Battlefield 4 has certainly been making its name known lately. With a myriad of reveals and other pertinent information coming out of the woodwork, it's safe to say that the hype train for the game is on full-steam ahead. While excitement for the game is high, aninterview with DICE's Karl-Magnus Troedsson has some interesting strings attached to it.

Troedsson claims that the single player portion of Battlefield 4 will serve more as an introduction than anything. "We prepare them for multiplayer," he says.

This is an issue not because beginners are getting their feet wet for the much more competitive online gaming scene, but because it confirms what gamers have feared for years: that the single player portions of first-person shooters are turning into a tacked-on segment of game development.

This is again portrayed when Troedsson says that DICE will be bringing "signature parts" of Battlefield 4's multiplayer to its single player campaign.

It is definitely okay to have a game's multiplayer portion outshine its single-player brother or sister, but to outright claim that you are looking at development from that perpsective seems a bit near-sighted. If you already expect your game's single-player to be worse than its multiplayer, then why would you put any passion or hard work into making that experience better?

Battlefield isn't the only victim of this train of thought. Other first-person shooters such asCall of Duty have fallen prey to the philosophy that most gamers only care about competitive play. Whether or not this is true is debatable, and it might be true - but does that make it right?

Release date(s)

September 2013

system requirements-
Minimum requirements for Battlefield 4 

OS: Windows 7 or Windows 8 
Processor: Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 2.8 Ghz 
RAM: 3GB 
Graphic card: DirectX 11 or 11.1 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 6450 or higher, Nvidia GT 520 or higher. 
Graphics card memory: 1024 MB 
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card 
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version 



Recommended system requirements for Battlefield 4 

OS: Windows 8 64-bit 
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU 
RAM: 4GB 
Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti or AMD Radeon 7950. 
Graphics card memory: 1 GB 
Sound card: DirectX compatible sound card 
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version