EA DICE has returned us to Battlefield: Bad Company with our good friends Sweetwater, Marlowe, Haggard and Redford. Get ready for some shooting, wisecracking, and blowing up EVERYTHING. Is it fun? Is it blast-tastic? Is it worth buying? Is it better than Modern Warfare 2? You can find out after the break.
The release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 couldn’t have come at a more perfect time than when it did. You see, I’m one of the thousands of gamers that put Modern Warfare 2 on the back-burner for an undisclosed amount of time. As soon as the glitches started to hit, I had to put my controller down until they were fixed. Thousands of you gamers out there cried out to Infinity Ward as glitch after glitch hit the multiplayer fronts online. God mode, unlimited ammo of everything, the “fast running glitch”, rocket jumpers, all of these paved the way for patch after patch being put into place by Infinity Ward. Why do I want to play that with all of this crap going on?
I got a chance to talk with Gordon Van Dyke, one of the developers of the upcoming Battlefield 1943 while at Comic Con. Check out the interview to get some insight on what you can expect from this downloadable title.
Some more reason for you to play Battlefield: Bad Company online. Coming August 7th, Conquest mode is finally making it’s debut.
Made famous by Battlefield 1942™, Conquest mode pits players against each other in a fast paced battle to eliminate the opposing team’s tickets. Players deplete their opponent’s tickets by one point per kill and can cause their opponent’s tickets to spiral downwards by capturing control points. Four maps that are currently available for online play in Gold Rush mode will be available to conquer with Conquest mode.
Considering only four maps are available, I’d venture a guess that more are coming. Whether or not they cost money, I couldn’t say. I bet you can guess, though.
The game with the funniest trailers to date is finally out in stores. We picked up our copies yesterday, so expect a review very soon. Here’s the game’s launch trailer, which shows a bit of old and a bit of new. Cool gameplay with blowing stuff up and it’s definitely got some great funny one-liners in there.
This does not necessarily mean we will see 5 new games, but it definitely means that they plan on keeping the Battlefield name around for a while. No word on what the games will be based on, but we can assume they will still be large, multiplayer battles in nature. If they go back to WWII like CoD did, I might just jump out a fucking window.
The zingers keep coming from the boys in EA’s Bad Company. Now, they take on the Metal Gear Solid people. Lofting a an explosive grenade round into a barrel FTW.
Remember the commercial for Gears of War to that creepy song from the end of Donnie Darko. The song is called, Mad World and was a Tears for Fears song covered by Gary Jules. This is one of the songs that girls play after they sleep with a guy on the first date and he has not called back. Watch this as a Bad Company soldier gets caught up in the moment. I have to say I like games taking shots at each other. First Saints Row, now this
This is the game type that you get to play in the demo. Attacking is a helluva lot more fun and almost always results in a win. There are plenty of vehicles scattered about and there is always a race to get to the Howitzer artillery cannon which makes for easy kills and a good way to rack up points. Your own players will kill you to get inside, which is annoying. Hopefully they find a way around that.
The folks over at EA sent Loot Ninja an early download token for their latest multiplayer shooter. With FPS’s already flooding the market, Battlefield will have to show gamers something special to pull them away from COD4. In Bad Company, they did just that. This game is fun as hell to play. Imagine a cross behind Warhawk and Call of Duty 4, but with the originality that made the Battlefield series so popular.
If you like vehicles then this is a must have. Although you can choose to run around on foot, the game’s beauty really lies inside the vast amount of vehicular punishment you can dole out. A nice variety of tanks, APCs, Humvees, Patrol Boats, Helicopters and even gun emplacements and artillery batteries, the game lets you do almost whatever you want. There is a nice balance between the vehicles also. A support troop can easily drop a tank dead in its tracks with some well place RPG shots. Helicopters can be shot down with a gun emplacement.
The game mode that is playable in the demo is called Attack and Defend. The defenders have 6 gold crates that must be guarded. They can be destroyed via weapons fire, which takes some time, or a charge can be placed by anyone. After a minute or so countdown, the crate is destroyed. There are 3 pairs of crates and each pair destroyed yields a new spawn point for the attackers. The attackers have a health bar and every new spawn decreases it ever so slightly. When all 3 pairs are destroyed or the number of spawns is up, the game is over. Playing as the attackers is much more fun and almost always wins.
There are your usual varied weapons classes and additional secondary weapons and upgrades can be unlocked by ranking up in the ranked matches. The game also promises to keep the unlockables attained in the demo in the full version. When this goes live in a few days, you should download the 1.5 GB demo.
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