Week in Arcade: Battlefield 1943

Thu, Jul 9, 2009

Consoles, Xbox 360

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Only one game this week on the Live Arcade, a $15 online FPS in the Battlefield series. On with it… or not really.

Battlefield 1943

We’re pretty sure Battlefield 1943 is a great game. In fact, if you’re a fan of this franchise, we will offer a conditional money back guarantee* that you’ll love it. However, since we couldn’t actually play the damn thing, we can’t offer our own opinion. See, EA severely miscalculated the popularity of this downloaded title, and after trying for an entire day to find ONE game, we simply gave up. As such, here is our current review:

“Battlefield 1943 offers a kinetic title screen, which is unfortunately covered up by a box that states it is searching for a match. The music is epic, and the still pictures look purty.”

*Money back guarantee is not real and merely a figment of our imagination.

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