Games Inbox: Battlefield 2042 vs. Call Of Duty, Super Smash Mario Kart, and MultiVersus microtransactions

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The Monday letters page discusses the difficulty of keeping up with long-running series, as one reader suggests Xbox make its own portable.

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Online battle So the hype is starting to build for this year’s Call Of Duty, and because it’s a Modern Warfare game and not set in space or WW2 or anything I would imagine it’ll be much more successful than last year. But will it really? A lot of people have been down on the series lately and I have to admit I haven’t played it much since the last Modern Warfare came out.

Maybe I’m just weird but I have instead been playing Battlefield 2042 a lot lately. Unlike the apparent majority I didn’t hate it at launch and while the updates haven’t been game-changers it is slowly getting better.

To me though it doesn’t really matter whether it’s the best Battlefield or not as that style of game just suits me better. The more people in a match, the longer range battles, the vehicles, the bigger emphasis on teamplay – it just all seems much more interesting to me.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s better than anything Call Of Duty has done in the last couple of years and that includes Warzone. I know the numbers don’t back that up but that’s how it is for me. Curious to know whether anyone else agrees.Kimble

Smash Bros. Kart Been playing the new Mario Kart 8 DLC tracks and they are really great. Waluigi Pinball and Kalamari Desert are just fantastic and I like the new Sydney track a lot too. The whole season pass is good value for money too, so I’m happy to just sit back and wait for them to all come out.

I do find the lack of anti-gravity odd though, considering it’s the main selling point of the main game but, like GC says, Nintendo