Battlefield 1943 und Bad Company 2 angekündigt

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Special note should be paid to the sound design of the game. The first Bad Company featured strong sound, but Bad Company 2 sounds even better. The guns crack, buildings explode, and you can listen closely to hear where the tanks are. Be sure to turn on the "War Tapes" audio selection from the options; it's not going to be for everyone, but it certainly turns up the intensity. Wait until you get into a shotgun fight in an enclosed space, it's just as amazing to hear as it is to see.

You can beat the single-player game in about 8 hours or so, and it's unlikely you'll want to go through it again. The story, about a very scary weapon that sounds like something out of War of the Worlds, is merely an excuse to get our soldiers into a variety of outlandish and exciting situations. You'll also catch the game taking some snide potshots at Modern Warfare 2, as one scene has a character who jokes that "snowmobiles are for sissies," and in another there's a joke about, and excuse my language, "special-ops douchbags with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns." It's a little classless, but worth a chuckle.

[....]The multiplayer is why you need to buy this game, however. On the PC the squad system almost requires you to play as a team, and after you've built up a friend list and have some competent teammates who join online every night, the game opens up and shows just how tuned all the classes are. The game already has its controversies, including the use of C4 to blow up the M-COM stations, the damage modeling, and some other balancing issues, but it's already great, and the community will find ways to deal with what some see as cheap strategies. Patches will also help balance the game once players flood the servers.