Review Atag 4/5 · Jun 24, 2023
The Battlefield That Never Was
I'm not sure if Grouvee has the biggest FPS fanbase but those of you who adored the golden age of Battlefield may have been dissapointed with the recent installments.
Enter Battlebit Remastered. Battlebit is a low polygon shooter heavily inspired by battlefield. What makes it unique is that it combines all the best features of military simulators and arcade shooters …
I'm not sure if Grouvee has the biggest FPS fanbase but those of you who adored the golden age of Battlefield may have been dissapointed with the recent installments.
Enter Battlebit Remastered. Battlebit is a low polygon shooter heavily inspired by battlefield. What makes it unique is that it combines all the best features of military simulators and arcade shooters like battlefield, and mashes them together in beautiful organised chaos.
Like battlefield, it's multiplayer focused and features 127 v 127 players matches, as well as the typical smaller matches. Thanks to the low polygon style almost everything is destructible, this low poly style also makes the game hugely accessible to virtually every PC and laptop owner known to humankind.
Some of the military sim features in the game are things like checking your magazines, combing magazine ammo from half spent magazines, dragging downed friendlies to be healed, squad leaders that issue commands, proximity chat and other channels, leaning, abseiling down ropes and the option to cut the rope - I love all of these features. The game is also packed with guns, maps, vehicles, and cosmetics. You rank up by simply... playing. You rank up your guns by... killing people! Simple! I think one thing this game would really benefit from is a commander role. The sound design could also do with some improvement, but for what it is, its fine.
The art style was jarring at first, it reminded me too much of Roblox. However, as you play, something strange happens - your brain starts to fill in the blanks. Where my eyes see a blocky human crouching next to a grey block with pretty much flat shading everywhere, my brain sees a soldier taking cover next to a concrete bollard whilst enemy fire whips over his head. The power your imagination has to fill in these gaps on the fly is incredible and it's really a testiment to how this game is showing that substance and feature rich mechanics is often more important than glossy visuals.
The community is what really makes this game special though, it seems to have attracted all of the people who wanted something a bit more hardcore from the newest battlefield installment, and so what you end up with are tons of people actually using voice chat, some people are role playing, others are providing hilarious voice lines mid battle "I WANT MY MOMMY" as an rpg shoots past their head. The community seem heavly engaged with the game and they seem to place the emphasis on fun and team work instead of lone wolfing solo play.
