You're forced to work in teams, meaning you can't take an enemy position without help from your comrades in arms - even if they are humourless shitheels - and as a result, a strange sort of camaraderie is formed between you and your faceless cohorts, making the whole thing feel surprisingly wholesome.
Then you retreat to the cosily predictable world of artificial intelligence, snug in the knowledge that someone called 'FaceStabber' isn't going to plunge a knife into you and call you names.īattlefront, however, is a very different beast. And, as the omnipresent rumble of indecipherable mumbling coarses through your headset, you ask yourself 'Why am I here? Why am I playing videogames with a bunch of feckless, furrow-browed simpletons?'. The servers are almost always loaded with despicable American mentalists who should be sealed inside a barrel and kicked into the ocean.
For the most part, online gaming is utterly detestable.
