By Sam Coles:
When you hear the title Battlefield you think very
serious and gritty war games, but what if I told you that there was a time when
DICE had a sense of humour with the Battlefield series and I am of course
talking about Bad Company 2. The Bad Company games are great with brilliant
gameplay and a fantastic campaign with corny one liners and banter which the
main characters swapping back and forth between each other. So when someone
says DICE can’t do campaigns just say Bad Company.
Bad Company 2 begins during the Second World War
where you’re in the Pacific front trying to uncover a top secret weapon that
the Japanese are working on. You’re part of a Navy Seals special unit who are
looking for a scientist who worked on the weapon, the game starts off quiet
which is unusual with these games because they usually throw you straight into
the action and I appreciate that and it makes the action unexpected.
Something goes wrong and then it jumps to the
present day (2010 which was present day when this game came out) where the Bad
Company unit return and they find themselves in Alaska where the Russians have
taken over large chunks of the world and they’re slowly moving towards America.
The highlight of the game’s campaign are the characters in the Bad Company unit
because the dialogue between them is hilarious because they’ve been through a
lot in terms of war but they’ve learnt to laugh it off and see the more humours
side of it in a dark and twisted way.
The gameplay is a first person shooter (duh!) where
you through different locales from snow laden mountains to the lush, tropical
and humid jungles of South America shooting anything that moves. Each location
is varied and interesting to keep you pushing through the campaign with
different terrains that you have to contend with. This game’s unique selling
point is the destruction you can cause which is absolutely amazing even
comparing it to modern Battlefield games because if you see a building or
structure and you don’t like it you can destroy it which is fantastic. This can
work to your advantage as well because you can create new vantage points by
shooting holes in walls and this plays a huge part in the multiplayer.
The presentation still holds up considering the game
came out six years ago with the detailed environments, exquisite gun models and
the good characters models with excellent animation when they get shot and die,
animation across the board is excellent even with the environments. The sound
design! What can I say about the sound design it’s DICE they know what they’re
doing when it comes to sound with the distant crackle of gunfire after you’ve
pulled the trigger to the earth quaking explosion sounds and even the enemies
death screams echoing across the battlefield! I can’t say anything bad about
the sound design.
There is multiplayer although it’s probably baron
these days as most people will be playing Battlefield 4 or Hardline (unless you’re
on PC) it was one of the biggest multiplayer games on the Xbox 360 and PS3 with
player counts up to 24 players which sounds pathetic compared today’s
standards, but this was console gaming in 2010. You have your standard modes
like Conquest, deathmatch etc. but this was the game where they introduced the
Rush mode where you have two sites you have to blow up or defend, when one team
blows up both sites you move up to the next base, it’s good tug of war style of
game.
My only problem with this game is when you’re
sniping on some maps there is this weird graphically problem where you get this
haze when you’re scanning a distant compound and this seems to happen on snow
maps, it’s a pain but it doesn’t happen too often.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 is a blast from start to
finish with singleplayer and multiplayer with great action, fun characters and
over the top destruction that would make Michael Bay blush. If you haven’t
played this game go out and get it! It’s super cheap and easy to find!
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