March 30, 2010

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Bad Company 2: Easy ‘Demolish Part 2' Achievement

I’ve been playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 quite a bit. In fact, I’m getting close to 100%ing the achievements. Normally, I’m not an achievement whore like some of my game playing compatriots, but BC2 makes it fairly easy (and enjoyable). This past evening I was working on finishing ‘Communication Issues’ and ‘Complete Blackout’ (destroy the M-Com/Satellite boxes) and I found a really good guide to the locations. During that I figured I’d try and finished ‘Demolish Part 2’ which is the achievement for destroying 50 houses, I found a really easy way.

  • Load up the mission ‘Crack the Sky’ (I did it on easy).
  • Beat it up to cut scene where Sweetwater has sent the satellite crashing to earth.
  • On your way out to the next area (a village) pick up the C4 on the left hand side. Save it.
  • Right as you enter the Village there is a Supply drop
  • Shoot/Kill/Maim people as usual, but don’t go too far.
  • As you’ve cleared small areas, use your C4 on the buildings. Generally 3 properly placed C4 charges will take down a small house.
  • I made sure to always keep 1 C4 charge, so I could reload it from the Supply drop.
  • On your run back to the supply drop, hit the detonator

I don’t think the village has 50 buildings, but you can get a significant number (assuming you’ve been destroying buildings as you’ve played). I believe the destruction count is separate from the game play, so you could keep resetting the mission too. For me, I found C4 (with a close reload) was much faster than any other method of destruction (even Tanks) and quite fun too.

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How To install an Xbox 360 Game onto your Harddrive

March 18, 2010

Since I’m an avid 360 gamer it might come as a surprise to some, but I’ve never bothered to install a game to my Xbox 360 hard drive previously. Frankly I’m running an old (basically launch edition) console with a 10 GB hard drive, I don’t really have that much space for game installs. I figured I’d give it a try though. Here’s the steps: Boot up your console and put the game in Get to the main menu Go to My Xbox Go right and select Game Library Wait for Recent Games to populate Press A on your game (should be top one in the list) Select Install game to hard drive and hit A Wait At this point, god willing, your game will have installed.

Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2

March 8, 2010

As you may well know (perhaps from our earlier entry), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 came out last week. I’ve devoted most of my game playing time since then to playing the game and thought it was about time to do a review. Now some of this review of Bad Company 2 (BC2) will be a comparison to how it stands up against Modern Warfare 2 (MW2). It isn’t that I believe the games are in anyway the exact same kettle of fish, but MW2 is the undeniable “big shooter” of the moment, so it is that which all other new shooters will be compared against (until something undeniably better comes out). Let me give you the ultra short version: It is definitely an improvement over Bad Company 1. My major complaints for BC1 single player were addressed in BC2. The single player campaign of BC2 isn’t long, but it is enjoyable and longer than MW2 was. The online multiplayer is also quite enjoyable and mostly major bug free (so far that I’ve seen). BC2’s multiplayer is much different than MW2 and personally I prefer BC2. If you enjoy shooters in general and haven’t bought BC2, you’re missing out. Now we get on to the long version of the review. First I’m going to cover the single player game and then I’ll get into the online play.

Why we bought Battlefield: Bad Company 2

March 2, 2010

Both John and myself have gone ahead and pre-ordered Battlefield: Bad Company 2 even though we originally had no intention of doing so. I’ve been seeing advertisements for the game for the last month and said “meh” to it. I had enough games to play, not enough free time, and Modern Warfare 2 has been satisfying my multiplayer needs (not that I normally multiplayer much). This was up until we actually got around to playing the demo the last week before it was shut down. So what changed? Well first off in my research on BF:BC2, I saw a video which was showing off PC dedicated servers and game play, but more importantly their test server was named “Server of DOOM and cake”. This is a server name I fully approve of. I mean, who doesn’t love doom and cake? I know I do. Beyond devs with a good sense of humor, there was a demo that was enjoyable to play.