Review 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

The campaign in this game might not be the most original thing out there, but it does provide its kicks and a chance to get used to the equipment in time for multiplayer. It does introduce so new stuff, like the UAV, and the controls work very well. The characters this time around seem to have gained a new vocabulary, and you will see from Haggard's constant profanity. The blood engine works well, and the snipers don't figure-8 so annoyingly like they do in MW2. In return, however, the bullets aren't just a whole being of their own, but they have actual gravity. It does suffer from the occasional glitch (getting your feet caught between rocks so you can't move), but most of the little problems don't interupt your gameplay. (dead body flopping around helplessly) I found it fun to watch these glitches in action, because it was usually ironic.
The multiplayer picks up where MW2 left off and fixes most of those annoying little features. (perks) The one thing that it does suffer from is something that MW2 fanboys can't rant on them for, because it occurs every other match in that game as well: the server timing out or the connection lost. Though I found it much more easy to get kicked out of a game in BC2, because you don't have to put up with your character floating under the map for 2 minutes. In BC2, it just goes back to main-screen. The team-based effort makes it more fair for everybody, since going out on your own to try and complete the mission will leave you with a K/D ratio of over 1:20. In this game, if you don't work with your team, you WILL NOT WIN. No matter how good you are, you will lose with teamwork. Also, getting accessories for your guns is no simple task. Just getting a plain red-dot sight requires you to get around 12,000 points in that class. And sniping from across the map is a miracle, with the improved bullet engine, where you have to aim above the person to hit them at all, much less a headshot. Overall, this game's online is around 3x more realistic than MW2. And just wait: when you get paired with the perfect team, with awesome teamwork, and you DOMINATE, it just feels epic. Purely EPIC.

Fun Level: 10/10
Playability: 8.5/10
Online Services: 9/10

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