Battlefield: Bad Company 2
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (also known as Bad Company 2 or BF:BC2) is an upcoming video game in development by DICE and to be published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The game is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company and is the 8th game in the Battlefield series. The game was announced at one of Electronic Art's earnings conferences and is expected to be showcased at E3 2009.
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[edit] Overview
In this installment, the Bad Company Crew again find themselves in the heart of the action, where they must use every weapon and vehicle at their disposal to survive. The action unfolds with unprecedented intensity, Introducing a level of fervor to vehicular warfare never before experienced in a modern warfare action game.
[edit] Gameplay
Gameplay in Bad Company 2 resembles that of Battlefield: Bad Company and takes place in the mountainous regions of the Ural Mountains in northwestern Russia. The game allows players to play through missions using any tactic they choose. Like its predecessor, Bad Company 2 features fully destructible environments.
[edit] Multiplayer
Multiplayer will allow players to choose from weapon kits have been 'cut' from five kits to four kits to choose from they include as "Assault, Engineer, Recon, and Medic" before each match. Each match will give players experience points allowing them to level to multiple ranks. Experience points will be gained by each opponent killed and when a opponent is killed, the points gained will be displayed in the screen. A dog tag system will allow players to pick up vanquished enemies tags for collection.
[edit] Leaked Multiplayer Footage
In May footage of the multiplayer featured in BC2 was leaked onto the internet, the video comfired the following things:
- Gold Rush game mode has been renamed to just Rush
- Snowy map in screens and video called Port Valdez
- Medic class can revive teammates with a defibrillator within 5 seconds of them dying.
- Health injector removed. Health regenerates on its own.
- 4 person squads with your squad mates names viewable in the lower HUD
- No user controllable jets
- More spread out achievements
- Highly customizable weapons
- More gadgets
- 6-8 crates per map
- More game modes coming in addition to Rush and Conquest
- New vehicles such as very fast 4-wheelers. Holds 2.
- More blood
- Destruction 2.0 allows you to chip away at cover and completely destroy buildings
- Spotting enemies works a little differently. To spot you press the back button (on Xbox 360) and the enemy will show up on your squads mini map.
- Ammo crates have been removed. You must now get ammo packs from an engineer.
- 4 kits - assault, recon, medic, engineer
- Vehicles are customizable
