Thu, Jan 28, 2010 | 14:25 GMT
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 MP demo on Marketplace now [Update]
Update: Still not on Marketplace itself yet, but it is on the Marketplace website.
It’s 1.35 Gb, and lets you try out the Port Valdez map – which has a video through here. We’ve also added the PR to the end of the post.
Queue it here.
Thanks, evilashchris.
Original Story: DICE has sensationally revealed that a multiplayer demo of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is now on Xbox Live.
The developer teased a surprise earlier in the day.
The tweet from the shooter’s official Twitter said:
“Surprise Reveal: Xbox 360 Battlefield Bad Company 2 MP Demo is live on Xbox Marketplace! Go get it!!!!!!!”
We just checked Live, but it isn’t there yet. It should be soon though.
So far, there’s been a multiplayer beta for PS3 and PC, the latter of which actually kicks off today.
Nothing was revealed announced or even teased, until today, on a taster for 360 peeps, though.
BFBC2 is out in March for PS3, 360 and PC.
An awesome new trailer got out last week, which you can find here.
Press Announcement: DICE RAISES THE BAR FOR ONLINE WARFARE WITH BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY 2 CONSOLE DEMO AND PC BETA
Experience This Year’s Best Online Multiplayer Game before it Hits Stores on March 2
Stockholm, Sweden – January 28, 2010 – DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that first-person shooter fans will get early access to the best-in-class online war experience in Battlefield: Bad CompanyTM 2. Players can now download a free* console demo worldwide on Xbox LIVETM Marketplace. A PC beta is also now available to players that pre-order** the game at participating retailers in North America, Europe and Asia, and through select community channels. On February 4th, the demo will be accessible on the PlayStation®Network in Europe and on February 11th in North America. Defined by its increasingly intense vehicular warfare, destruction, variety of weapons and huge sandbox environments, Battlefield Bad Company 2 promises to be one of the finest online FPS games of 2010.
“After the success of the PS3 beta, we’re excited to provide gamers — especially our long-supporting, rabidly passionate PC fans — with another opportunity to get into the game before release,” says Patrick Bach, Senior Producer on Battlefield: Bad Company 2. “Our fans have been a huge part of the franchise’s success and we can’t wait for everyone to experience the amazing gameplay and unforgettable Battlefield moments in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.”
The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 console demo and PC beta will feature Port Valdez, a new vehicle focused map where up to 24 players (32 on PC) will compete against each other as either the US or Russian armies in the game’s Rush multiplayer mode. Players will have access to five land and three air vehicles where the Russian side can use everything in their arsenal including Main Battle Tanks as well as the fast-moving Quad Bikes and Mobile Armored AA. The fight will also be packed with plenty of infantry combat fought alongside the waterline towards a great oil industrial landscape in the Alaskan mountains.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be in stores on March 2, 2010 in North America and March 4, 2010 in Europe for the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and the PC. The Limited Edition can be pre-ordered now on all platforms at no extra cost, with participating retailers worldwide (while supplies last).
* Internet connection and Xbox LIVE Gold membership required. Demo will end on February 25, 2010.
* Available at participating retailers in North America, Europe and Asia. Offer and codes expires February 25, 2010.
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Tags: Bad Company 2 Beta, Bad Company 2 Demo, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, BFBC2, dice, ea dice
22 comments
#1
Blerk
28/01/10, 10:52 am
Boo hiss! Down with multiplayer demos!
#2
mington
28/01/10, 10:56 am
Yay woop! Up with multiplayer demos!
#3
evilashchris
28/01/10, 10:56 am
It’s up on the marketplace website
This Christmas you should make the prize for best forumite a months xbox live, poor Blerk.
#4
mington
28/01/10, 10:57 am
i’m going to go on xbox.com and queue it up, to save those 20secs it’ll take when i turn my xbox on tonight
unexpected and face meltingly awesome
i’ve got a bad feeling this is gonna take a loooong time to download later coz everyone will be doing the same thing
how big is it?
#5
DJ Deathstar
28/01/10, 10:59 am
I’m all over this shit lol!
Downloading as we speak!
#6
Petulant Radish
28/01/10, 11:00 am
Yay for demo! Boo for being banned from Xbox by militant girlfriend! Down with TV & cuddles, up with Xbox and killing!
#7
evilashchris
28/01/10, 11:04 am
It’s 1 gig, mington.
#8
ReeceHeywood
28/01/10, 11:04 am
The correct download size is 1.35GB Johnny.
#9
mington
28/01/10, 11:18 am
queued innit
i’ve got 470 items in my download history, how depressing, i used to literally download every trailer and trail, why did i do that, now its the complete opposite, i don’t download any trailers…especially of the games i’m interested in, in case of spoilers, or just generally over hyping something so i wont get disappointed if it turns out to be turd (dark void)
#10
DrDamn
28/01/10, 11:26 am
Still not there on the 360 – but I queued on the website and it’s downloading now.
#11
onlineatron
28/01/10, 11:36 am
@Petulant Radish
Not to be a dick… but please be thankful you have a girlfriend.
Mine of 3 years split up with me on tuesday and I would give up computer games for life just to have her back… to be able to hold her.
We’re friends now, we’re talking and I still see her… but it’s just not the same =(
#12
Petulant Radish
28/01/10, 11:40 am
Sorry onlineatron, didn’t mean to depress you man! My post was mostly tongue in cheek anyway, my missus is actually quite good when it comes to letting me have a decent amount of time on a console, and I’m actually glad she’s there to stop me playing all the bloody time! Oh and the love bit too, that’s pretty important!
#13
mington
28/01/10, 11:43 am
@11 don’t do the friend thing it’ll only take you 4 times as long to get over, but you live and learn i suppose
my sympathies
#14
onlineatron
28/01/10, 11:43 am
Don’t worry about it man… you didn’t depress me… I think i’m just in a massive state of flux at the moment.
I shouldn’t be airing my problems on here but it’s tough you know, I built everything around her for 3 years… everything reminds me of her. Heck! even my passwords have her name in it! =(
#15
onlineatron
28/01/10, 11:45 am
@13
I can understand that… but right now it’s all I can do =(
I know it will probably end in more hurt for me, but i’m clutching on to everything I can get.
She says that she just wants to be single… and I trust her… if she got with someone else that would kill me but after 3 years, if she just wants to be single for a while then I can understand that.
#16
OlderGamer
28/01/10, 1:27 pm
Nice nice nice and more nice.
Thanx DICE.
#17
DrDamn
28/01/10, 1:57 pm
Got and played now. Very nice – feels like an improvement on BFBC1 in most ways with one exception. No SpecOps class anymore. The SMG has been given to the Engineer and the C4 to the Recon/Sniper class! What the feck does a sniper need C4 for? It’s Battlefield. C4 is for attaching to the front of a fast moving vehicle, charging up to a tank and bailing at the last second to watch it detonate then mop up the survivors with your SMG
. Other than that it’s lovely though 
#18
polygem
28/01/10, 2:05 pm
cool…i will check this out when i get home from work…
#19
G1GAHURTZ
28/01/10, 2:23 pm
DL’d it, played it, don’t like it.
Doesn’t seem to have changed much since BC1, IYAM.
Pace is still way too slow for me, too.
#20
Gekidami
28/01/10, 2:46 pm
So can you actually go prone in it now?
#21
Bleak Harvest
28/01/10, 2:56 pm
@Gekidami No, crouch only.
I’m really happy that people across the board get to experience Bad Company 2, now. Platform excluvie BETA’s and demos are just flame material. Now everyone’s happy.
#22
DrDamn
28/01/10, 3:01 pm
@Gekidami
No – and probably a good thing too. I racked up 10 kills without dying when attacking as a sniper – I only had to move on due to running out of bullets. There is not a direct killcam as such – it cuts to a view of your killer.
Oh if you manage to kill yourself it says “Epic Fail” too