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Just got this in an e-mail from IGN
Get access to the Battlefield: Bad Company Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta in this Insider and Founders' Club Event. North American and European Insider and Founders' Club members with active Xbox LIVE Gold accounts can signup now and get their beta key. Click the button below to find out how you can get beta access.
can sign up here
http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/bfbc/na/

I've heard some good thing about it. Let me know how it plays. I'm going to pick up a copy from work if its any good.

Actual servers don't go up till the 25th. But lookin' at the upgrades and what not looks like they have the classic BF classes in it (med/snipe/assault/anti/spec). What i think kind of sucks is 2 upgrades for each class can only be bought through XBL, well 1 of each class is actually obtainable through purchasing "Battlefield Bad Company: Gold"...
Dunno how the gameplay is going to be for the Beta because playin just the how to video of the new gametype the video was really stringy and lagged a lot.

This is definitely a genre changing game. I was sitting on a turret with these trees blocking my view of where the enemies would come from so I shot them down and just fuckin raped the other team. This sniper was on the 2nd level of a building sniping at a window and would crouch out of view. I pulled out my granade launcher and blasted the wall off the 2nd floor and you see the sniper there crouched and frozen like he didn't know wtf to do.
The controls are pretty good, okay for vehicles. Graphics are amazing, and the new gametype is pretty damn fun..
So far this is a must buy... Only negative thing I can say about it is that some weapons can only be purchased on XBL
Once I'm done being all hyped up about this game, I'll make a full review about it...

I've seen some videos...looks pretty awesome. I was a huge fan of BF2 also.

Been playing this game all damn day only reason why I'm not playing it now is cus my wife's hooked on it too.
Pros:
-Gameplay isn't too fast paced and isn't extremely slow
-Graphics are awesome! Walls are incredibly detailed along with trees and the rest of the terrain
-Sound: great on regular stereo and simply amazing with surround sound.
- The destructability (isn't really a word) of this game changes everything. There's no more chokepoints on the maps because if there's a wall blocking you, you just break through it.
- Weapons are all pretty damn balanced. I've unlocked almost all of the guns and gadgets you can unlock and they all work very well. And the guns that you can only obtain through XBL marketplace seem in balance as well (compared the stats with the other guns).
-Ranking system is pretty much in line with CoD4 and also have awards (similar to challenges in CoD4) that you can get awarded multiple times in the same game.
Cons
- Vehicles seem sluggish besides the tanks. The humvee and buggy seem as though they're set on the same speed as the tanks. Completely throws you off when you're in a buggy and a tank is keeping speed with you.
- Controls scheme is weird. Left stick is to sprint. Y is to knife. to switch weapons by RB and switch gadgets/nades with LB. takes a while to get used to it, especially from playing CoD4 awhole lot.
- Squads are automatic. You can't choose your own squad you're just thrown in one.
- NO PARACHUTE! this is the only BF game I know of that doesn't have parachutes
- Delicate players. What I mean by this is, if you're standing on a 8 ft fence and you drop down to the ground. You lose about 15 health.
- Only certain classes have grenades or pistols. I'm pretty sure that the sniper (Recon) class is the only class to have a pistol, but they don't have grenades.
- Knifing is almost impossible at times. It's almost as if you have a cooldown on your knife after you swing it. I had an altercation with another player where we tried to knife each other for about a minute straight that ended up with us just dying to artillery.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of the negative things I have to say about the game is been ironed out before launch (vehicles, controls having more than one scheme, knifing, and the delicate players at least) And it's a pretty decent and solid build for a beta, hasn't been many bugs I've see/heard of and haven't even heard any that isn't just an aesthetic bug.

I'm pretty sure i heard in a podcast that you will be able to chose your squads.