Overview
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is an upcoming video game in development by EA Digital Illusions CE and to be published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game is a direct sequel to Battlefield: Bad Company. The game was announced at one of Electronic Arts' earnings conferences and was showcased for the first time at E3 2009. Street date for Battlefield Bad Company 2 of March 2, 2010 was announced at the EA press conference at Gamescom.
Gameplay
Gameplay in Bad Company 2 resembles that of Battlefield: Bad Company and takes place in the mountainous regions along the border of Russia among other places. Bad Company 2 will include locations in snowy mountains, dense jungles and also sandy deserts within both story mode and multiplayer mode. The game allows players to play through missions using any tactic they choose. Like its predecessor, Bad Company 2 features destructible environments, however, more destruction is now possible; players can now completely destroy a building rather than just its walls. Bad Company 2 and Battlefield Vietnam are the only two games in the series to have blood in it.
Multiplayer will allow players to 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," removing the "Specialist" kit, whose compact assault rifle and C4 abilities have been split between the "Engineer" and "Recon" classes, respectively.
A customizable weapon selection menu is also new to the Bad Company series (similar to unlocks in Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142) giving players the choice of different ACOG's or Reflex sights including short or long barrel grenade launchers; these are also chosen before each match.
Each match will give players experience points allowing them to level to multiple ranks as they did in the previous series. Experience points will be gained by each opponent killed and destroying the objectives. The points gained will be displayed in the screen.
A dog tag system coined from a similar system in Battlefield 2142 & Battlefield: Bad Company will allow players to collect an opponent's tag when killing by melee.
Although Fans' votes are not finalized , WWII-era weapons from Battlefield 1943 will be included in the game, but only owners of the Battlefield 1943 game will get access to them in online play.
There will be new vehicles in Bad Company 2 such as the UH-60 Black Hawk, a quad bike, a 2 man patrol boat and an AA-gun mounted on a light tank
If pre-ordered at GameStop, the AKS-74 will be unlocked for use.
Beta
On November 5th, 2009 DICE announced a beta for Bad Company 2. Players will be able to have access to the beta by preordering the game. The PS3 version of the beta will start on November 19, while the PC version will be available in December.
