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Bad Company 3, Mirror's Edge 2 spotted on resumes

Various LinkedIn profile pages indicate DICE may be at work on third entry in shooter franchise, sequel to 2008 free-running game.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 3 and Mirror's Edge 2 have been spotted on various profile pages at professional networking site LinkedIn (tracked down by GamerZines), indicating DICE is possibly at work on sequels to its shooter and free-running franchises.

Is DICE reenlisting Bad Company?
Is DICE reenlisting Bad Company?

The Bad Company 3 reference comes from a user who said he "provided video game prototype, design, and demo feedback on various AAA titles including Battlefield: Bad Company 3, Dead Space 2, Devil May Cry 5, and other unannounced titles" between 2009 and 2011.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 shipped during March 2010, and to date, no mention has been made of a follow-up. A sequel to that title would not come as much of a surprise, as it won warm reviews upon launch, and sold nearly 6 million copies. A spin-off to the core Battlefield franchise, the Bad Company series launched in 2008 with the well-received original.

As for Mirror's Edge 2, the profile page of an ex-EA software engineer says he worked on that game between July and August 2009, creating the "wandering of crowd system within the Unreal 3 Engine." Yet another former EA employee's page says he built "new gadget and interactive features" for Mirror's Edge 2, as well as leaderboards and a minigame inside the Mirror's Edge story.

A sequel to Mirror's Edge has not been formally announced, but in June 2009, EA Games Europe vice president Patrick Soderlund confirmed a follow-up was in the works. At the time, he said, "You will see another Mirror's Edge for sure. It's just a matter of when that time is and what we do with it. We have a small team on it, and I'm excited about what we do."

An EA representative told GameSpot, "We do not comment on rumors or speculation."

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Can we really stop seeing war shooters come out 2 times a year in different flavours from companies ? Seriously it is getting ridiculous.

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@DeViLzzz I love military shooters.... So do other people...........

IF there's too much of anything there's too many Zombie games, in any genre.

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@DeViLzzz It doesn't say anywhere when BC3 is going to come out, it hasn't been announced yet. Complain to Activision if you don't want military shooters coming out each year.

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@DeViLzzz well it's only really going to change when people stop playing them as much

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don care about bad company 3 .. but as for mirror's edge .. I do look forward to it

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Edited By The_Godfather_

mirror's edge 2! hell yes!!!

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I like the sound of Bad Company 3 If they would release a sequel to Mirrors Edge which was a different idea so a second one would be welcome

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BF3 ( while I really loved the MP and CO-OP) was one of those rarest rarest games on earth where I wished DICE would have just dropped the SP and instead added the resources of SP to the MP and would give us more CO-OP missions. BF SP was awesome and well made. The SP campaign in BF3 felt like a tech demo .

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@firehawk998 yeah the BF sp was just good because it wasn't supposed to be as serious nad "realistic" which is what they tried to aim for in BF3 and it just didn't work

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@Scottisme @firehawk998 they're no game makers , mate !

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The bad company series was great and a lot of fun

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Would very much look forward to a Bad Company sequel, though they'd have to find a way to tweak the multiplayer so its different to BF3...

Maybe a Bad Company DLC would work better? Either way, look forward to playing a Battlefield campaign with some life in it, loved BF:BC2, loath BF3 campaign...

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@HapiJoel thats going to be a huge challenge for BFBC3 to not favor BF3 especially if it comes out in 2013 (march-ish). I am thinking if they made it prone based it will make it feel more BF3 like.

This will be interesting.

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If it's on someones CV and the game isn't out, seems more likely they worked on the game before it got cancelled, otherwise they'd probably still be in work...

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@Alexanderone You guys stop failing each other, what are you? 12s???

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Edited By Mehrdadmaskull

July and August 2009??? with crappy Graphics?? Duuuude, it's 2012!!! and Unreal Engine? I think i'd heard it to be Frostbite, i'm not sure...but hence, GET ME SOME MIRRORS EDGE II BEFORE 2013!!!!!!

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I hope Mirror's Edge 2 come with multiplayer WLan and Online and make the game some mission Stealth you can get weapons not like the first Mirror's Edge catch one weapon and dropand I hope Battlefield: Bad Company 3 coming next Generation Consoles and PC i just hope they are not stop working at those awsome games , i can wait if they deliver them to next Generation Consoles

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Mirrors Edge 2 was announced back in & around 08/09, and it's cancellation around 2010 so this guy probably does have it on his CV but it doesn't mean it's going to be released. This isn't news, just pointless speculation.

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BFBC2 was epic, BF3 was epic, and now BFBC3 will be epic, cant wait!

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@bluebird08 LOL...

you attack a country .. you kill people .. you call 'em terrorists with no reason at all .. tho those ppl like you 'cas you're a human being .. we are like puppets , bein played by our politicians and their chuffing policies

is killing a young man who is defending his country and his family with an old rusty shotgun , epic ??? then we're insane

Im saying you can shoot a poor bastard In a GAME but .. let's just don get our hands bloody because someone wants us to do so !

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If the multiplayer is like Bad company 2 then I will buy it, if it's like BF3 multiplayer, I'll rent it, complete the story and give it back!

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Plus one! BF3 is blah. BFBC2 was stellar!

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@RedneckJazz agreed, I don't know what they changed, but BF3 annoys the hell out of me, when BFBC2 is the perfect multiplayer experience.

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@residude what the frick, battlefield 3's multiplayer is fricking awesome

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@bluebird08 its preference. I've played both, they both give a similar but different experience. I know a few BFBC players that have BF3 but they still play BFBC2 more.

When i go back to BFBC2 it just feels different, similar, but different. Both are awesome.

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God, If a Mirrors Edge 2 can finally bring high mobility multi play to the masses on console; I'll buy it :)

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I hope Bad Company 3 is being made. Those characters are funnier than hell.

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@Darth_Starwind yes mate .. they're just ..funny .. it's hardly a game !

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@hamidman are you saying the previous Bad Companys are Hardly a game or Bad Company 3 (because it hasn't been released yet) because the BC games are great, and saying it's hardly a game makes no sense, you could say they are bad games, but obviously it's a game if you play it

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the next battlefield should be multiplayer only because most people dont even touch the single player unless its to get trophys so why bother with all that time making it for 5% of the people who play it. they should instead focus more on patches since it takes so friggen long to fix there ridiculous mistakes that they usually never even get to fixing. like on bc2 you dont even know if you won or lost because the screen says the wrong thing, how does that pass in a games inspection!

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@MelodicMizery I always play single player first!

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@MelodicMizery Yeah the win/lose screen thing was funny/annoying, especially after a long, close match, even on BF3 the music gets mixed up on the win/lose screens...

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@MelodicMizery no offense intended, but you are exactly what's wrong with the gaming industry. I want a solid single player campaign, especially in the bad company games as there is some fantastic voice acting, an amusing story to follow and a fairly open way to approach missions.

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@residude its ok everyone enjoys different things. id like a single player if it wasnt like the last 2 games. bfbc1 single player was extremely fun. and games like desert storm was a fun single player. but dice always half asses there single player lately thats why i kind of wish theyd just either do it big or dont do it at all. plus i feel like i have to pick one or the other because of how many problems they have in there games id really rather eliminate a sp for a more stable mp. its be awesome if the campaign was long and awesome and a non glitchy mp but thatll prob never happen

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Nice. I still need to get the first one.

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@soulless4now then you're not complete as a human being !

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Definitely would pick up a Mirror's Edge 2. It reminded me a lot of Sonic so hopefully we can race each other online. It doesn't need it but just something I think would be interesting.

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As awesome as a Mirror's Edge sequel would be, I am not going through the headache of downloading EA's Origin garbage in order to play it.

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I am a pc BF2 man, it was hard for me to play shooters on console. However, BC2 was the first game where I loved the controls. I thought it was perfect, even if all of my shots didn't hit guy. Then I tried BF3 on console, I just went back to pc. I hope BC3 feels like BC2, the only console shooter I could play.

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@shinspikes what??? The controls in BC2 where much worse then BF3... You're the only person I've heard say that...

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@Fastnova00007 BF3 controls are worst because its designed for keyboard. Switching between knife and rifles is a separate button and knifing is map to trigger. The controls scheme plays like pre-bf2:CM

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@Scottisme i have a friend that refuse to play the console BF games on P3 because he cant map them the shooting/ads to the l2/r2 triggers. .. throw MOH in there too.

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@y3ivan really annoying how the vast majority of developers don't allow for complete button re-mapping on console, but I think the controls are better for BF3 for one reason, the B/O button would enter/exit and pick up kits and sometimes you would pick up a kit instead of getting into a vehicle, and the only reason people would say the controls are better is because the BC games were made for console, atleast the first one was, and the knife button is the same for bc2/bf3

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Please, keep Mirror's Edge as the free-running series. Do not turn it into a run-and-gun game.

To the people saying Mirror's Edge had terrible shooting mechanics, that's the point. You just missed it. Yes, you were playing the game wrong.

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bc3 ya

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At some points in BF3's campaign, there have been environments that beheld pale white walls and colorful red objects surrounding it. It totally reminded me of Mirror's Edge and gave me a hint that Mirror's Edge 2 on Frostbite2 is going to look pretty freaking awesome.

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These are the two games I have been asking for for years. These & Fallout 4 & my dreams would come true.

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Having Platinum Mirror's Edge I'd love me some Mirror's Edge 2, but knowing EA, I expect to be Nickle, Dimed, Penny and Food Stamp. >.<

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If these rumors are true, then I'd jizz an ocean.

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Mirror's Edge and Battlefield Bad Company (1 & 2) are the most underrated games of all time. Seriously, they are so unique and innovative and there are the best in their respective genres. Seeing BFBC 3 would be amazing considering the campaign for BFBC2 was so much better than BF3's campaign.

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wow DMC 5!

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