Bitmob Game Club -- Battlefield: Heroes Prelude

Editor's note: I heartily approved of the Bitmob Game Club's next selection: Dungeon Runners. Turns out that the game's immenient demise means that new players can't sign up. So they're moving on to Battlefield Heroes. I expect to read about flying around with soldiers on airplane wings. -Jason


The Bitmob Game Club, created by the inimitable J. Cosmo Cohen, is a community effort. Four Bitmobbers play through a section of a (typically free) game. After doing so, they each turn in a piece in whatever style they decide they like best to recount their experiences and tell us what they think about the game.
In this edition, we're tackling two games, both primarily multiplayer-focused. The goal is a more diverse collection of articles. This also means that the phrase "play along" is more accurate then ever before. Feel free to download the game yourself and join in with Game Club members.

The first two weeks center on Battlefield Heroes. This free online first-person shooter is a bit goofy, but deep enough to addict. One of the many games to try the, free-to-play-but-optional-cash-upgrades formula. Will anyone of our contributors be addicted enough to fork over their hard-earned money? We'll see, and you can play along by downloading the game here.

Now, let's meet the cast of Game Club.

Brian Petro-Roy: When not giving all of his fellow Bitmobbers friendly tips on writing, Brian dives into some pretty deep topics in very insightful and creative ways. How can anyone resist clicking on a story called "Videogame Music Needs to go Back to the Future"?

James DeRosa: Obviously, James likes to keep busy. With school, work, his own site, and multiple Bitmob commitments, I'm surprised he ever gets any sleep. Somehow, he manages to write ridiculously thoughtful -- and long -- articles amid all his other activities.

Jasmine Maleficent Rea:
We all know and love Jasmine, Bitmob intern extraordinaire, mostly because we want to get into the Spotlights. Also, she's a girl, and she plays video games. That's supposed to be really rare. At least that's what I've been told.

Chris Davidson: I don't know very much about Chris. He should really get on Twitter or something. I do know that his entries in the last Game Club made me giggle like a school girl. And that's really all that matters, isn't it?


There's the Bitmob Game Club Third Edition Crew. Please play along with them, and leave them plenty of comments. Also, since the games featured in this edition are both multiplayer, you can feel free to grief the hell out of them. I'm sure they'll appreciate it, as they can then write about what a jerk you are.

Comments (15)

I am at odds with this banner, sir. you cannot gain the bling gnomes without purchasing the game. why would your purchase the thing when they are going to nuke it January 1?

Seriously, there is a giant bomb that is going to go off the day the servers go offline. I kinda want to be there for it.
Jasmine Maleficent Rea , November 08, 2009
James made it. I was unaware. Blame him.

Also, you 4 should TOTALLY hang around until Jan 1st and write a follow-up Game Club entry about the end.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , November 08, 2009
Eh, I am not concerned with the banner, I was just being a pain, and transitioning into the bomb thing.

We shoould watch the end.
Jasmine Maleficent Rea , November 08, 2009
I'm totally on twitter by the way, but I don't update it nearly enough. https://twitter.com/CasualAlcoholic
Chris Davidson , November 08, 2009
Looks to be a great crew! Nice job mixing up the games, Alex!
J. Cosmo Cohen , November 09, 2009
I may reload this and jump in for some "griefing."
Jason Wilson , November 10, 2009
Um, Jason, I've got some bad news for you...

You see, when we intrepid Game Clubbers attempted to install Dungeon Runners, we ran into the slight problem in that it appears that DR has been removed from NCsoft's store, meaning that it is impossible to create a new account at the moment. We received word from Alex that we would start this edition with the *other* planned game for this month, Battlefield Heroes, until we could figure out what to do about DR.

Although, I believe that one of the ways you can get a serial code for DR is to get referred by a friend - if you gave us all referrals, we might still be able to pull this off. Hmm...
Brian Petro-Roy , November 10, 2009
Oh no! Alex should have taken this down!
James DeRosa , November 10, 2009
I was one of the Unlucky people that bought Tabula Rasa another NCSoft game. Why NCSoft no longer supports the game I wish I could run my on private server for fun and play with my friends. As long as I am not making money off the IP why do they care if I run my on server?
Rich McGrath , November 10, 2009
You see, when we intrepid Game Clubbers attempted to install Dungeon Runners, we ran into the slight problem in that it appears that DR has been removed from NCsoft's store, meaning that it is impossible to create a new account at the moment.


Actually, it will be impossible from now on. NCSoft has shut down the game permanently due to lack of interest in the game.
Bobby Krell , November 10, 2009
What are we playing up to? I made it to the pirate level, I'm not sure how far that is into the game.
Chris Davidson , November 10, 2009
@Chris - Anything. Since we're only doing 2 weeks with it, some of you who are more addicted my go much further, but then you can write about how addicted you are.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , November 12, 2009
This game looks like it took a lot of inspiration from TF2. So, I am all over it.

How do we play with the Game Club?
Lance Darnell , November 12, 2009
This game looks like it took a lot of inspiration from TF2. So, I am all over it.


Ben Cousins, executive producer at DICE (who developed Battlefield Heroes):
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.
Jay Henningsen , November 12, 2009
@Lance - The GC team has been attempting to organize game times via Twitter and email. I believe a couple of them are on for tonight. Otherwise, just message them and try to jump in when they are on.
Alex R. Cronk-Young , November 12, 2009

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