Social media users recently got a surprise early look at what the next game in the Battlefield series will play like. And while the leaked footage suggests Electronic Arts and the four studios involved are poised to deliver the best game the series has had in over eight years, I can’t shake the pervasive feeling that it shouldn’t have taken this long.
As EA revealed in a highly produced developer diary last month, playtests for the eighth mainline Battlefield game are well underway. Some very brief clips in that presentation confirmed that the series was going back to modern warfare, with tanks, contemporary automatic weapons and urban destruction. And over the weekend, however, one of the lucky playtesters leaked extended footage of the game’s multiplayer in action.
