The unmanned flying vehicle (baby helicopter), guided missiles and motion detectors are out, flamethrowers are in. Turning back time also meant scaling back weapon options. Rush mode carries over the intensity it had from the core game, except that this time you can't drop buildings on M-COM stations, nor are the buildings a safe place to hide - bullets have a nasty habit of ripping through bamboo. Vietnam is such a different experience that you'll forget it has anything to do with Bad Company 2. The maps are either designed as a free-for-all around the map, where the three capture points are scattered around the field, or they occupy a line, causing a tug-of-war that typically gets incredibly brutal at the middle station. In Vietnam, Conquest feels balanced, like it did in Battelfield 1943. Even with a solid squad to oppose them, it felt like the other team could simply treat the whole game as deathmatch to win. Conquest mode, in which each team must occupy certain sections of the map to increase the speed in which the other team loses tickets, felt like a crap shoot to me in the original Battlefield Bad Company 2. %Gallery-111584%The four new maps are well designed for both Rush and Conquest mode, with Hill 137 (based on the real war's " Hamburger Hill") being the artistic standout for its charred environment. For all intents and purposes, Vietnam is such a different Battlefield experience that you'll forget it has anything to do with Bad Company 2. It occupies a separate location in the BFBC2 menu and the maps are not part of the core game's rotation.
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The $15 upgrade includes four new maps ( a fifth will unlock shortly) and ramps up the overall game's tension by turning back the clock on weaponry. Vietnam is, the way publisher EA and developer DICE sell it, a multiplayer-only "expansion pack" to this year's hit, Battlefield Bad Company 2. Of course, it's hard to focus on such questions while you barbecue the enemy with a flamethrower. It's a great addition to the Battlefield franchise, no doubt, but whether it was originally intended as a standalone game à la Battlefield 1943, or as an "expansion" to Battlefield Bad Company 2, is a question that lingers. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam occupies a very strange place.