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Renders of Bad Company

EA and DICE release about fifteen renders of the characters of Battlefield: Bad Company. The game is planned to be released next march on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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iNcRiMiNaTi5959d ago

this game was supposed to come out this year but i could be wrong

decapitator5959d ago

It has been dated for this year but with all the shooters coming out this year but nothing has been released about it though.

It makes one wonder though , with all the recent news that is coming out, I would not be surprised if it was coming out sooner than earlier.

decapitator5959d ago

Aye.. I see you a fun.

Off-topic

I can't wait to replay the whole MGS1 level in LBP...

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eyeballpauluk5959d ago

to me saying next march means the next one to come which is 2008...but I know my mum and wife both use it for the following! which would mean 2009...hmmm....god knows lol

mighty_douche5959d ago

~Its out in 2 monthes! i think its slightly late to be showing off Renders.

Id rather see some shoots of the multiplayer maps, or weapons, anything really.

Kleptic5959d ago

I doubt it makes it out in 2 months dude...I would love for it to...but my guess is late 2008...

this is EA...and like Activision...EA will be pushing all kinds of videos and screenshots leading up to release...remember how much stuff was released for CoD 4 the few months prior to release?...I would expect something like that...

without that...no one will even know about it...this is a franchise that has remained PC noteworthy for the most part (I know there are console versions, but they didn't have anywhere near the impact as other high profile shooters have...such as CoD as an example)...

either way...can't wait...the fire and volumetric animated smoke effects are second to none right now (that video with the dude sitting there with a huge out of focus plume of fire and smoke in the background...awesome)...

sak5005959d ago

The story must be from last year or the Bad company is delayed till 2009. I hope its teh former.

perseus5959d ago

I want this game more than I've wanted any game since GTA3.

I'm going to be the guy that blows up every destructible object in the map before I even start shooting at other people.

I apologize. I'm going to be that guy.

Seriously. I'm sorry.

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The Argument for Battlefield: Bad Company Remakes

With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.

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thorstein128d ago

Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.

When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:

“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.

Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."

(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)

SonyStyled127d ago (Edited 127d ago )

I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)

Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.

Tody_za127d ago (Edited 127d ago )

What is so hard to understand for them?

Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD

INMATEofARKHAM126d ago

Probably should add a fun campaign to the list.

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72415d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel415d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon414d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim414d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai415d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341415d ago (Edited 415d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai415d ago (Edited 415d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341415d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313414d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald414d ago (Edited 414d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra414d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai414d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra414d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade414d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra414d ago (Edited 414d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno415d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149414d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop414d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb414d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole415d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled415d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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Battlefield 2042 Is More Than Enough To Prove We Need Bad Company 3

With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.

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DaCajun895d ago

Yes, because there is no way they could screw up a BFBC 3 like they just did the last 2 Battlefield games, right?. /s

They're not the same DICE devs they used to be they're just EA puppets. You will just keep getting COD/APEX/SEIGE BF games now, because idiots keep throwing money at EA for this garbage.

seanpitt23895d ago (Edited 895d ago )

BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same

If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit

LucasRuinedChildhood895d ago (Edited 895d ago )

Tbh, I think BF 2042 was a battle royale, and then they changed direction mid-development and didn't have enough time to finish it properly before EA's deadline. Specialists make more sense in a br, for example.

Like Halo Infinite before its delay, it needed at least an extra year of development. When you think about it, Infinite had 6 years and BF 2042 had just 3 years. It seems that's just not enough time to make a high quality AAA game anymore.

LucasRuinedChildhood895d ago (Edited 895d ago )

Here's evidence for BF 2042 originally being a battle royale game, heavily influenced by Apex Legends:
https://gamerant.com/battle...

ChubbyBlade895d ago

It did start as a battle royale. It’s pretty obvious. All the pieces are there.

isarai895d ago

Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.

Fluke_Skywalker895d ago

They actually admitted that in an interview a while back. They quite openly said they had no idea what made those games so popular and how to recapture it.
Maybe if they actually went and played BC2 they would find out.

RetroCaptainSteve895d ago

I mean, if they can bring back fun Star Wars single player games, anything's possible, yeah?

Gardenia895d ago (Edited 895d ago )

I think that says more about the people working on games nowadays. They have no idea what they are doing and aren't true gamers themselves. Because gaming is a billion money industry they follow the orders of the business men and investors who only look at making maximum profit of games.

Look at the beta and the launch of Battlefield 2042 alone; how can you not see the negative reactions of the community coming? That alone tells us enough of the people involved in making the game.

Yppupdam894d ago (Edited 894d ago )

Really? They don't understand what made the Bad Company games popular, or they just don't want to admit what made them popular...That is most likely what the creatively bankrupt writers of the Disney made Star Wars films say about The original trilogy. They don't want to admit that the people before them were just better and that ALL the things that make the Bad company games great are the same things that they probably deem "problematic". Just think how they would destroy Haggard if they made a new game? Everything about his character makes modern game developers sob and run for the first safe space filled with teddys and the soothing voice if Anita Sarkeesian piped in from a speaker in the ceiling.

Sheppard7t3895d ago

Like Ubisoft and the recent Splinter Cell rumors, I don’t trust EA/DICE in its current form anymore. They’d find a way to ruin Bad Company 3.

Azurite895d ago

Bad Company 2 was amazing but I'm afraid they'd mess it up with a new game.

Ninver895d ago

Better yet remake with new engine and new coat of paint. Plus all the bells and whistles of next gen

badz149894d ago

BFBC + BFBC2 remasters for next gen. skip last gen altogether. lower chance for them to screw it up rather than trusting them to make a new BFBC3

annoyedgamer895d ago

EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.

Ninver895d ago

Very strong point. I see the light

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