The lucky few who got a beta key for Battlefield: Bad Company can connect now to Xbox Live and enter their code to download the game. The others will have to live with our videos. Since I'm as bad as ever with FPS games, actual gameplay footage will have to wait for Snoopers to finally download it too, but here is the Attract Mode of the beta.
What I've played was a lot of fun, it definitely felt like a Battlefield game. Controls were good too, and lag was minimal. The only downside was a very visible tearing of the image.
Update: Gameplay video #1 added.
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The graphics are great, the vehicles works better here than in BF2 PC. Love Oasis, giant map, the other one not so much (cloudy Asciation or something).
Oasis is huge, desert map. Great vehicles map.
The whole destroy thing works awesome, tanks just run through walls and fences. Shooting grenades/rockets is much more fun than I thought it would be.
What I really love here, and didn't love in MC, is the controls. Once again, nailed it! The general sensetivity is much more fitting the genre, and not the mess that was MC.
I've ranked like 3 or 4 ranks this morning, it's pretty fast in the beginning.
If you have any questions, just ask away.
some are cheating the process by downloading the beta from torrents and running it from DVD , its seems the key its only to download it , not to be able to play it. so the key its no needed to play if you acquire the beta.
the servers are a bit laggy , EA its having issues.
That doesn't make it bad, just too much of a different direction to hold my interest. I'm still going to try it out and give it a fair shake though.
No where near as fun/good as PC BF2.........
that game was awesome i have faith in this game.
I like it better than Frontlines. I think it feels a little clunkier than BF2 did, but it has better graphics, the smoke effects are especially good. The destruction system also lives up to its promise IMO.
As far as graphics alone, one problem I saw is it seems to have no AA, and might render at less than 720p, it looked pretty jaggy.
Some of the HUD stuff I don't like, when I kill someone it doesn't pop out enough to me that I've done so.
As far as combat and lag and all it seems pretty solid. I think the clunky feel comes from the fact that it takes a while before you can shoot after running. I didn't find much I would have blamed on lag, but getting into a game was kind of a pain.
Overall I'm borderline right now, if I hear the SP is decent enough I'll probably buy this.
I cant get in to any games at present, theres a message saying the is huge demand on the servers and they are looking into it