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Battlefield has forged a legend on the PC platform; endless user customizations and servers dedicated to the series populate the Internet. From World War II all the way to 132 years in the future, players are able to experience shooting games on a massive stage. While some games boast about 32-64 man servers, Battlefield helped popularize the idea on the PC platform. Using dense landscapes and aerial combat, gamers were able to fall in love with chaos in Battlefield 2 on the PC. Today we take a look at what DICE has been able to produce in their latest creation, Bad Company 2. For those wondering, EA skipped the PC audience last time around, bringing the original to only the 360 and PS3. In a try to make peace with a loyal following, they’ve brought Bad Company 2 to the masses, bringing dedicated server hosting with them.
For those taking a look at the story driven Bad Company for the first time, there’s a decent story to drive the game. Gamers jump into the mind of Preston Marlowe as he takes them through the life of the Bad Company squad as they perform guard detail on the Russian-American demarcation line in Alaska. Soon things start to heat up as they stumble across new weapon plans from the Russians that may turn the tide against the United States. With no time to spare, the Bad Company crew sets off across North and South America in hopes of stopping the Russians from scaling the war to new levels. For PC fans, the story may not be the most in-depth tale but it presents an experience that has been lacking in war based shooters on the platform.
Before we jump in with the impressions and verdict, we’re running over the requirements and scaling.
Minimum requirements:
- Operating system: Windows XP, Vista or 7
- CPU: Pentium D 3.0GHz/ Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 or faster.
- RAM: 2GB or more
- Disc Drive: 8x or faster DVD drive
- Hard Drive: 10GB of free space
- Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT or ATI X1900 with 256MB or more.
- Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Recommended specs:
- OS: Windows Vista or 7
- CPU Quad core 2.0GHz (Intel or AMD)
- RAM: 2GB or more
- Disc Drive: 16x DVD drive
- Video: Must be 512MB or greater NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon 4870
- Sound: DirectX 10 compatible sound card
It’s also worthy to mention that Bad Company 2 supports NVIDIA 3D Vision technology.
Our test system falls in the middle of the technology gap giving performance results for users with older systems or on a budget.
- OS: Windows 2008 R2 (Equiv. to Windows 7)
- CPU: AMD Athlon 64 4800+ (2.4GHz)
- RAM: 3GB Corsair XMS DDR
- Disc Drive: 16x DVD drive
- Video: ATI Radeon HD3850 512MB
- Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
- DirectX Installed: 10.1
- Video Driver: ATI Catalyst 10.2
We adjusted the HD3850 using Riva Tuner, pushing the card to 750/1900 at 75% fan speed. Our resolution in-game was 1920x1200 with max settings 0xAA and 16xAF.
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Good article, great game, need I say more?
Was waiting to see what neo writers would have to say about it, nice read. Fun note, there's a Kotaku article somewhere about BC2 selling more copies on the PC than either console. So the move back to PC was definitely a good one on DICE's part.
Some media:
How to Play - In relation to playing MW2
Tricks & Strategy:
Don't listen to this guy:
He needs to watch the first video in this post, badly.
The review was good, the videos posted really give a good insight onto the game's dynamic. It looks reminscent of Battlefield 2142, which I liked, but admittedly has some flaws. I'd like to buy this once I have made some dough.
Everybody cheer!
BC2 is dropping SecuROM! (Only applies to copies bought through Steam)
There was a neoseeker article two weeks ago (?) that said PC made something like 13bil in 2009; sounds like it's doing fine to me.
Hence, PC sales > Console Sales
Great Game!!
I pre-ordered it on steam, when it opened on PC, it had lots of problems with connecting to EA online. I knew they were working to fix the problem. But because the game had such a good SP, I did not mind.
Now it works great! See you on the Battlefield!
Great videos TOO,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qpui1hYBw
Very team-oriented, you can't go rambo and win, and one extremely strong player on a team won't tip the balance too much, love Battlefield games.