"Overall Bad Company has made exceptional strides since last year's inaugural showing. Battlefield fans and console first-person shooter fans alike have plenty to look forward to in the summer months and it's not all thanks to the destructibility that DICE loves to tout to the press."
Despite EA's servers being totally hosed by the immensely high traffic of people with keys wanting to play the Battlefield: Bad Company beta, we did get a handful of rounds in on the game today. And even though getting in was a pain (it's a beta, the whole point is to stress test the servers), once things got rolling, it felt like players were getting a nice little taste of what the new Battlefield,s multiplayer action is going to feel like.
After the recent furor over the weapons included with Battlefield: Bad Company that apparently are only available as a separate purchase, Electronic Arts emailed Game|Life to point out that things aren't exactly as they seem.
The tags currently attached to the weapons saying "Buy this weapon on Xbox Live Marketplace" refer to gamers' ability to purchase the weapons even if they miss the promotional events or only purchase the standard edition of the game, EA says.
It appears that the Battlefield: Bad Company Beta lists individual weapons for sale via the XBLM. A total of ten weapons are locked that have text reading "Available for purchase on Xbox Live Marketplace" next to them. The details of this are a bit shaky as of now however, as of those ten weapons, five weapons are listed as simply available for purchase, and five are listed as available in gold edition or for purchase.
The beta starts March 25 and continues until April 25. It will include one mode ("Gold Rush") and two maps. To get on the Beta basically you're either going to need to be a member of IGN's Founders Club or Insider service or pre-order the game at your local Gamestop and only the first 5,000 to preorder are going to be in on the month of action. Oh, and you're going to need to be playing on the 360, as the offer isn't extended to PS3 players.
Built from the ground-up for next-generation consoles using Digital Illusions’ bleeding-edge Frostbite™ game engine, Battlefield: Bad Company drops gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge.
Featuring a deep, cinematic single-player experience loaded with adventure and dark humor, the game delivers the series’ trademark sandbox gameplay in a universe where nearly everything is destructible.
When Crytek's spiritual successor to Far Cry was announced and demoed for the gaming press last year console gamers' hearts skipped a beat when they thought of the possibility that Crysis could one day make it into their homes and onto their next-gen system. Well ladies and gentleman, fear not, the Swedish game makers at DICE have created something that is completely console exclusive and will make you forget all about Cry… something or other.
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