Battledfield is a military game series, played in the first
person. It has two gaming options: story mode which you play a heroic soldier in
a challenging military adventure, and multi-player mode which you play live
with other gamers in order to play “realistic” battle scenarios on teams.
People who play multi-player military games are loyal to one
of two camps: Battlefield or Modern Warfare. They have similar goals, kill the
most amount of times, and be killed the least amount of times, but the game
playing experience on each is much different. Gman is loyal to the Battlefield
camp. In Battlefield, the boards are larger and you can interact with your
surroundings. If, for instance, an opponent is hiding in a building and
shooting at you, you can blow up the wall they are hiding behind and kill them.
The wall is then gone for the rest of that gaming session. (People can’t just sit in a cardboard box and snipe the whole time; which is pretty much the most annoying thing someone can do in multi-player games.) Both Gman and I like
this aspect of the game, as it changes your strategy as you play.
You can use the vehicles placed around the boards, too. Jump
in a tank, run over trees, plants, other cars, drive through buildings, and
even shoot anti-aircraft guns at helicopters being flown by other players. Drive around with wreck-less abandon, or you
can take a four-wheel motorcycle, put multiple sticks of C-4 on it, then ghost
ride it into whatever you want – players, tanks, walls. By the sounds of his
snickers, Gman is most entertained by this.
The key aspect of the game is whom you are
playing with. It’s important to find a good team and develop a strategy, versus
just mindlessly shooting at everything. As an observer, this is also better for
me. Normally, I can’t hear the game, as Gman wears a headset (best Christmas
present EVER), but if things aren’t going well (usually a result of a bad team)
then my quiet evening of trolling the internet reading is disrupted by strings of loud profanities.
The first person military games are very patriotic and they
are the epitome of the type-A American male; oozing with testosterone and
bringing out one’s competitive side. Many stereotypes of soldiers come to mind
when I think about the soldiers in this game; perhaps these young men also like
hunting, fishing, and Nascar.
So what would a small town private driving a tank, and
blowing up buildings, reach for during a lull in combat? It would have to be
something ubiquitously American, something easy to drink, and something cheap…
We paired Battlefield with Busch. One can grab a six-pack of
Busch beer for under $5 and it is a product of the USA made in St. Louis,
Missouri. Some would argue that this pilsner has no taste or that those who
drink have no taste. But Gman and I would beg to differ. After a long, hot day,
of manual labor you reach for something light and refreshing, and a pilsner is
perfect, it’s like drinking water. Plus, as our liquor store attendant put it
as were checking out with our six-pack, “you won’t have to worry about anyone
stealing your beer.”
What beer would you or do you pair Battlefield with? Please leave your pairing in the comments below.
Battlefield images via Amazon
Busch image via Busch Beer
After reading that, I could really go for a bush beer... said someone for the first time ever :-)
ReplyDeleteI almost felt embarrassed purchasing it. But then I was like, whatever, this will be awesome. We didn't want anything too ironically or hipster-y cheap either...
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