Billy Idol
Legend
Day 1 map pack to be released
So what is the reason to release a free day 1 DLC ?
Why not include it on the disc...
Day 1 map pack to be released
I highly doubt the extra maps are preorder only. Pretty sure every retail copy will come with a code to download this stuff.
I'm pretty excited for this one to release.
I'm picking it up next week but I don't like the idea of having to wait and download a map before I go online. If it was like six months later than that's fine but this launch DLC practice is going to strain my poor 20GB HDD.
Bad Company 2, however, is an open challenge to the market leader, Activision's blockbuster behemoth. So let me pin my flag to the mast right from the start. This is the superior game.
Control is crisp, with the heavy stiffness evident in the beta test replaced with a responsive scheme that adds heft to your movements while retaining the agility required to keep pace with the blistering action. It's a lovely-looking game as well, despite some obvious pop-in and repetitive character models. DICE has eschewed the glossy, bloom-heavy look of most of its rivals, preferring instead to craft a world rich in detail and texture, with impressive vistas that wallow in their generous draw distance. Explosions are predictably impressive, but it's their aftermath that brings the world to life. Smoke, dust, sand and water spray all linger in the air.
Bad Company 2's single-player campaign would be a genre standout in any year, but it's online that the game comes into its own. It's no wonder that the box bears the tagline "Defining Online Warfare", since the multiplayer component here is a confident, muscular distillation of everything DICE has been building up to over the past decade. This is the online shooter at its most streamlined, most thoughtful, most exhilarating.
It's good to hear the first games sense of humor remains. I'll be buying this mostly for SP.