It Might Be Old, But Bad Company 2 Is Still Extremely Fun To Play | Battlefield Bad Company 2 Review
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 is widely seen as one of the best games in the long running series from DICE and EA, and, like many people, I remember spending hundreds of hours playing match after match late into the night on popular maps like Arctic Harbor and Heavy Metal, but since you can still buy the game on Steam, I wanted to go back and revisit the whole experience objectively, to see if it’s still worth buying and playing today.
There’s no shortage of options out there to anyone looking for a dose of that classic Battlefield experience.
Games like Battlefield 2 and 2142, and even Battlefield 1942 all still have active multiplayer scenes thanks to the fan made revival projects like BF2hub, but Bad Company 2 stands out as a truly unique game to go back and play, not just because the physics, graphics and weapon handling still look and feel good even by today’s standards, but also because it was the first Battlefield game that used the brand new Frostbite engine on PC.
Frostbite made it possible to do away with the old static maps from earlier games that were immune to all forms of damage, and introduced atmospheric environments filled with destructible buildings and ground deformation that completely changed the way we’d always played and forced us to stay on our toes, since you couldn’t rely on hiding behind a tiny little wooden table or even cowering inside a building to shield you from that incoming tank shell or rocket.
But, nostalgia and fond memories aside, the question we’re trying to answer here is whether or not it’s still any good today.
Well after playing it intensively over the last few days and analysing it completely objectively, devoid of all previous attachments to it, the results are abit of a mixed bag.
The biggest concern for us was whether or not anyone still plays it online, and the answer is yes they do, and since they’re still supported by EA, you don’t need any 3rd party programs to make it work. You just log in, browse the server list and voila, you’ll be in a match in no time.
Player counts varied based on the time of day, but I never saw less than 100 players online spread out between 3 or 4 servers, with each server supporting a max of 32 players.
The next obvious concern were the graphics, and keep in mind this is a game that came out over 10 years ago in 2010, so there’s no point comparing it to modern games like BF4 or 2042, but honestly it still looks pretty good and it’s got native support for modern resolutions, with up refresh rates up to 144hz without needing to mess around modifying ini files to get everything looking like it should.
The maps feel atmospheric with wind blowing dusty clouds around, and rubble flying all over the place during a match, and honestly if this was a brand new indie game developed by a small team that just came out today, I think it would be praised for the community for looking pretty decent, and even if you’re used to the shinier, more modern visuals from the later games, it won’t take you long to adjust to the slight downgrade in graphics, and it basically just looks like Battlefield 4 with medium to low graphics settings.
The Weapon handling and rag doll physics were always one of the biggest selling points to the game, and that’s not changed at all with the passage of time. If you’re like me and you enjoy abit of solidity, abit of weight and heaviness to your weapons, with aggressive but predictable recoil and the feeling that the enemy you’re shooting actually has some meat on his bones, then, at least as far as the Battlefield games go, Bad Company 2 is still the king, and if they were to re-release Battlefield 4 with Bad Company 2’s physics, you’d have one of the best FPS games in history, which is just another way of saying that the game still feels very tactile rewarding to play.
Like in most Battlefields, there’s 4 different classes to play as including medic, recon, assault and engineer, each with their own unique line up of weapons that can only be used by that class, and you can do some light customization too by switching out a weapon’s mods and attachments to meet the needs of any given scenario.
It’s not all good news though, and old father time hasn’t been as forgiving to some aspects of the game he has to others…
As with most Battlefield games, the single player campaign is mostly a bland, mundane experience that involves some uninteresting storyline with overly dramatic cut scenes, followed by a bit of a gun fight with some half competent training dummies known as AI, then you do abit of running around and then rinse and repeat until you complete the story...
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