News

Bodycount Developer Details ‘Unlawful’ Working Conditions, Codemasters Responds

Semi Essessi, who was unfortunate enough to have worked on Codemasters’ abyssmal first-person shooter Bodycount, says that wasn’t the worst part of his job. Essessi spilled the beans to Eurogamer earlier this week, detailing what he claims were “unlawful” working conditions.


August 25, 2011
PlayStation

Bodycount Dev Diary Shows Off Explosive Multiplayer

Bodycount is a game that celebrates the trigger squeezing, headshot taking, destroy everything sensation of first-person shooters. After all, the spiritual successor to Black better have some serious environmental destruction.


August 2, 2011
PlayStation

Believe It Or Not, Bodycount Is All About Guns

Kotaku AU

Since it’s a first-person shooter, and guns are pretty much your only means of communication in such a game, it’s not surprising that Bodycount is all about guns — but it seems as though Codemasters’ Guildford Studio has taken gun worship to the next level.


June 25, 2011
PlayStation

Bodycount Mantra: Gun, Bullet, World

Codemasters has an enthusiastic write-up about their upcoming shooter Bodycount over on the official PlayStation Blog.


June 9, 2011
PlayStation

Could Bodycount Make Shooting Stuff Fun Again?

Kotaku AU

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting just a little bit sick of, you know, shooting stuff over and over again. Bodycount, from the creators of Black, looks like it’s making a decent go of making shooting stuff fun again. How are they doing this? By making every single thing a bullet touches either disintegrate or burst into flames like a bloody Catherine Wheel.


December 16, 2010

Still Not Sure What To Make Of Bodycount

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Codemasters’ Bodycount, the first-person shooter that was at one point headed by Black creator Stuart Black, but no longer, is a curious thing. It’s part inspired by Lady Gaga and all about “the bullet and its impact on the world”.


September 4, 2010

The Cases Of The Missing Bullets

If a video game contains guns, does it also contain bullets? Not necessarily. Well, not necessarily – get this – depending on your philosophical take on what it means for a bullet to exist.


June 14, 2010

What The World Needs Is A Lady Gaga Kind Of First-Person Shooter

Stuart Black was going to make a typically dreary first person shooter. Then he went to see a Lady Gaga concert.


March 9, 2010
News

First Look At Bodycount, An "Orgy Of Bullets & Destruction"

From the co-creator and designer of Black comes Bodycount, Codemasters’ newest shot at “genre-defining gun play” for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a game you might have already heard a few peeps about.


March 8, 2010
News

Bodycount Announced

No, not that Body Count. The cover of the upcoming Official Xbox Magazine reveals Bodycount, the new shooter from the creators of first-person stylised shooter Black.