battlefield bad company 2 Archive

  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 fixes a-comin’ this week

    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 fixes a-comin’ this week

    Be on the lookout for a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 update sometime this week, probably by Wednesday. Most of the changes affect the multi-portion of the game, something that I’ve participated in for, oh, 18 seconds before dying, cursing, then never playing again. True story!

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  • Latest Battlefield: Bad Company 2 map pack locks, loads (even though maps can’t lock nor load, per se)

    Latest Battlefield: Bad Company 2 map pack locks, loads (even though maps can’t lock nor load, per se)

    Soldats, je suis contents de vous! EA and DICE just released the second VIP map pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I take it I’m the only person on Planet Earth to buy the game strictly for the single-player mode, but go ahead and have fun without me!

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  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells many copies (plus bonus rant!)

    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells many copies (plus bonus rant!)

    God almighty do I have a bone to pick with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which I bought on release day like a mark. The game is doing quite well for EA, having already sold 2.3 million units (and projected to sell 4 million by the end of the year). So that's ahead of expectations—it's a hit, have a party. The thing that annoys me (and Matt, for that matter) is the game's implementation of checkpoints. There's not nearly enough of them, and it's infuriating. I was very close to lighting my monitor on fire last night.

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  • EA removes SecuROM DRM from Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    EA removes SecuROM DRM from Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    Since we're your go-to source for complaining about DRM, I figure we should mention the latest development regarding EA's Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Dice, the game's developer's, have removed SecuROM DRM from both the retail version of the game as well as the digitally distributed one (i.e. Steam). Why a Steam game even needs SecuROM in the first place (it's merely a disc check, so...) is a question I cannot answer. It's probably like a contractual thing or something.

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  • EA hits the streets to show off Bad Company 2

    EA hits the streets to show off Bad Company 2

    Now this is how you advertise a game. Are you paying attention, Activition? EA Belgium took Bad Company 2 to the people of Brussels and in a real big way. Although, in all honesty, EA didn’t come up with this gorilla marketing scheme on their own. Epson did the same exact thing a few months back, [...]

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  • Let’s talk about Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    Let’s talk about Battlefield: Bad Company 2

    Most of your friendly neighborhood CrunchGear writers have played Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for at least a little bit. We have different opinions about the game, but I think we all like it to a degree. I bought it for two reason: the Eurogamer review was glowing, and I wanted to support Modern Warfare 2's most direct competitor. Genres grow stale when one game/publisher so utterly dominates it, so $50 EA's way hopefully will go toward keeping the FPS genre as fresh as it can be. I mean, there's but so many ways you can make "put-cursor-over-man's-face-and-left-click" before you're like, "Man, I'm bored, let's go bowling."

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