Product Description

Get ready for the most spectacular FPS multiplayer experience ever! Battlefield Bad Company 2 brings the spectacular Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of next-gen consoles and PC - featuring best-in-class vehicular combat set across 8 huge sandbox maps each with a different tactical focus. New vehicles like the All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) and the UH-60 transport helicopter allow for all-new multiplayer tactics in the warzone, extensive tuning ensures that this will be the most satisfying vehicle combat experience to date. Tactical destruction is taken to new heights with the updated DICE Frostbite engine. Players can now take down entire buildings or create their own fire points by blasting holes through cover, thereby delivering a unique experience in every match

Players can also compete in 4-player teams in 2 exclusive squad-only game modes, fighting together to unlock exclusive team awards and achievements. Spawn on your squad to get straight into the action, and use gadgets such as the tracer dart in-conjunction with the RPG to devastating effect. Excellence in the battlefield is rewarded with an extensive range of pins, insignias and stars to unlock along with 50 dedicated ranks to achieve. Variety also extends into the range of customisable kits weapons and vehicles available. With 4 distinct character classes, 46 weapons, 15 gadgets, 13 character specializations and over 15000 kit variations to discover and master players will be able to fine-tune their preferred fighting style to give them the edge in combat.

All of these features combine to deliver spectacular and unpredictable action moments found nowhere else in the genre. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is all-out multiplayer warfare at its absolute finest!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2010-03-05
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Number of discs: 1
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: German
• Subtitled in: German
• Dimensions: .55" h x 5.32" w x 7.48" l, .31 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Get ready for the most spectacular FPS multiplayer experience ever! Battlefield Bad Company 2 brings the spectacular Battlefield gameplay to the forefront of next-gen consoles and PC - featuring best-in-class vehicular combat set across 8 huge sandbox maps each with a different tactical focus. New vehicles like the All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) and the UH-60 transport helicopter allow for all-new multiplayer tactics in the warzone, extensive tuning ensures that this will be the most satisfying vehicle combat experience to date. Tactical destruction is taken to new heights with the updated DICE ‘Frostbite’ engine. Players can now take down entire buildings or create their own fire points by blasting holes through cover, thereby delivering a unique experience in every match

Players can also compete in 4-player teams in 2 exclusive squad-only game modes, fighting together to unlock exclusive team awards and achievements. Spawn on your squad to get straight into the action, and use gadgets such as the tracer dart in-conjunction with the RPG to devastating effect. Excellence in the battlefield is rewarded with an extensive range of pins, insignias and stars to unlock along with 50 dedicated ranks to achieve. Variety also extends into the range of customisable kits weapons and vehicles available. With 4 distinct character classes, 46 weapons, 15 gadgets, 13 character specializations and over 15000 kit variations to discover and master players will be able to fine-tune their preferred fighting style to give them the edge in combat.

All of these features combine to deliver spectacular and unpredictable action moments found nowhere else in the genre. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is all-out multiplayer warfare at its absolute finest!

The modern battlefield is evolving and once again "B" Company are caught on the front line. Already one of the most popular online shooters ever, this latest game adds greater variety and greater destruction than ever seen before.

On this battlefield, if you can see it you can destroy it

The variety in locations is much greater than before

Working as a team is vital to success on and offline

Taking control of a tank is as easy as firing a pistol

For the first time you will be able to raze buildings to the ground, with almost every object on the map being completely destructible. It's not just the scenery that takes damage more realistically though, as this is the first Battlefield game since Vietnam to feature blood wounds.

Despite all the new vehicles, weapons and specialist equipment though the game is more accessible than ever with preset equipment kits that let you choose a basic style of play (assault, engineer, recon or medic) and immediately get started. With an improved single player and story mode too this is ready to take its place as one of the definitive online shooters of modern times.

Key Features

• Modern warfare: More destruction, more weapons, more vehicles and more variety await in the biggest and most complete Battlefield experience so far.
• Total annihilation: New Destruction 2.0 technology allows you to level buildings and engage in "micro-destruction" by chipping away at an enemy's cover.
• Packing heat: More than 46 different weapons which can be customised to create 200 different firearms and over 15,000 possible kit variations.
• Army transport: Take control of 15 different vehicles on land, air and sea - from the new UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter to boats, tanks and armoured cars of every description.
• See the world: The biggest variety in locations ever for a Battlefield game, from icy mountaintops, to dense jungles, arid deserts and dusty villages.

About the Developer: Digital Illusions CE
Better known simply as DICE, this Swedish developer started life making the Pinball Dreams series on the Amiga. Their big break was the ground-breaking Battlefield 1942 and its many spin-offs and sequels. They were bought by EA in 2006, for who they made first person platformer Mirror's Edge.

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Customer Reviews

This game is amazing.
The single player part of the game is great fun, with some good humor and likable characters, but really, this game is all about the multi-player and the single player is just getting you familiar with the mechanics.
The multiplayer is quite simply amazing, and worth the price of the game alone. Great looking, destructible environments. Awesome vehicles. All the classes (Recon, Assault, Engineer and Medic) are lots of fun to play.
The more points you earn by playing, the more weapons and perks you earn along with your increasing rank.
The team/squad based combat is awesome and all the game modes I have played so far are insane amount of fun.

A lot of the negative reviews I see here are not complaints about the game itself, but complaints about fairly common issues with the launch of a high profile game like this.

I think that developer DICE and EA underestimated just how well this game would sell on the PC and their servers just were not prepared for them.
According to DICE the number of PC players online outnumbers both consoles players, combined. So really, some time for adjustment is expected.

If you are not prepared to work around the bugs and server issues present at the moment, deal with them, or be patient, then I would highly recommend you wait a week or 2 before jumping in and enjoying the fun...Otherwise you will likely just become another one of these petty, whiney, complainers.

And trust me, this game is heaps of fun, very addictive and worth every penny. I will be playing this one for a long time to come.

Good fun!
I will break the review into two sections!

SinglePlayer
This is roughly 6-8 hours long and involves a variety of different locations. The graphics are simply amazing! I have a decent computer and it runs very smoothly on medium settings and still looks gorgeous, the back drops and draw distances are very very impressive.

The shooting mechanics are very enjoyable but the big letdown for me in singleplayer was I really didn't like the characters! In Call of duty 4 the characters are much more...serious. Battlefield bad company 2 has a more light hearted approach which is fine but it really bugged me at times.

Talking of bugs...! I have come accross a fair few in the single player such as audio dropping out, not being able to enter a vehicle and getting stuck in walls. It's forgiveable however as the action is quite intense. The AI is smart and challenging but most of all quite fun to play against.

Multiplayer
The main reason why I purchased this game! Unlike many others on here I haven't had a single problem running or connecting to a server (really hope it stays that way) The server browser does take quite a while to load but a tip is to cancel the search after five seconds and quite a few servers will populate the list.

There are different game modes but unfortunatly most of them are rather dull. The only mode I have enjoyed is "rush" which has two sides fight against each other. One side has to defend locations on the map whilst the other attack and destroy these locations. It's hectic and fun! There is a very "epic" feel to the battles and it feels like you are actually in a warzone.

Another complaint with multiplayer is snipers! Yes I know they are part of the game but when you are attacking bases and two thirds of your team is glued to the top of a big hill it can get quite disheartening. So if you hate snipers you may want to look elsewhere as it is quite easy to master and as a result is a very popular choice in all game modes.

The other three classes are medic, assault and engineer which all have their own perks which are unlocked by gaining experience points. Therefore if your just starting out in the game it can be tough at first as nearly everyone will have more powerful equipment and perks.

I really enjoy playing assault and engineer which brings me neatly to another point..vehicles. Vehicles are fun to use and involve team effort to use effectively.
This is very much a team game...if you try to play rambo it can be very difficult.

Overall I expected more enjoyable game modes! The range of maps is good, the graphics excellent and the gameplay fun..worth a look =)

Needs a patch but leaves the woeful MW2 in the dark ages
First up I will certainly agree with the comments concerning servers - this should have been sorted out before the game was released and getting online during peak periods is more miss than hit. This game is sceaming out for a network patch and veterans of the Battlefield series will remember that patches did come thick and fast with the original Battlefield 1942 receiving something like a gig of them before they were done. With that in mind, I'll stick with it for now.

As for the gameplay, it's nothing short of superb! This game makes a joke of the disappointment that was MW2 multiplayer which now looks sadly dated by comparison. It took me a while to get into the "feel" of it and after getting massacred for the first couple of days I'm finally starting to hold my own.

If Battlefield 2 is a pint of beer, then Bad Company 2 is a shot of fine whisky - a smaller more concentated experience that will leave you wanting much more.

Fix the servers and this is pure five star online gaming.