Brain Assassin

Bat­tle­field: Bad Com­pany 2 is here and it sure looks like great fun. I liked the first install­ment of the series well enough but I could never con­vince myself to buy it. I always had the impres­sion that some­thing was off. This time around I’ve already pre-​​ordered the sequel. Judg­ing by mul­ti­ple reviews, the game should be fun. Unfor­tu­nately, the humor from the first part seems to have largely gone AWOL and the single-​​player mode seems to be quite short.

Any­way, a tweaked and upgraded Frost­bite engine does it’s best to deliver gor­geous graph­ics and almost totally destruc­tible envi­ron­ment. You get won­der­ful vis­tas and a sense of depth only a few other games can offer. Appar­ently, the game’s mechan­ics seem to work great and your AI com­pa­tri­ots do their best to sup­port you. A col­lectible weapon sys­tem offers a rea­son to return to the cam­paign though I’ll prob­a­bly just play through it.

The mul­ti­player is where Bad Com­pany 2 deliv­ers. The destruc­tible envi­ron­ment adds an extra tier of strat­egy to the game as you can alter the play­ing field by a few well-​​placed explo­sions. Larger teams are seg­mented into smaller strike forces, called squads. Within a squad, play­ers can choose between four load-​​out kits, each fea­tur­ing its own weapons and unique tools. Con­trary to the cam­paign, where the player has one of the most for­giv­ing aim­ing sys­tems, there will be no aim­ing help any­where in the online mul­ti­player mode.

BC2 has a Meta­critic score of 89 which is rather good. So, how do you feel about Bat­tle­field: Bad Com­pany 2? Already played it? How does it com­pare to Mod­ern War­fare 2?