Battlefield Bad Company 2

BATTLEFIELD BAD COMPANY 2

Gameplay

Gameplay in Bad Company 2 is primarily a squad based First-person shooter. Similar to previous titles in the series the game is played out on large maps with vehicles, aircraft, turrets, UAV's, and so on, but the majority of the game is based around infantry combat. Players can score points by performing a variety of tasks that do not involve directly engaging with opposition players. For example, the "engineer" class can score points through the repair of various equipment and vehicles, or the "medic" class can do so by healing his squad and reviving recently killed players. A key gameplay feature introduced by its predecessor, Bad Company, is destructible environments. The improved system is called "Destruction 2.0". It now allows players to completely demolish a building with sustained explosive firepower, resulting in the building becoming a pile of rubble and killing any trapped inside. The game also introduces bullet drop, a feature previously seen in single-player games such as the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, which causes bullets and other munitions to fall downwards due to gravity.

Along with Battlefield Vietnam, Bad Company 2 is one of only two games in the Battlefield series to show blood without third-party modification.
Bad Company 2 features 15 vehicles, including new additions, such as the UH-60 Black Hawk, a quad bike, a three-man patrol boat, a personal watercraft, a ZU-23 mounted on a BTR-D armored personnel carrier, and a UAV helicopter controlled via remote computer terminals.

The currently available maps are set in various environments from South America and the mountainous regions along the borders of Russia

Multiplayer

The multiplayer gameplay is designed to be a tactical, team based FPS, which the players can work together to utilize many of the vehicles such as various tanks, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. Players choose from a set of weapon kits before each spawn, the number of which has been further reduced from Bad Company's five down to four: Assault, Engineer, Recon, and Medic (with the Specialist and Demolition kits condensed into the Engineer class). In addition to the hand grenades and sidearms standard for all classes, each class also has an initial primary weapon and a pair of gadgets unique to that class. A customizable weapon selection menu is also new to the Bad Company series (similar to unlocks in Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 1943). Gaining experience points allows a player to unlock and use different weapons and gadgets, some only usable by a given class and some available to any class the player may use. There are also unlockable items that can modify the game's firearms, such as ACOGs, reflex sights, underbarreled 40mm grenade launchers, smoke grenades, magnum bullets or 12 gauge slugs. Players can also customize their soldiers with ceramic body armor, lightweight combat gear, and Bandoliers for extra ammunition. The player can also work their way through 50 ranks by gaining experience points throughout the game. These points can be achived in a multitude of ways, dependant on the players actions, whether it be killing an enemy, reviving a teammate, repairing an armoured vehicle, or 'tagging' a tank to make it easier for friendly anti-armor elements to destroy. In order to encourage squad-based gameplay, extra points are awarded to players helping their own squad.

Multiplayer game types

Rush
Players must defend or destroy pairs of M-COM stations for as long as the attacking team's respawn tickets hold out. An M-COM station can be destroyed by planting a charge, using conventional weapons or when a building is collapsed down on it.
Conquest
Players must capture and hold flags for as long as the enemy respawn tickets hold out. Every kill makes the enemy lose one ticket, and enemy tickets constantly decrease when a team controls more than half of the flags on the map. Vehicles unlock as control points are held.

Squad Deathmatch
Up to four squads and one Infantry Fighting Vehicle roam the map. First squad to score fifty kills get the win.

Squad Rush
Squad Rush puts a squad of four players versus another squad of four players for a max of eight player matches of Rush.

The experience points used to unlock the above items are awarded for performing actions conducive to the goals of the player's team, such as eliminating enemy players, healing teammates, or capturing or defending points of interest. Bonuses to the base number of points can be awarded under certain circumstances (such as achieving a headshot in the process of eliminating an enemy player). A dog tag system as seen in Battlefield 2142, Battlefield 1943 and Battlefield: Bad Company returns, awarding players trophies of sorts in the form of opponents' dog tags when they defeat the opponent with a melee attack. It uses PunkBuster to protect the game from cheaters in online multiplayer matches.

On October 19, 2009, game developer DICE posted a Twitter announcement stating the game will have dedicated server support. This was in response to Infinity Ward's announcement on October 17 that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would not support dedicated servers.Players will also be able to use party chat for each game mode.

BATTLEFIELD BAD COMPANY 2 System Requirement :
Minimum System Requirements
OS: Windows XP
Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT/ATI X1900)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements
OS: Windows Vista/7
Processor: Any Quadcore Processor
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version
Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard and Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

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