Tough, worthwhile expansion to Bad Company 2, January 9, 2011

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Andrew L. Zahn (Phoenix, AZ) – See all my reviews

  

I have Bad Company 2 on Steam. When I purchased the Vietnam expansion on Amazon, I simply entered the code in the Bad Company 2 main menu and Vietnam was activated without any problems. All of the content for Vietnam was apparently in the last huge patch for Bad Company 2. Vietnam is multiplayer only so those looking for a single player game have been warned. Overall, Vietnam has a different feel from BC2. The maps are huge and open, each of them are unique. There are five multiplayer maps total and all of them take place outdoors. The jungle experience and scenery is captured perfectly in this expansion. I found myself getting shot by Vietcong in rice paddies and facing intense close combat fights on jungle paths. The downside to the openness of the maps is that you will have to deal with a lot of snipers, more so than in BC2.

There are about four unique weapons for each class and the perks attained in BC2 (magnum ammo, extended mags, vehicle upgrades) are available to use. Shooting and aiming with the weapons is more difficult with just iron sights as scopes have been removed (except for sniper rifles) as well as UAVs and other high-tech equipment. It seems like the weapons do more damage also. Its pretty intense when you are facing RPK machine guns and “thumper” grenade launchers in the jungle with a beat-up M-16. This game just feels gritty and realistic.

I’m enjoying this expansion, its much more challenging and realistic than BC2 and requires a fair amount of skill and teamwork. I definitely recommend it if you liked Bad Company 2.

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Better than BC2, January 26, 2011

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R. Bossarte – See all my reviews

  

I actually like this expansion pack better than the original game and find it difficult to go back to the regular BC2 game any more. Why? Because the weapon hit detection is much better in the expansion, much more like BF2 or 2142, plus different weapons that are fun to play with. More than anything though, with the maps, the hit detection being correct, and the additional weapons, it’s just more fun to play than regular BC2. Oh, and no annoying Gustov spamming. There are RPGs, but they’re so slow and have so little splash damage they’re hardly ever used on infantry which is a welcome change from Gustov and noob tube spamming. Lastly, the Huey’s fly well, not at all like the ones in regular BC2 that handle like boats…and did I mention flame throwers?

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Somewhat disappointed, January 29, 2011

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Joseph Mattioni “JDM” (PA, USA) – See all my reviews

  

Unlike some other reviewers I like the original maps in BFBC2 better. In most of the Vietnam maps sniping seems like much more of a problem than in the original maps, even though the weapon gadgets, like scopes, were apparently cut back to try to reduce it. It may also be that the hacks are all on the new maps with their aimbots. So be prepared to die a lot, even if you’re no longer a noob on the original maps.

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