So yes we all know the multiplayer servers are absolute garbage. I don't know what they were even thinking if they were even thinking at all when it came to the number of servers they had up for this game. There was no doubt that there was going to be massive numbers of players playing this collection and most of them would be wanting to go straight into the multiplayer as that is where the most fun is to be had.

That being said my experience so far in the campaigns of BF1 within this collection have been nothing but fun. The fact that all I had to do was plug my controller in to play and I'm right back in the year 2004 playing on console enjoying what I loved most about these games since when I was a teen I didn't have the ability to play online. While it is a shame that the multiplayer is in an abysmally bad state at the moment (I am assuming they intend to address this issue relatively quickly) the game itself is visually pleasing and mechanically sound (again speaking only from what I have experienced so far). If you loved these games when they first came out I see no reason to not recommend them as it is only logical to play these amazing classics with some better visuals.

Sure you could just mod the original Steam releases but if you really just want to install and play without having to do anything more than install and have an updated appearance this is the best way to go. Another thing people are overlooking is that these are running on 64-bit CPUs and actually able to make use of the power 64-bit CPUs have. The original Steam releases could not make use of the additional computing power provided by 64-bit CPUs. So despite the multiplayer not working on launch I'm still gonna have to recommend this one because my experience thus far has been nothing but fun.

So yes we all know the multiplayer servers are absolute garbage. I don't know what they were even thinking if they were even thinking at all when it came to the number of servers they had up for this game. There was no doubt that there was going to be massive numbers of players playing this collection and most of them would be wanting to go straight into the multiplayer as that is where the most fun is to be had. That being said my experience so far in the campaigns of BF1 within this collection have been nothing but fun. The fact that all I had to do was plug my controller in to play and I'm right back in the year 2004 playing on console enjoying what I loved most about these games since when I was a teen I didn't have the ability to play online. While it is a shame that the multiplayer is in an abysmally bad state at the moment (I am assuming they intend to address this issue relatively quickly) the game itself is visually pleasing and mechanically sound (again speaking only from what I have experienced so far). If you loved these games when they first came out I see no reason to not recommend them as it is only logical to play these amazing classics with some better visuals. Sure you could just mod the original Steam releases but if you really just want to install and play without having to do anything more than install and have an updated appearance this is the best way to go. Another thing people are overlooking is that these are running on 64-bit CPUs and actually able to make use of the power 64-bit CPUs have. The original Steam releases could not make use of the additional computing power provided by 64-bit CPUs. So despite the multiplayer not working on launch I'm still gonna have to recommend this one because my experience thus far has been nothing but fun.