Battlefield: Bad Company trailer takes stab at humanity

by Justin McElroy { Dec 11th 2007 at 11:45AM }

Wait a minute, we're confused. We watched this entire trailer for Battlefield: Bad Company and saw not a single instance of shooting, radical explosions or particle effects. There was also no disembodied voice growling about how tough/what a rebel our character will be, nor were there any searing metal guitar solos. How are we supposed to know if we like the game or not?

All that's here is a clearly defined, well-written, well-acted character named Haggard who seems enamored with explosions. As we watched, we began to get the oddest sensation. We weren't sure, but we think that's what it's like when other emotions are engaged besides the emotion that likes to see things blown up. ... Yuck. We need a shower.

Tags: bad-company, battlefield, battlefield-bad-company, dice, ea, frostbite

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Steve S. @ Dec 11th 2007 11:57AM

lol

" What country am I in ?" . . . " I think I am in Europe "

Ethan @ Dec 11th 2007 11:59AM

I find serious, but shallow an unsustainable combination, so if I've ever played war games it's been stuff like Cannon Fodder.

Glad to see this continuing the trend, but it really needed some sort of "Unless it's a farm"-type punchline.

xFenixKnightx @ Dec 11th 2007 12:09PM

I have a good feeling this game will deliver. The previews look really really nice. Go DICE!

NATO_Duke @ Dec 11th 2007 12:12PM

The only emotions that matter are those involved with blowing things up.

OMG, what is Homeland Security doing here!?

Mecharine @ Dec 11th 2007 12:30PM

At least the humor is decidedly better than "Army of Two"

Yuccadude @ Dec 11th 2007 12:28PM

My name is Earl, and I have a problem.

Ron Coobie @ Dec 11th 2007 12:45PM

Have you guy seen the other gameplay movies they've released? they're pretty interesting.

frrs @ Dec 11th 2007 3:43PM

If anyone wants to see them: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/4456.html

Robobagins @ Dec 11th 2007 12:48PM

Oh snap I actually chuckled. Hopefully they'll release a demo on XBL and/or PSN.

JonFitt @ Dec 11th 2007 12:58PM

Nice.
From what I've seen this has the potential to make Dice's name on the console after a few so-so titles.
It will greatly depend on the enemy/friendly AI though. Dice's bots aren't the best, and while they roughly simulate a person playing an online shooter, they don't really act like real people which is what you expect in a SP shooter.
But if they've got some outside talent in to produce some convincing AI which is convincing without needing to be scripted, then we could have an awesome game.