Battlefield: Bad Company Beta Impressions

I got into the Battlefield: Bad Company Closed Beta on the Xbox 360, and I’ve been giving it a spin the past couple days. So far… it’s been quite a pleasant experience.

While still Battlefield at it’s heart, Bad Company feels like a cross between Mercenaries, Battlefield 2, and Call of Duty 4. Which, I must say, has turned out pretty well so far.

The biggest and most exciting new feature is that everything is destructible. You can blow away trees, walls, and even entire buildings. It reminded me a lot of Mercenaries in this way – one of my favorite console shooters.

The vehicles, classes, rank system, unlocks, and infantry combat all felt very akin to Battlefield 2, yet it is very updated. The Frostbyte graphics engine is smooth, graphically impressive, and more important it’s physics are top notch.

The squad system has been overhauled, and it’s totally automated (from what I can tell). You automatically join a squad when you enter, and you can spawn off the squad leader. The squad leader is automatically transferred to someone else when he goes down, and if you’re the last person in the squad you’re notified to hunker down and wait for reinforcements (they’ll spawn off of you).

Gone is the UAV, and in it’s place is a system that automatically spots enemies when your or a teammate looks at an enemy. Then you can track them on your mini-map as well as an icon on your HUD.

Overall, it’s still rough around the edges, but that’s to be expected in a beta. That being said, the game has a lot of promise. My biggest complaint is the FOV seemed a little tight, I like to step a bit farther back from the gun, instead of being so zoomed in there. Besides that, though, I’ve been enjoying myself.

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   March 27, 2008 at 3:23 pm

   [...] Video Game Top 10 wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI got into the Battlefield: Bad Company Closed Beta on the Xbox 360, and I’ve been giving it a spin the past couple days. So far… it’s been quite a pleasant experience. While still Battlefield at it’s heart, Bad Company feels like a cross between Mercenaries, Battlefield 2, and Call of Duty 4. Which, I […] [...]