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Sign-ups begin for beta of EA's Battlefield: Heroes

By Tim Conneally, BetaNews

May 20, 2008, 1:18 PM

EA DICE announced early this year that it would be releasing a free, ad-subsidized version of its Battlefield franchise by summer. Sign-ups for the beta of this upcoming game have opened.

Battlefield: Heroes has drawn a lot of comparison to Team Fortress, taking what would otherwise be a serious game, and turning up the cartoon factor. The result is like if Pixar did a version of "The Longest Day." The story is ridiculous, and the characters are over-the-top.

Since the game will be free, it has been designed around monetization, much of the initial setup of the game must be done on EA DICE's Web Site, and it must be visited each time the user wishes to launch the game client. This, however, eliminates the need for in-game advertisement.

To sign up for the beta, click here.

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By PC_Tool

posted May 20, 2008 - 6:33 PM

Beta signups killed the sign-up site. They're trying to work on getting it back up.

If you refresh enough times, you *might* get in.

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By Adrian79

posted May 20, 2008 - 5:51 PM

thanks betanews for linking me!

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By psycros

posted May 20, 2008 - 2:39 PM

And EA completes the destruction of yet another good franchise.

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By HeyBlinkin

edited May 20, 2008 - 5:31 PM

Agreed. It all started to go downhill with the release of Battlefield: Vietnam...

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By Adrian79

posted May 20, 2008 - 5:49 PM

BV was great! after 34 patches lol, but hey come on guys...

badcompany is going to be great!!

this article talkign about a free game "free" dont cry over that

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By gawd21

posted May 21, 2008 - 10:24 AM

Free at the cost of watching more crap. That is hardly free. I quit playing anything EA makes or has bought; they can't do anything right, save sucker people out of their money.

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By GBH

posted May 20, 2008 - 7:04 PM

badcompany is an xbox game how is it going to be great?

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