This week’s edition of Critical Reception examines the online reaction to Battlefield 1943, a downloadable multiplayer-only first-person shooter, that reviews as “a perfectly-sized, expertly-crafted romp. The game currently has a score of 84 out of 100 at Metacritic.com with the user score of 7.9

As I said earlier, Battlefield 1943 comes with three popular maps from its predecessor- Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, and Wake Island. EA will unlock a fourth map, Coral Sea once the community for the respective platforms reaches 43,000,000 kills. Coral sea features its own Air Superiority mode.

According to Matt Bertz at GAMEINFORMER the game scores 8.5 out of 10. “While there is no questioning the quality of the entertaining battles, the same can’t be said for 1943’s awards and statistics support. The game tracks your overall score, time played, and number of kills, but that’s it. No kill-to-death ratio, stat tracking by kit, or vehicle stats, which stands in stark contrast to the rich feedback other modern Battlefield games offer. While the game lacks the feature depth of other Battlefield titles, 1943 is a fairly priced, solid core to build around with more downloadable content.” he explains.

Edge Magazine rates Battlefield 1943 at 9 out of 10. The review says, “Secondary weapons ensure that no class is helpless, even when forced out of its comfort zone. Self-replenishing ammo also turns out to be a great idea, ensuring a breakneck pace and ironing out the intimidating knowledge differential between beginners and veterans. The need to locate supplies or quickly come to terms with a complex class system are tossed away, promoting happy, impulsive experimentation.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.”

The freedom to be creative and fight however you want comes from the well-tuned game balance that makes whatever you decide to do a viable way to take part in the battle. But the game suffers occasionally due to inexperienced players. The game sometimes gets disrupted by its own players. Already, people can be seen waiting around to get a plane the next time it spawns, or racing off in a jeep without waiting a second for a teammate to hop in with them.