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For all the Battlefield fans out here in India, the wait for Battlefield: Bad Company just became so much easier. A little email in our mail box alerted us to the fact that Redington and Milestone Interactive are accepting pre-orders for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 version of the game in India. This is good news for all those who want to get the game on Day 1, besides getting to unlock the bonus sniper gun, which is available in-game only if you pre-order.
Hit the jump to find out how to pre-order a copy for yourself.
For those who haven’t been put-off by the negative publicity that DICE’s latest console-only offering managed to garner, June 5th is the day to look forward to as Battlefield: Bad Company (BFBC) will be having a demo on the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The demo has already been out in the wild a full week in advance for all those who have pre-ordered the game. But thanks to EA, we managed to get our hands on it to see if the game will be able to earn back the goodwill that the Battlefield games have traditionally enjoyed.
The demo offers you a chance to test out both the multiplayer, as well as the single player aspects of the game. Being a Battlefield game and all, we promptly dove right in to multiplayer to see if the game stood a chance of standing up against Call of Duty 4 (COD4), the reigning king when it comes to online warfare. Jumping into a multiplayer match was easy and intuitive enough. Even though from India, the connection was established within minutes and we were prompted to choose our class. You have a selection of all the usual modern warfare classes such as Assault, Reconnaissance, Support and Demolition. Each class comes with its own unique weapon loadout that dictates what role will each play on the battlefield.
Come Friday and we normally sneak out early off work, go some place and get drunk. Thankfully, we still had not managed to sneak off and get ourselves drunk silly when we realized that we have stumbled upon a treasure trove of sorts. On our hands here, we have an awesome quantity of previously unreleased details of the upcoming DICE game, Battlefield: Bad Company scheduled to be seen on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360. In the next few hours, we will give up on the bottle for a while and keep updating you with more juicy details of the game, at least until EA decides to send some lawyers our way. If this has got the Battlefield fans salivating all over their keyboard already, hit the jump to whet your appetite with a look at the Achievement list for the Xbox 360 version of the game and know for yourself why the much talked about Trophy system won’t be seen in the PS3 version.
Update: EA India has kindly asked us to remove the Achievement List for the time being. When we’re given proper notification, we’ll go ahead and put it right back up. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Nowadays, in the near-constant, almost grinding hunt for something awesome to watch – be it a movie, a trailer or what not - I usually end up finding myself revisiting old videos from yesteryear; videos that in one way or another, inspired in many different ways a variety of childhood memories and daydreams. One of these videos is the original Battlefield 1942 Intro movie, a classic that has against all odds withstood the test of time.
The Cinematic was made nearly 5 years ago, in the by-gone era when Team Fortress Classic was still relatively well-known and the Pentium IIIs were slowly starting to be retired. While CGI was hardly unheard of then, to see such quality in a game’s intro cinematic was rare – rarer still was the game ever good enough to back it up (at least, in terms of how it played). What caught the viewer most about the trailer though, was the music. The simple, constant beat and rhythm it possesses can lead most persons – even those normally unfamiliar with the series – to recognize where it’s from. I still have the soundtrack – a precious gem closely guarded in the shallow – yet murky - depths of my MP3 player.