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Wake Island map coming to Battlefield Heroes

Battlefield Heroes is finally getting some Wake Island love, as the classic map is being added to the free to play shooter later this month to celebrate its second year of release.
Xav de Matos
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Browser-based, free to play soldiers unite! Battlefield Heroes is going to Wake Island. According to EA, the addition of the iconic Battlefield map is to celebrate the second anniversary of Battlefield Heroes.

Wake Island has been a staple in the Battlefield series since first debuting in Battlefield 1942. The map has since been made available on all other Battlefield titles in some form. The map will arrive "later this month."

Additionally, EA has announced that between now and July 7 (11:59pm PT), players that log into Battlefield Heroes will earn two free 'Party Packs,' one for the Royal and National factions. "Each Party Pack will include 77 Battlefunds, 25 Festive Flares, a permanent exclusive Party Hat, and a 7 day rental to play in a Birthday Suit," EA noted in a press release.

Today's announcement also comes with word that Battlefield Heroes is now "fully localized in eight new languages, including: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish and Russian." English and German languages were previously available.

Now begs the question, how much time--if any--do you spend playing Battlefield Heroes? Or is Team Fortress 2 your new free to play favorite?

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    July 1, 2011 10:40 AM

    Xav de Matos posted a new article, Wake Island map coming to Battlefield Heroes.

    Battlefield Heroes is finally getting some Wake Island love, as the classic map is being added to the free to play shooter later this month to celebrate its second year of release.

    • Slowtreme legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 1, 2011 11:32 AM

      lol

    • pun][sher legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 1, 2011 11:37 AM

      Am I missing something in this game? I'm a huge TF2 fan, but this game looks like a sub-par TF2.

      • riptyde legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 1, 2011 11:56 AM

        It's terrible.

      • Desmond4231 legacy 10 years
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        July 1, 2011 12:42 PM

        ea, I don't see how its so popular. Its pay to win, my guess is everyone that plays this never heard of TF2.

      • dantastic legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 1, 2011 8:07 PM

        it's not really like TF2 at all. it's more like an arcadey version of battlefield with microtransactions. it wouldnt be too bad if it werent for the microtransactions. i had a lot of fun with it when it first came out before the store started up.

      • cslhrdcr legacy 10 years
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        July 2, 2011 8:05 AM

        It can actually be really fun if you play with friends or get a team that really cooperates, but the microtransactions have taken some of the fun out of it. It does/did have a great community, though I haven't played it in a while so I'm not sure if many of them are still around. Anyway, I'll log on and play a couple games on the map when it comes out.

    • Dragzeela legacy 10 years
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      July 1, 2011 12:44 PM

      I owned TF2 since it it came out. Everybody I knew who played Battlefield Heroes, I told them about TF2 and they never went back. Now that TF2 is free, they hop on it like rats on stinky cheese covered in peanut butter.

    • coyoterys legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 1, 2011 1:05 PM

      It would be newsworthy if it was for BF:BC2 or BF3.

    • tlover2 legacy 10 years
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      July 1, 2011 4:18 PM

      I played it for a little bit. The game was fun enough but I do not want to pay for a pay to win game. If so let me pay one lump sum and have acces to everything.

      • dantastic legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 1, 2011 8:09 PM

        yeah the game would be much better if everyone could just pay 15-30 bucks and just unlock shit at an acceptable rate of time with no microtransactions.

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