Battlefield Bad Company 2 – Review – Xbox 360

From misfits to invading neutral countries to being national heroes, the B Company storms into your living room with guns blazing this week.

Story – B Company, aptly nicknamed Bad Company is comprised of Sargeant Redford, a ready to retire army man,who is told that he can when he finishes one last mission, Haggart, the redneck demolitions expert. Sweetwater, the Communications expert, and you, Preston Marlowe, the new guy. You are forced into the same unit due to past incidents as punishment. Coming off invading a neutral country by accident (Haggard run into it screaming like a madman), they run into trouble and rather than listen to their superiors they decide to finish the mission. As they finish it they are alerted to one of the people of their army trapped behind enemy lines and are told that it is imperative to extract him. The first mission that made the withdrawal necessary was to stop a nuclear warhead to be detonated, and after they got there, they found out that it was a fake, a decoy.

Gameplay – The game is a FPS. You are allowed to collect as many weapons as possible, giving you more to work with and a couple achievements. You also collect satellite uplinks that you destroy. The levels are quite linear and have basically no room to get lost because of the quest arrows pointing where you go. How you get there is up to you. The vehicles of the game sort of got tweaked from the previous one. Before, your Sticks would be the gas and brake. This time around you use the Triggers. Other changes to the game include: knife button is the RB (used to be R3, or right stick click), grenade uses LB (used to be RB), added auto aim so if you tap the left trigger it will lock onto a target, and a couple changes in multiplayer. The Campaign mode is quite longer then the first game. It has about 12 missions to the 6 from the last one.

Sounds/Graphics – All of the voice actors from the first game reprise their roles. Much like the rest of the genre’s other titles, this game is no different in the fact that there are a lot of explosions, gun fire, screaming, etc that you would expect in a warzone. All of it seems to be clear with nothing to complain about. The graphics are amazing. The terrain of the game ranges from the jungles of south America to the ocean to a snowy mountain. There even is a level with below freezing temperatures, as you stay out in the open in the level your screen seems to ice over, when you go into a building it will return to normal colors.

Multiplayer – The problem with this aspect of games is that they have to go against the juggernauts such as Call Of Duty and MAG. Does this games multiplayer rank as one of the best? To me I really don’t think so. There are 2 different modes, rush and conquest. Each was in the first game though conquest was DLC. Rush was named gold rush, and was shortened to just rush. In each mode you are given waypoints and are told to capture the flag (conquest) or blow up a box or stop the enemy from doing so. (rush) Each match has 16 players on each side and a total of 4 squads of 4 people. In the first game, there was a bar on screen telling you how many respawns your team has left, they eliminated that this time. The ranking system is similar to COD. When you play as a certain class your points will only go towards ranking that class, gaining new weapons. You can invite up to 3? Friends to join the battle and party chat is now available to use Problems have come from the servers but rest assured DICE and EA plan to fix them. There are times where you won’t find a match even though the game is running, or you get booted to the dashboard.

Overall – If you want a game loaded with humor and want some challenging multiplayer, either of the Bad Compay games is worth a look.

Pros
• funny game
• multiplayer can be enjoyable

Cons
• story is a bit lacking
• sometimes hard to find a match

Score: 8.5/10

This Review is based upon a copy of the game puchased by the Reviewer

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