Haven't seen any threads around here about this fantastic beta (probably not enough PS3 users around here), I just got access to it a short time ago so I have been playing it like nuts.
Overall it's really really fun. Big online battles are sweet and the maps are really huge.
+ Air flight feels good, but after a big learning curve. I still get blown up a lot but that will change with more practice I suppose. The motion sensing control scheme works well and it a lot of fun but is that much harder to get good with. Missle lock on works well blowin the crap outta stuff
+ Ground combat is really fun. Standard weapons (pistol, machine gun, rocket lanucher, flame thrower, etc.) but they all work well. Rocket Launcher has a good lock-on feature for taking out planes and tanks. Knife is cool for melee kills and you don't show up on the radar with the knife equipped. Sniper Rifle zoom has a really cool effect, looks like you are looking through a curved lens.
+ Tanks/jeeps are okay. Pretty quick and running over guys is awesome. Big explosions with the tank artillery. Seamless jumping on when one drives by to get around faster.
+ Quick fast action. Respawn is fast and you can pick any location that your team currently controls (there are zones that you can take over). Seamless switching between tanks, ground and planes make it easy to keep going and the flow of the game is uninterruppted.
+ Big big big battlefields with lots of area to fly around in or drive across. Little bases scattered across the maps for anti-tank guns/ anti-plane artillery. Fantastic draw distance. Good graphics with great looking details (ruined buildings, water effect, etc)
- Character animations look just weird to me.
- Weapon switching is used by the d-pad. I find it a little hard to select the weapon I want, especially in the plane where I need to switch from chaff grenade to missles really quickly but I get hung up with switching them sometimes.
- Friendly kills seems to always be on, which sucks. I have been runover by my own team too many damn times and stupid people throwing grenades all over the place is annoying as hell.
- Matches seem really short (sometimes under 5 minutes) and take about 2 minutes to resume. This may just be for the beta (?)
- Aiming with the ground unit feels a little off. It kind of locks on if you are close which is nice but still feels a little weird. I gotta play with the settings more.
This is gonna be a really big hit when it releases. It has a bit of a learning curve and would have benefitted from an offline tutorial but as it stands the game is very fun to play. Sadly, like all other PS games, it lacks a lot of voice chat (I don't even have a headset yet) which would be nice for communicating rushes and the like. The retail version of the game comes with a headset so i will probably get that version.
Overall it's really really fun. Big online battles are sweet and the maps are really huge.
+ Air flight feels good, but after a big learning curve. I still get blown up a lot but that will change with more practice I suppose. The motion sensing control scheme works well and it a lot of fun but is that much harder to get good with. Missle lock on works well blowin the crap outta stuff
+ Ground combat is really fun. Standard weapons (pistol, machine gun, rocket lanucher, flame thrower, etc.) but they all work well. Rocket Launcher has a good lock-on feature for taking out planes and tanks. Knife is cool for melee kills and you don't show up on the radar with the knife equipped. Sniper Rifle zoom has a really cool effect, looks like you are looking through a curved lens.
+ Tanks/jeeps are okay. Pretty quick and running over guys is awesome. Big explosions with the tank artillery. Seamless jumping on when one drives by to get around faster.
+ Quick fast action. Respawn is fast and you can pick any location that your team currently controls (there are zones that you can take over). Seamless switching between tanks, ground and planes make it easy to keep going and the flow of the game is uninterruppted.
+ Big big big battlefields with lots of area to fly around in or drive across. Little bases scattered across the maps for anti-tank guns/ anti-plane artillery. Fantastic draw distance. Good graphics with great looking details (ruined buildings, water effect, etc)
- Character animations look just weird to me.
- Weapon switching is used by the d-pad. I find it a little hard to select the weapon I want, especially in the plane where I need to switch from chaff grenade to missles really quickly but I get hung up with switching them sometimes.
- Friendly kills seems to always be on, which sucks. I have been runover by my own team too many damn times and stupid people throwing grenades all over the place is annoying as hell.
- Matches seem really short (sometimes under 5 minutes) and take about 2 minutes to resume. This may just be for the beta (?)
- Aiming with the ground unit feels a little off. It kind of locks on if you are close which is nice but still feels a little weird. I gotta play with the settings more.
This is gonna be a really big hit when it releases. It has a bit of a learning curve and would have benefitted from an offline tutorial but as it stands the game is very fun to play. Sadly, like all other PS games, it lacks a lot of voice chat (I don't even have a headset yet) which would be nice for communicating rushes and the like. The retail version of the game comes with a headset so i will probably get that version.
