Molnier passing by Peter.
The round was soon over, another sixty -four people were impressed. They began to run us a little to computers. First they got inside, then eight people were launched in a row.
► The developers looked after the fighters through the revived "command regime".
The gamepad lying in front of each computer led to gloomy thoughts – the love of developers (including Dice ) to the shows of the gameplay exclusively in the console style is well known. But they immediately assured me that you can use the keyboard with the mouse. I was delighted and quickly reoriented the keys to my left -handed taste.
And I decided to try my luck.
– And you can remove the gameplay? – I asked the developer standing nearby, waving a tripod in front of his face.
He hesitated for a second, looked at my passage pass and did not object.
So fast I have never been arranged for filming.
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“And if you carried the cartridges?"
In Shanghai – the heat itself. In every sense. The weather reigns – of those called Dog Days, hellish stuffiness. The city has faded from the bright sun, and only the ocean pleases the eye.
I am a Chinese soldier. I run along the street between skyscrapers armed with a gun (support class? There is no time to understand, you need to quickly change). My comrades run nearby. Niches under the walls of skyscrapers give a good disguise – in such a contrasting picture, the shadow covers the American soldiers from the unkind glances. The streets are forced by concrete blocks. Also shelter.
► an American armored vehicle is carried out at an intersection and with a screech of tires is rolled into a smoky distance.
When I reach the intersection, because of a building, an enemy Hammer flies out at full speed, knocks down a lantern, goes into a skid, but manages to leave before we open fire.
The goal marked by the letter "E" is eighty meters, behind the next skyscraper. Some restaurant. Having managed to shoot Yankees from a pistol, I hide under the flag among the boxes with equipment and peep. Bullets fly from somewhere. Enemies are hidden behind columns a hundred meters from us. I open the fire and even fall into someone … but the gun is weak against machine guns. The character is dying, not having time to capture the point.
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Red heat
Once again in the main menu, I change the class. I was "support", could give out cartridges, which I did not succeed. What else is there? Scout with grenades. Engineer – again with a gun. And finally – the good old "assault".
► Chinese attack aircraft-eagle-male!
Judging by the map, the situation is not the best. The central skyscraper (the one that is solemnly collapsing in all the videos) in the hands of the Americans. The battle goes to the very area where I just unsuccessfully fired from the pistol.
► all ten minutes of the game I ran along the right bank of the card.
I choose an assault class and a Czech submachine gun-CZ-805. And again I rush through the streets shaking explosions. Very quickly Americans discover me and BC.Game Casino drive me with fire for concrete shelter. Then I rush through the whole intersection in a sprint-but there are too many enemies, there is nowhere to hide. I had to sit around the corner and fire, and I ran to the key point and was shot in the back.
The third attempt. The card shows that the battle has erupted is serious: there are many of ours, in addition to the zone, a drone and helicopter circle are circling. A armored car with a machine gun goes to the place of battle with me to the place of battle.
A desperate battle boils at the intersection. I join my own and kiss the enemies hiding behind the columns opposite.
► … and here is around the corner-tank!
And then a hefty tank passes by me and cuts it to the restaurant. Forgetting about everything, I attach to his tail. The tank skills for some time on the stairs, but then overcomes it and finds it in the courtyard.
► "Stuck! Push, men!"
Restaurant in our hands. Fighters are firing from the boxes, and then also rush after the tank. I run through the shot lane past the burning field kitchen (?) and I find myself on the shore. Bullets whistle around, fences collapse. Far ahead, our tank is shooting up with someone and slowly rolls back. The American "Abrams" rushes right at him.
► “Hey, don't go under the wheels, yes?!"
I decide that it is better not to shine in this situation, and quickly cross the street, almost hitting the wheels of our armored vehicle. The earth is shocked again-fragments fly from somewhere on the right, and a hydrant is funded right in front of me.
The entrance to the shopping center is getting ahead. I'm diving in the twilight.
“Flies like Icar-rr, you understand!"
Inside is calmer. At least, tanks do not ride along the dark shopping center. But the calmness is deceptive: next to the flash-the rocket flies off somewhere deep into the room. My associates run forward, and bullets crash into the floor at their feet, lifting a cloud of dust.
► Do not sit down on these benches after shopping – can fly in a rocket.
The enemy is very close – thirty meters. The American who has lost his head rushes between concrete tubs, he has a red triangle above his head. I shoot for a while in the darkness where silhouettes flash. Then, right above my head, fire tracks begin to fly-it seems that someone is shooting from a heavy machine gun. And I am hiding around the corner again. Looking around, I understand where the machine gun came from: right on the shades with flowers in the corridors of the shopping center, an American armored vehicle rides. I look around – other Chinese fighters, seeing machine -gun tracks, are quietly standing behind my shoulders, having pretended to be a rag.
Someone the most courageous lays down on the belly and crawls in plastuna, shooting from the machine in response. I look at him in shock and wait for him to be killed. He soon understands that he shows excessive courage, and quietly, in crab, crawls behind a concrete tub.
► “Forward, my Chinese friends!"
Meanwhile, I protruding around the corner, I shoot at the dark. The inscription "Help in suppression" appears. I helped someone. I am proud of myself.
The shootout suddenly subsides, and I run along the corridor forward. My character pokes my finger somewhere into the distance without any participation.
Having run past the stone statue (it is strange that it still survived in such a battle) and admiring the bay, behind which there were red icons of key points captured by the enemy, I suddenly find myself in the middle of the shootout in the twilight, in a panic I jump into the elevator and knock on the button “Up”.
► At first, the idea of jumping from the skyscraper seemed good ..
The doors are closed and open already on the roof. Here is quiet and empty. The surroundings are drowning either in smog, or in smoke. Burning papers and ashes fly through the air. The height is such that almost nothing is visible below, except for moving icons. There is nothing to do here. How are the developers jumped from the skyscraper?
► drone, why are you curling over my head?
My character takes a step into the void. And what is the key that the parachute opens there? Aa-a-a-ah-ah!
Shmyak.
I lie on the roof of the shopping complex, my hands spread, and drones circle me in a muddy smoky sky.
Goodbye, Shanghai
And I again ran down the street towards the enemies. Hid with a group of Chinese behind a bunch of garbage, kissing an American on the roof through the intersection. In the midst of a shootout right in front of us, the burning Apach helicopter collapsed onto the street, covering us from the enemy. I had to go around the helicopter along the wall, under the tail.
► And this helicopter from where it fell on our head?
But the time of the game has come to an end. There were still fifty people who wanted to try their hand at Shanghai battles in line.
Battlefield 4 is really capturing, and the developers are perfectly aware of this-that's why they brought four computers to E3 sixty. That's why they did not particularly object to the filming. Why hide what you can boast?
At a time in the game, of course, it is impossible to figure it out, but it is enough to feel its atmosphere. And, as you probably already understood, Battlefield 4 has everything in order.
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Dice studio did not fundamentally improve graphics, but she did a lot in the little things. The dynamics of the game. Complete destructiveness. Fragments flying in smoke and tanks racing along the streets. This fall in Shanghai will be hot.
So – we are waiting!
Stage of development
The Battle of Shanghai showed that the game is already ready in general terms – at least in terms of gameplay. Ahead-beta testing.
We will wait?
If you like the Battlefield series – don't even doubt. If you like mass network battles like a genre, try. We advise the rest at least take a closer look.