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Thursday, June 05 2008

Battlefield: Bad Company Demo Arrives  by Craig D at 22:37

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As promised the single and multi-player demo of EA and Dice's upcoming console shooter is now available on both Xbox Live and may well also be out on the Playstation Network though I can't check. It's a pretty big 1.50gb download.
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Stan
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05 June 2008 22:55
Just downloading this now on the xbox, didn't know it was on the ps3 as well, will go check now and post back later.
Stan
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05 June 2008 22:58
Yep demo is also on the ps3
Mani
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06 June 2008 00:23
but is it any good?
Stan
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06 June 2008 00:36
Will post my comments when its finally downloaded, its taking ages. Guess it must be a pretty anticipated game.
Midnight
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06 June 2008 00:39
Not even gonna bother with trying another BF game.
Stan
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06 June 2008 00:56
I wont be playing it multi-player all I can seem to do these days is single player console games.
Re0sLess
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06 June 2008 10:16
Been playing it for a week or so now (got my rank 4 on Tuesday so i have the find-all-five unlock in the full game), in traditional BF style its a terrible map in the demo (Oasis), you spawn and within 4 seconds you have been snipped, and as xbox livers as ****** two mins into the map and tanks roll into your un-capable and spawn rape you! also the servers ware laggy, but i was playing with the yanks until the UK release.

but the good stuff, the destructible environment is sweet, you can noob tube just about any wall, so if you have a nice spot to guard a gold create, you can open up the surrounding buildings to give you a better vantage point .

some of the unlocks are fun to, like the snipers laser guided bombs, that you can guide in on tanks.
Midnight
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06 June 2008 12:21
Those laser guided bombs were meant to be in BF2 :/ I swear they give you all the good ideas and then rip them out to make you want their next game If you were playing on xbox live there is no 'servers' ... only a tiny handful of games actually run servers the rest are hosted by the persons xbox that starts the game, that's probably why you were lagging if you were playing the US people
Stan
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06 June 2008 16:36
What made you think it was a good idea to play US people. gogogo lag !
As for the demo I ain't played it in mp yet, but the single player is average, decent for a console fps game but nothing like a pc version of battlefield.
Stan
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06 June 2008 16:48
What the hell was up with the god awful controls on the ps3 version that you couldn't change, L1 to accelerate and L2 to break wtf.... then r1 to fire and r2 to change weapons. Just felt wrong, and it wouldn't let me change them.
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06 June 2008 18:16
dont mind them, played for 30sec online then dinner ready, looked ok, no lag played all of sp and thought, avg game, dont like the way u cant blow everything up, if they gonna do something they got 2 do it right also gfx dont look so good
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07 June 2008 19:07
Controls on the 360 version are also terrible IMO.

Only played it in SP but I didn't think much of it. The GFX are amazing but the controls were too frustrating and far too many bugs in the AI ruined the fun and illusion for me.

I swear some games are trying to differ their controls from Halo, not for the good but only to be different. Halo (while not being amazing) DID nail the controls and every game out there should ****ing well learn from it.
ralinn
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07 June 2008 19:09
Grrr!
Stan
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07 June 2008 19:11
OH dear god ralinn agreed with me for once, the world is going to end !!!
Negotiator
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08 June 2008 12:34
whats wrong with contorls?
Stan
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08 June 2008 16:56
Come on nego, think about it, every racing game uses the trigger to accelerate, so what does bf bad company do, it uses it for break and the button above to accelerate. Then for firing instead of the trigger it uses the button above, every single button is set up wrong and you CAN'T even change them.
I don't know what the **** these guys were thinking, well I do they clearly weren't thinking at all.

Also the graphics are superb imo.
Negotiator
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08 June 2008 22:40
contorls r fan, ur iq is below 40 and cant work them out
ralinn
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08 June 2008 22:50
Oh, Nego... if you're gonna insult someones IQ, at least not insult the Queens English at the same time.
Stan
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08 June 2008 23:07
If my iq is below 40, what then are "contorls r fan"
If you mock a mans intelligence just make sure you didn't make any spelling mistakes yourself mate


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