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Modern Combat is a great game. Strangely, it's not just a great multiplayer game. Battlefield on PC has never featured a particularly exhilarating singleplayer mode, or even a good one, so when Electronic Arts vowed to deliver the ultimate Battlefield experience for current generation consoles, it had to create a compelling solo mode. Boy did it ever!
Taking the basic open-ended fights of Battlefield and throwing a few objectives in was one way to feature an exciting and fresh BF experience, but EA wrapped the game in an interesting multi-sided storyline complete with slick intro and outro pieces. While the game's backdrop is a typical East meets West World War III scenario, playing as all these factions and experiencing their overly dramatized viewpoints really adds personality to Battlefield. And more than that, the storyline helps believably deliver a series of distinctly varied and nicely scripted missions that focus on necessary Battlefield skills -- even using them to achieve objectives that involve infiltration, protection, escort, recon and annihilation.
There's also a very cool progress tracking system that records accomplishments throughout the course of the game and rewards players in a way that allows them to achieve greater ranks and access better equipment. That's even accented by a lovely challenge mini-mode where gamers can work at earning more points by completing a series of weapon mini-games, races, on-rails segments and other challenges.
We really like the new singleplayer mode. Though the AI is a bit too ambitious (because it'll run forward to its death at all times), the emphasis on shooting down large waves of enemies within the confines of some taxing mission of high priority is pretty exciting, especially considering how diverse our arsenals are and how varied the enemy's attacks can be.
Full Review
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Published - Electronic Arts
Developed - Digital Illusions CE (DICE)
Genre - Online Shooter
Number of Players - 1-24
Release Date - October 25, 2005
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