Exclusive: Battlefield Bad Company - DICE walkthrough Part 2

Looking at the stabbing yourself in the chest with a syringe every minute, I realise how much I've grown to prefer the more vague health system in Call of Duty etc.

The destructibility is awesome! Yes, the AI is stupid, but I reckon it's more for the purpose of demoing rather than it actually being stupid. Looks great!

AI = very dumb. Looks pretty, but with some very obvious tearing.

Well, I hope the multiplayer is a lot better then their previous outing on the consoles. BFMC2 was okay, but had its fair share of problems. Like turrets on tanks moving with the tankgun turret etc.. It was impossible to aim if you were a secondary gunner, unless they guy in your vehicle didn't move at all.

Also the controls felt like you were playing on ice.. even after you stop moving your sticks, you'd still "glide" a little bit.

If they fix those 2 things, and make sure the online is still nice and big, I'm sold

Online maybe be ok. Singe player AI is truly dreadful though.

I thought BF2 was more fun and better balanced on the console versions (and it had capture the flag) so there's still hope I guess

AI hasn't improved much since 1942 then.

I agree with others that the syringe in the chest thing is silly, and so frequently makes it stupid. No health packs? No medic class like BF2?

I sure hope they're working on BF3 for the PC (forget Heroes).

@Egster
"Looks so typically consolely. Clumsy, unintuitive and slow."

Heh. That's my view of PC stuff :)

@Crovax20
"Like turrets on tanks moving with the tankgun turret etc.. "

Err - isn't that like what they very actually do?

Couple of little points. BF2:MC on the consoles was not devloped by DICE proper. This one is, so there is higher hopes for it. I did love BF2:MC though. Worked really well. Only bad things were borked voice comms and the balance issues bought about by a half decent chopper pilot.
Just a little info

sorry. it looks nice, but it looks like it plays very...
old skool in regard to combat mechanics. Very dumb AI too, COD 4 has raised the bar somewhat. Nice destructive effects though.

Sound effects are AWESOME. Absolutely loving the muffled explosions, gunshots and effects at differing locations. The destruction looks good but I cannot wait to see what they can do with a similar engine on just a PC based platform.

As for the AI and health thing, I don't really mind. The person playing this game should be sacked as it's making it look a lot worse than what I reckon it's going to be.

war fps generica

Bring this engine to the PC for the love of god (as wonderful as Heroes looks).

nice that you can stand 8 feet away from 3 1000 ltr gas containers and detonate them with a charge, but you can blow a tree clean over with a grenade. and as has already been said, the battle chatter is absolute BS.

The sounds the player makes when he gets hit are weird. They need to blend it with the rest of the game better.

ive played the beta........it aint cod4 beater