Your Brain on Tech took a look at the multiplayer aspect of Bad Company 2 in the most recent episode, but what about the single player? I decided to take some time and sit down with the PS3 version of the game and play through the campaign mode.

The first thing that strikes me is, despite the destructible environments, the game feels very much like a last generation title. The graphics are not the best and the buildings are incredibly repetitive. It’s very clear the technology used to make BC2 destructible doesn’t allow for varied building types. For this reason the game feels decidedly linear and is clearly an afterthought to the great multiplayer game. There is no real feel for the weapons, often times the player has no idea whether or not the person they’re shooting at is actually dead due to some overly long death animations. Speaking of the sound, the dialog is quite funny, and definitely worth taking the time to listen to.

Overall the story is cliché and mediocre at best, but it does a reasonable job of giving the player an excuse to go through a number of varied environments blowing stuff up. Comparing BC2 to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is like comparing a Steven Spielberg war movie to a Steven Seagal war movie. Bad Company 2 is definitely the Seagal movie… which is to say; it’s not great and it’s not the prettiest thing to watch, but it sure is fun to kill a bunch of people and blow stuff up.

Since it’s founding in 1998, Google has brought us a super search engine, excellent email, and marvelous online maps; all for free.  This has many people wondering what they will do next.

The answer is Google Wave. (more…)

Communication, Google, Wave

Here’s a little video I put together for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Hope you like it!

Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 2

By now, you’ve seen the iDon’t/Droid Does commercials by Verizon, right? If you haven’t, just click the link I provided.

Verizon has recently been taking shots at the iPhone, highlighting the shortfalls of the phone (mainly coverage and some software inadequacies). The new Droid line of phones is Verizon’s attempt at reducing the loss of customers because of the iPhone, but the real question in all of this is of course whether or not the new Droid phones will be “iPhone killers.” (more…)

Android, AT&T, Droid, iPhone, Motorola, Verizon