Developer(s) EA Digital Illusions CE
Publisher(s) Electronic Arts
Series Battlefield
Engine Frostbite 1.x,1.5[1] [2]
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Release date(s) NA March 2, 2010 [3]
RU March 3, 2010 [4]
EU March 4, 2010 [3]
Genre(s) First-person shooter, action
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Rating(s) ESRB: M
OFLC: MA15+[5]
PEGI: 16
Media Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Digital distribution
Gameplay
Gameplay in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 resembles that of the original and is set in various environments from around the world, including the mountainous regions along the borders of Russia. Like its predecessor, Bad Company 2 features destructible environments. The system is dubbed "Destruction 2.0," and the level of destruction is extended — players can now completely collapse a building as opposed to only blowing out walls. Along with Battlefield Vietnam, Bad Company 2 is one of only two games in the Battlefield series to have blood[9] without third-party modification. There are new vehicles in Bad Company 2, such as the UH-60 Black Hawk, a quad bike, a two-man patrol boat, a personal watercraft, an AA-gun mounted on a light tank, and a UAV helicopter controlled via computer.
Single-player
The single player campaign has 13 missions, and features the same characters from the first game.The game's prologue, as revealed through an ESRB rating explanation, takes place on an "unnamed Japanese island in the Pacific" during World War II. The prologue introduces the player to a secret weapon codenamed "Aurora" with incredible power, which drives the campaign, and has Bad Company move along the west coast of North and South America, confronting both the Russian army and an unnamed South American militia. The campaign will feature jungles in South America to snow-capped mountains in Alaska.
The first Bad Company game ended with the main characters driving off with a truck full of gold.The Characters are,Pvt.Preston Marlowe the "newbie" of the squad(your player),Pvt.Sweetwater,the squad Machine gunner,Pvt.Haggard,the squad explosives expert,and Sarge, the squad leader. However, they lose their gold and end up back under Army Command. The player controls Preston Marlowe who is part of a rogue B-Company squad, a group of misfits and Army rejects. The campaign is more linear than the first, which often consisted of vast areas with only a start point and an endpoint, and a variety of ways to get between the two. The more linear style allows the player to experience more scripted and exciting missions, but still gives the player a choice in how to approach situations.
In the beginning of the game, you are a soldier in a four-man commando squad with the mission of recovering a defecting Japanese scientist in World War II. However, after traveling on inflateable speed boats, your teammates in another boat are spotted and killed by a Japanese machine gun. Your squad is spotted, and only escapes by diving underwater. When you surface, you head inland, and after traveling through trenches, reach a rendezvous point to meet the defector. He warns the squad that death is imminent, and there is no way to escape, which the squad brushes off.
After hiding from Japanese armor and being saved by air support, you steal a truck and drive all the way to a submarine dock. After a firefight, you steal the submarine and seem to be escaping, but a white flash goes off as a weapon is detonated, and the scene ends with the character seemingly drowning, his dog tags sinking below him.
The next mission comes to present day, which, after showing Russian victories in Mexico, South America, Alaska, Europe, and Asia, changes back to Bad Company, deployed in a Russian base's vicinity in a snow location.
The 2nd mission is when the 4 boys from B company now enter the game,and must take out a target and then escape in a truck dodging enemy helicopters,tanks,and infantry.At the end of the mission, the boys take down a helicopter and find a unusual thing in the crash site of the helicopter.
They take the item to US command and are Reassigned to a new part of the army for a special mission in a jungle.The special(3rd)mission is in a jungle where the boys must find someone for the US government.
Multiplayer
The "Gold Rush" mode in the original Bad Company is referred to simply as "Rush" in Bad Company 2. The format is similar in that an attacking team must detonate explosives on a defending team's crates or destroy them with conventional weapons. The attacking team succeeds by eliminating all the crates on the map, and the defending team succeeds if the attackers are not able to eliminate the crates in the active area before their tickets are depleted. Making use of the Destruction 2.0 system, it is also possible to eliminate some of the crates by collapsing the building they are in on top of them. A smaller scale mode called "Squad Rush" has only two opposing teams of four players battle against each other with one existing crate stash.
Multiplayer allows players to choose from a set of weapon kits before each spawn, the number of which has been further reduced from Bad Company's five down to four: Assault, Engineer, Recon, and Medic (with the Specialist kit being the one removed). In addition to the hand grenades and sidearms standard for all classes, each class also has an initial primary weapon and a pair of gadgets unique to that class. A customizable weapon selection menu is also new to the Bad Company series (similar to unlocks in Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142). Gaining experience points allows a player to unlock and use different weapons and gadgets, some only usable by a given class and some available to any class that player uses. There are also unlockable items that can modify the game's firearms, such as ACOGs, reflex sights, and under-barrel launchers, which can fire 40mm grenades, smoke grenades, or buckshot.
The experience points used to unlock the above items are awarded for performing actions conducive to the goals of the player's team, such as eliminating enemy players, healing teammates, or capturing or defending points of interest. Bonuses to the base number of points can be awarded under certain circumstances (such as achieving a headshot in the process of eliminating an enemy player). A dog tag system as seen in Battlefield 2142 and Battlefield: Bad Company returns, awarding players trophies of sorts in the form of opponents' dog tags when they defeat the opponent with a melee attack.
On October 19, 2009, game developer DICE posted a Twitter announcement stating the game will have dedicated server support. This was in response to Infinity Ward's announcement on October 17 that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would not support dedicated servers.[14] Players will also be able to use party chat for each game mode.
System Requirements
Minimum Recommended :Microsoft Windows[16]
Operating System :Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
CPU : Intel Core 2, Duo @2 GHZ Quadcore
Memory : 2 GB RAM
Hard Drive Space : 10GB for disc version or 15GB for digital version
Graphics Hardware : GeForce 7800 GT / ATI X1900 with 256 MB VRAM - DirectX 9 DirectX : GeForce GTX 260/ ATI Radeon 4870 with 512 MB VRAM - DirectX 10
Sound Hardware : DirectX 9.0c compliant Sound card
Network : 1 Mbit/s internet connection for online play