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Producer Alexander Grondal stated the team wants Battlefield Heroes to run on your Grandma’s Computer and — with a sub-250MB download and the capability to run on Intel’s anemic integrated video offerings — we’re sure it will. But that doesn’t mean Grams is going to kick the Pogo crack pipe and be racking up levels in Heroes anytime soon. It’s about as easy a shooter as you can envision — everything from the cartoon aesthetic to the streamlined controls reinforce the game’s message: have fun — but it’s still a shooter at heart.
It’s a curious message coming from the same team that’s been bringing the popular, and complicated, multiplayer Battlefield games to the hardcore shooter fans of the world. Has some of their audience grown up? Run out of free time? Still using the same gaming rig they built to play Battlefield 1942 in 2002?
In our brief experience with the game at EA’s Spring Break event in San Francisco last night, we were initially disoriented by the third-person perspective. Although you see your character, Heroes doesn’t play like a third-person shooter; it’s an FPS through and through. A swift mental adjustment later, and we were running after enemies, grabbing flags, flying planes, and driving tanks.
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