Battlefield: Bad Company pokes fun at certain 'snake' hero

by Majed Athab { Jun 16th 2008 at 8:00PM }

We love game collaborations. We love it even more when competing companies take playful potshots at the other's product. In this case, Battlefield: Bad Company calls out a certain tactical espionage hero in this new trailer. We guess they're trying to tell us it's time to move on from that 'other game' and switch the fight over unto a new battlefield. Playful humor, or aggressive competition? Whatever the purpose of this trailer was, all we know is that it's pretty funny stuff. Check it out.

[Thanks stelisco!]

Tags: battlefield-bad-comp..., dice, ea

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

MCX @ Jun 16th 2008 8:10PM

Thats funny.

Da @ Jun 16th 2008 10:10PM

Pitty Bad Company is so shit

MCX @ Jun 16th 2008 8:12PM

Its not an eye patch its the "solid eye". Duh!!! :)

spyker @ Jun 16th 2008 9:13PM

Duuhhh, Big Boss has got an eye patch :P.

WTangoFoxtrot @ Jun 16th 2008 8:13PM

lol, interesting humor.

frankym @ Jun 16th 2008 8:16PM

That was hilarious!!

snake @ Jun 16th 2008 8:18PM

lol, snake would have kicked the s*** out of those three bitches :)

first :)

gooftroop @ Jun 17th 2008 5:31AM

first at what? Not being able to count 4 people in a video?

BlueDragoon @ Jun 16th 2008 8:19PM

wtf was this.

cable_rx @ Jun 16th 2008 8:19PM

wtf is this

HarryPS3 @ Jun 16th 2008 8:23PM

Lame, very lame.

kint @ Jun 16th 2008 8:30PM

i love MGS4 but that was awesome!!!

duboi @ Jun 16th 2008 8:40PM

MGS4 is an awesome game, but I gotta say that was pretty damn funny.

The1 @ Jun 16th 2008 8:44PM

I have MGS4 and I love it. However, that was funny as H-LL, I love. I am getting this game for my X360.

Jedediahjl @ Jun 16th 2008 8:47PM

That was really funy. Hopefully konomi will look at it as a joke, they did make a video similar to this one about changing discs in the middle of the game.

Kyle @ Jun 16th 2008 8:47PM

That was awesome.

"Its like some solid...metal...Japaneses stuff...I dunno..."
Great humor.

"Hey, I found an eye patch!"

Chigurh @ Jun 16th 2008 8:50PM

racist and lame.

The demo for that game had some god awful analog stick movement.

The engine showed promise though. But the gameplay sucked.

Sorry DICE. Go back to making RalliSport games. I loved those.

Kodros @ Jun 16th 2008 9:29PM

How the hell was that racist?

Wayne @ Jun 17th 2008 5:05AM

Wait, pirates are a race?

Lawl @ Jun 16th 2008 9:00PM

You don't want to get into a competition with MGS. Especially considering how bad the single player of that Bad Company demo was. I'd like to see if this sells even close to how many copies MGS4 sold, despite being on only one system.

playcrackthesky @ Jun 16th 2008 9:02PM

Battlefield: Bad Jokes.

evilfoxhound @ Jun 16th 2008 9:09PM

All that showed was that american troops are in-bred retards LOL

Bucfann @ Jun 17th 2008 4:25PM

Excuse me?

And what country are you from may I ask? What country doesnt need America's help in any time of war or disaster? And Im willing to be your country needs America and our military, rather than the other way around.
Youre probably some snot nosed Brit whos country is getting taken over by Muslims. Have fun over there pal. Also, you Brits failed in Iraq and we had to go to the area and put it in check. You all cleared out because it was too difficult.

al_catone @ Jun 17th 2008 7:01PM

We are clearing out because its a pointless war and all you yanks are blowing us up instead of the iraqis. I havn't met any1 here that agrees with that war, the only reason we went in, in the first place is because blair had hes head right up bush's arse.

Nick @ Jun 16th 2008 9:11PM

Racist? How was it racist? He just said "Maybe it's some Japanese thing" since MGS is Japanese.

Anyhow, I thought it was good. MGS 4 is one of the best games I've ever played and I still liked that. In case you guys missed it, MGS4 poked fun at FPS games, too. On the cover of the Playboy Magazine it says "FPS Games: Can you believe we used to buy those?" or something similar. I recall one of the MGS4 trailers stating "FPS? This is MGS" to make fun of the FPS genre.

Smoothmove @ Jun 17th 2008 3:19AM

*spoiler*

and in one act of MGS4, big mama talks about FPS games corrupting her "children" and there are flashbacks of Killzone 2 images.

Ptrack_Git @ Jun 16th 2008 9:12PM

The engine was cool in the demo, in terms of blowing up stuff, but the core mechanics felt a little week, in terms of movement, felt a lot like a floating head to me, or maybe I'm just spoiled from CoD4... the multi-player was cool the way the rules were set up, I had fun.
Single player was O.K.
Video made me laugh.
MGS4 is awesome.
Totally awesome.
Awesome.
.

stargateheaven @ Jun 16th 2008 9:13PM

Yeah.. if their own game was good, then maybe they could joke about other games. Sorry, the demo was really dissapointing for this game. In all fairness, it was quite funny.

Mike @ Jun 16th 2008 9:41PM

It was funny... but this game sucks

PSRT @ Jun 16th 2008 9:44PM

I love the internet.

Jonathan @ Jun 16th 2008 10:09PM

it wasent that funny, but BF:BC is gonna be another peice of crap letdown.

Wrathbringer @ Jun 16th 2008 10:11PM

Awesome, I love it when games poke at each other like that. Dunno if I'll get BC, but it was a good ad.

LT.ShinySides @ Jun 16th 2008 10:57PM

Haha that was awesome..i like the little scream when he goes flying....but cant help to think poor big boss ;)

Aahh..renecks with a grenade lancher...the barrels natural enemy...

OAKside @ Jun 16th 2008 11:01PM

Now that's good stuff. (The cinematics are even smoother than Kojima's! :P)

Huge DICE and Kojima Prod fan, MGS4 and BFBC are must haves. I can't believe both of them are releasing their latest and greatest this month. Doesn't get any better.

MGS4TW @ Jun 17th 2008 2:14AM

Kojima's cinematics in MGS4 aren't pre-rendered like this ad was... It's all live rendering.

OAKside @ Jun 17th 2008 6:05AM

Just FYI, I was talking about the cinematics' dialogue, which in MGS4 is unrealistically slow. (Maybe translations are to blame?)

BFBC seems to have some of the most realistic looking dialogue (and script) judging from the online clips and demo. I'm not saying the game itself can touch MGS4, that's a different thing altogether. But both are beautiful!

Popfrogs @ Jun 17th 2008 11:19AM

True, this has got to be the best summer for gaming in years. Usually nobody releases anything good, let alone AAA blockbusters like MGS4, in the summer.

I guess Sony said "what better time to release the best videogame ever made and an 80GB super bundle?". Works for me.

mark @ Jun 20th 2008 7:41AM

@MGS4TW
Obviously, you haven't played the Bad Company demo. That ad IS live rendering. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

DePalo @ Jun 16th 2008 11:34PM

They might as well laugh while they can because there game seems to already have there butt kick my COD 4 which came out a while ago. MGS 4 already bent over this came and unloaded on it. Just like Johnny.

CS @ Jun 17th 2008 12:00AM

to all those ppl that think this ad is trying to make you guys forget about mgs4, yur kinda wrong, its kinda of a reverse, they're actually promoting mgs4.

kool_ade13 @ Jun 17th 2008 12:03AM

Funny. BF: BC is awesome. Snake is better though.

Aex @ Jun 17th 2008 12:10AM

Haha, Nice homage to MGS.

Dom @ Jun 17th 2008 12:11AM

THAT.WAS.BEAUTIFUL.

F U SNAKE you POS!!! Hahahahahahahaaa just shows you how lame Metal Gear is!

kentuckyfried @ Jun 17th 2008 12:23AM

^ okaaaaay....*backs away slowly*

Funny ad. Looking forward to this game. Too much good stuff coming out in a short time (I'm still working on GTA4, that's taken seat until MGS4 is done and possibly even longer with MGO included).

Haohmaru @ Jun 17th 2008 2:19AM

Dom.. you are a very strange person.

Riley Freeman @ Jun 17th 2008 12:50AM

i love mg4 but that was funny. too bad battlefield doesnt compare even close to mg4

JaseH @ Jun 17th 2008 1:06AM

If they were actually trying to make MGS4 look "bad" compared to them, they could have done much, much worse.

This just screams "JOKIN' WITH YA!"

I like how it shows how much of a success MGS has become & how pretty much every other company recognizes it as a EPIC JUGGERNAUT. haha.

I love MGS4, and as a obvious homage to the actual humor Hideo started (E,g. Hiding in boxes, barrels, ect.) starting a joke in itself.

Pretty funny.... but it did sorta make the American Troops look like inbred idiots... Oh well.

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JaseH.

shadow666 @ Jun 17th 2008 1:42AM

we will see who is laughing when sales figures come in for both. MGS4 will destroy bad company

KurtangleTN @ Jun 17th 2008 2:08AM

Yeah that was pretty funny, shame the demo sort of sucks.

Analog movement sucked, graphics were.. well alright at best. The only good thing was destructible environments. Which do add strategy most other FPS have.

Fix the controls, and it's a pretty nice game, probably too late for that though.

Haohmaru @ Jun 17th 2008 2:23AM

..Why are we bringing up sales figure estimates in a post about a freaking AD that was more of an homage than anything else? Some of you are such uptight pricks. Lighten up and actually play a video game or something.

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