Battlefield: Bad Company demo in June
PS3 and 360, with single-player and online.
EA and DICE are busy applying the finishing pixels to an upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company demo, which will be out on PSN and Xbox Live on 5th June.
The demo will give you your first taste of the single-player mode, which sees Bad Company on a quest for gold, while the multiplayer element will give you access to the Gold Rush mode and Oasis map. You may already have experienced the latter in the recent closed multiplayer beta.
Those who tackle the multiplay will also be able to unlock an exclusive in-game weapon by reaching rank four. The full game will have a number of locked weapons, some of which can be obtained by playing through the game while others are promotional items.
EA also says that you will be able to gain early access to the demo by pre-ordering Bad Company through participating retailers, but for the moment the offer's only open to the US. "Participating EU retailers to be added," says the official site.
Battlefield: Bad Company puts players in B Company, a band of soldiers who go AWOL in search for gold, much as George Clooney and company do in Three Kings. The single-player is more developed than it has been in past Battlefields, and DICE has made a big deal of its destructible environments across a range of promotional events and many trailers, which you can access from the 360 and PS3 gamepages.
The full game is due out on 27th June. Check out our Battlefield: Bad Company hands-on preview for more on the recent multiplayer beta.
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Have to send the wife and kid to her folks in the country for vacations
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Would rather DICE got Mirror's Edge out instead of one more (albeit probably quite good) FPS. That trailer (if they keep the controls simple and make it varied enough) looks the dog's b*ll*cks (shades of Beyond Good and Evil somehow).
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Yes it has destructable enviroments which are great, taking out a sniper with a tank simply by blowing the building he's hiding in to pieces is just one of those moments in gaming that you'll always remember.
But.....Dispite plus points such as these, the actual combat can feel more than a little clunky and random at times, especially when up close.
I'd even go as far as to say considering everything, as far as big team FPS's games go, I still prefer Frontlines, probably even more so once this new patch is released.