If you’ve been playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 non-stop for the past month-or-so like I have, you’re probably addicted to the action but getting a little tired of being spawn-killed at Atacama Desert and generally playing the same handful of maps over and over again.  I mean, how many times do you need to see the opposing team come to your spawn and steal your chopper before you realize that it needs to either be heavily guarded or in the @$#% air at all times!?  But I digress; the action of Battlefield is hard to beat, so we deal with its little annoyances.

But with a new batch of maps for BF: BC2 way too far in the distance, there may come a time when you just need a break— either when frustration ensues or when you just thirst for a more casual experience.  When that time comes, I have suggestion for you that you might want to remember.

Battlefield Heroes is a third-person shooter that looks a lot like Team Fortress 2 but plays very similarly to Bad Company’s Conquest mode.  Much of BF: BC2’s signature gameplay is incorporated into this pick-up-and-play member of the Battlefield family—including land and air combat and specialized character classes.

Heroes won’t blow you away or anything, but it’s a familiar bit of casual fun that you can play for free on your PC.  And if you already own Bad Company 2, EA’s giving you 700 Valor Points (and 1350 more for every friend you refer  via Facebook) in the game to purchase items for your character—and you should take anything EA gives you for free.

So, if you haven’t signed up yet—and according to EA over 3,000,000 people have—you might as well give it a try next time you get frustrated with Bad Company 2 or are just looking for a fun game to play that costs no money.

Knife zoomed-in jerks that pay no attention to their surroundings now!:  http://www.battlefieldheroes.com/