Imma going to be a undead ninja pirate! Id pay a dollar to be that!

AlcoholicZombie

I dont think the gameplay will be anything even remotely resembling TF2.

shadydentist

looks good to me =)
looking forward to this, even if EA chooses to ask a buck or two for it

GREY GECKO

This is going to be sweet

LittleBigPlaneteer

Wow, it's like a gayer, shittier version of TF2

Sturm Truppen

Looks awesome!

hamandcheeseUK

@HotFootMcCook:

I know what you mean, at first I dismissed this game as a TF2 copy.

But seeing that video and the peg-leg! I am a changed man! I can't believe the detail and level of customization in this game. Now one of my guilty pleasures will come true...

To be Kroenen! Finally!
(Gets his SS uniform and steel gask mask cleaned)

Gummyworm

So its a gay TF2 with planes... got it.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

bet this would run on a wii, mighty fine.

:3

Onizuka-GTO

@Fadakar:
Yahh wayyy.

But I'm not sure if I like the premise of this game, it just tickles TF2 too much in the wrong way for me.

HotFootMcCook

I look foward to putting down folks in my boxers.

Witzbold

shit didn't go through the first time >.< if only their was an edit button.

deathtastic

I'll be playing this all summer after GTA releases me from its child corrupting, ultra-violent, disgrace to human kind, murder-simulator hands.

deathtastic

I'll probly be playing this all summer after gta releases me from it's corrupting, addicting, ultra-violent, murder-simulator hands.

deathtastic

the outfit selection is WoW-esque

It looks like lots of fun!!

Flurp

TF2 was cartoony in a gruesome, cool way.

This game is cartoony in a little kid's cartoony way.

Like, you'd show elementary kids footage of this game for them to understand WWII.

Fadakar

TF2 with massive vehicle spam, and nade spam. o great...

rabbitsoup_87

Its like EA cloriformed Valve in the middle of the night, and stole TF2, and because there's never enough WW2 games, EA decided to do that, and then they got really drunk, and there was some weird music in the background and in the end, this game showed up.

Salen

Team Battlefield Fortress Heroes might be good.

crunks

@dude49: Maybe little icons above heads? or the characters could have a glow.

The art style is so much like TF2.

dabu

ok, this is maybe going to sound stupid but how are you suppose to know who's on each team?

dude49

My character is SO having that pegleg.

Mustakrakish

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT

*gasp*

WANT WANT WANT WANT WAAAAAAAANT!!!!!!

In all seriousness I am so majorly pumped for this game :D

Dauragon C. Mikado

I'd pay 600 dollars for a wooden leg. Sign me up EA.

theblur3419

Damn this game reeks ALL sorts of AWESOME!

exkon

For those crying blatant rip-off read this:

"We developed our art style in January 2007. At that point there were very little images out there from Team Fortress. As more details about Team Fortress came out we said 'well there's a similarity here because we're both cartoony, shall we change and go realistic again?'. But no we decided we wanted to keep going. The alternative would have been another gritty, realistic WW2 game and everyone's fed up with those. We really believe in our style and we're just going to go ahead and do it."

[www.videogamer.com]

In fact rad the whole article

LittleBigPlaneteer

Seeing people sitting on wings still cracks me up every time I see it. This game is definitely worth a try.
What's with all the "rabble rabble TF2 ripoff!" stuff? Outside of the visual style it just doesn't look all that similar to me.

Wolfers

@dabu: yeah they had an article on it a couple months ago and i commented on how it was a ripoff, but now im kinda liking it, it looks fun as hell

GrimaceXL

@Defenestration: The game is free.

Good job.

Dauragon C. Mikado

@LittleBigPlaneteer:I was just about to say something about that. Being the cheap person I am, I won't mind trying it out for free. If it turns out to suck (I don't think it will), then big whoop.

Santa_Lock22

Why are people talking about buying this? It's going to be released for FREE

Stop bitching.

LittleBigPlaneteer

This doesn't look bad, actually.

ohhello

This looks to blow the pants off of 2142 or the soon to be console game. Tip of my hat to the artists for imitating a great style. Gameplay looks to be a riot too. This is the direction I'd like to see computer games go, looking less at realism and shaders and focusing heavily on low-impact yet fun time wasters which allow you to simultaneously multi-task in the background.

alb1221

I won't be buying this game on principal. I'm kind of tired of the whole "ME TOO" philosphy of game design.

That, and the only Battlefield that entertained me for more than a day was 2142.

Defenestration

After playing the Battlefield: Bad Company Beta, this looks more interesting.

whiptcracker

@Cake_Eater:

They never said they didn't start the game before ANY news. They said they started development during a time when there were little images about TF2. The earlier images of TF2 look very different from the art style they went with and those weren't really released till much later.

Call them liars if you want, but it's not impossible for two developers to work on the same idea independently. It happens more than you think in history.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@Gummyworm: I pretty much did too. Put it down as a TF2 clone, that is.

I'm pleasantly surprised, though. It's like it's actively trying to disassociate itself from that image. More power to them.

@Cake_Eater:
"Honestly, I don't believe for a moment that they started development prior to ANY news about TF2 coming out, but that's just my general lack of faith in EA."

Considering how long TF2 was in development limbo, I'd have to agree with you. Claiming 100% originality is "starting work before something is announced" doesn't work so well with Valve, king of delays.

Though truth be told, the original concept for TF2 was very... Different. Still, you did say "ANY news." :)

Laute

I want my character to have TWO peg legs... that would be super sweet.

arepeegee

I think it's a little too close graphically to TF2 to be totally coincidental, especially little things like the little floaty crosses when somebody gets healed.

Oyn

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

Honestly, I don't believe for a moment that they started development prior to ANY news about TF2 coming out, but that's just my general lack of faith in EA. I personally won't be getting it, even though it's a free download, because it just looks like a dumbed down TF2 clone. I just think that it's far too "cartoon-ey" for my tastes. The reason I felt TF2 was such a success was because it balanced the unrealistic model style with mature-level content. You were having a ton of fun, but it didn't come off like a dumbed down kid-version of the game. (Not saying that there's a problem with those, but in a shooter it would take a lot to persuade me). TF2 had exploding bodies, funny voice clips, and a TON of development time. I may be judging it a little too soon, but so far it's failed to pique my interest.

Cake_Eater

This is a free game that you play in your web browser, if you don't like it it will cost you nothing.

dsmx

@Cake_Eater: But please answer this? How is it a TF2 clone if the CORE GAMEPLAY is based off of Battlefield 1942?

If anything it's a "dumbed down" battlefield game.

Dauragon C. Mikado

I stay away from EA games becasue I don't like their business practices or games... but this looks like fun. Plus if it's free then I don't have to worry about them getting my money. So maybe...

hondo

This game shot up to the top of my list. I will gladly pay small amounts of money for those items.

SMALL amounts.

I cant wait for this

ArmyofJuan

For all you people complaining that it looks like TF2. Try looking at other games out there. There are TONS AND TONS of games that look like other games! Why don't we go criticize those games? Just cause it looks like a game doesn't mean it can't still be fun?

Nikral

@Oyn: Floating crosses isnt anything original. Its existed in other games before also, since the cross is pretty much a universal symbol for first aid.

Not to mention TF2 isnt the first series thats done the cartoon approach to war. Look at Battalion Wars on the GC

Witzbold

@Dauragon C. Mikado: Not to mention that this is developed by DICE, one of EA's city-states. The ones who make games that are actually really good, then release expansion packs and sequels before all the issues in the original game were ironed out.

It'll be nice to play a game by them that I'm not paying for, for a change.

obonicus

@JamesR87: I think the point he was trying to make is that this game will have really really really REALLY love system requirements.

It'll run on a hamster wheel if it needs to.

Dauragon C. Mikado

@roflwaffles: Dude, the art style is undeniably similar to TF2, whether it was influenced by, copied, or had nothing to do with it.

EmTeeZ

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the financial plan for this game again? Original download free, but planning on making money through loads of microtransactions? Or a lot of in-game advertisement/sponsorships?

For some reason I just can't grasp the idea of EA making such a big game for free.

EmTeeZ

sexy

Crawl to China

Don't forget that there do exist in the world those who think that TF2 is crap-tastic and think that this game will be the much better one.
And its FREE!
and Battlefield...

I don't understand how that doesn't add up to awesome.

Ra is back on the A-Team!

You mean I can be a peg-legged Nazi skeleton? Best game EVAH!

Chewbenator

@Flurp: How on Earth did you come up with that one?

@roflwaffles: It's obviously at least inspied by TF2. Funny how there's only been two games based on WW2 with this artistic direction ... And they happened to happen very quickly one after the other...

Anyway. I can't believe this isn't getting a release - From DICE games its because:

"Everyone's who's got a 360 or PS3 also will have a PC that can run this game"

What a douchebag. I, and I know many others, don't.

JamesR87

DICE =/ EA.
anyway i think its a good thing that we are moving away from uber realism.
also anyone who says this looks like TF2 is insulting both TF2 and BFH.
watch the video of them explaining the shaders on the characters in TF2.
oh, AND ITS FUCKING FREE.

roflwaffles

@Nikral: Because TF2 is actually good, and thus it's the standard by which Incredibles-style games should be judged upon.

Frank

It's FREE! I don't mind geeks. I'm a big one! But angry nerds that complain so much even when something is free are very annoying.

lurkaku

@Dauragon C. Mikado: Good, cause that's what I have.

Jonn

Is it sad that I'm starting to expect the TF2 comparisons now?

That said, I hope chin customization makes it in.

@Cake_Eater: "Honestly, I don't believe for a moment that they started development prior to ANY news about TF2 coming out, but that's just my general lack of faith in EA."

This is where you should've stopped typing.

Jonn

*low

*facepalm*

Dauragon C. Mikado

Too bad to get all that crap you'll have to buy hat pack 3, leg pack 4, pants pack 7, shirt pack 14, accessories pack 9 and shoe pack 11. All for the low price of $40-50. NOTHING is free ladies, nothing. Especially from EA.

KillerBee

This is the FIRST (and likely only) time I've ever been interested in any sort of combat/war game. I'm sure that's going to be quickly and easily crushed soon.

VioletArrows

Is it me? Sometimes I think that Battlefield Heroes shouldn't have been made because it desensitizes of what was one of the most gruesome wars of the 20th century.

HellGuard99

Well, I'm not complaining. It looks light-hearted and fun-to-boot. I've never played TF2, so this will do.

Christ, the way people carry on, getting on their soap-boxes proclaiming "I won't be touching THIS one!" as if the gaming public will collectively gasp and nod like the sheep who uttered the line in the first place.

It's free. Why don't you reserve your judgment for when the game is released and you can just log onto the website, instead of throwing down your shekels to play?!

pylon_trooper

Hope this game work, because has amusing ideas and hard work. Has enormeous merits. It will be sad if flop because some tiny dumb design error.

Tei

@rabbitsoup_87:

That little problem is in EVERY FUCKING FPS! InfinityWard should have been given an award for inventing a way to make nade spam even WORSE then it has ever been in an online multiplayer game, ever!

This actually looks pretty WOWWOWWOWWOWWOOOW! WOWWOWWOWWOWWOW, I mean that looks pretty darn cool if I do say so myseelf.

@Ra is back on the A-Team!:

A game that makes standing on a ledge or in a door way, waiting around for someone to walk by and blow the ever loving hell out of a VERY easy and relatively consequence free task, will always be more popular then say, something actually well designed (I'm just being an ass now, I know).

I'm not saying TF2 is bad, I'm just saying, there are better, bigger, tighter, and if it weren't for it's art style, it's pretty much more of the "same old, same old" in multilayer FPS, though it is damn good. Battlefield games weren't the first to start really breaking some ground (like Tribes for instance) but hell, they have kept gameplay in the genre moving forward (at least since 1942, BF2 counts also... and 2142 had the bases in the air, that was... high concept stuff there, ohhh boy... and it had robots... see? They just keep on trucking!) , instead of 20 billion steps backwards, and right back into territory some of us have already treaded since the late 90's, like those fuckers Halo3(retarded Quake on wheels) and CoD4 (retarded CoD3, which was retarded battlefield, so WTF man?).

Also, I pulled this one out of my ass, but anyway, here goes, it's like IW and Bungie COMPLETELY have no damn clue how to fucking design a descent respawn system. I love it when I get spawned in front of 5 guys camping behind a rock/tree 5-10 motherfucking time in a row.

Look, IfinityWard, Bungie, if any of your staff can see this, here's how it goes. You have, all the way on ONE end of the map, the, lets say, "A team" spawn area, and on the EXTREME OTHER side of the map, the "B team" spawn area. How you keep those areas from getting camped and locked down is YOUR job, so, oh, I don't know, maybe in your next projects, be a little LESS lazy?

@Chewbenator:

GOTE, end of story :p

Bando

@HellGuard99: It's not just you; I get a creepy kind of "history being distorted into cuteness" feeling about this game too. But in that regard, when you think about it, pretty much any game about WWII trivializes WWII. I may be watching the wrong documentaries, but I don't recall ammo drops, respawn points or CTF being a part of the Normandy invasion.

hemlock_martini

Free is good, and it has that TF2 kind of look also. I'll give it a try just for that.

sweetie55

I wanna be a zombie

Ieatbears

ITT: Douche bags bawwing that it is a TF2 clone. It very clearly isn't. The only thing that they took from TF2 it seems is the idea that FPS's need more character. In the logic of the whiners, TF2 is a XIII ripoff.

chorx