Here is the latest trailer for the single player campaign for Crysis 2. It’s the typical your the last of the best of the best and you have some major ass-kicking to do to save the world. It appears to show some game footage but not nearly as much as we see in the prior trailers for the mulitplayer.
The mulitplayer demo for the PC will be out on March 1, as the console demo was released earlier this year. The game is scheduled for release on March 22 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCs.
Well Electronic Arts has announced some details for Battlefield 3. Looks like they are going to show some PC love with this release as it will support 64 players! Battlefield 3 is suppose to be the successor to Battlefield 2, but with the addition of jets and the return of prone, I’m hoping for a return to Desert Combat style of play.
The game will have a full single player and co-op campaign and of course the previously mention 32 on 32 multiplayer (PC) all running on the new Frostbite 2 game engine, with a few tweaks added from other EA game engines.
They have also announced that preorders will start this month, with a release date this fall…
More details will be coming during the GDC and hopefully a “real” trailer with game footage will be released instead of this stylized teaser.
Okay so I went to add the Vietnam DLC to my installation of Battlefield Bad Company 2, both of which I had bought and downloaded through Steam. Well first off the key code is not easily located nor mentioned except in game when it asks, then you can’t simply copy then paste into the field, even though Steam gives the option to copy to clipboard and if that wasn’t crappy enough EA decides that it would be best to not save the code field if you enter it incorrectly the first try, so you have to re-enter the entire key string.
EA just announced a new free to play game based on the Battlefield series, crappily named Battlefield Play4Free. It will be a PC based shooter that will use maps from Battlefield 2 and weapons from Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
It’s being developed by EA’s Easy Studio, which made the other free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes.
It will be a micro-transaction supported game, players can progress and learn new skills and earn in-game currency by playing, we will have to wait and see if the weapons that can be bought with real monies (if different) will have the free players complaining about un-fair advantage.
Valve has announced an “extensive update” for its mulitplayer shooter, Counter-Strike: Source, and is now in limited beta.
“The update includes a host of new features and functionality developed in collaboration with Hidden Path Studios,” explained Valve. “This beta will run for a limited time, and once complete, the update will be deployed to all Counter-Strike: Source owners for free.”
Among that “host of new features and functionality” you’ll find the following:
144 achievements added
New lifetime player stats and summary screens
New match player stats and summary screens
New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player
Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
New cinematic death camera
New domination and revenge system
Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display
Incorporated many source engine updates
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the PC is a mess, the shipped product had issues that were pointed out in the Beta, but alas…
Update: I think the only item that needs to be removed to fix the spinning and not being able to move left right, is the mouse look right, left and look up, down. It appears that there is a conflict with the mouse action and the shared joystick command.
My focus here is about removing the Joystick input from game options. I had originally dug through the files in the beta trying enable the throttle and trigger for my Logitek 2.4 wireless joystick, since there is apparently no way to remove (or add some joystick buttons) from the in-game option, I started digging through the input files to add or remove unwanted lines. The problem seems to be caused by the controls being designed for console game pads.
The latest installment of the Wolfenstein games is going live tomorrow, (on all major platforms) the reviews are up around the web, and they look as if the series that helped spawn the FPS genre is still on the ball. It’s mainly a single player campaign, but as we know from the prior games, the multiplayer is top-notch, and we will know soon if this latests installment still has it, (I will have to play it before I render my verdict). Gamespot discussed multiplayer with Matt Wilson, the lead game designer of Endrant Studios (which built the online component).
This weekend steam will allow players to try Unreal Tournament 3 Black for free all weekend long. This isn’t some stripped demo, it’s the full version.
They also have put it on sale $11.99 until March 15th.
Is this an attempt at getting more people playing it or just one last grab for cash before players forget about it and move on to Quake Live (as they are already doing)?
