A tour of Battlefield: Bad Company 2's multiplayer

by JC Fletcher on Nov 12th 2009 10:00PM

You guys like games about modern warfare, right? We heard that somewhere. If so, you'll probably be interested in hearing more about Battlefield: Bad Company 2. What, did you think we were talking about another game?

In the G4 video after the break, producer Gordon Van Dyke provides a running commentary of direct-feed multiplayer footage, demonstrating the kind of gameplay you'll be able to help tune (and also enjoy) in the PS3 multiplayer beta. Or, to put it a different way, there's thirteen minutes of direct-feed Bad Company 2 footage after the break. Hardly needs any more dressing up than that, does it? Enjoy it -- no tips required.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (11-05-09)

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Tags: battlefield, battlefield-bad-company-2, dice, ea, Electronic-Arts, Microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (55)

this looks great. I never played the first one as the demo didn't do anything for me. Maybe I'll get around to it now that's it's like $15

This game looks sweet!

MW is done once this comes out. the money i would have used for MW is already earmarked for this. granted i never planned on getting MW because i knew this game would rock

I'm not a fan of war FPS games, but I'm going to buy it because I was born in Arica, Chile... and Bad Company 2 has a multiplayer map called The Arica Harbor! :P

I was expecting more from Bad Company 2. I think "less is more" as the saying goes. There are simply too many combinations of classes, weapons, gadgets and specialties. They're practically turning this into an RPG!

The specialties and "power ups" threaten to unbalance the game and to make creating battle tactics an exercise in futility and frustration. Imagine planning an ambush only to get creamed because some dude is running around with radar! How unrealistic and frustrating would that be?! Or to attack a tank (which is already a big challenge for most classes) and finding that it has way more armour than usual?

All the extra bells and whistles are going to clutter up the experience. Hopefully the feedback from the PS3 beta will result in streamlining and simplifying things more. Look at Battlefield 1943 and Counter-Strike. Those were huge games, tons of fun, and easy so that you could pick it up quickly and get back into it quickly if you've put the game away for a while.

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