Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a first-person shooter by DICE, released in 2010. The game combines a single-player campaign around B-Company with team battles, vehicles and destructible buildings.

The game, published by Electronic Arts, continues Battlefield: Bad Company and uses the Frostbite engine with Destruction 2.0.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was released on March 2, 2010 in North America and on March 4 in Europe for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The original was released natively for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 version can be played on compatible newer Xbox consoles via backward compatibility, without being a separate release for those consoles.

Standalone versions for iOS and Android appeared later.

With Destruction 2.0, players can damage cover, break through walls and bring buildings down. Fights change the environment you can move through.

Tanks, off-road vehicles and helicopters originally supplemented the battles on foot. In multiplayer, soldiers coordinated in four-person squads and fought in modes including Rush and Conquest. The official online mode is no longer available today.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam was released on December 18, 2010 on PC and on December 21 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The expansion moved the multiplayer battles to the Vietnam War and added its own maps, weapons and vehicles.

Other additional content included map packs and new equipment variants. The seventh VIP map pack, released in December 2010, brought back reworked locations from the predecessor, among other things. The original online features have not been regularly usable since the servers were shut down.

The Windows version at the time required at least a dual-core processor at 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, a GeForce 7800 GT or Radeon X1900, and around 15 GB of free storage. A GeForce GTX 260 or Radeon HD 4870 was listed as stronger graphics hardware.

This information dates from the time of release. It does not guarantee that old installation media and activation systems will work on a modern Windows PC without adjustment.

No. Electronic Arts shut down the official online services for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on December 8, 2023. PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are affected.

The single-player campaign is separate from this and can generally still be played offline. The Xbox 360 version's backward compatibility does not restore the EA servers that were shut down.

B-Company returns in a standalone story. Preston Marlowe and his comrades are drawn into a series of military firefights while on a mission against an impending superweapon. Alongside shootouts, vehicle sections and destructible locations define the campaign.

Unlike the original online mode, the campaign can still be played after the EA servers were shut down. On older PC editions, however, installation and activation may come with additional technical requirements.

Alongside the major PC and console versions, versions for iOS and Android also appeared. The iPhone version was released on December 16, 2010. Digital Legends Entertainment was responsible for the mobile adaptation.

The mobile games have their own technical basis and a different scope. They should not be confused with a full port of the PC version.