Steam BFBC2 grants MOH beta access

By Robert Purchese Published 16 July, 2010

Oh, very DICE.

Owners of the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have been granted access to the Medal of Honor beta test.

Both, of course, are EA games, and both have multiplayer made by DICE.

An Xbox 360 beta is "coming soon", EA has promised, but we don't know exactly when.

A PS3 beta is under way.

Medal of Honor will be released on 12th October for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Beta gameplay.

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  • Skjald #1 2 years ago

    Man, thanks for posting this. I only show installed games in my Steam library, so I would've probably missed this if you hadn't mentioned it. Woohoo!

    EDIT: Hmm, I gave it a whirl now, and I have to agree with the poster who said it seems like a repackaging of BFBC2. I don't see why this game needs to be made when BFBC2 is around, especially since the latter seems a lot better.
    Edited by 1 at 16/07/10 @ 16:44

  • onezeonx #2 2 years ago

    its not that good tho!

    and ive had the beta since day 1

    oh and i hate MW2 i play BFBC2 :p
    Edited by 1 at 16/07/10 @ 13:41

  • carbonic #3 2 years ago

    Dice really uses all the BFBC2 channels to promote this game. A shame it's crap, the SP might be ok, but the MP is way to generic.

  • 00.00.01 #4 2 years ago

    Do I notice a pattern there, EG?
    Everytime a negative Acti-article is followed within hours/minutes by a positive EA/Dice post.
    How dice :)

  • rojjer #5 2 years ago

    360 soon, LOL! zzzzzzzzzzzz

    over it already

  • CaptainQuint #6 2 years ago

    I have a 360 and when it does finally arrive on it I still won't be bothering with it. Looks horribly generic and tired.

  • Shikasama #7 2 years ago

    Quick cash in for minimal effort from DICE by the looks of it.

  • evilrobot #8 2 years ago

    Funny, i remember saying how crap and BF...ish it looked and got neged to fuck but a soon as a few ballbags have ago its "oh its so generic and just like bfbc" lol neg this if you like i'm still not buying. Another mouthful of repackaged Bad company sir? oh yes please! but this time can we have recoiless guns? of course sir.

  • captain_ion #9 2 years ago

    why would anyone want to play anything that has been created by dice, after the monumental failure of bfbc2s mp I'm surprised that they still being allowed to tarnish yet more games. moh will simply replace bfbc2 as the place for people who suck at cod to hide with their gimpy mates and pretend they enjoy their selection of four maps and five guns.

  • jumpdeveraux #10 2 years ago

    Great I thought... new fps this might be good for a laugh but this is awful.

    It's like a dumbed down MW2 (which I thought was impossible) with some mediocre graphics. It actually feels a step back from MW1 never mind MW2.

    Yuck. Definitely a no-buy for multiplayer unless the game gets some major revision in time for launch. Back to BFBC2.

  • TitusCrow #11 2 years ago

    This game is pretty bad. I had BFBC2 on pc so decided to get the beta on steam on day 1. Played it for a few hours and it was just so bland and by the numbers it was mind crushing. I new I had made a mistake on this one and never played it for another 10-12 days.
    I then thought I would give it another try. The world cup was over and I do remember watching a game the day I was playing MOH so wasn't giving it my full attention. I generally cut a game some slack when I'm stuck with it and try at least to like it. I went on and the 1st thing that struck me was how empty all the serves were. There was like 2-3 games quarter full on the whole net. Uh oh! I thought, might be everyone thinks this isn't all that either.

    Played a few more games and new - the way you sometimes do - that I would never play this game ever ever again. For once I actually looked up the re-fund button on steam which I have never done before and might never again. I wrote them a note saying I'd like a re-fund as no one else of my pc friends would ever get this etc... all true and they sent me a refund. It was very decent of them and the kind of thing I would expect from steam, I have a high opinion of the way this service in general does business and they did not let me down.

    Unlike the new MOH game. I'm very glad I managed to avoid paying for this turkey and if you take my advice you will pick something else as well. You have been warned, but what does that mean? I certainly don't take advice on my buying from random dudes on the net either! - Be my guest, there is no way to learn like the hard way ;)

    But really - this is poor - not bad per say, just so very cut and pasted and average that if you have played any cod or military game in the last 4 years you have played a more advanced game than this..

  • The_Bloody_Kettle #12 2 years ago

    Okay, don't compare BFBC2 with MW2 you idiots.
    BF is a -war- game. MW2 feels like you're playing paintball..

    Erm and about this, I'll probably pass, it doesn't look too great.

  • Kazagi #13 2 years ago

    Dl'd it, played it for 30 minutes, absolute garbage...No new idears, generic gameplay, shoebox maps, dated gameplay...Exact template of BFBC with a couple of different modelled weapons...AK74su "EXACTLY" the same model and skin, AK47 same model with re-skin...Lazy attempt to squeeze a few more pennies/dimes out of dice's frostbite engine with minimal effort and a new name...The 30 minutes i played consisted of continueos base raping for both teams and that was basicaly it...Piss poor map design which tbh goes nicely with the piss poor gameplay...Been there, smelt the roses, move along, move along

    But the most annoying aspect of all this, is that EA/Dice must think we "the gamer" have IQ's of around 3...To think they could get away with this porky is somewhat concerning...

  • ChaK #14 2 years ago

    it's absolutly garbage, unnamable garbage.

    Yet they'll sell shitload of that crap, and that sadden me a lot :[

  • christourlord #15 2 years ago

    Good god it's shite. They've even recycled many of the sound effects from Battlefield.

  • jumpdeveraux #16 2 years ago

    Did anyone have difficulty connecting to any servers tonight?

    I thought I'd give the game one more go (I was that bored) but it wouldn't connect... though the server browser gives no "connecting" message I could see or a message box that the server is full or the connection failed.

    Clicking on every server in the browser resulted in nothing happening (my internet connection was fine as all online games working).

    Awful.

  • Syrette #17 2 years ago

    It's Battlefield-lite thus far, sadly.



    "after the monumental failure of bfbc2s mp"

    You what?

  • hiddenranbir #18 2 years ago

    MoH still might have good single player!

    and if the beta is bad...good? It means we have a lot of feedback to give in offering improvements? Surely? The way BFBC2 has continually gotten better with each new update? Yeah? Maybe take part in the beta process and not use it as an early demo?