Bad Company 2 is in beta for pre-orders and I’m in Nirvana.  Finally an FPS has been released that makes me jump for joy.  I wasn’t sure how badly they’d implement the game in this day and age of console porting but they’ve done an excellent job on the game.  I’m missing the command button to call out enemies, thank yous but I’m hoping that will be there at some point.  It seems they took some of the good things from the Call of Duty series and made them better such as melee.  No quick, 1 random knife shot, I’ve had a few but I’ve also seen where it takes a few swings of the blade to take down the enemy and I know I hit them on the first because of the “ugh” sound.  It’s refreshing rather than the, what sometimes seems like, the 10 feet long knifes from MW2 and even BF2/BF2142.

The familiar accumulative stats, as previous BF games, are there as well.  The current mod they’re demoing is also fun but quite tough as the attacking team if you have no one that can get in to the base.  It’s an attack/defense mod where the attacking team parachutes in and attempts to destroy key objects.  It already seems a bit more polished than BF2/BF2142 in terms of the interface, outside of the EXTREMELY slow server browser and lack of sorting servers by latency or players and the filters resetting after every restart but again, hopefully that will be added as well.  It allows you to immediately join a squad, the ability to spawn on players and as I said, most of the “goodies” from the BF series.

So far I’m loving this game.  It’s the type of FPS game I’ve been waiting for since BF2 began to grow long in the tooth and I’m looking forward to the March release!  I have some video’s and screenshots I’ll get up soon but in the mean time, check out the official trailer at Battlefield.com or watch below!

Cheers!