Since being bit by the delay bug, Battlefield: Bad Company has been flying under the radar, but recently developer DICE felt confident enough to show off the game's multiplayer and it actually impresses.
IGN posted a nice writeup of their first Bad Company multiplayer experience and are pleased to report that the framerate, textures and overall look of the game has drastically improved since their single player play session last year. The extra polish looks to have paid off. Their hands on time consisted of a 16 player versus multiplayer match in a map called "Ascension" (no, not that Ascension) where the goal was to lay waste to the other team all while destroying their heavily secured gold stash. The graphics are sharp, the gameplay was solid enough, the destructible environments lived up to their name and IGN walked away satisfied and hopeful. And from their positive praise (and videos like the one above) we're, oddly enough, impressed as well. Make the jump to read their complete multiplayer writeup as well as their preview of a yet to be played campaign mission. B-company out.
Reader Comments (17)
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:31PM (Unverified) said
God Bless America, ....when?! how long do we have to wait? I'm going to go play Frontlines. *sigh*
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:31PM killploki said
it looks like cod 4, only harder to kill your opponent. and does anyone else hate using iron sites as much as me?
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:33PM Sgt Cell said
Looks alot like COD4 overgrown map(or that one farm hill mission in SP). Seem to take alot to put some one down.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:36PM (Unverified) said
Yea I don't really like the health bar, you're not Arnold.
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Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:43PM (Unverified) said
Glad to see it's shaped back up again. I've been looking forward to this game for it's Call of Duty 4 like gameplay...but not as serious. That and the destructible environments. Was mostly wanting the single player, but it's good that the multiplayer looks solid as well.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:46PM ZEBRA NINER said
w00t! This looks pretty cool. I'm on board.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 1:54PM ghostbuddy said
Come on DICE. Stop smoking your coffee shop weed and give us a release date. Or atleast tell us what month its planned for.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 2:04PM (Unverified) said
Why do the characters in Battlefield games have to be louder than the actual game. It sucks because you can't turn up the stereo volume to hear the game, since the yelling will become even louder.
Also lets limit the amount of ingame screaming our characters do for every little action to a minimum.
Also lets limit the amount of ingame screaming our characters do for every little action to a minimum.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 2:11PM (Unverified) said
Whoa, that's one powerful knife right there.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 3:07PM (Unverified) said
Wow! I'm completely NOT impressed!
I know they have to tweak the physics a bit more, but if knifing a wooden fence BLOWS UP the fence, they have a lot of work cut out for them...
I know they have to tweak the physics a bit more, but if knifing a wooden fence BLOWS UP the fence, they have a lot of work cut out for them...
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 3:13PM (Unverified) said
Last time I knifed a fence it blew up...
I'm not sure where your from.
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I'm not sure where your from.
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 2:50PM (Unverified) said
wow! it looks awesome!
Posted: Feb 28th 2008 5:17PM Mabooza said
Anyone know if structurally compromised buildings will collapse? I'd hate to see a second floor floating in space with no lower supports. But if you could topple entire buildings that would be cool. Imagine, knock out the lower walls to kill a rooftop or upper floor sniper. Though I'm a little bit worried about all that fog. Would like to see some other maps in action.
Posted: Feb 29th 2008 6:04AM (Unverified) said
I'm a BF nut and every word has me salivating, but the one thing that worries me is that the destruction is too easy.
A grenade wouldn't really take out a brick wall and a knife, well, yeeeaaahhh . . . ..
A grenade wouldn't really take out a brick wall and a knife, well, yeeeaaahhh . . . ..
Posted: Feb 29th 2008 7:37AM (Unverified) said
I'm still patiently waiting my next BF fix. Battlefield 2 was awesome fun!
And just for the record, the anti-aircraft tank (with the GTAM's) was my fav. Beep, beep, beep, BOOM!
And just for the record, the anti-aircraft tank (with the GTAM's) was my fav. Beep, beep, beep, BOOM!
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