Game Review - Battle field Bad Company 2

Being awhile since I have played battlefield 1 and 2. I guess it is a really nice game to play especially the early days of capture the flag and also camping to take out enemies using sniper.
While many other impressive title such as Call of Duty and Medal of honor may rival this BFBC2 title. This game is short I guess nowadays FPS is not that long since main focus has greatly concentrated on multiplay and graphics. I finished the game on hard mode and not too challenging I would say.

Gameplay: 8/10
It is a really nice FPS war game. Especially most of the stuff are destructible. And this make tanks and RPG much more deadlier than before. But Perhaps the destructible feature, the damage of grenade and RPG is reduced compare to Call of Duty. I guess COD is just way too realistic that when you get hit with 2 to 3 bullets you will be dead. Of course COD has larger team and more realistic battle formation. But for BF2 I guess is more to heroic theme and more like left 4 dead kind of game play. In single play, all your team mate can't die no matter what kind of bullet they take in their head. This make them a very good cannon fodder. Your teammate can simply rush in and clear of the enemy while you are sniping from behind. This game doesnt' have prone position like COD where you can camp and snipe. Other than this, everything is just nice to have. Because I play this game on hard mode, and there is no save game you can have manually, other than auto save, some of the mission is really annoying when you get reloaded in the enemy line of fire.

Storyline:7/10
I don't know much about the 4 soldiers background, but the story definitely fit the title well (bad company). Your team mate sometimes help you some times they don't, you can't really give them direct order other than you follow them or they follow you. {spoiler} The story starts off with japan building some kind of scalar weapon,I guess is just some EMP pulse to disable all those tech gadget in 1943+. At the beginning you are playing as another guy, which lead a strike team into japan to rescue some scientist. At the end of the mission either you are KIA or MIA. Then it goes back to presence day that bad company has to be a special operation to lead a team to go to many places to find this emp bomb. It has many turn and twist here and there. It tells you about the terrors of war.

Graphics:9/10
the graphics is astonishing, just like you were at the war zone. The explosion of tank shell, RPG and oil tank really gives gamers some real fireworks. Texture and details of the scene are as good as real. If gamers have a high end machine, definitely the game play will be more intense.
The bullets and gun fire are very well visualized too. The physic engine too are very well designed that rubbles, rag dolls and shots are perfectly simulated in game. If gamers want to know how much the physic engine has improve, try playing game like Counter strike and quake4. I know is old game with old technology, but that shows how much 3D FPS games have really improved since last decade.

Sound: 8/10
Even using a laptop speaker, the sound effect is really vivid. I can still remember how it sounds like when the bullet is flying pass me or hitting my head ( in game). If you have full 3D surround sound system, players will not be able to differentiate whether is real or computer generated. there is not much music in this game. Perhaps they should have some place for it during certain intermission.

AI: 8/10
I am playing on hard mode, the AI is shrewd and will always aim for me. No matter where I am hiding they seem to know my whereabout and shoot me from far. I guess there is how the game mechanics work. No doubt their AI prove to be challenging, and sometimes even camping proves to be a challenge especially to RPG and tanks. They will tear down the blockign obstacles. I guess the combination of RPG and MG really made player life tougher. AI really changes everytime you reload the game. This gives the game more replay value.

overall: 8.5/10
Is really a great game, I guess FPS play should try this game no matter what. Everything fits nice in bad company. Especially the storyline dialog and speech are well done to express their personal feeling and obligation about the mission they are going to carry out. Even then the story shows some moral value on friendship and patriotisme.