When was bad company 2 released

However, Aguire double-crossed the squad by allying with Kirilenko, his rival in the quest for the scalar weapon. Aguire wanted revenge against the United States for what happened to his father, one of the commandos in original raid on Japan, after Marlowe revealed that the US military callously sent them to their deaths. Despite the alliance, Kirilenko betrays Aguire and kills him. Flynn intervenes and saves the squad at the cost of his own life, his helicopter shot down by an RPG.

While still mourning after Flynn's loss, the squad overhear a Russian soldier's radio, which the squad use to find their position. They begin to move towards a city, but then Kirlienko begins the detonation of the scalar weapon.

The squad begin advancing through a Venezuelan city , being attacked by Russian and militia troops, along with mortars. However, as they reach the mouth of a large river, they witness a huge firefight between US and Russian troops.

However, as the fight reaches a climax, the scalar weapon detonates, annihilating the US forces and sending "all tech dead. The squad unanimously vote that they should hijack the plane, and set off through sewer tunnels towards it. Though they had to discard their weapons, they climb on board through the undercarriage, and await dawn. The squad begins to progress through the plane , taking out multiple guards before reaching the scalar weapon, which is protected by a reinforced pane of glass, which Haggard says will "take an act of God to get through, or a lot of C4.

After detonating C4 to get through the glass, the squad destroy the Scalar weapon, and then proceed to bail out of the plane. However, as Sweetwater tries to give Marlowe the last parachute, Kirilenko tackles him, and Marlowe is forced to dive out of the plane, killing Kirilenko in a free fall with an MP Sweetwater passes Marlowe a parachute in midair, and the pair land safely in Texas alongside the rest of the squad.

The last cutscene shows a map of Russian forces swarming through Alaska and Canada, quickly advancing on the US border. Multiplayer allows players to select their inventory from four kits during a match.

Actions performed in matches, such as resupplying teammates, reviving fallen teammates and killing players, gives players generic experience , allowing them to increase their rank over time , and kit related experience points, which contributes to unlocking weapons and upgrades for each kit individually.

Specific actions will also award players with Pins and Insignias which also grant additional experience. The dog tag system was included in game as with previous Battlefield installments.

By killing a player with a knife attack, players can collect others' dog tags and can then view them in the main menu. Bad Company 2 features four gametypes. The classes in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 combine aspects from the Demolition and Specialist classes to form 4 broader classes.

Each with their own area of combat. Each class has 7 primary weapons unique to each class and 9 primary weapons which each class can use. They also have 5 pistols and a tracer dart pistol which all classes can use. As the player progresses through ranks and classes, new weapons can be unlocked.

Soft drink company, Dr. Pepper , was holding a promotion that ran until March 31, , in which every specially marked 20 oz. Pepper's website. The promotion has since ended, but the codes can still be used. Every new copy of the game issued players with codes for the VIP pass. It mainly features alternative versions of maps in the base games on different modes. Other packs feature new maps entirely as well as a few remastered versions from Bad Company. There are a total of seven VIP Map pack with the service later made free with EA having dropped their online pass service.

See all. View all. Click here to see them. Customer reviews. Overall Reviews:. Review Type. All 34, Positive 29, Negative 5, All 34, Steam Purchasers 29, Other 4, All Languages 34, Your Languages 13, Customize. Date Range. To view reviews within a date range, please click and drag a selection on a graph above or click on a specific bar.

Show graph. Brought to you by Steam Labs. Filter reviews by the user's playtime when the review was written:. No minimum to No maximum. Off-topic Review Activity. When enabled, off-topic review activity will be filtered out. This defaults to your Review Score Setting. If snipers are watching me from the mountains on the opposite side, then I take to the mountains. Or I can just bomb down the middle on a four-wheeler, bust through the fences behind the point, and wait for my squad to spawn in so we can set up a strong flank.

Team sizes play into this. On Xbox, Rush is maxed out at 24 players, hitting that perfect balance between having enough space while also creating that chaotic, cinematic war-movie tone.

In Battlefield V , your World War II soldier is basically a freerunner who can run, slide, then jump out of the slide and keep running. It creates an immersion that no 4K, 60 fps console game can match. Instead, tap or small-burst firing was the key to hitting those long-range targets. Yes, there was spread and weapon bloom, but you counteracted that by knowing the limits of your weapon.

It also meant that mid-range battles had time to progress, to ebb and flow. Again, this created immersion. We talk about ownership a lot—owning the quality in the end.

Having only ever played the two most recent Battlefield games, I was curious to see what John would think of my dear Bad Company 2. Michael Goroff has written and edited for EGM since You can follow him on Twitter gogogoroff. We use cookies for analytics, advertising and to improve our site. You agree to our use of cookies by closing this message box or continuing to use our site.

To find out more, including how to change your settings, see our Cookie Policy. Sort of. March 2, August 24, by Michael Goroff. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Credit: EA I was 23 when Bad Company 2 launched in —a year and a half out of college and in my first year of grad school.

Score distribution:. Positive: 45 out of Mixed: 1 out of Negative: 0 out of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is as complete a package as you could ever ask for.

All this publication's reviews Read full review. The last installment in the Battlefield series offers more action and fun than ever. The multiplayer is a fantastic gaming experience and without a doubt it gives Modern Warfare 2 a run for its money. Bad Company 2 is a great single player experience, but a near Godly multiplayer one. A must play for shooter fans, especially in the PC community.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 does what it does best: create a multiplayer experience which lifts it head and shoulders above the other shooters. Too bad that the sub-par singleplayer brings down the score quite a bit. PC PowerPlay. Modern Warfare plus squads and vehicles, and minus the stick up its arse. A solid multiplayer FPS. All this publication's reviews. User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: out of Mixed: 56 out of Negative: 45 out of I have been a first person shooter for all my time of gaming.

I have played Battlefield ,Road to Rome, Vietnam, Battlefield 2, and this I have been a first person shooter for all my time of gaming. You will not be disappointed. To check, go to Google and look up requirements.

If your rig can handle this game, you're in for a ton of fun and action. I love this game, I played about 85 hours and I'm already on level 31 out of 50! In Battlefield 2 I played hours and only became a master gunnery sergeant not impressive But yeah, get the game, the ranking is fun, game play and so much more!

Very good game. I played the first bad company on xbox and was glad it never made it to PC, but this is a much better game that looks awsome, Very good game. I played the first bad company on xbox and was glad it never made it to PC, but this is a much better game that looks awsome, even on mediocre hardware.