By Jim Rossignol on August 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am.
March 2010 will see the arrival of the sequel to an FPS spin off from the Battlefield series that never actually showed up on PC the first time around. Once again the focus will be on environmental destruction, with the new game finally challenging Red Faction in the breaking-stuff stakes. You’ll be able to blow holes in walls with light weapons, and flatten entire buildings with more serious ordnance. It sounds like there’s a lot more focus on multiplayer for Bad Company 2, with lots of random extras, including the weapons from Battlefield 1943 as unlocks.
Anyway, GamesCom trailer lurks below, in which stuff gets shattered, knocked over, penetrated, cracked, and otherwise exploded. It’s a cinematic, but a clever one. Goes a bit meta at the end there.
Troubles with the video? Please let me know. It’s only just been implemented and we want to make it function for everyone.
19/08/2009 at 10:37 westyfield says:
Video worked fine for me.
BC2 seems good so far, I’m really looking forward to this one!
19/08/2009 at 10:40 Petethegoat says:
On the one hand I am appalled by the sniper in woodland ghillie, in the desert, with a squad. On the the other hand, that music at the end bought back so many memories. This will be one to watch.
19/08/2009 at 10:42 Dead Fish says:
Great trailer! Finally an action sequence that also made sense for a video game, instead of the usual Hollywood mimicry. Looking good.
19/08/2009 at 10:43 Walter says:
Works fine here (Opera.)
Why do the Americans always wait for their base to be captured before blowing everything to hell in DICE’s trailers?
19/08/2009 at 10:53 phuzz says:
Video works ok for me as long as I click HD first, then pause and play again. Mind you, I use adblock.
sorry :(
Given that I’ve never played any of the battlefield games, how is this different from the others?
19/08/2009 at 11:02 Tei says:
Video works for me (linux, epiphany browser)
I am not a sniper. I am a bush!.
Hope this one feels more like Desert Combat. I love that mod. It was great on his time.
19/08/2009 at 11:04 rupert says:
battlefield returns to the pc in the format we WANT not stupid cartoons …. CANT WAIT :D
19/08/2009 at 11:06 Turin Turambar says:
Video was cool. Half action movie, half BF videogame.
19/08/2009 at 11:06 Chiablo says:
Hopefully it’s less tongue-in-cheek than the last Bad Company, which felt more like watching Larry the Cable Guy and less like playing an entertaining game. At least the multiplayer was decent.
19/08/2009 at 11:07 Primar says:
Never played the first one, nor heard much about it (was it console only? I forget). Saw the trailers for it though, and thought they were hilarious.
19/08/2009 at 11:11 Ansob. says:
The new video player is swish and all, but it seems to work randomly. It’ll occasionally (maybe one in three times) not load until I refresh the page once or twice, and then it’ll work fine. Not sure what’s causing it (I’m on the latest Firefox).
19/08/2009 at 11:14 MrBejeebus says:
Works fine, I have adblock disabled for rps though.
Can you get rid of the annoying “Smileys” ad, its really noisey.
Anyway, I like the look of this, while its not a true battlefield game in my opinion i will most likely get it
19/08/2009 at 11:15 Nutterguy says:
Video works for me as well but only the HD, which is not a problem! :-D
19/08/2009 at 11:19 Jim Rossignol says:
Smileys ad should disappear later today.
19/08/2009 at 11:38 Howard says:
I guess and OTT, comedy-esque shooter would be welcome on PC but will it be in 3rd-person; that’s the question.
Also @Petethegoat: Yeah, bog LOL at the woodland ghillie suit in the desert… ><
19/08/2009 at 11:43 Vandelay says:
I’m little confused, wasn’t Bad Company meant to be a single player focused Battlefield (just from what I’ve read about it, never played it or seen it action)? If they are not focusing on the singleplayer any more than it will surely just be another battlefield game and there is no reason for the Bad Company subtitle. In fact, this looks more like Battlefield than 1943.
Well made trailer, but it did just look like Battlefield with destructible environments. Why not just pool resources from 1943 and Bad Company 2 to make one excellent game, rather than split them to make two separate, very similar games?
19/08/2009 at 12:07 Ian says:
I totally didn’t see that brilliantly-disguised-as-a-bush sniper there.
19/08/2009 at 12:54 zombiehunter says:
FF3.5.2 , Adblock active, vid works very fine, buffers fast too!
uh… yeah so… bad company 2 finally on pc?? pleeeaaase! ^^
19/08/2009 at 13:12 Tom says:
(FF3.5.2 works fine in SD and HD.)
Nice vid.
19/08/2009 at 13:34 innokenti says:
I would tentatively assume that the multiplayer may focus more on smaller-scale co-op stuff? Maybe?
Never played the first game, but hope I can this time round. I like the idea of single-player Battlefield. Also, the Russian soldiers were scripted and voiced properly in the trailer, which is pleasant and refreshing. And nice to see our guys winning in a Western game for a change :D
19/08/2009 at 14:16 NuZZ says:
Ahh yes multiplayer.
The one true reason not to pirate a game.
19/08/2009 at 15:12 Cedge says:
“FPS spin off”?
As if the others aren’t FPSes as well?
19/08/2009 at 15:22 Warduke says:
Is this confirmed for pc or is this a cruel teaser?
19/08/2009 at 16:09 stormbringer951 says:
Why is there a sniper in a ghillie suit in the middle of the freaking desert? Also, since when did grenade launchers often blow massive holes in reinforced concrete?
19/08/2009 at 16:13 Jim Rossignol says:
Videogames: where stuff ain’t real.
19/08/2009 at 16:22 Davee says:
@ stormbringer951: Because DICE said so and since DICE said so.
Anyways, this is one game I’m totally looking forward to (destructible environments ftw). And as somebody already said, I hope it has that “Destert-Combat” feeling.
19/08/2009 at 17:08 x25killa says:
Shall be looking forward to this game, but over 6 months away? Gaaaah.
Also, I would recommend playing the first BF:BC if you own a console.
19/08/2009 at 18:03 El_MUERkO says:
Watching BF:BC in action I could not resist the opportunity to play in large destructible environments, I picked it up for the 360 shortly after release and my first few weeks with the game were an absolute blast, destructible environments add so much scope and opportunity to an FPS that I look on newer FPS’s without destructible environs and wonder how much better they could be if only…
I’d still be playing it now but for the fact that DICE didn’t actually finish the game. They released a primarily multiplayer game with a single game mode and eight maps, it took months of badgering for them to release another game mode (Conquest) but by that time most of the people playing had gotten bored and left. Couple that with server problems and zero developer interaction and the general feeling was the game was forgotten almost as soon as it was released.
DICE make great game-play, what they don’t do is give players enough content to take advantage of it and sustain a community, hopefully the total collapse of Mirrors Edge will have been proof to the powers that be in DICE/EA that you cannot release a quarter of a good game and expect it to sell.
If I could call the shots I’d have had put the BF:BC2 front-end onto a halo 3 community back-end, couple that with regular DLC releases (free and paid) and they’d build a loyal community, otherwise they’ll make a few bucks on release and get annihilated by COD:MW2 shortly after.
19/08/2009 at 18:07 Primar says:
“And nice to see our guys winning in a Western game for a change :D”
Well, technically they /are/ about to get airstruck.
Airstricken? Airsomethinged.
19/08/2009 at 19:13 KP says:
This is what OFP2 wishes it was. Looks like a hoot. :)
19/08/2009 at 19:14 Telemikus says:
Ah Battlefield. Possibly my favourite multiplayer game ever. The peerless interaction and coordination you could get with a team of decent squadmates was unlike any other I thought. Multi faceted infantry, backed by tanks, covered by copters, occasionally aided by smug fighter pilots, and guided by the all seeing commander. The perfect precision and timing of your base assualt shattered in seconds by unseen artillery. Sometimes I’d laugh at the myriad of ways that i’d been killed in ten minute slice of BF pain, othertimes i wanted to bite down on my keyboard in sheer frustration, but i always came back for more.
Can’t wait for this
19/08/2009 at 20:19 Shalrath says:
So… where exactly is the gameplay?
I’m not trying to nitpick, but I still have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how this game plays. Is it exactly the same as Bad Company 1 (Pass) or is it somehow different?
19/08/2009 at 20:27 Eli Just says:
@Walter: because our huge awesome bombs work better then. Imagine how boring it would be to go in with a surgical strike when we could just drop a 500 megaton bomb on it and walk away from the explosion in slow motion.
19/08/2009 at 21:27 Seth says:
Video not working. On FF3 with latest adblock. Gives me an endless wheel-spin deal.
19/08/2009 at 21:28 BF2 Elite Killer says:
Haha, I loved how they tied the trailer into the video game format instantaneously.
I can’t wait for the Frostbite Engine 2.0 to replace Battlefield 2. That is the ONLY thing missing from BF2- destructible environments, and- unfortunately, BF:BC1 passed us by (a little on the odd side, don’t you think?)
Anyways, EA has my 50$ for the only franchise they haven’t fucked up beyond all recognition (Though heroes was a little retarded).
19/08/2009 at 21:31 Seth says:
Ah, never mind. It was an adblock problem.
19/08/2009 at 21:46 kwyjibo says:
It’s not an adblock problem.
The problem is that the flash video player doesn’t work until it loads all sort of shit onto your system.
19/08/2009 at 22:14 psyk says:
BF:BC was first person so guessing this will be to and vid not working (xp, Mozilla)
19/08/2009 at 22:53 Oak says:
Airsmote.
20/08/2009 at 03:24 Ape says:
Minimum version flash player message on Firefox on a poxy works unix box!
20/08/2009 at 07:45 Walter says:
Why is everyone pciking on the sniper in the ghilly suit? There are a lot less realistic things going on in that trailer.
I still can’t believe the American’s didn’t see the Russians moving in with all their AA, tanks and attacks helos.
20/08/2009 at 12:31 Chris says:
Like phuzz, I had to hit the HD button to get it to load.
These videos work sometimes, othertimes when I hit play nothing really seems to happen. I’ve had this issue with other embedded videos here to be fair.
Oh, and I’m using the latest version of Firefox if that helps.
20/08/2009 at 19:55 GameOverMan says:
Some ingame scenes from the console version here:
20/08/2009 at 19:56 GameOverMan says:
I’m sorry, I completely fail at html :P
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-bad-company/51448
21/08/2009 at 10:36 Shadowcat says:
I also fail to get this trailer. Bad Company was a single-player story-driven FPS, yeah? The whole point, as I understand, was that it was a non-multiplayer Battlefield game. It looked fun, too, and if it had been available for PC, I’d probably have picked it up.
This trailer was going along fine, until the reveal at the end, and suddenly I’ve completely lost interest. My wallet appreciates it, though.
21/08/2009 at 21:35 Günter says:
The trailer will not play for me; everything seems fine until I press play, at which point it turns into a black rectangle. I’m running Firefox with adblock disabled.