The visuals are fantastic, and the Frostbite engine that powers Bad Company 2 is stunning at rendering large, open grounds and cityscape vistas. The script is tight and occasionally funny, and works well enough to keep the single player campaign going. You play army grunt Preston Marlowe, a member of a four-member Special Forces team (called Bad Company) on assignment in South America. A secret weapon from the murky depths of World War II returns in the modern world, with a Russian cabal racing to get hold of it.
The plot, while still full of chest-thumping American patriotism, is more coherent than MW2’s hopeless mess.
The game makes a number of underhand references to its big-budget cousin (at one point, one squad member remarks: “Snowmobiles are for sissies!'). Shock and awe: Bad Company 2’s smoke and dust effects are stellar.įirst brownie point goes to Bad Company 2 for its cheeky sense of humour.
