[Flawless]

EDGE magazine 1943 review - 9

Three levels provide for the conquest gametype familiar to the series, while another, Coral Sea, is pure air combat. Variety has always been Battlefield's defining feature, and drawing out a single facet of play will not be to everyone's taste - but its place on the matchmaking rota is optional. Even with only four levels, the game is a more then generous serving: for less then a quarter of Bad Company's release price, this is the choice cut of its better half - multiplayer. And this is a yet more pacy, extravagant affair, tapping directly into the whims of the player who just wants to cover a plane in det-packs and plough into an aircraft carrier. Strategy is subordinate to a sense of fun - and you wonder if that's what the series needed all along. A perfectly sized, expertly crafted romp. Pacific gives other download games their marching orders.