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Gaming Weekly W8: Battlefield – Bad Company 2

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

It’s known that the battlefield-games are successful games developed by a very talented Swedish Studio. EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) is the developer of this game. Bad Company 2 is a direct sequel to the first game Bad Company and is scheduled for release March 5 this year.

DESTRUCTION MADNESS!

This game resembles the original and is set in various environments from around the world. The biggest feature of the Bad Company series is the level of environment destruction. This time around the destruction in the game is dubbed “Destruction 2.0″ meaning a new version and extended destruction. It’s said that players can completely collapse a building this time around. In the first game you were only able to destroy covers, and blow out some of the walls whilst the supporting pillars of the building stayed intact even from serious firepower.

The game will feature single-player and multi-player gamemodes. The single player campaign spans around 10 hours in length featuring the same characters as the first game. The characters are the bad eggs of the Army named “Bad-Company (b-company)”. Unlike the first game the single-player experience is said to be a more linear experience allowing the developers to create more scripted and exciting missions, but still give the player the chance to plan how to approach certain situations.

The big thing of the Battlefield-series is the multiplayer mode, the game will feature several different mp modes. There are four playable classes (or loadouts) that the player can choose from: Assault, Recon, Engineer and Medic. (I love the medic class). All classes have their specialities which you can guess from the names, the one I find most interesting is the Medic-class, which can throw down health-packs and use the defibrillator to revive allies and kill foes at melee-range (yay!). From what I know there are three announced game-modes so far: Rush, Squad Deathmatch and Conquest. The squad deathmatch is match between four squads (four players in each squad) competing to hit the 50 kill limit. Conquest is the usual capture points and gain tickets experience. Rush is the original Gold Rush from the first game, putting two teams against each other, one team acts the attacking team and must detonate explosives on the defending team’s creates. The attacking team wins if they succeed to destroy all the defending team’s crates.

Using the new destruction 2.0 there will be some interesting ways to destroy enemies and crates by collapsing buildings on top of them. It’s going to be crazy.

Own thoughts

I love the battlefield-series, the game really shine when you get to play those matches where the teams actually play together as a team. If you have friends to join you when you play I bet you’ll have a good time. There is nothing like the feeling of being surrounded by enemies, hearing bombs and gunshots everywhere you go. It’s really great for the immersion and I always tell myself, I’m a soldier, my mission is to stay alive and complete my objectives. A dead soldier is a worthless soldier.

As an artist I must say the game looks really really good, when thinking about the scale of the maps and the game itself they really have done a great job with the visual art, the animations are superb, love it.

I’m looking forward to playing the game actually, though I hope that the game has gone through intensive QA to keep the game from serious bugs like those we could find in Modern Warfare 2. Oh yeah the game will also feature dedicated servers, which is great for the PC-gamers, congratz to you guys. I’ll be getting this one for the X360.

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