Can Anything Shown at EA Play Make Up For The Battlefield V Reveal?

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Since it’s official reveal trailer at the end of last month Battlefield V has been a hot topic&period; With the trailer having over 10 million views likes and dislikes were bound to happen&period; But with 309&comma;000 likes and 395&comma;000 dislikes it seems like this trailer got some fans particularly heated but few particularly hyped&period; DICE and EA dropped the ball&period; In a game based on WWII&comma; the trailer did not live up to the preconceived notions most of us have of WWII&period; And while the team wanted to show us the unseen stories of WWII this doesn’t seem like what fans had in mind&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">With British WWII soldiers that look like they fall out of FarCry with their dice tattoos and blue face paint&comma; it looks downright comical&period; Implementing cosmetic items is one thing but this is entirely out in left field&period; This would all be okay if the setting was modern or futuristic&period; But when it comes to a historical background you have to wonder what they were thinking&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"fb1MR85XFOc" title&equals;"Battlefield 5 Official Reveal Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;fb1MR85XFOc"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;fb1MR85XFOc&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Battlefield 5 Official Reveal Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><strong>It&&num;8217&semi;s Not Like Players Care About Immersion &&num;8230&semi; Or Do They&quest; <&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">This lack of immersion takes away from the astounding graphics&comma; amazing cinematics&comma; and beautiful sound design&period; And while the choice to include women is controversially politically correct you have to wonder even more why they felt the need to give her a prosthetic arm&period; And yet she still manages to hold a fire her gun and somehow do her eyeshadow&period; <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Next thing you know we’ll have a Battlefield full of blind soldiers in wheelchairs as if facing a disability or fighting in a war wasn’t hard enough already&comma; you need to do both at the same time&period; But people would lose their cool even more if a game replaced the participants in other historical events that weren’t white men&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Logic Behind All This Nonsense<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Ultimately it comes down to an attempt at expanding their player base&period; And while the Battlefield V official Twitter account tweeted &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we wanted to empower player choice&comma; diversity and inclusion” it’s hard to believe that this is anything more than attempt to get those who like to play as women &lpar;whether they themselves are a man or woman&rpar; to pick up the game&period; It also expands the number of cosmetic items they can add&period; After removing loot boxes from Battlefront 2 they are certainly looking for a new monetization scheme&period; <&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Additionally&comma; the trailer itself is one long disorganized&comma; action dense&comma; unbroken shot that left viewers with more questions than answers&period; And they chose to highlight the multiplayer experience rather than the campaign&period; What this reveal trailer did was reveal a hot mess&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">However&comma; the reveal event as a whole was much more painful&period; Trevor Noah pretended to be a long time player of the series&period; The one thing he was honest about was telling the developers &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You have made a horrible mistake”&period; This was in regards to choosing to speak with him&period; With as vital as first impressions are this one was not a good one&period; It’s going to take a lot to correct this&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;