Category: Betas/Demos
Battlefield 3 Announced!
Posted by Wanderlust in Betas/Demos, First Person Shooters, PC Gaming, XBox 360 Sunday, 1 August 2010 20:19 No Comments
I guess it was inevitable that BF3 would be on the horizon but I’ve been satisfied with Bad Company 2 and haven’t been checking weekly for an announcement for a new one! 
No details on the era but my guess is that it will be much like BF2 with a new version of the Frostbite Engine and Destruction (BC2 runs on 1.5 and 2.0, respectively). Maybe we can get a new release of Strike at Karkand as a released map! Speaking of which, where’s Wake in BC2? 
The Medal of Honor announcement page:
Get Access to the Battlefield 3 Beta
Want to be among the first to get hands-on with Battlefield 3? If you own Medal of Honor Limited Edition you will receive an invitation to the Battlefield 3 beta within 12-months following the release of Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Limited Edition features other special content out-of-the-box including the MP-7, a weapon utilized by real-world Tier 1 Operators in the field. With its light weight, high rate of fire as well as its ability to penetrate body armor, the MP-7 handles like a pistol yet allows targets to be engaged like a rifle.
BATTLEFIELD 3 BETA DETAILSBeta offer is contingent on Beta availability within 12 months of Medal of Honor release. Beta will be available for a limited time only and offer expires upon close of Beta events. Participation in Beta requires acceptance of Beta Agreement. Must be 18+. Xbox GOLD membership required for Xbox users. Visit www.ea.com/beta for details, including availability.
Got the requirements, did the pre-order of MoH last month. w00t!
Want to be among the first to get hands-on with Battlefield 3? If you own Medal of Honor Limited Edition you will receive an invitation to the Battlefield 3 beta within 12-months following the release of Medal of Honor.
Medal of Honor Limited Edition features other special content out-of-the-box including the MP-7, a weapon utilized by real-world Tier 1 Operators in the field. With its light weight, high rate of fire as well as its ability to penetrate body armor, the MP-7 handles like a pistol yet allows targets to be engaged like a rifle.
BATTLEFIELD 3 BETA DETAILS
Beta offer is contingent on Beta availability within 12 months of Medal of Honor release. Beta will be available for a limited time only and offer expires upon close of Beta events. Participation in Beta requires acceptance of Beta Agreement. Must be 18+. Xbox GOLD membership required for Xbox users. Visit www.ea.com/beta for details, including availability.
Pre-order Medal of Honor Limited Edition at Amazon:
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Posted by Wanderlust in Betas/Demos, First Person Shooters, PC Gaming Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:43 No Comments
After playing this many more hours, I’m still loving it even with it’s single map and mod. I wish they’d release another map, after all it’s a beta to pre-orders and not a demo. With a little over 14 hours in I’m not getting bored however some of the squad teaming is a different story. I don’t get people who will sit a mile away from the base and snipe while we’re getting hammered or just hang back for some reason rather than attacking. I had a squad doing this through an entire match and unfortunately I had a difficult time getting to the front lines with 4 of them doing, who knows what, back at the entry point.
I don’t mind playing MW2 much like I didn’t mind MW or WaW but for me it doesn’t have the lasting effect that the Battlefield series provides with the map size and a somewhat different experience each round because everyone has different tactics or abilities. MW2 is generally linear in terms of what’s going to happen.
My final note… Anyone not buying this game because they can’t run a free server AND still plays MW2 needs kicked in the groin.
Comparisons:
Global Stats: BFBC2
Dedicated Servers: BFBC2
Kicking Hacks: BFBC2
Map Size: BFBC2
Vehicles: BFBC2
Paratroops: BFBC2
Veteran Privileges for Prior Games in the series: BFBC2 (when it works)
Individual Stats: Both
Weapon Unlocks: Both
Game Modes (Number, not quality): MW2
Unlocks: MW2 (Good and bad, it gets crazy trying to figure out what you want to choose)
Battlefield Nirvana
Posted by Wanderlust in Betas/Demos, First Person Shooters, PC Gaming, YouTube Sunday, 31 January 2010 07:08 No Comments
Bad Company 2 is in beta for pre-orders and I’m in Nirvana. Finally an FPS has been released that makes me jump for joy. I wasn’t sure how badly they’d implement the game in this day and age of console porting but they’ve done an excellent job on the game. I’m missing the command button to call out enemies, thank yous but I’m hoping that will be there at some point. It seems they took some of the good things from the Call of Duty series and made them better such as melee. No quick, 1 random knife shot, I’ve had a few but I’ve also seen where it takes a few swings of the blade to take down the enemy and I know I hit them on the first because of the “ugh” sound. It’s refreshing rather than the, what sometimes seems like, the 10 feet long knifes from MW2 and even BF2/BF2142.
The familiar accumulative stats, as previous BF games, are there as well. The current mod they’re demoing is also fun but quite tough as the attacking team if you have no one that can get in to the base. It’s an attack/defense mod where the attacking team parachutes in and attempts to destroy key objects. It already seems a bit more polished than BF2/BF2142 in terms of the interface, outside of the EXTREMELY slow server browser and lack of sorting servers by latency or players and the filters resetting after every restart but again, hopefully that will be added as well. It allows you to immediately join a squad, the ability to spawn on players and as I said, most of the “goodies” from the BF series.
So far I’m loving this game. It’s the type of FPS game I’ve been waiting for since BF2 began to grow long in the tooth and I’m looking forward to the March release! I have some video’s and screenshots I’ll get up soon but in the mean time, check out the official trailer at Battlefield.com or watch below!
Cheers!
Battlefield Heroes Beta Keys
Posted by Wanderlust in Betas/Demos, First Person Shooters, PC Gaming Saturday, 7 February 2009 17:46 No Comments
They’ve opened up slots for the next beta of Battlefield Heroes. You can head over to the official site and sign up. The keys will be sent out when they announce the next open beta! Good luck! 
FPS Rundown
Posted by Wanderlust in Betas/Demos, First Person Shooters, PC Gaming Thursday, 25 October 2007 01:17 No Comments
I started to check out all the games, I did throw up the UT3 shots here.
UnrealTouranment 3 Demo:
This is the motherload for me, even with disappointments in 2003 and 2004 I’m always ready for a new one in the series. So far DeathMatch and Vehicle CTF have been the only mods active when I’ve played. The game runs smooth and, as you can see from the screen shots, is visually beautiful!! I’m hoping they update the browser a bit for PC since they’ve kind of went back to the feel of UT2003 before the huge amount of interface patches to give it more PC familiarity. They also need to work on getting the browser to sort properly, if you played the earliest betas of Quake Wars, it’s kind of the same… the player numbers sort poorly and even the ping is screwy. I’m also not sure what the 24/24 servers are since they don’t appear to be actual full servers and you kind of hang in space waiting for a connection.
Overall CTF has been fun and it’s too bad they don’t have Campaign active in the demo (or at least nothing appears for servers).
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Demo:
I gave this a try briefly tonight and it’s kind of like the previous single-player demos that they’ve released in the past. No multi-player and an intense SP map. At this point, this is one of the lower ranking games on my list. It’s modern but it’s the same as the WWII games in my opinion, at least SP. It does look “pretty” too.
Frontlines: Fuel of War Closed Beta:
This is very much a beta. I had lag issues, no ability to set your default keys (which typically isn’t a big deal on my Fang but I can’t set my reload to my middle mouse button! heh). The game moves more like Desert Combat than BF2/BF2142 and rather than the command button (q default) in BF2, it’s a quick weapon switch which is kind of a waste, I’d rather see it more like BF2/2142 with commands. I also didn’t see squad options in the game. Getting back to the speed of the game, it seems to move fast and be much more realistic (as Desert Combat). I’m hoping that they don’t alienate the people who are looking for a game to move on from BF2 or BF2142 by making it too “hardcore”.
Honestly the game played like a console game or more closely like Modern Warfare on the 360 which is disapointing but AGAIN, it’s a beta and they have until the first of the year to work it out and I’m hoping it works out to be different than how the closed beta plays.
Others:
I’ve not tried the others but plan on giving the Crysis, Hellgate: London and TimeShift demos a try Friday or Saturday.
As always, I’ll get screenshots up as I go through them. The CoD4 and Frontlines will be up this weekend.