Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is widely considered one of the best entries in the ongoing multiplayer shooter series — and for good reason. It followed up on the 2009 game with another excellent and surprisingly funny shooter campaign. It expanded the original’s multiplayer suite with even better maps and more realistic environmental destruction. And it doubled down on the original’s successful push to make Battlefield a franchise that worked as well on console as it did on PC.
As fondly remembered as Bad Company 2 is, there’s one part of the game’s legacy that’s often overlooked. In December 2010, nine months after the game’s release, developer DICE released one of the most ambitious expansions for a game the public had ever seen up to that point. Bad Company 2: Vietnam was a brand new multiplayer game released within the universally acclaimed title, one that lent the shooter a content-rich second lease on life for a fraction of the price of a proper sequel.
