Hey, we (EGM) do that too! Have forever. And get bitched at a lot for doing so.
*thumbs up*
Haven't read EGM in a while, actually--gonna have to check it out now.
Well there just is not enough variations of the same MP5 or H&K carbine, or M4, and mountains of unlocks that go unused by the majority, if at all.
Yes I am being a bit silly, but that is exactly the complaints by these reviewers masking content behind fancy words like depth and shallow.
Just come out and say CONTENT and leave it at that. Shallow is the wrong use of a word for this game. There are a lot of "little things" in the gameplay, especially with how each hero plays differently.
it is similar to when I hear the words "lacking soul" used to describe a game.
I don't really think that's it, though. Watch Matimi0's review--he's a skilled mid-topish tier FPS player and he comments that its a shallow and casual experience. That's exactly what DICE wants.
For example, almost nothing affects your aim in Battlefront. AFAIK, ADS, crouching, moving, even using a Jump Pack--they do nothing to your aim. It's just one single value for your accuracy. Compare that to other games, where all of these different types of movement/action DO affect your aim and have to be considered and utilized in the proper situation.
And then there's the values for weapons themselves. In other games, there are a multitude of values, for each weapon, that impact how the weapons control, which situations/maps they should be used in, what type of players should use them, what type of attachments you should use, etc.
The game is casual and shallow by design. It's exactly what DICE set out to do.
