Battlefield 4 is a military first-person shooter set in the near future and continues the story of Battlefield 3. The focus is on its multiplayer mode, where players can take on various roles such as assault, recon, support, or engineer, each with special abilities and gadgets that can be unlocked over time. Players face each other on large maps with a variety of vehicles to use in team-based playing variants like conquest and rush mode.
The most significant change is the interactive "Levolution" elements, which emphasize destroyable areas. Each map has one level element that changes how the level looks and plays when destroyed. Battlefield 4 also brings back naval warfare and commander mode, where an additional player can see the level from an overhead map, give orders, and assign missile strikes.
The game features a single-player campaign with a Chinese general starting a war with the world, and the USA must save the day. The player takes on the role of a faceless soldier named Recker, completing linear levels with a lot of action and hundreds of enemies to shoot. The gameplay is similar to Battlefield 3 , but with some variations.
The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions have smaller multiplayer maps due to the reduced player limit of 24 instead of 64.