Destructible environments in new Battlefield: Bad Company gameplay

by Nick Doerr { Sep 6th 2007 at 12:30PM }

There's nothing quite like destructible environments and this new Battlefield: Bad Company gameplay shows off just that. It's one thing to be in an all-out brawl against a ton of different people, but what to do when you're cornered in some house? Just blow up the wall and make your escape! Topple some trees if you'd like (if you're particularly good with your timing, perhaps it could land on a vehicle and make it explode or something else really dramatic). The action in the game seems pretty intense, but we'd expect nothing less from this franchise. We'll keep you up to date when it gets closer to release!

Tags: badcompany, battlefield

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

adrian @ Sep 6th 2007 12:38PM

assaum. this game will rock, but CoD 4 is better

dan @ Sep 6th 2007 12:46PM

Battlefield series has always been better than CoD series.

Popfrogs @ Sep 6th 2007 1:02PM

Wow, I really hope this game is very early in the dev cycle. Framerate was horrible in many places, there was a ton of tearing, and the AI was dumber than a rock. Watch for the part where the guy walks in a room where 2 soldiers are in the room FACING THE WALL. He shoots and kills one and the other soldier just keeps standing there. He shoots the soldier once then comes around the corner behind him and knifes him. Sad.

GRANTED @ Sep 6th 2007 1:16PM

besides destructible environments, this game looks incredibly unimpressive. graphics are last gen and ai is hilariously bad.

Kratos @ Sep 6th 2007 1:38PM

remember its another ea game franchis. i know ea isnt the dev but ea is the publisher. battlefield 2s ai was dumb as shit also. i dont know about bf 2142 but i didnt care about the future fps crap in that one. game does not look promising right now.

pbssbp @ Sep 6th 2007 3:02PM

It's about time with the fully destructible buildings. I've gotten pretty tired of seeing wooden doorways handle a grenade as if they were solid stone. In Resistance, where you're constantly running through burnt out wreckage, that same wreckage has no problem deflecting rocket blasts and heavy artillery. What kind of force was necessary to tear them down in the first place?

Yes, I know it's hard to pull this off, but in this type of game it should make a huge difference. Once people get it and use it, they'll never settle for indestructible drywall again.

dan @ Sep 6th 2007 5:29PM

BF2 had little to no reason to have any AI at all, so I don't understand what Kratos is talking about.

Mr Khan @ Sep 6th 2007 7:33PM

'Cuz i'm baaaaad Company, and i won't deny...
Baaaaahaad company, 'till the day I die, oh whoa whoa

I couldn't skip the opportunity, excuse me

John @ Sep 6th 2007 10:11PM

Interesting, the frame-rate doesn't lag, so much as it folds in on itself, every now and then. Which is better than chugging, though we got that, too. I'd rather see tear/fold, and I understand this is still in development, so I'm sure final will be less obvious (but not totally gone, wanna bet?).

The voice sound is all wrong. We're outside and we hear a guy speaking into a microphone in a sound-deadened room. Yuk. Also, the dialogue is the sort of hee-haw crap that I like to avoid. Pretty, and nicely executed, destructibility seems well done, but count me out of this boy game.

Dante @ Sep 6th 2007 10:20PM

i am a 100% ps3 fanboy. and i honestly dont like this game. i think that a lot of fps coming out are gonna be a lot better than this game KZ2,COD4,Haze,UT3...and thats just to name a couple..whatever though some people love battlefield...i dont even know where im going with this...just felt like commenting