Blog: My first impressions of Battlefield Bad Company 2

To summarize it: good graphic, some cool ideas, but the controls totally fail on me. Why is that? I never previously thought about this, so that is why I am so disturbed with the controls in Battlefield Bad Company 2: when you use the right analog stick to look around and the left analog to move, there is just a 360° of freedom thing for both sticks. Not in BFBC 2!

If you move your right stick between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock you still go only straight where you look at. This is very disturbing. I played MAG and CoD MW 2 a lot recently, but this is probably not the only reason why the controls on BFBC 2 freak me out like that. I think it is different to any other game on the PS3 that uses the two analog sticks in that way.

But maybe you can get over this issues (I'm pretty certain I will not buy this game, when those controls stay the way they are), so let me describe some more stuff. Yes, I just played it for about 30 minutes, but I also just started playing MAG last weekend, so I can tell what I like about a game just after a few rounds.

This Demo of Battlefield Bad Company 2 comes with a few different classes, just as you would expect it. When you die you will need to wait a few seconds before you respawn and get some stats about your killer in the meantime. Sometime this was just a static screen and sometimes similar to CoD MW 2 the last few seconds of your life, as seen by the killer.

The class I selected had an assault rifle with an attached grenade launcher. I couldn't kill anyone with the rifle itself for the first 10 minutes and I also didn't get any indicator that I hit someone. So my first two kills where with the grenade launcher. That gave me 50 points each - you need about 6,000 (or were it 7,000?) to get to the next level on your character...

In the 30 minutes I played, I got about 600 points (yes, I really suck at those games, but have fun with them anyhow). But that gave me no upgrades at all. There are several different weapons and things you can upgrade, but I'm also not sure how to get those. Maybe some 30 minutes more would get me there...

The game type on my first round was to defend. There were 2 buildings which needed to be protected and the other team tries to blow it up by attaching explosives to it. The first thing you notice in BFBC 2 is, that you can blow up a lot of stuff: trees, boxes which are lying around and barracks will also suffer when you throw grenades into them.

The other thing you notice are the different vehicles you can use: quads, tanks, helicopters just stood around for you to use. I also saw some bombers in the sky and I also read about drones that you can use to bomb your enemies.

So, after some time I managed to kill some enemies with the rifle and actually you get an indicator that you hit someone - I guess I just didn't hit anyone before :-)

That's all I remember noteworthy right now and even after typing this much text, I still am upset about the controls and I'm looking forward to other reviews to see if I'm the only strange guy who forgets about 80% of the game, because controlling it just does not feel right...