BF Bad Company 2 Out March 2, Dante's Inferno Feb. 9

News continues to trickle out of GamesCom in Germany, with EA dropping a pair of release dates this morning for Dante's Inferno and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Though, if you read the headline, you already know what they are: February 9 and March 2. Those are North American dates; you're looking at Feb. 12 and March 5 in Europe.

Both of these games, it should be noted, belong to the less populated category, "games that were always scheduled to come out in 2010" and not the suddenly very crowded group, "games that were supposed to ship in '09 but got pushed into what is looking like a really, really busy 2010 all of a sudden."

To commemorate the announcement, DICE dropped a new Bad Company 2 trailer and some screenshots. And I suggest you look at them.
 
 

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yay!!!!!!!

Sounds good.

Really scary time to be releasing this title, I almost wonder if EA/Dice should delay it to June.  Hopefully the success of Battlefield 1943 will help sales.
 
I'm really excited for BC2 though.  1943 showed me how much I prefer the BF style of multi-player to CoD.

" yay!!!!!!! "

" Spring 2010 is Holiday 2008. I swear, these publishers are mentally retarded. "

Is it sad that I haven't played Bad Company 1 yet?

Holy crap I am pumped.  What that video did was like what the intro video to battlefield 2 did to me.  Amazing.  I can't wait.

That looks like a great trailer, too bad I'll probably still be playing the piss out of Modern Warfare 2.  As for Dante's Inferno, I liked the literature but the direction they're taking the game is questionable.

I less than three battlefield

EA really deals out the ass-kickery. Their lineup is excellent!
 
The Battlefield : Bad Company 2 trailer and screens get me fired up. The wait will be hell.
 
I was really surprised of how awesome NFS : Shift looks. The 'real driver experience' in the cockpit view is freaking insane! I guess, NFS : Shift, Brütal Legend and Dragon Age will keep me occupied 'til the 5th of March. Oh wait, there's more great games being published? EA ain't the only publisher with gems in their line-up? 
 
Well... then I'm up to my neck... in great games.
 
We are all screwed! In a very wierd way. Too many freaking games, that are worthwhile! So little time.

Man that trailer is awesome!

My head just asploded

dice is badass, and all the games they've made so far are awesome. Definitely getting this one

I actually think i might prefer this one over Modern Warfare 2. I've always been a BFboy.

Trailer was awesome!

Wow, fucking super dee duper! 
 
Seriously I'm picking this one up, fuck COD.

"Is it sad that I haven't played Bad Company 1 yet? "

those americans got raped!

When all else fail, they dont.
 
Cookie for the reference.

That was a kick ass trailer!!! Cannot wait for this.

Really? BFBC2 was "always coming out in 2010"? It was coming out September 30th 2009 when I placed a pre-order on it a couple weeks ago. Also, I hope they don't waste their time with single player. The campaign was so uninteresting and bland in the first one and considering you only spend about 8 hours on it and then hundreds of hours playing the multiplayer, the investment of time is obviously best served in the real game and not the shambling "campaign" modes.

Don't know about the gameplay as I'm yet to open the first BFBC I got cheap (hope ppl still playing :P) but they sure can make a kickass trailer. Dunno why but I'm getting more hyped from this than the MW2 trailers even when there's no real gameplay (though I love BF and CoD pretty equally).

Well Modern Warfare 2 and Bad Company 2 coming out around the same time was going to be to much to handle for me. 

I think its a damn shame they've dropped the single player goofballs, I mean the campaign was a bloody mess how they lazily pulled it off but I was hoping I'd see those rotten bastards at least one more time, they were clever and funny. The goofballs in the single player was all that really distinguished BAD COMPANY from Battlefield X Y Z.

Whoah. Sweet cinematic. I am pumped for this game!

" I think its a damn shame they've dropped the single player goofballs, I mean the campaign was a bloody mess how they lazily pulled it off but I was hoping I'd see those rotten bastards at least one more time, they were clever and funny. The goofballs in the single player was all that really distinguished BAD COMPANY from Battlefield X Y Z. "

now that was a cool trailer

Looks pretty awesome

Seeing how good Battlefield 1943 sold and how good Bad company 1 online its safe to say Bad company 2 Multiplayer will be one of the top 5 Xbox live games played.

Alright, BC2 Multiplayer is going to be awesome, but what about the Single Player? I love Multiplayer a much as the next GBer but with Bad Company I'm just more interested in actially hearing about the single player at this point.

Haha Go Kiwi!

Very nice. I hope the PC version looks that good. All the BC1 trailers were rendered as they would appear in-game so it's probable they were doing the same here.
 
Pre-ordering this sucker. "Fuck COD" indeed.

That was a very cool trailer. Props to them for that, and more Battlefield is always a good thing in my book.

" those americans got raped! "

NOOOOOOO! i thought bad comp 2 was coming out in 2009. Sad :-( still can't wait though!