Bodycount is back and I’m here to divulge all the juicy intel. The Codemasters Guildford studio has been tightly clammed since last year’s E3 so you’d be forgiven for asking, what is Bodycount?
Bodycount is an adrenaline-inducing, explosive torrent of action, destruction and gun ecstasy. It’s an FPS that puts the fun back into firepower. But these words can barely do it justice, so here’s our brand new gameplay trailer from E3.
Right off the bat you can see the explosive boom-stick that is the shotgun, and it really sums up what Bodycount is. This isn’t just another shooter; this is a gun centrefold that gives you amazingly satisfying guns that you will never forget. The mantra in the team has been ‘gun, bullet, world’ – everything is focussed on the experience of squeezing the trigger, hearing bullets tear through the air and watching them obliterate enemies and the environment. Every gun has been carefully crafted for your gaming pleasure. Bodycount has everything from a deadly pistol all the way up to super-charged futuristic weaponry used by your elusive enemies, ‘The Target’.
Bullets, naturally, are never in short supply but it’s their effect in the world that completes this glorious firing feedback loop as you shred through enemies and the environment. Whether it’s wood, glass, body armour… it rips up and splinters as you unleash the pain on the world around you. It doesn’t just look cool and make you feel great, but it gives you the opportunity to rip through your enemies cover, and they in turn yours. It makes for an unstoppable river of pyrotechnics as you travel the globe you get to tear through warzones in Africa, city streets in Asia and mysterious bases as you hunt the ‘Target’ across the globe.
There’s only so much we can fit into one blog post, so this is where we hand the reins over to you. Have you got a question for the developers? Who are the ‘Target’? Perhaps you want to know what multiplayer modes are up for grabs? Whatever your question just put it into the comments and we’ll pick it up for a Community Q&A in the following weeks.
If you want to keep tabs on all things Bodycount don’t forget that you can find us on Facebook, twitter, and YouTube. You can even speak directly to the Games Director, Andy Wilson (@andygwilson) and Andrew Parsons our Experienced Level Designer (@AP_Codies) on twitter.

















21 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 4:36 pm by ShoaibO
First, bodycount
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 4:37 pm by deltaman-3
wow.its really come on, since the 2010 E3 VIDEO
Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 3:31 pm by Benjamin Bateman
Thanks! The E3 2010 video was really more of a tech demo, showing what we we’re looking to do. This video really does it justice.
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 4:52 pm by HELIX-MONKEY
good
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 5:07 pm by HELIX-MONKEY
cool
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 6:25 pm by fatshirley5star
Ghhjjjj
Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 3:32 pm by Benjamin Bateman
Is that the noise you make when you can’t stop drooling?
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 6:25 pm by fatshirley5star
High
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 7:12 pm by BADDOG-9
we have MW3 and BF3 on the way whey we will take this crap ( sorry ) but we want other games type not only shoter & shoter
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 9:48 pm by GeneralJeeb
Old school ADS! Screams of Black
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Posted on 24 June, 2011 at 11:11 pm by vonhammer
Need a demo.And what is with the lack of demos from CM of late,havnt bothered with Dirt and F1 because of this.
Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 3:36 pm by Benjamin Bateman
It’s true we haven’t put out many demos with our games, but who knows what’s been planned this time…
I’ll ask the studio
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Posted on 25 June, 2011 at 7:49 am by supvic
PS3 finally has it’s own BLACK! this is gonna change things..
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Posted on 25 June, 2011 at 10:27 pm by Bonaef
Meeeeeh just another shooter from what i see , i mean with a year that has KZ3 – BF3 – MW3 and Crysis2 , it’s hard to take the gamers attention with a ” Normal ” game . and comparing this to ( BLACK ) is an insult !
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Posted on 26 June, 2011 at 4:41 pm by vonhammer
“and comparing this to ( BLACK ) is an insult !”
Isnt the development team under Stuart Black?The guy whose name is in the title Black,and co created Black.So making a link between both titles isn’t really insulting.
Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 3:38 pm by Benjamin Bateman
Stuart Black is no longer with Codemasters but he was working on Bodycount, yes. A number of people responsible for Black are working on Bodycount.
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Posted on 26 June, 2011 at 11:44 pm by Lord_Gremlin
Say what you will, but when such a game lacks dismemberment it’s really bad. Will get old too soon.
Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 3:39 pm by Benjamin Bateman
We can ask the studio about what gives Bodycount replay value and what cool ways you can kill people if you like?
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Posted on 27 June, 2011 at 6:25 pm by kabster17
not bad however black ops is better looking because i have got black ops , black ops is more serious
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Posted on 28 June, 2011 at 2:25 pm by HELIX-MONKEY
this is a wonderful news
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Posted on 28 June, 2011 at 3:35 pm by DeltaCactuar
Haven’t had a shooter since I bought Mirror’s Edge and Unreal Tournament 3 (got both on the same day, btw ;D), but this might be changing that. Looks like a game with WAY more replay value than any CoD will ever have.
Keep it up, you got my attention.
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Posted on 28 June, 2011 at 7:39 pm by Bovrillor
@13 I don’t think the majority of gamers will be bothered about such things. Realistic (ish) FPS games don’t need to be that graphic. Wouldn’t help with the ESRB rating either.
Agree with the comments about it looking like Black – but I’m really hoping it doesn’t play like it. Black was pretty, but only amusing for an hour or so. After that it became painfully repetitive – I lost interest halfway through because there was no variation in the game at all.
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Posted on 29 June, 2011 at 1:52 am by Mattas22
Looks average at best, too many shooters on the market. Why can’t codemasters make another LMA Manager? the ps3 has been lacking a management game since launch.
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Posted on 29 June, 2011 at 10:05 am by capitales7
@14 I take it you really like black ops? I don’t like black ops. I thought black ops was too annoying and black ops wasn’t very fun. Also black ops single player was cheezy, and black ops multiplayer was slow. I’d say black ops was worse than black ops minus modern warefar 2.
To sum up… black ops!
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Posted on 29 June, 2011 at 9:44 pm by Stonesthrow
what a sad sequel/remake(?) to black, which was awesome on ps2..
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Posted on 30 June, 2011 at 10:41 am by ieatpixels
Ugh, the trailer looks like the one from before.
I was looking forward to this game until I saw how unrealistic it is.
I wanted it to be like Black.
Realistic environments, enemies and pick-ups without the feel of a simulation game.
Black played like an arcade game but didn’t take the [Deleted] out of itself.
This game looks like it belongs on the Wii.
What does this game have that Bulletstorm doesn’t?
Looks like the same thing to me.
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