Battlefield: Bad Company 2
March 07, 2010
Ok, so I'm first figuring out what I'm going to put here, and honestly, I did have a lot of bad stuff written about the new Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I lamented the fact you can no longer create your own server with bots, and that, if you want to be able to create a server at all, you have to actually rent one from one of their "trusted partners".
I've gotta admit though, if I were part of a clan with mates who all got together and battled it up, it'd probably be the best thing ever. That and, I've actually checked out the prices, and in all fairness, they're very, very reasonable. $30US per month for a 32 slot server that would even be based here in Perth is really not bad atall.
The thing is, I'm just not that sort of gamer anymore. Back in my 20's, I was all about being part of a Quake 1 clan, having clan wars every couple days. We'd connect to a server hosted by a local ISP and go 4 vs 4 against another Perth clan, and it was great.
It's just not how I like to play anymore. These days, I'm more about being able to play privately, or just having a mate or two over and skirmishing against AI. I'm still hardcore, just... casual hardcore :)
This all said, Bad Company 2 does have an excellent single-player campaign, but it's been all Call of Duty-ized, mixing combat in with story-telling. And cutscenes, lots and lots of cutscenes.
I had to drop the in-game res down to 1680x1050 and set the overall graphic quality to low to be able to record video with fraps at 30fps, but it still looks real good, and here's links to a couple of them:
In addition to the feature set that the game has now, if I could set up a private server and play any of the available multiplayer modes on any of the available multiplayer maps with bots, it'd be one of the rare few 9/10 venturai.com games! Without a doubt.
Alas, without those features for which I'm so passionate, and because I really don't have any interest in multiplayer, I can only award it on the single player campaign at present.
7.5/10.
I've gotta admit though, if I were part of a clan with mates who all got together and battled it up, it'd probably be the best thing ever. That and, I've actually checked out the prices, and in all fairness, they're very, very reasonable. $30US per month for a 32 slot server that would even be based here in Perth is really not bad atall.
The thing is, I'm just not that sort of gamer anymore. Back in my 20's, I was all about being part of a Quake 1 clan, having clan wars every couple days. We'd connect to a server hosted by a local ISP and go 4 vs 4 against another Perth clan, and it was great.
It's just not how I like to play anymore. These days, I'm more about being able to play privately, or just having a mate or two over and skirmishing against AI. I'm still hardcore, just... casual hardcore :)
This all said, Bad Company 2 does have an excellent single-player campaign, but it's been all Call of Duty-ized, mixing combat in with story-telling. And cutscenes, lots and lots of cutscenes.
I had to drop the in-game res down to 1680x1050 and set the overall graphic quality to low to be able to record video with fraps at 30fps, but it still looks real good, and here's links to a couple of them:
In addition to the feature set that the game has now, if I could set up a private server and play any of the available multiplayer modes on any of the available multiplayer maps with bots, it'd be one of the rare few 9/10 venturai.com games! Without a doubt.
Alas, without those features for which I'm so passionate, and because I really don't have any interest in multiplayer, I can only award it on the single player campaign at present.
7.5/10.