Bad Company’s Conquest mode arrives today
Do you still remember what made Battlefield games special? Any self-respecting FPS fan is likely to have experienced his or her share of Conquest, the multiplayer mode that placed developer Digital Illusions CE on the who’s who of first-person shooting. As you may have heard, Battlefield: Bad Company didn’t come with the gametype when it shipped last June.
Well, Conquest is heading to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 today. According to IGN, Conquest would appear on the Xbox Live Marketplace after an automatic update is released. As for the PS3, one would need to download the patch. The gametype would …read more
Bad Company isn’t so bad after all
I’ve played the demo for Battlefield: Bad Company, and it pretty much captures what GameTrailers’ video review is saying: it’s fun to blow stuff up. There’s also a single player campaign now to keep players busy, which would be particularly useful since the Conquest mode in multiplayer hasn’t shipped yet.
It’s a good thing Conquest is going to be given away for free. Unfortunately, those previous plans for microtransactions has made me leery of Bad Company as a whole. Despite this positive GameTrailers review, Bad Company is still rental material to me.
Battlefield pokes fun at Metal Gear
There’s a new video clip for Battlefield: Bad Company circulating in the internets. It looks like the Digital Illusions-created FPS is once again getting some sort of attention (cough *micropayments* cough), but not because of its merits.
Tell me, is the video clip funny, or is it as a pathetic attempt to get some attention because all eyes are currently on Metal Gear Solid 4? My money’s on the latter.
New Battlefield video shows house demolition via big guns
If there’s one thing that’s disappointing in Call of Duty 4 (aside from its short single-player mode’s length), it’s the lack of destructible environments. You won’t have that problem in Battlefield: Bad Company because from the looks of things, you can shoot holes on ANY structure.




