Battlefield Heroes beta rolling back into action

by Jason Dobson on Jan 23rd 2009 3:30AM

Things have been quiet on Battlefield Heroes' front lines since Electronic Arts first called for a ceasefire last November, halting the game's release and sending scores of pastel-colored grunts back to their bunks. Now EA has reopened beta sign-ups, giving the boys in green another chance to enlist.

Still, it's unknown how many players will be admitted into the beta, and greenhorns eager to taste the free-to-play shooter's cartoon action could be left in their barracks. Seasoned vets, however, will get first dibs, and do not need to get back in line, as any players who were already in the beta or had previously signed up will automatically receive an invite to report for duty. As for when soldiers can expect the call to action, EA is saying only to watch for more announcements in the "coming weeks."

[Via Massively]

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Tags: battlefield-heroes, battlefieldheroes, beta, closed-beta, ea, electronic-arts, electronicarts, PC

Reader Comments (9)

Awesome. I was wondering if this game would ever come back.

TF2 + Battlefield = Battlefield Heroes.

Actually it wasn't quite. The look and feel was far more "cartoony" than TF2, and the 3rd person only view really grated on me. I realize if you're playing in 1st person view you can't see how cute all those wacky clothing choices you made look, particularly the pegleg and all, but I'll happily trade that for having no "me" size hole in my field of vision.

Wasn't very fun last time.

Hoping for improvements. The vehicles kicked arse though.

This is all taking way too long. Yes Valve took forever in making their version of this game but for EA to make their own during TF2's reign and then drag their heels on it just screams classic EA to me.