Battlefield: Bad Company 2 July 14th, 2010
Another week and another game. I know, it’s mental.
I’ve never really got on with the Battlefield series. I missed the first one, 1942, I didn’t have a PC that could play it. I loved the idea of combining all the elements of combat on foot, tanks and flying all in one large game, but I didn’t get round to playing it.
I played a lot of Call of Duty: United Offensive. Actually a lot is an understatement. I played it pretty well constantly for well over a year. It was great but didn’t provide what I believed Battlefield promised in a fully integrated…..er… Battlefield.
I gave Battlefield 2 a go as soon as it came out. The odd thing about the Battlefield series is that it always insisted on throwing you straight into multiplayer. This was fine because it is, at heart, a multiplayer game. The problem I found is that everyone else in the world seems to be really bloody good at it.
One of my principles in playing games is that if I don’t at least achieve a basic level of skill quickly, I give up. Life’s short and there are a lot of games out there.
I gave up on Battlefield 2 even though it looked like they’d done a really good job of it.
I didn’t really pay attention to Battlefield 2142 and to be honest it’s really only looking on Wikipedia just now that even reminded me that it even came out.
Battlefield: Bad Company came out around the time of COD4 and consequently I didn’t pay much attention to that either.
This is all going somewhere.
I hadn’t really been inclined to play Bad Company 2 as I couldn’t see what it could do that Modern Warfare hadn’t. I was massively wrong about that.
The Bad Company series, apparently has added in the single player campaign in order to, I assume, make it viable on a console. I think this makes a big difference, it teaches you how to play the game before throwing you in.
Although the single player is essentially a tutorial it weighs in at about the same length of Modern Warfare 2 but is much more thought through. The levels are constructed well. There is a story that vaguely makes sense. There are characters that elicit some sort sympathy. You can even blow up most of the buildings.
What isn’t to like?
I loved everything about the single player campaign and could happily play it again.
This is the point where I would usually say “I haven’t tried the multiplayer yet”; having realised this I thought I might actually play it for a bit and see if it is any good.
It’s very good. Also, unusually, for a game that has been out for a while now, there are a good number of people playing and it isn’t impossible to survive for longer than a few seconds.
I’ve found it very easy to get into and a multiplayer experience which I’ve missed recently.
I don’t think it is much of an exaggeration to say this is the game that modern warfare thought it was going to be.
Go and buy it now.
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October 13th, 2010 at 12:39 am
Lovely post man, appreciate it. I love videogames
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
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