8 Video Game Sequels That Removed Amazing Features

I will never understand why this feature was dropped so quickly.

When Battlefield 2: Modern Combat was early in its development, the creators were keen to point out an incredibly fun new feature they were working on called "hot-swapping", in which the player would be able to freely leap between squadmates that were spread across the vast maps and take advantage of different load-outs and skills.

The feature was widely praised because of the level of tactical play it afforded, letting players who hit a roadblock of enemy fire the ability to jump up to rooftops at a moment's notice and clear the way for the rest of their team. Due to how chaotic this would have made the online component of the game, this was limited to the single-player but was entirely dropped when it came to making Battlefield 3's campaign mode.

As a result, there was little to make Battlefield 3's singleplayer stand out at all, with many critics deriding the mode as a watered-down and even boring retread of events Call Of Duty had already mastered. If they had carried the Hotswapping over then it would at least have made for some clever "out of the box" thinking, but alas the feature was in another type of box buried six feet deep.