411Mania: Battlefield Heroes Preview

Battlefield Heroes is DICE’s attempt to bring the Battlefield franchise full circle, opening it up to a wider audience and hardcore gamers alike. Heroes is free-to-download and free-to-play, which is a nice change, with revenue only being generated from micropayments and advertising. This is EA’s new model, Play 4 Free, which should have some other franchises following suit soon if Heroes does well. The game is at first embedded in your browser, launching the game from the Heroes website, but it is not a browser-based game in the traditional sense.