The release of Battlefield Bad Company 2 has released with a fury. The latest in the Battlefield series from EA/DICE is doing even better than expected. This past weekend, due to such high volumes of players, EA had asked server providers to take down the EA public servers and to hold putting up new servers for their clients while they upgraded their systems to handle the volume. During this time, a new server version was released to help improve stability and another release was in the works and expected to deploy early this week.
The beta release had provided so much information for bugs/fixes that they were unable to incorporate everything in to the retail version, and instead, had a day 1 patch ready
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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Publisher: EA Games Developer: EA DICE
Minimum System Requirements OS: Windows XP Processor: Core 2 DUO @ 2 GHz Memory: 2 GB Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version Video Memory: 256 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT/ATI X1900) Sound Card: DirectX Compatible DirectX: 9.0c Keyboard and Mouse DVD Rom Drive
Recommended System Requirements OS: Windows Vista/7 Processor: Any Quadcore Processor Memory: 2 GB Hard Drive: 15 GB for Digital Version, 10 GB for Disc Version Video Memory: 512 MB (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260) Sound Card: DirectX Compatible DirectX: 10 Keyboard and Mouse DVD Rom Drive
On November 5, 2009, DICE announced a beta for Bad Company 2.Different game-related sites held contests to obtain beta codes. Retailers also gave beta codes to customers who pre-order the game. The PS3 version of the beta started on November 19,while the PC version was pushed back until February 2010 to increase the beta's capacity Each public pre-release build of the game featured a map from the final product; the PlayStation 3, PC beta and Xbox 360 demo each feature the "Port Valdez" map. All versions only featured the "Rush" gameplay mode.
The online multiplayer demo for the Xbox 360 and the beta for the PC were released on January 28, 2010, and servers ran until February 25. The demo was released on the PlayStation 3 on February 4, 2010 in Europe and North America and February 11, 2010 in Asia.
GameZone's Dakota Grabowski interviewed Senior Producer Patrick Bach about the game. Following the negative feedback from PC g
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Characters For the majority of the single player campaign, the player controls Private Preston Marlowe. Marlowe is part of a squad formerly representing a misfit company in a fictional United States Army battalion known as "Bad Company." Other members of the squad include technology expert Private Terrance Sweetwater, demolitions specialist Private George Haggard Jr., and squad leader Sergeant Samuel Redford. The squad, escaping with gold in the previous game but believed to be caught soon thereafter, now work for a special assignment for the Army in securing a dangerous weapon codenamed "Aurora."
Plot In October 1944, a group of commandos infiltrate an IJN-controlled island in the Sea of Japan. They secure a Japanese scientist who was working on a secret weapon codenamed Aurora and escape the island on a submarine. But as foreshadowed by the scientist's warnings the commandos witness Aurora being fired and p
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