Wow, I just received an email tip from Doobiwan about the new Battlefield Bad Company screenshots…
Now I have to admit that somehow I didn’t know about this and even emailed him back to say that I generally don’t report on PC gaming yet… Only to find out these are screenshots for a console game…
I think this goes to show that neither the PS3 nor the Xbox 360 are anywhere near their limit yet… This screenshot is easily my favourite
I didn’t want to ruin the images by shrinking them to fit so follow the link to see them…
News: More incredible Battlefield: BC shots – ComputerAndVideoGames.com
Last Updated: December 6, 2007
J4NR1K
December 6, 2007 at 10:03
That shot is also my fave. That explosion is insane! DX9 still has a lot of oomph left.
doobiwan
December 6, 2007 at 10:32
I think that was the big misnomer. There is very little Dx10 can do that Dx9 can’t, it’s just the way it’s implemented. I think the big difference was unified shaders, but I could be wrong.
Ruslan
December 6, 2007 at 10:44
Wow… Crysis can eat my socks. This is what an optimized game should be! 🙂
Milesh Bhana ZA
December 6, 2007 at 11:25
Bad Company sounds like alot of fun too. The storyline sounds very much like the movie Three kings (which i’m sure it’s based on)
War-comedy game with distructible environments = coolness.
Abev
December 6, 2007 at 12:09
Ive heard it looks better on ps3 😉
doobiwan
December 6, 2007 at 13:27
Milesh, did you ever play BF2? For 18+ months it consumed my FPS obsession. And flying games. And Racing Games. And tank games. 64 player battlefield sandbox. If BC is nothing more than a pretty version of the BF2 mechanics + destructible environments I’ll be in utopia.
As I alluded to in another post, it makes things like UT and Quake, and to a lesser degree Halo look so “90’s”.
JP
December 6, 2007 at 14:49
Lazy why don’t you do pc games?
Ruslan
December 6, 2007 at 14:52
@Abev – Maybe, until Sony releases a firmware update that breaks the game just like AC got broken? 😉
Milesh Bhana ZA
December 6, 2007 at 14:54
I’ve played BF2, but mostly at LANs, never had a fast enough connection. The game was cool in that it let you do lots of stuff and learning a vehicle properly wasa big part of the game. I could never get the hang of the chopper 🙁
It looks like BF:BC will be a single player game that will allow DICE to eventually tweak the engine to make BF3.
The thing that appealed to me was actually the story. There are plenty of War (Modern or WWII) games that try to put you in a war, this one tries something different (and the trailer was hilarious)
LazySAGamer
December 6, 2007 at 15:33
@JP, As you may have noticed I have a new banner with a PC logo now… I am going to try do some PC news reporting but we will see if I have time or not…
doobiwan
December 6, 2007 at 16:32
And that’s if Eskom gets around to installing the 3 phase power supply needed to run a graphics card capable of playing the latest PC games. 😉
@Abe, well they’re leading development on the 360, and we know what that means . . . . 🙂
Abev
December 6, 2007 at 16:40
Yea Doobi it means that the x360 couldnt ahdle it if it were the other way round 😉
Johnn0
December 6, 2007 at 16:45
Ha ha ha, a grenade with a smiley-face pin!! Genius!!
doobiwan
December 6, 2007 at 17:01
Funny how Criterion – leading Burnout on the PS3 said the exact opposite
http://www.lazygamer.co.za/xbox-360/burnout-paradise-choose-ps3-as-lead-platform/
Ruslan
December 7, 2007 at 07:05
Its still amazing how fanboys still believe that the X360 cant handle anything the PS3 can do… and at times even better! 😉
And for a cheaper price too!
boredhousewife
December 7, 2007 at 07:20
I stare at my screen in giddy anticipation waiting for the phrase “unleash the true potential of the cell” to make its appearance. I wonder if they called it the cell because developers are prisoners of its limitations ?
Abev
December 7, 2007 at 08:10
And this 😉 would mean???? ….Come guys you xboys are so easily wound up, its awesome!
doobiwan
December 7, 2007 at 08:45
Hey you get 2 back so there!
@BHW – If you want to see the cells potential run folding@home, build a compute cluster or go watch a BR movie. Just don’t sit waiting for it to revolutionize gaming, because that’s not what it’s designed for, rather get a Wii ….
boredhousewife
December 7, 2007 at 10:53
Just wait for MGS4 to release next year – everybody is going to trade in their Xboxes and Wii’s and join the PS3 revolution
LazySAGamer
December 7, 2007 at 11:09
19 responses to a good news for both sides article… weird 🙂
@boredhousewife, I severely doubt MGS is going to change the console ownership stats in any meaningful way. It is a cult hit and will never a truly mainstream game. It isn’t going to sell in nearly the same amounts as Halo for example
boredhousewife
December 7, 2007 at 12:14
I agree with you – I was doing my best rabid Sony Fanboy impersonation
doobiwan
December 7, 2007 at 12:51
Heh heh, we definitely need more of those 😉
I predict the week GT5 comes out in Europe the PS3 will annihilate everything.
This week should be interesting as well, doesn’t Singstar come out?