Review reviews
Battlefield 2042
By Yahoo Silverman
Battlefield 2042
Reviewing the Reviews
Full disclosure, I have not played Battlefield 2042, nor do I plan to. I don’t know much about the story but I assume with the roughly 25-year gap between Battlefield 1 and 5 that Battlefield 2042 takes place during World War 7 or something. Yahoo’s Echo chamber is not a game review site (I honestly still don’t know what this site is despite being the only person responsible for its creation, something I will eventually apologize for), and this is not a review of Battlefield 2042. This is a review of reviews for Battlefield 2042.
WARNING: This is not me bashing nor endorsing any distain or hatred of game critics. I have a miniscule audience and absolutely no deadline for anything that I write yet still feel immense pressure while writing and posting, that in combination with my inability to finish games that I do not enjoy creates a respect for the work that games critics do. The issues with the game are almost universally acknowledged, the issues primarily being missing content and bugs. These issues are not the fault of the individual developers, attacking them is inexcusable, and if there is a publication that does not deride the title for these issues that does not mean people should attack the outlet or the author. If you really want to address your concerns regarding ethics in games, then those concerns should be directed towards the way games are made and marketed. Stop yelling at the hoodies and t-shirts and worry more about the suits.
IGN
Echo Chamber Score: 10/10
The first Battlefield 2042 review we will review is a review from the game review site IGN.com. My first thought after reading this review was “Thank god my computer has enough RAM and CPU strength to load a page with literally 10 videos embedded on it.” If this was the mid-2000’s Myspace era I’d be choking on the fumes emitted from my beige “it’s technically a computer” Hewlett Packard as it melted while a 15-year-old Yahoo panicked thinking “If I die, I’ll never get to grow up and be cool and have friends!”. What an optimistic fool Yahoo was.
IGN gave Battlefield 2042 a 7 (out of 10). While they do seem to admire the “utter chaos and explosions”, they do point out that some of the maps are so large that they feel empty. I may be a small guy, but I can relate. When it comes to triple-A games, especially those from certain publishers, I immediately wonder about its microtransactions. Activision-Blizzard began releasing their games sans microtransactions a few years ago, only to shove them in once the bulk of game reviews are out. Like most awful things publishers do, this became a trend, which made me happy that IGN not only pointed out that just because microtransactions are not currently there that doesn’t mean they won’t be, but they highlighted the entire section making it stand (almost as much as the 10 embedded videos) saying “the fact that a store tab exists at all suggests their existence. Battlefield V introduced purely cosmetic options five months after it launched, so it wouldn't be surprising to see those pop up here as well.” This alone gives them a 10/10 from me. Good work IGN.
Easy Allies
Echo Chamber Score: 12/10
admit, I am completely biased here. I love Easy Allies, and unlike the other reviews, this one is based on a video. Does that make my inclusion of their review unfair? Probably, but I didn’t build this site to not show favoritism whenever possible. If anyone from Easy Allies happens to see this and are considering offering me a job, just know that I will give your reviews very high scores with every entry, even for games you have not reviewed. I will also claim your competitors reviews have a ton of typo’s. I have a background in programming, so yeah, I know my way around the inspect element property in a web browser (I just winked).
Easy Allies seems optimistic when it comes to the future of “portal mode”. I don’t know what that is, I assume it’s some kind of mode that they at least kind of liked. They do give this game a fair amount of praise when it comes to the gameplay and even unlockable items. Like other outlets and most who have played the game, they also point out the lack of variety when it comes to certain items and aspects as well as the bugs and missing features as a turn off. Despite the name, they did not enjoy what they refer as a “superpower hovercraft”. They gave Battlefield 2042 a 7 (out of 10). This review was perfect, I really need a job.
Gamespot
Echo Chamber Score: 7/10
Did you know that Gamespot mentions how long their reviewers spent playing the game they're reviewing right there on the review? I don’t know how much that matters, but it does help them with their Echo Chamber Consumer Safety Rating. Gamespot describes their experience with Battlefield 2042 as “buggy but playable”, which 10 years ago wouldn’t be the triple-a compliment that it is today.
To be honest, I should have played the game, or at the very least played any of the recent Battlefield games online. I don’t know what half of these missing features are. I think I might be a hack, but over the last 30+ years I’ve gotten pretty good at pretending to understand what is going on.
Just as IGN mentioned the giant maps, so does Gamespot who goes on to praise (second time I’ve used that word) the “call-in tablet”. Cool.
They also gave the game a 7 (out of 10) so they are getting a 7 (out of 10). If I wrote about them first and IGN third, then their reviews would be swapped. I take this very seriously.
EGM
Echo Chamber Score: 10/10
They are the only publication on MetaCritic to give Battlefield 2042 a perfect 100, and that upset some people.
10 (out of 10), they didn’t give the game a 7.
GAMEINFORMER
Echo Chamber Score: 0/10
They gave the game a 7.
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