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Team up with efficient, strategically minded soldiers and it's a potent example of everything that makes Bad Company 2 so great. Find yourself with a bunch of muppets who can't seem to shake the idea of running around shooting at everything that moves, and it's agony. If you were hoping for a quick way to boost a few ranks against easy-level AI foes in Onslaught before heading back into the online fray against your friends, you're out of luck.Īs with most online shooters, the experience varies hugely depending on the quality of the other players. Thankfully, you'll carry over whatever equipment and weapon unlocks you've earned in the competitive multiplayer mode, but that trade doesn't work in reverse.

One of the advantages of bots: they think nothing of seeing a hedge riding a quadbike. This is very much a four-player affair, and even tackling the game in a pair means the odds are stacked against you. If you play solo, you get infinite lives but basically have absolutely no chance of success. Should you all die at the same time, it's game over, and you have to restart from the very beginning. Tanks, attack choppers, mounted machine guns, snipers: they're all ready to roll into view (or not, in the case of those pesky snipers) and put you in the ground.Īs long as one team member remains alive, the game continues. Meanwhile, the game is throwing everything it can at you to stop you in your tracks. Once an objective is cleared, you move on to the next. Playable by up to four players, Onslaught tasks you with steaming into enemy territory and holding key map points. From the maps to the mechanics of this new co-operative mode, it's refried beans all the way. Now, I'm certainly not insinuating that DICE can't even afford to pick up a giant sack of Lidl pasta, but there's no mistaking the familiar flavours being reheated here.

The result may stop your stomach rumbling, but it'll never delight the palate.

It's when you can't afford to go to the supermarket, having splurged your spending money on cheap booze and ironic t-shirts, so you use up whatever leftovers and ingredients you have lingering in the fridge, mix them together in a slightly different way and bung it all in the oven. A student banquet: that's what this premium downloadable content pack offers to long-standing Bad Company 2 players.