Oh, wake island I miss you so, very much! EA and Dice really missed the great opportunity to make my personal favourite map "Guadalcanal" for the BFV game.
I still go into the tutorial from time to time just to run around for a bit on Wake Island. It was my favourite map in BF1943. Now, while Wake Island was my favourite, I do think that Guadalcanal perhaps was a better map as far as getting consistent gameplay. Having all flags in the middle meant that you rarely had to go far to get into the action. On Wake Island you could sometimes end up having to spend a lot of time going from one tail of the island to the other to hunt for action. But man, when Wake Island worked, it really worked. So much fun.
Even though it doesn’t seem to resemble it much at all… I believe “Solomon Islands” map in BFV is the remake of the “Guadalcanal” map from 1943. It’s not even close to the same terrain though imo 🤷♂️
This game was amazing. I remember this was one of the first download only games for the consoles. I wish they continued making games just like this for the various different famous wars
It was such a gem of a game. More games like this would have been sweet (or you know, just reopen the servers for this one, heh) as there are no games on the marked that give the same kind of experience that you could get from BF1943.
