Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Awesome

This is the best first person shooter I have ever played. I am a battlefield veteran, going all the way back to BF1942, and they have really made an interesting and unique game here. The single player story line, unlike BF2, is interesting and fun to play. If an enemy is hiding in a building, no problem, just focus enough firepower at the structure and you can blast away his cover! the physics of this game are exceptionally realistic.

I love this game and recommend it to anyone who loves the previous BF series and wants graphics which own COD Modern Warfare.

Best FPS for Multiplayer Teamwork

Among the glut of Modern Warfare copycats, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a welcome departure that is familiar enough to sate your shooter appetite, but different in all the right ways. It is a game meant to be enjoyed primarily for its multiplayer component, but if you can appreciate that, you'll get huge replay value out of it.

Presentation

This is a game that can make deserts look good. Foliage is thick enough to take cover in, and the destructibility of the scenery gives it a vibrant, living vibe. The characters have a vibe of their own, realistic but tinged with a hint of cartoonishness that lends them expressiveness and character. Sounds are memorably crisp and explosions are impactful without being overbearing. Weapon reloads are neither sluggish nor spastic, feeling just right whether in the midst of battle or out of it. Overall, it is good design rather than raw horsepower that carries the day.

Campaign

Others have described it as "short and sweet". I myself have not been able to bring myself to finish it thus far, having logged at least 12 hours solid in multiplayer. It's an enjoyable and varied experience, and unlike in other reviews, I did not find my AI teammates lacking in helpfulness. They're definitely not babysitting you, but they aren't shooting water pistols either. If you give them a moment to keep up, their wall of lead is a palpable force, especially helpful in higher difficulties. They stay behind you until you get into a firefight, so I didn't feel like I was just tagging along through the story. Oh, and as for the campaign itself, the scenery stays fresh and varied, as do the situations they put you in, and the objectives aren't overly drawn out. So far I've had awesome on-rails sequences with my undercarriage grenade launcher and a helicopter-mounted minigun, and once fought through a blizzard sprinting from one heat source to another to keep from freezing to death. The story is your standard Hollywood fare, not corny or excessive, and spiced with amusing dialogue that's delivered with good voicework.

Multiplayer

It's clear that gameplay is designed to push players towards one thing: teamwork. From the beginning, you have the option to join a squad, which allows you to spawn on any of its members. All the classes have a role in helping others. The assault class can dole out ammo resupply kits. Engineers can repair vehicles. Medics heal and revive fallen teammates. Snipers are especially suited for calling and marking targets for others. Granted, some players will not utilize their powers of helpfulness, but it only takes a few to inspire others to be grateful and stick together. If you do find yourself in a squad of diehard lone wolf assaults and snipers, you can change squads. Tactics for achieving objectives are much enhanced by the destructible buildings. There is no bunker, no cover safe from the array of ordnance available on foot and in vehicles. The awe-inspiring power of helicopters is balanced by the skill it takes to pilot them. With the skillful use of a tracer dart pistol, they can be taken down just as quickly. Amazingly, the amount of time it takes to find a game is as long as it takes to load a map. Dedicated servers have virtually eliminated lag except for recent problems that have sporadically lagged all players.

It is important to note that having a VIP code is vital to having a decent variety of maps for multiplayer. It comes with every new game, but costs $15 otherwise.

DESTRUCTION 2.0!!!

From the moment I laid my hands on Battlefield: Modern Combat for the PS2 I knew this series was going to be my new home. I had previously played Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, SOCOM and Black Hawk Down games on the PS2 and even though they were great single player and online competitive games they lacked something [in multiplayer]that is ever present in any battlefield: Vehicles.

Modern Combat was the highest point for first person shooters in the PS2 because it gave players the full experience [as much as a video game can provide] of being engaged in warfare. From Humvee s to light and heavy tanks, and from armed boats to transport and heavily armed choppers.

This is not to say that the individual soldier became useless or dull. Battlefield offered five different classes to choose from, each with their unique specialization to suit the need of any battlefield. The individual soldier, if used correctly could also turn the tide of any battle. The satisfaction of sniping the pilot of an enemy chopper was one of the highlights of this game. You got all this from one single video game.

This brings me to Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

The single player campaign follows the struggle of a four soldier [Marlow, Sarge, Sweetwater and Haggard]squad named Bad Company whose mission is to find and destroy a weapon of mass destruction originally developed by the Japanese during WWII and sought after by the Russians in present time. This game features stunning visuals, specially when you first arrive in Bolivia. Mountain ranges [environment as a whole]look and feel very much alive. Adding to the rich visuals, the game provides one of the riches sound experience I have experience within this genre. From the sound of footsteps on snow to the buzzing mosquito's in the Bolivian jungle, the sound quality is stunning. However this is merely the iceberg.

By the time you finish the campaign you should be familiar with most weapons merely by hearing them being fired. I have learned to distinguish which weapon I am being shot with just by ear. Although the campaign is very linear and the script is not well profound, it is enough to get players engaged from one mission to the next. However what makes the campaign more entertaining is the random conversations amongst the bad company squad. From Haggards knowledge of spanglish to their favorite Terminator scene are some of the few conversations that will have you laughing hysterically as you progress in the campaign.

Unlike its PS2 counterpart this game boast many different weapon types with additional support accessories. Weapons available include a variety of assault rifles, sub machine guns, light machine guns, sniper rifles, pistols, rockets, grenades, C4, to name a few and this are only the weapons you can take with you. Throughout the game you will find many stationary weapons from heavy machine gun emplacements to stationary RPG's. To add to the weapons, the vehicles, the different soldier classes and amazing terrain, [as in the first bad company installment] destructible environment puts this FPS in a league of its own. Anything from houses, shacks, wall, barricades to full scale buildings can be brought down with enough firepower.

The online component would need a review of its own but I will say shortly that is an amazing experience on its own aside from the campaign. A player will be addicted to this game in no time and the multiplayer will keep you coming for more.

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Deeper and more thoughtout than Call of Duty games.

I've been playing first person shooters since Counter Strike 1.5 came out, so I think I have a little knowledge in the genre. The Call of Duty franchise has been beating on the same dead horse for a long time and for some reason... kids still love it!

I'm an enthusiast when it comes to military shooters and my standards are higher. I look for a game with depth, balance and the life span of the game will last longer than 1 year until the sequel comes out. Here comes Battlefield Bad Company 2. This game is more than guns and scoring kills. This game is about team work.

The problem with COD is everyone is out to be number 1 on the scoreboard and thats all. This game is for those who want to work together with players to achieve victory for the team. Class based and more realistic than COD, it might not be for everyone.

With bullet dynamic physics, vehicle warfare, destructible environments and huge open sandbox style maps, this is a game of patience and thought so the learning curve is a little steeper than Call of Duty. The maps are spectacular and DICE Studios is constantly releasing new maps for this game which came out back in March of 2010! (7 map packs thus far and recently an expansion pack was released!) You can't go wrong with a game that has such a dedicated company still supporting it.

The sound FX are amazing too. DICE has incredible audio range technology that really captures the feeling that you're in this world, be it in an open desert or inside a building.

The game modes are a refresher from Call of Duty as well. No more team death match or free for all. Conquest and Rush are the two most commonly played modes (while you can still find plenty of players in the other game modes) that offer lots of good lengthed fun matches.

The list goes on and on for me and others on why BC2 is superior to Call of Duty. If you're into a more realistic military shooter experience (without it being a simulation) than do not hesitate to pick up a copy of this state of the art masterpiece.


See you on the battlefield!

IGN Review

It's only been a couple of months and 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the best ever for gamers. If your wallet hasn't already been emptied, Electronic Arts and development studio DICE have tossed yet another videogame on the pile that can't be missed. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 ups the intensity and visual prowess of its predecessor, while still delivering one of the most compelling multiplayer games around.

If you were to buy Bad Company 2 solely for the single-player campaign, you might come away a bit disappointed. That's not to say it's particularly bad in any way, but it doesn't feel impressive enough to stand on its own as a great experience. Once again, the multiplayer game is the star of the Battlefield show.


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The single-player campaign follows the story of a rag-tag bunch of soldiers as they traipse around the world on the hunt for a mythical weapon of mass destruction which absolutely must not fall into the hands of the Russians. It's a typical story of unlikely heroes as they attempt to save the world, and it will take you across a great variety of locations that range from frozen mountains to densely packed jungles.

These gorgeous locales are the first thing that will spring out at you as you begin the fight. The vistas and skyboxes look nearly photorealistic in many situations, and DICE did a wonderful job blending the particle effects and game objects in the foreground with the more static backdrops. The result is a sense of depth that few videogame worlds can offer.

Things become more impressive yet when the action kicks in. Returning from the last Bad Company game are nearly fully destructible environments. If an enemy soldier is holed up in a second-story bedroom taking potshots at you, all you have to do is send a rocket at that wall and he'll either wind up dead or fully exposed. The same line of thinking applies to just about anything you see – send enough firepower at it and you can watch it crumble.

Once you're done ogling the smoke trails or mountain ranges in the distance, you'll start to notice that Bad Company 2 has taken a few cues from the Call of Duty franchise. The last Battlefield game was the first to introduce a fully fleshed out storyline and it stumbled a bit in the process. The humor was goofy and over the top, the open mission design was a bit too open, and everything seemed coated in a dense fog. A lot has changed and improved for the sequel.


The backdrops are breathtaking.
The big change comes with a more streamlined and cinematic approach to the action. The dialogue is less overtly inane, though it does offer its fair share of humor, and the level design feels more straightforward. While the last Bad Company game couldn't hold my attention, this one kept me interested and having fun from start to finish.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that this Battlefield game has some great mechanics. The guns react well, and sound fantastic. The vehicles handle smoothly and really do a great job of making you feel like the king of the battlefield. The instant-respawns and med kit injections of the last Bad Company have been replaced by the more standard checkpoints and regenerative health bar and that makes the challenge of war feel more realistic.