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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Review

Figured after beating it once (and half-way through 2nd run) I'd post a bit of a review on the 2nd Bad Company game to be released. Let me start by saying I only played single player, played it on the PC and did not play the first BC game.

Next let me just sum up the game with one word: Awesome. I didn't give BF:BC a chance as I came away unimpressed after playing a demo but with such great initial impressions, I figured I'd try BC2 and glad I did. Visually it's just great, especially when pumped to the highest settings (which I could do, but barely, 40 FPS dipping to 20 and as low as 10 when a LOT was going on), but even with anti-alasing and such turned down it looks great.

Details on people's faces, just overall textures, lighting in the jungle - very impressive. And of course the most impressive is the destructive portion that helps Battlefield: Bad Company 2 separate itself from other games. Not only does it look great seeing a building tumble down in real-time (not a generated scene), but the tactics make you think. Now an RPG shooter on the roof would simply make you duck behind a building in Modern Warfare 2, here if you do that, chances are that rocket will go through 2 walls and seriously hurt you.

The engine makes you think unlike other games in the genre - cover that you would once think could protect you from anything giving you time to re-group, is just a rocket or grenade away from leaving you completely exposed.

COD: World at War Review

It's been quite possibly as much as two years since my last video game review - I don't play games nearly as much and don't have as much interest in reviewing them. However with my blog now focusing on multiple things, you can expect to see video game reviews time to time. (mostly 360, sometimes reviews of games and sometimes demo's)

That said, I was able to spend a decent amount of time on COD: WaW recently and came away impressed. I had wanted to rent this for a while, but finally got the chance to. First let me say that I did not get to play online - I know that's a significant portion. However I played single player and liked it quite a bit.

First off, it's quite apparent the increased quality in graphics. The inclusion of the Japanese side is also a welcome addition, making it US vs. Japan and Russia vs. Germany off and on throughout the campaign. The addition of the Japanese side bring numerous new addition including the fearsome banzai charges and snipers in trees.