According to Electronic Arts, the multiplayer demo for DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is "on pace" to becoming fastest downloaded demo in the publisher's history.
The publisher says that the demo has been downloaded over 2 million times between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 within the first five days of being available. EA is more vague about the PC beta, which it says has "met great success."
Patrick Bach, Senior Producer on the title says the popularity of the demo is "proof positive that action gamers are looking for more." Whether or not it will translate to mega-sales come March 2 (when the game hits retail) remains to be seen.
In case you don't know how to play Bad Company 2 (or videogames), EA has provided a "demo tutorial" video, which you can view above to get started.
From what I can gather, people are loving the demo (which ends on February 25) -- what do you guys think so far?
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10:20 AM on 02.11.2010 | 
Looking forward to this when it releases.
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Well not on PC at least :I
Chances are the final game will offer a lot more control costumization than the demo did.
I wouldn't count on that. The game comes out march 2nd, it's more or less done being made and is likely being printed as we speak. The demo is probably very indicative of what the final game will be like.
By that rationale the demo is the final game.
i dont understand how you would think the controls will be more customizable? they offer all the standard online multiplayer button schemes. ill admit the default was awful but i switched it to the bad company 1 style and it plays like 1943 (much more manageable)
i love how GvD said "Lone Wolf or Deathmatch tactics will not be enough"- its the exact same thing they said for the harvest day launch multiplayer tutorial for bfbc1.
wont matter tho- ill still get put in games that has 3-5 snipers standing next to an armed m-com station staring off into space...
Yep, thats the idea. Most demos, except the ones that come out many months before release day, are just snippets of the final game.
Understandable since the PC closed beta was limited to 40000 people or so, but the day of the beta keys delivery was an online closterfuck.
It is embarrassing how much I like this game.
I must have played the demo about 30 hours so far.
If that many people have downloaded it I guess they don't need to hear it from me because they know already-
Excellent sound production. The gunfire is real stereo and you can hear where shots come from. You hear sniper bullets whiz by you.
Excellent destructible environments.
Very good graphics. Not excellent. (PS3)
Projectiles kick up dust. Yes, particle physics do make games fun and more of a puzzle when you can't see anything to shoot at.
Bombs leave craters.
Vehicles flip and explode. Make boom, watch house fall down. Gun good.
Weapon sets have good flexibility to counter changing threats and strategies.
Oh and tons of morons who think they are safe because they wear gilly suits.
Good character animation, but not great. No gore sad to say.
I wish arms and legs would go in 4 directions when you hit someone in the chest with a 40mm rifle grenade.
Probably the only game I will buy for 60 dollars this year.
Big mistake on their part.
And it doesn't feel like 90% of your bullets don't really hit the target... unless you're shooting at the UAV which has God mode until you're its pilot.
This game really feels like it has some strategy to it as well. For example, since this is a demo i've found 90% of the people playing it suck and can easily be mowed through, but this effects my team as well. So just me and one friend using a little bit of strategy like teaming up in a tank to take out the objective within the first 30 seconds of the match (CDC Red Ninja btw for those who i kill doing this every match : P) we can easily win the entire round for our side.
So basically, I'm buying it.
It's great.
You should download the demo.
I need more gamertags. 255 is not enough.
Don't listen to the MW2 fanboys, they're annoying and wrong
A definite buy for me, I probably won't touch MW2 after this comes out
I'm on a bit of a budget for gaming for the first half of 2010, so I actually cancelled my Final Fantasy XIII preorder to get Bad Company 2 instead. Love it.
sucks when the autoaim that all console FPS's have is turned down.
The Medic rocks with their belt-fed machine guns. I've mowed down assailants and revived teammates over and over. Screw sniping. I've gone commando on the attackers and gotten quite a handful of kill streaks. I've even spent whole matches just flying the UAV blowing the bejeezus out of M-Com stations.
Headsets like MAG are even better--buddy and I were working out of a tank on the attackers side last night, just bunker-busting the hell out of targets and buildings for about 10 minutes in one tank. I'd give him directions so I could work the 50-cal on targets more effectively and we has a k/d ratio of almost 2.0. NO ONE could touch us.
The game offers plenty of strategy and tactics, and as long as not everyone's running around like Rambo, you can effectively take or diffuse goals with others.
I just might pick this one up--BC 1's controls were sloppy--too bad, I really liked the characters. These have definitely improved.
Only complaint really is a lack of real ability to judge your life bar other than blood around the edge of the screen, and the incessant NPC swearing. Hey, I know it's war, but even the 1P campaign trailer went overboard on the language.