Battlefield 4: 42 things you mightʼve missed in the new trailer
DICE get the next-gen rolling in impressive fashion
So DICE has finally given us a glimpse of the next-gen with their sexy looking shooter, Battlefield 4. The 17 minutes of in-game action named Fishing in Baku depicts the same rough and tumble action you’d expect from an FPS. But the bombs and bullets whizzing all over the place are jazzed up by the new Frostbite 3 engine that adds even more real life physics to the play.
The intense footage can be seen below, but check out the list below as there are probably some hints and facts about Battlefield 4 that you may miss in the clip.
Looks great, but did you manage to pick out all these bits?
- (00:05) Bonnie Tyler is in. Well, her track Total Eclipse of the Heart is anyway. Check out Bonnie’s Gamer Profile
- (00:43) Irish – the first character you see – is played by The Wire’s Michael K. Williams. Omar’s here? SHEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIT
- Lead character – you – is called Recker
- Pac and Dunn are the other two members of the squad
- There are two references to animals chewing off their own legs – Wolf (01:27) | Fox
- (01:58) With the Azerbaijan flag graffiti’d on the wall and Baku being in Azerbaijan, it’s safe to assume that this footage is set in Azerbaijan
- (02:00) Mission starts with Recker completely dry of ammo
- (02:33) New curtain physics that make ‘em sway in the breeze: CONFIRMED
- (03:03) The two soldiers on the floor below Recker are marked on the mini-map in blue – same as him. Non-hostile forces?
- (03:30) There’s a ‘hand-off’ (exchange?) that goes pear-shaped hence the squad being split up to begin with. Possibly involves Russian Spec-Ops
- The squad is called ‘Tombstone’
- (04:07) Civilians line the streets during the shootout to protect Irish
- Attack dogs are in…
- … so too are car alarms
- (04:44) Frostbite 3 engine sure knows how to handle buildings blowing up as the corner shop loses its walls
- (05:03) Irish appears to be able to jump like Spider-Man as he easily makes it to a second-floor window with one leap
- (05:51) Challenge Invite from Dog Tag Hunter pops up in the top right. Always on Battlelog system for friends to throw-down challenges instantly?
- (05:58) Seagulls: CONFIRMED. Ability to kill them: TBC
- (06:41) Recker can mark enemies for his team-mates to concentrate fire on
- (08:07) One enemy is killed instantly when his cover is blown by a grenade launcher, but the other is unfazed and stands proud
- (08:41) Update that Dog Tag Hunter is winning the challenge in the top right corner
- (08:46) Despite an enemy being shot in the back he falls towards Recker
- (09:00) Recker can mark targets for gunships too, which deals with troops in brutal fashion
- (09:13) Pop-up announces that 500 points are needed to beat KMagnus who is likely DICE CEO Karl-Magnus Troedsson. We’ve met him. He’s really nice
- (10:01) New Record on Prologue appears – so this could well be the very start of Battlefield 4
- (10:22) Irish says the shitty looking factory ‘reminds him of home’ – a reference to the war torn streets of Baltimore as depicted in The Wire? Probably not
- (10:39) Frostbite 3 delivers eye-searing sunshine that made us wince
- (12:14) Recker is a few milimetres away from having his legs removed by the chopper blades
- (12:31) New slide and shoot gameplay is in as you can see when Recker’s dropping between floors
- (12:56) Our hero is impervious to falling slabs of cement
- Captain Dunn? Not so much
- (13:38) Is that a doctor that turns up to help you out or a fool simply driving through a war zone?
- (14:12) The knife can remove a leg in one swift movement. If only that bloke who got trapped under a rock in 127 Hours had one
- (14:25) A combat sim is mentioned – could this be a tutorial for Battlefield 4?
- (15:45) The bit where he shoots the chopper down is the most dramatic part in the entire video. BOOM!
- (16:17) Russia and China are mentioned
- The whole mission was a farce as they already knew the information they sent Tombstone in to collect
- (16:43 onwards…)Very impressive wave physics as the dinghy heads towards the war ship
- Swimming through dead bodies
- There’s an incident on a freeway
- A lady. A real-life lady in an FPS about war. About bloody time
- It’s coming out Fall 2013 (read: September to December)
