Take to the streets and put your infantry skills to the test! Capture strategic town positions as Arica Harbor is enhanced with Conquest Mode.

Capture and secure M-COM stations in Laguna Presas Rush Mode and discover all-new combat terrain in which to engage your enemy.

The map pack is available with the VIP code which is included in every new copy of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Players that do not have a code can purchase one via the in-game store, PC players will get the content as a game update

On Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. You should get access through in game store and VIP code

PC Simply join a server running the new maps.

As developers, catching has always been one of the hardest and most frustrating areas of our game to tune because of the sheer amount of possibilities. When you start to try to account for all the different angles a pass could be coming in to a receiver along with the difference in his body position, it is always a difficult problem to solve. In years past, fixing catch problems has taken countless development hours to try to track down and address the issues.

Finally, we have gotten sideline and back of the endzone catches to trigger in the appropriate situations. In previous years we have seen some situations where a receiver tries to make a catch near the sideline without making any attempt to get both feet inbounds. This was most commonly seen on flat and out breaking type routes.

Improvments include better sideline catches, and better catching animations on both sides of the ball.

Not only will players recognize the boundaries of the field, but Cummings also said that they’d be fully aware of the location of first down markers. “We have specifically tuned and added support to make it so receivers wait for the ball on a curl and have awareness for the first down. Also, receivers will now be working to catch the ball in stride on crossing routes so they don’t end up slowing down or losing yardage,” said Cummings. He later conceded that receivers will occasionally lose yardage if it means coming back to the ball and avoiding an interception. I, for one, can live with that.

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I broke down and bought MLB 2k10 on Xbox 360 based on a recommendation of a friend of mine. I’ve spent the majority of my time in the “My player” and I have some quick thoughts on it.

Overall, the my player mode is pretty fun. I’ve played both MLB the Show and MLB 2k10′s my player mode and The Show does have better graphics and is much more in depth. If you are looking for a super in depth my player mode go with The Show. MLB 2k10′s difference is that it is just pure fun, it’s easy to pick up and just play.. The goals it gives to get to the next level are straight forward and if you make your goals you are rewarded right away. I think some would call it “easy” I call it fun. I will return to The Show eventually to get my in depth fill, but for now the majority of my time has been spent in MLB 2k10. While the positives make it fun and interesting there are some huge issues with the mode that stick out. The biggest being that it doesn’t seem that the managerial AI is included or is just plain stupid. For example pitchers seem to stay in a bit long and I don’t think I’ve ever had the pitcher pinch hit for in the late innings. The players as well at times when fielding seem really slow and terribly stupid. There are times when will a 3rd basemen won’t even throw a tag down on a incoming baserunner and other strange issues. Hopefully 2k does another patch that will include fixes for these types of issues, if so the mode could keep my interest for an extended period of time. If not, I can see my self running through a few years of the mode and then moving on to The Show. My recommendation is if you can handle a few issues pick the game up, if its patched then your good to go. If in depth is your thing check out the show, if you are looking for pick up and play and put down.. Go with MLB 2k10.

Hopefully later on I’ll check out both franchise modes, I like to wait until the official opening day rosters are released to hit those modes.

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